We've been floating on a cloud of inspiration since yesterday afternoon, when nerd culture luminary Wil Wheaton delivered the keynote address for PAX East 2010. For one hour, the audience watched as Wil touched on a myriad of game culture touchstones: His newfound love of Dragon Age (including a ton of end-game spoilers), his first encounter with D&D, how he's watched games evolve over the years, and his ever-evolving love of the Penny Arcade Expo. We couldn't poll the audience, but we're pretty sure everyone left the theater with inexplicable warm feelings.
You can listen to the whole (fairly NSFW) keynote in the audio player below.
He voiced Aqualad on Teen Titans, duh. Sheesh. Hm, what about Mike Morningstar/Darkstar on Ben 10 Alien Force? Anyone? There's this other role he's famous for, but I can't remember what it's called............
I was there to hear this and it was amazing. I agree that Wil is our game president. I haven't heard a speech like that for anyone in the gaming community. It was touching, from the heart, and awesome at the same time. It was a great start to an amazing weekend at PAX East.
PS onan, i fell your pain. When they locked you guys out, they locked those of us already in the theater in. Wouldn't even let us out to go to the bathroom (unless you demand to speak to the people in charge like I and another guy had to do).
As someone who had the line cut off right in front of him to get into the keynote, thanks for posting this. It would have been messed up to have to wait for the DVD to come out.