Festival Coverage
E3 2014: Take-Two Interactive
Last year, E3 attendees got a peek at what next-gen games were going to look like. This year, we’ve gotten a peek at what next-gen games can actually do. With many developers cranking out content that can be played on both iterations of the Sony Playstation, Microsoft Xbox, and Nintendo Wii, there’s an obvious limit to what they can accomplish. … read more
E3 Day Zero: Press Conference Madness
Day 0 of E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) is comprised of back-to-back press conferences from gaming industry giants, showing off their latest wares to the public. As the conferences rolled on it became quite apparent that gaming is in a weird transitional state more so this year than any year before. … read more
Crucial Fest 2014 Day Four @ The Shred Shed
Crucial Fest 4: Day Four @ The Shred Shed with Heartless Breakers, Eons, Call of the Void, Abrams, Die Off, Done, Light/Black … read more
Crucial Fest 2014 Day Three @ Railyard Community Art Garden...
Crucial Fest Day 3 @ Railyard Community Art Garden with Cult Leader, Parallax, Name, Teeph, Reproacher, Borasca, Rail Spike, Oldtimer and @ Bar Deluxe with Eagle Twin, Kowloon Walled City, Helms Alee, Making Fvck, Oxcross … read more
Crucial Fest 2014 Day Two @ Bar Deluxe
Crucial Fest 4 Day 2
@ Bar Deluxe 06.05
With Danger Hailstorm, Yaktooth, Team Dead, Wolvserpent, Gravecode Nebula, SubRosa … read more
Crucial Fest 2014 Day One @ Metro Bar
Crucial Fest 4 Night 1 @ Metro Bar 06.04 With Pest Rulz, Moon of Delirium, Turbo Chugg, Cicadas, Temples, Baby Gurl, Iceburn … read more
Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival 2014
Punk Rock Bowling invites the positivity of the punk community, allowing everyone and anyone to see bands that they can knock off their bucket list. This festival invites a vast and diverse array of people influenced by this subculture. One can see skinheads, rockers, crust punks and of course the spiky hair punk rockers that make up the popular novelty postcards. … read more
Looking At September: Dan Far Talks Comic Con Planning
Last week, the fine folks of Salt Lake Comic Con popped into The Leonardo for an official press conference to announce plans for September. … read more
Salt Fest 2014: Day Two
Let’s face it–Major League Gaming sucks. These tournament-style events make for a nice sideshow, but if I’ve learned anything from the last two days, nobody comes to a convention to watch somebody else play video games. … read more
Salt Fest 2014: Day One
Up until SLUG announced the assignment, I hadn’t even heard of this con, didn’t even see a single flyer up at the U during spring semester. But with two twelve-hour days listed, I figured it was going to be worth it.
Spoiler alert: it wasn’t. … read more