It's about 4:30 in the afternoon here at the first day of PAX in Seattle, and the opening keynote is about to kick off. Sadly, Wil Wheaton will not be speaking this year, so instead they got some dude named Ken Levine. I think he helped make a game that came out last year or something.

Anyways, stay tuned because I will be bringing you the keynote LIVE from PAX! Keep hitting that refresh button to keep up.

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5:32: Ken Levine wraps it up with "Now go and enjoy the fuck out of PAX." Oh, I plan to.

5:31: "What brings us all together to PAX is we're a GIANT BUNCH OF FUCKING NERDS." Hell yeah we are!

5:30: In the video game industry, he finally found nerds being happy with themselves--he, once again, found his tribe.

5:28: His romantic comedy turned out sucky, and he lost his job, his agent, and his focus--just as games were gaining momentum. After several years of random jobs, a career in the video game industry was looking like a good idea.

5:23: Now we're at the point in Ken's life when he moved to LA to become a scriptwriter. When he was tapped to write a romantic comedy, he really thought he had made it, and he had left nerdiness completely behind.

5:21: Where was Ken to go when all his friends coupled off? Drama club!

5:19: Fast forward to 1983, when things started to change. Mainly, females started hanging out with the group. "When certain members of your D&D group start inappropriately fucking other members of your D&D group... the days of your D&D group are fucking numbered."

5:14: He talks about being on the school bus and looking down on the even geekier geeks sitting in the front row... until the day he overheard them talking about D&D. He got so wrapped up in talking to them that he missed his stop and had to walk three miles home when he finally got off the bus. This led to an invite to a friendly game of D&D, at which Darth Vader was apparently present.

5:13: He tried not to be a nerd, he really did, but there was something that set him apart from everyone else. By the time he entered high school, he gave up and accepted that he was a nerd, and that was that.

5:11: Not surprisingly, Levine's next foray into total nerdom was video games, starting back in 1978. Then he did something "that most people do with a loved one, but I did it painfully, secretly, alone": Dungeons & Dragons. Yes!

5:09: "As a species, nerds crave information."

5:08: We're now at the point in Levine's life where he was obsessed with Logan's Run. He is relieved that people know what that is.

5:07: "I wanted to fuck the Scarlet Witch. I'm serious, look at her."

5:05: As a kid, Levine was really into comics. I might ask him to marry me after the keynote.

5:03: "When my parents rolled out my character, they didn't get any eighteens. A couple of twelves, maybe, two or three fives." He talks about having a speech impediment in middle school and getting made fun of. I am instantly in love with him.

5:01: Ken Levine comes onstage and talks about buying a Rome: Total War expansion, and uses the f-word in under a minute. Some guys accused him of looking at gay porn because of the "Fabio-looking guy on the cover." He goes from being a guy coming off a huge game release to a dorky little kid all over again. Awww!

5:00: Lights are dimming! Finally!

4:58: Just met Brian Crecente of Kotaku whilst waiting for the keynote to start. He was very nice.

4:56: Still showing trailers. Sorry guys, it was supposed to have started by now. I'm sure Ken will come onstage any second...

4:35: No Ken yet. They're showing a bunch of trailers and commercials. An important looking guy is talking into a microphone about two feet in front of me, and a couple of kids with headcrab hats sitting next to me. Headcrab zombies! 

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