Some vacation. While it will be nice to flee the everyday banality of a college town during the summer for a while with a very pretty girl, something seems counterproductive to the idea of “Vacation” about writing about featured video games there for this site. And yet, that is very likely why I’ll be doing it. Because I love you. And I wanted you to know that.

Anyway. First up is Maximum PC and PC Gamers four day PC gaming extravaganza, their “Gaming University”, where in addition to trying not to smell too much like a stereotypical comic nerd, you might have the chance to rub shoulders with staff from PC Gamer and the Official Xbox Magazine. Unreal Tournament 3 deathmatches will be run every hour, with prizes from Intel and others serving as spoils for the victors. Following the “University” motif, there will be, er, seminars (?) on RTS games and RPGs. While there are quite a few games there that I don’t especially care about, I’ll definitely be checking out CDV’s Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (Holmes vs. Cthulhu? Yes please.), Southpeak Interactive’s Two Worlds, and maybe even the Korean MMORPG title Sword of the New World, courtesy of K2 Network.

On Saturday, in between checking out the Gaslamp District with the significant other, stopping by the World Sandcastle Championship, and trying to hunt down Warren Ellis, Sony Online Entertainment is hosting a party as well from 3:30 to 8:00, which is actually an early finish for Comic Con shenanigans, but I’m not complaining. Since it’s SOE, and not, say SCEA, there won’t be big name PS3 titles around, but there will be peeks at The Agency and Pirates of the Burning Sea, and “live music”. Anyone else going?

-Aegies