The Westin O’Hare in Rosemont, Illinois was transformed into Starfleet headquarters for three days (October 22 through 25 2010) as hundreds of Trekkies – or Trekkers – gathered for the Official Star Trek Convention sponsored by Creation Entertainment. This year’s convention was a huge hit, very entertaining and very fun.

The most famous guests were Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and Christopher Lloyd (played a Klingon in one of the Star Trek movies and more widely known as Doc Brown from the Back to the Future film series). However, Nimoy canceled as the show began (due to minor abdominal surgery), frustrating fans who had arrived from afar to attend the convention. This was only a temporary setback as the rest of the activities progressed.

Last Friday (October 29, 2010, High Voltage Software (Iron Man 2, Conduit, Dora the Explorer) threw an awesome Halloween party for it’s staff and the press in Hoffman Estates Illinois. And we were there.

There was live music, dancing, food, and a free bar all night. The live music was preformed by Mana Kintorso and Warm Ones who both performed very well.

They served hot dogs and veggie wraps to all the guests plus a plenty of soda and alcohol. They also had a lot of candy laying about and free glow sticks for everyone.

Plus High Voltage was awesome enough to give out free games.

This week on Halloween day (October 31, 2010), AMC (American Movie Classics) will be starting a new drama series called The Walking Dead about a zombie epidemic that is threatening to end civilization as we know it (if it hasn’t already).

In celebration of this fact, AMC and FOX networks are hosting a world-wide zombie invasion stunt. The event will kick off with overseas invasions beginning at daybreak in Taipei and Hong Kong on Tuesday, October 26, 2010, and moving across the globe where the stunt culminates at the show’s Los Angeles premiere.

Attention all you Chicago Trekkies out there, this October 22-24th 2010, Creation Experience will be holding the 44th annual Star Trek Convention at the Westin O’Hare hotel in Rosemont IL. Like previous years, the Con will hold lots of panels, celebs, venders, and exclusive Star Trek merchandise. There will be panels for all the celebs plus special events like a live auction, several contests, a Leonard Nimoy panel of his latest photo seminar and a “Rat-Pack” concert with ST celebs Max Grodenchick, Vaughn Armstrong, Jeffery Combs, Casey Biggs and Armin Shimerman.

If you’re in Chicago this weekend, you may want to pass by the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center to take part in the 2010 Wizard World Chicago Con. It officially started today (August 19, 2010) at 5pm, and runs until 5pm on Sunday, August 22, 2010. Yes, it’s primarily a comic and sci-fi convention with tons of autograph opportunities, but there are also a lot of panels and events going on that may interest gamers.

If you stop by Friday, August 20, 2010, then there are three interesting panels…

It’s no secret that sex sells. You put an attractive model next to a product and watch the bucks roll in. Videogame conventions have been doing this for years with booth babes. E3 2010 will most likely have more than its fair share of videogame models at company events. THQ is one such company and it is looking to hire models to work its E3 2010 event.

Avast landlubbers! Talk Like a Pirate Day may be over for this year, but Nexon is adding an expansion to MapleStory which will make it feel like Talk Like a Pirate Day all year long. A pirate expansion, to be more specific. Now, players can choose a pirate class for their avatars and visit Demethos, a whole new Mabinogi area.

There are five special events going on to celebrate the pirate update. The first is a Demethos Double / Double event which lasts from November 12-26, 2008 and gives players double experience and item drops in Demethos during the event period. The second is a contest, running from now until December 14, 2008 – the first player in each world with a pirate at level…

Titanstrike online is proud to host this year’s Miss Video Game 2008 (MVG 2008) online tournament.

I recently caught up with Francisco Diaz the co-founder of TitanStrike to find out what it is about all about.

“Titanstrike, a platform for gamers that seeks to blend the best of social networking with cutting edge gaming services including a tournament engine that allows sponsors to create and manage events,” Diaz explained. “The Titanstrike platform also has flash forums, gamer profiles and instant chat to power interaction within the community. The goal of Titanstrike is to provide an ideal environment for online competitions so the Miss Video Game event was a natural fit…

Due to high cost of hosting, the World Series of Video Game series has reached its toll and has been shut down as of September 13, 2007. All remaining events scheduled this year have all been canceled by its organizer Games Media Properties who posted the following statement on the WSVG web site:

“Effective immediately, Games Media Properties will no longer produce the World Series of Video Games. The remainder of the 2007 season in Los Angeles, London and Sweden is canceled…