Sunday, March 28th will play host to special events and discounts so the whole family can come to the show ane enjoy electronic gaming together! New for 2010, the Midwest Gaming Classic on Sunday is Family Day!  Bring the whole family out to enjoy the show, and get special Family Day Discounts and participate in special Family Day Events! Sunday, general admission is only $10.00 per person, and kids 12 and under are free as long as they are accompanied by an adult!  On top of that, select vendors will have special deals to help the family come together and game electronically, such as cheaper childrens games, cheaper additional controllers, and more cool stuff!  You can get a list of the specials when you arrive Sunday morning! Family Day will also host special events that the whole family can participate in together!  From doing an arts and crafts project with the Sisters in Gaming in the VGEvo Events room to Tom Legare talking about how to determine if games are right for your children in the main speaking hall, Family Day will have lots of awesome things you won’t want to miss! For a full listing of all of the fun that Family Day will offer at the Midwest Gaming Classic, check out the link for Family Day in the At The Show section of the web site!

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Sunday is Family Day at the Midwest Gaming Classic

VGEvo, an online gaming portal and community focused on the evolution of electronic gaming, adds many events to the show! VGEvo, an online gaming portal and community focusing on the evolution of gaming, will be welcoming people into their community at the Midwest Gaming Classic in the Classic Gaming Museum area. It is going to feel like you just stepped into their portal, as you will get to meet up with the founders (Ken Williams and “Trickman” Terry), as well as member of the VGEvo Podcast Network! Check out presentations and challenges from your favorite podcasts such as PS Nation, The GOO, Sisters in Gaming, On Tap, and more! Play games with our members and maybe even challenge Sushi-X to a round of Street Fighter! The VGEvo section is going to be full of events that you don’t want to miss! To check out more about the plan of events for the VGEvo section of the Midwest Gaming Classic, make sure to check out the events within an event page on the Midwest Gaming Classic site!

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The Midwest Gaming Classic is proud to announce Pegasus Publishing as a new vendor to the show! The Midwest Gaming Classic is proud to announce Pegasus Publishing as a new vendor to the show! Coming from Sherman, Texas, Pegasus Publishing is the premiere apparel vendor for gaming and SF fans. Carrying a wide selection of VideoGame, RPG Gaming, Mad Scientist and other fannish T-Shirts Pegasus has been satisfying fans since 1980

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The block of rooms at the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel is fast filling up… so if you want to make sure you get a room, you should reserve ASAP! The block of rooms at the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel is fast filling up… in fact, we filled our initial block already, doubled it, and have filled that too!  With rooms filling so quickly, if you are intending on staying at the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel, make sure to reserve your rooms sooner than later to ensure they have exactly the type of room that you wish available for you to stay in! If the hotel fills up, this won’t be the first time that the Midwest Gaming Classic has sold out a hotel!  In 2008, the Midwest Gaming Classic sold out every room at the Olympia Resort and Spa, and last year the event was very close to another sell out

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Want to play in a pinball tournament before the Midwest Pinball Championship… and get a coupon to play in the MPC by doing so?  Don’t miss the GameWorks Pinball Tournament of Championship starting tomorrow! GameWorks Schaumburg is the Premier gaming facility in the country. Owned by SEGA, GameWorks has over 250 games and is a test facility for new machines in the gaming industry! This means that GameWorks has games that no one else has! This weekend, GameWorks will be hosting a spectacular pinball tournament, the GameWorks Pinball Tournament of Champions.  These quarterly tournaments draw some of the best players in the world, and are always super fun to participate in! If you think that you have what it takes to take down some of the best regional players, or if you just want an awesome pinball tournament in the area to play in before the Midwest Pinball Championship, you don’t want to miss the GameWorks Pinball Tournament of Champions coming this weekend.  If that isn’t enough, there is another reason to participate in this amazing tournament – if you enter the tournament, you will get a card worth $5.00 off tournament entry for the Midwest Pinball Championship, or any other Midwest Gaming Classic tournament! So do your best to take down the other pinball tournaments at GameWorks, win the $800 grand prize, and then take your skills to the Midwest Gaming Classic with your $5.00 off tournament entry coupon! It’s a great win for pinball tournament players! GameWorks also has 2 full bars and a casual dining restaurant, as well as tons of games that aren’t pinball machines!  It’s the perfect place to hang out with family or friends

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GameWorks Touranment of Champions this Weekend

The Midwest Gaming Classic is proud to announce Polk Audio and the Hitmaster(tm) Gaming Stage Monitor as our newest gold level sponsor! The Midwest Gaming Classic is proud to announce Polk Audio and the Hitmaster(tm) Gaming Stage Monitor as our newest gold level sponsor! If It Makes Sound, Polk Audio Makes It Sound Better! For almost forty years, Polk Audio has surfed the edge of innovation to bring you excellent sound at a reasonable price. Their award-winning products are designed to fit both your life and your style: play your iPod by your bedside, frag zombies in your den, revel in the warmth of vinyl recordings in your living room or enjoy the cinema impact of digital technology in your home theater

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Polk Audio Joins the MGC!