VGXPO Fights Off the Competition

With the grand opening of the fantastic 2008 Video Game Expo, being held in the City of Love, Philadelphia, gamers from across the East coast, West coast, and even other nations from around the world, will be fleeting to see what new opportunities will be revealed in 2009.

It is a conference for aspiring game developers, designers, and programmers, as well as your common old school junkie who still has that old grey box, the NES, in their basement, leading up to your modern day competitive gamers.

But the expo falls on a weekend that will challenge its success. Other events, besides the expo, taking place this weekend include the Major League Gaming(TM) National Championships in Las Vegas, and some sort of music awards (who cares, this is a video game expo blog).

Even though these challenges exist, so far, the expo has had a drastic effect, especially on the teenage population, which has morphed away from its stereotypical, jocks are cool attitude, and turned into, an, its okay to game! situation. Gaming is turning into a true sport, and it's devolving the view of a common, nerd, or geek.

If the world wasn't paying attention to this expo, I wouldn't have noticed this. There were at least one hundred kids missing from my public school, located an hour or so out of center city Philly, and it wasn't because of the snow....

That's right, these kids literally got out of school to attend this expo.

Video game development is a heavily growing career among today's youth, and this expo is a great place to go if you're an aspiring developer.

But we aware, that these teenagers are treating this convention, not just as a leisure activity, but as a way to explore their intended choice of a career.

This event is the college fair of aspiring video game developers, and that is why it will over come its media induced odds, and that's why it is such an important event.