MAGFest Cranks It Up To 11 – Pre-Registration + Hotel Reservations Open

By Katie Horstman June 12th, 2012

National Harbor loves the music.

MAGFest 11 has opened its doors for pre-registration and hotel reservations. It will take place on January 3-6, 2o12, again at the beautiful Gaylord National Hotel in National Harbor, Maryland. MAGFest has also announced that they have added the Castlevania composer, Kinuyo Yamashita, as a guest for this year’s event.

Other notable guests include:

Bit Brigade – Video game cover band that plays the entire soundtrack of a game with an accompanying live speedrun.

Random AKA Mega Ran – Video game based hip hop.

Jon St. John – The voice of Duke Nukem.

Egoraptor – Creator of “Metal Gear Awesome” and other cartoon series.

…and many more to be announced!

For more information on MAGFest or to start the pre-reg process head over to their site: http://magfest.org

Katie Horstman

Staff Writer

Katie has always had a connection to games and was able to make Super Mario Bros. a motion game before Nintendo even thought of the Wii. She has a serious addiction; an illness if you may, of loving ridiculous games. She has been through an extensive digital rehabilitation, but we fear her addiction is surfacing again.

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