MAGFest X (2012)

MAGFest is a music and video gaming festival run by fans, for fans. In more verbose terms, it’s an annual event dedicated to the celebration of video games and video game music. Every year offers 24-hour console, arcade, and PC game rooms, live video game cover bands, a vendors area, and guest speakers from the video game industry and fan scene. It also features a “JamSpace” available to all attendees for impromptu music performances. Numerous other events are scheduled each day.

What makes MAGFest unique is that it’s an event run by fans for fans. There are no corporate sponsors, no over-crowded showfloors, and no hour long lines. MAGFest is built from the ground up to be a party-like atmosphere with focus on community and fan creations, which creates an environment that no other expo or convention can ever recreate.

MAGFest is currently headed by Brendan Becker and his crack team of specialists. The first MAGFest was held September 27-29, 2002, at the Holiday Inn Tanglewood in Roanoke, Virginia. We’ve had a total of nine MAGFests so far, and they’ve been a blast! We have grown rapidly to our current size, and sold out at 3,000 people during MAGFest 9 in January, 2011. MAGFest X (10) will be held in the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, and we hope to see you there!