Back from Russia.
It was a crazy trip. As a child of the Reagan/Thatcher Era, being an American in Moscow feels deeply strange. It’s a truly unique city, with numerous and often befuddling quirks. Paul, Bob and I had a good time overall (though losing my luggage initially was a bit stressful). Here are some pictures from the trip (the rest can be found here):
This is Red Square at night. It was about 3 minutes walking distance from our hotel:
I assume to control traffic, you couldn’t easily drive all the way up to the convention center. As a result, we had to trudge 3/4 of a mile each morning from a security check point in to the show:
Right outside the convention center sits a full-sized replica of the ship that took Yuri Gagarin into space (we could never figure out what the plane was from):
The crowd queues to get in. I’d estimate around 50,000 fans were at the show over the course of three days:
The EA space took up the entire top floor (you can see the stage where Paul and I did presentations in the background, under the big screen):
The WAR booth! Complete with numerous machines running the Russian build of WAR, our own big screen and stage and a kick-ass display from Games Workshop Russia, full of tabletop minis:
A GW staffer shows off a Bloodthirster:
We had some really great cosplayer WAR fans who made WAR costumes and got hired by EA Russia to work our booth:
EA had a face-painter and a spray-on tattoo booth for fans (WAR tats were – by far – the most popular):
The folks who made it all happen – the EA Russia team:
It was a great show, the Russian WAR fans are AWESOME and it was a lot of fun getting to visit a place that – as a kid – seemed impossibly off-limits. Just make sure you always have your papers in order.
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