Ahoy, I'm Peter Tatara. In brief, I'm left-handed, a vegetarian, and my blood type is A. I work for the New York Comic Con and New York Anime Festival and have a cute girlfriend and a Space: Above & Beyond boxset. I'm generally a happy guy.
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Have a drink with us tomorrow!
Don't forget that tomorrow is the first New York Comic Con Happy Hour at Dave and Busters. Join the NYCC team to talk about the con, comics, movies or anything else on your mind. We will be enjoying half priced drinks until 7:30pm, half priced games until closing and an awesome raffle at 8pm!
We will be raffling off:
*NY Comic Con Beach Pack
*Dave and Busters Power Card
*DC Variant Comics
*$50 Midtown Comics Gift Card
*Marvel Variant Comics Signed by Editor-In-Chief Joe Quesada
And in honor of the premiere of Terminator Salvation on Thursday, we will be raffling off Terminator Salvation shirts and shot glasses!
Dave and Busters in Times Square, 234 West 42nd Street New York, NY. Meet us there!
WCG National Final at NYAF!
The World Cyber Games is a year-long, international tournament widely renowned as the Olympics of Video Games. In it, more than 1.5 million gamers from 74 countries compete for a share of more than $100,000 in cash and prizes and chance to play in the Grand Final – this year taking place in Chengdu, China. NYAF is today proud to reveal that it will serve as the WCG's USA National Final, with the winners crowned at NYAF going on to play the best gamers in the world.
Gamers will be able to see elite competitors live at NYAF as the WCG USA National Final will host several returning members of last year's WCG Team USA as well as the cast of the SCI FI Channel's WCG Ultimate Gamer. All will be gaming all weekend on Samsung high definition TVs, monitors, and mobile phones. PC, console, and mobile games featured in the WCG USA 2009 tournament include:
· Half-Life®: Counter-Strike™ 1.6 (5 v. 5 Team FPS )
· Starcraft®: Brood War™: (1 v. 1 RTS)
· WarCraft® III: The Frozen Throne™ (1 v. 1 RTS)
· FIFA Soccer 09 (1 v. 1 Sports)
· Carom3D (1 v. 1 Casual)
· Red Stone (4 v. 4 Team MMORPG)
· Gears of War 2® (4 v. 4 Team FPS) US title only
· Guitar Hero® World Tour (1 v. 1 Music)
· Virtua Fighter® 5 (1 v. 1 Fighting)
· Asphalt 3: Street Rules (1 v. 1 Racing)
· WiseStar (1 v. 1 Strategy)
Registration for the 2009 WCG USA Championship Tournament is open now. US citizens are invited to visit www.wcg.com/usa to register for this year's tournament and to obtain more information about the WCG USA Championship tournament, the WCG Ultimate Gamer TV show, and WCG's Team USA.
Super Para Natural Manga Day and NYAF Ticket Discount
Remember Super Para Natural Day is this Sunday at Kinokuniya. We start at 11 AM with a screening of Bleach the Movie and don’t stop until our raffle – with prizes from Bandai, Dark Horse Comics, The Right Stuf, Samurai Beat Radio, VIZ Media, and VIZ Pictures – at 7 PM. And, if you buy Bleach the Movie at Super Para Natural Manga Day, you get $5 off a NYAF ticket!
Japanese Animation Production Workshop at Japan Society
NYC’s Japan Society will be hosting an anime production workshop for teenagers this summer. Taking place Monday-Friday, August 10-14 and August 17-21, 2009, 10 AM to 4 PM each day, this two-week intensive workshop will allow participants to learn firsthand about the history of anime, its unique features and cross cultural influences in Japan and in the U.S., as well as the market and distribution systems. Participants will gain practical experience creating short anime clips using various animation techniques and learn about scenario writing, character development, storyboarding, and voiceovers under the guidance of anime production experts, scenario writers and designers, including Dai Sato, Japan’s leading anime scenario writer.
Tuition is $200 and includes all materials, books, breakfasts, and lunches. A limited number of tuition-waivers are available. For more information about this program, please call (212) 715-1203, (212) 715-1254, or e-mail [email protected]. The deadline for application is Thursday, May 21, 2009.
Kickoff Summer with the NY Comic Con at Dave and Busters!
Summer is almost here and what better way to start it off than with food, booze, games and prizes! The New York Comic Con is taking over Dave and Busters in Times Square (234 West 42nd Street New York, NY), Wednesday, May 20th from 5:30pm-9:30pm, and we'd love to see you there! The NYCC staff will be hanging out at the Dave and Busters bar, and we want to chat with you about this week's comics, season finales, and the start of the summer movie season. It's a great time to be a geek, so let's clink some glasses and celebrate!
You won’t want to miss out on all the night has to offer…
*Half Priced Drinks from 4:30pm-7:30pm
*Half Priced Games until Closing
Need more motivation than that? How about this…NYCC, Dave and Busters, plus our friends at Midtown Comics, Marvel and DC are donating amazing prizes! Be there at 8pm for our Summer Kickoff Raffle for your chance to win:
*NY Comic Con Beach Pack
*Dave and Busters Power Card
*DC Variant Comics
*$50 Midtown Comics Gift Card
* Marvel Variant Comics Signed by Editor-In-Chief Joe Quesada
If you can’t make it -- which you better have a good reason for -- don’t worry because this is the first of many! The New York Comic Con will be holding happy hours at Dave and Busters in Times Square once a month all summer long. Mark your calendars for our upcoming events June 10th, July 15th and August 19th!
See you next week!
