It's coming again! The Music And Games Festival, this time in alexandria, virginia. Like last year, it will be over 3 days of gaming goodness, with 2 full evenings of video game music concerts. You'll hear some of the best VG covers ever in the style of chip tunes, rock, and even hip hop. Bands playing include:

• The Advantage
  
• The smash brothers (featuring Jake "Virt" Kaufman)
  
• Select Start
  
• Powerglove
  
• WaveTheory/Planetskill
  
• Armcannon
  
• Shawnphase/Temp sound solutions
  
• This Place is haunted

The gaming room is 24 hours, and features near every gaming system imaginable (including PC engines, neo geos, saturns, and a ton of arcade machines), and there are tournaments running through the whole convention. A LAN room is there and also 24 hours, so feel free to bring your PC. There are panels as well. Some of the panel topics include: various topics of game industry discussion, music composition, gaming talk in general, and drunken nintendo karaoke is going to make an appearance in there somewhere.

The convention goes from thursday morning to sunday evening, so that's over 3 solid days and nights of gaming, music and partying. Tell the hotel when you're booking your room that you're part of the magfest block, and you'll get a discounted fee of only $100 a night!

Check out the website at http://www.magfest.org to preregister and find out more about the convention and what it's all about.

Where:
Hilton Mark Center Hotel
Alexandria, Virginia

When:
January 3-6, 2008

Pre-Registration fee: $35