MAGFest Documentary Sets Stage For Next Installment

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to information on a freely downloadable documentary about the MAGFest 2.0 videogame festival, which "took place... on October 31st to November 2nd of the year 2003... in Williamsburg, Virginia", and includes interviews with videogame remixers, fighting game champions, and footage from "an outstanding Minibosses set." The 155mb DivX is available via BitTorrent [direct link], and is produced by X-Strike Studios - it will be included as a bonus on their forthcoming unofficial River City Rumble DVD, described by a delighted previewer as "the Citizen Kane of films based on martial-arts video games." The documentary also servers as a trailer for this year's MAGFest, to be held "Friday through Sunday, the 1st through the 3rd of October... [also] in Williamsburg, VA."

Re:Too bad Jake Kaufman (virt) is involved

[Anonymous Coward]

VRIT R BADMEN!!!11

seriously, did you even go to the site? he's a guest for the concert. how does that translate to 'administrative capacity'?

please be informed, or be quiet.

Re:Too bad Jake Kaufman (virt) is involved

[Anonymous Coward]

ok, thanks for warning everyone, but...

what you should REALLY do is ask the few hundred people that went to the past 2 magfests what i'm like in person. i've been at both so far, in no administrative position. you'll be surprised. there were no "run-ins".

in fact, a few dyed-in-the-wool virt-haters have become friends (one a close friend) as a result of meeting me in person and finding out that i'm surprisingly friendly and laid-back, totally the opposite of what they expected. likewise i found them to be

Re:Too bad Jake Kaufman (virt) is involved

[theGREENzebra]

Time for some facts (aka "the MAGFest chairman intervenes").

We don't put Virt in charge of anything but his own panel, and his own music, both of which he has every right to be in control of. Please watch the video and come to the convention before you make any further judgements.

Virt is in our concert because he is fully capable of performing, and there were a few others (Ailsean, prozax, Midee) that wanted to play as well, so we decided to try and get them all together to perform. The result was that we

Obligatory Dr. Evil Allusion

[jmt9581]

"MAGFest Documentary Sets Stage For Next Instalment"

Note to the editors: What do I pay you people for anyway?

:P

OneUp Mushrooms

[Anonymous Coward]

Also make sure to check out the excellent OneUp Mushrooms [oneupstudios.com] who I think played at magfest 2002 (not sure about 2003).

-Joshua

Citizen Kane

[drewmca]

Isn't the "Citizen Kane of films" actually "Citizen Kane"? That's up there with heroin being the opiate of the people.

Insightful???

[King_of_Prussia]

Did you even read the intro text? It quite explicitly calls it: "the Citizen Kane of films based on martial-arts video games." (emphasis mine.)

Unless you think Citizen Kane involved Ninjas and spawncampers, there is nothing wrong with that sentence.

Re:Insightful???

[drewmca]

Don't know about you, but I seem to remember Orson Welles kicking some serious double dragon ass in black and white in that movie, so my comment still stands. Court or Plaza, hardball?

Another Great Remix Site...

[Necromutant]

http://www.ocremix.org/ There is some really good stuff on this site... enjoy if you have the time to plow through it. I have about 60 remixes that I enjoy from this site.