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Well, this last weekend we were at Salt Fest and we had an insanely fun time. We brought our pile of machines for attendees to come by and stare at, but they also took the chance to play some of these weird music games. We even managed to stream a couple of nights from the con, and walked around with a camera shoving it in peoples faces. MAXIMUM FUN.

Thank you to the staff and organizers of Salt Fest. Beatgamer had so much fun. We hope that we provided your attendees with some extra entertainment throughout the weekend.

Check out our pictures on our Facebook galleries.

Beatgamer’s pics from Salt Fest (includes cosplay photos)

Beatgamer Staff and Machines at Salt Fest

Our Twitch.TV channel with our archived streams from Salt Fest.

We made it to Las Vegas for Gemini’s last lock-in before they close for a while. Just over a dozen Beatgamers are in town for the event, and while we wish that we were here under better circumstances, we’re happy to be able to come down here and show our support for the best music game arcade in our part of the country, and for the Las Vegas music game players. We’re here for the last lock-in before they close for a while, and we’ll definitely be here for their first lock-in after they open in their new location. We can’t wait! Check our facebook page for pictures throughout the night. Don’t be surprised if we don’t upload too many pics or videos, we’ll definitely upload some by the end of the weekend.

Beatgamer on Facebook

Gemini Arcade Palace on Facebook

We are pleased to announce that we will be at Salt Lake Salt Fest on 10-11 May 2013 here in Salt Lake City, Utah! We will be providing some of our music games to the event, headed up by the Utah Fight Circuit, which is looking to be an awesome gaming expo with a monster list of tournaments, guests, all things gaming! Check us out at Salt Fest! For more information and the latest news on this event, head on over to our facebook page.

Salt Fest website

Salt Fest on Facebook

Beatgamer on Facebook

We gave in and decided to make a Harlem Shake video at our favourite stomping ground, the Sandy Nickelcade. Thanks to everybody who showed up to the shoot.

Sad news coming out of Las Vegas today. According to a post on the Gemini Arcade Palace facebook group, the arcade will be closing it’s doors on Monday, 22 April 2013. Julie, one of the owners of the arcade, noted that they will not be renewing their lease at their Sandhill location. However, they do plan to come back  sometime in the near future, opening a “bigger and better” arcade, however they do not have a timeframe or location currently in mind according to the post.

Beatgamer Salt Lake will be planning at least one group visit to Gemini sometime in the next couple of months before their closing. We will keep you updated, and you can also join the Gemini Arcade Palace facebook group for the latest.

Although we at Beatgamer are saddened about Gemini closing, we are happy to hear that they are planning to open up in a newer, better location. Gemini is by far the best music game arcade in this part of the country, and a staple of the music gaming community. We would like to thank Gemini and their owners for their dedication to the gaming community and we can’t wait to attend their grand re-opening.

The image on the left is Juli’s original post on the Gemini group

Gemini Arcade Palace Facebook Group (registration required)

Link to the post on Gemini’s Facebook Group (registration required)

We just received word that JOKR and S34N are currently in a world record attempt at Gemini Arcade Palace in Las Vegas, NV. As of this post they’ve been up for 22/48 hours. Tune into the stream to check out the attempt yourself and to chat with other viewers.

Beatgamer wishes both of them good luck with their attempt!

JOKR and S34N WR Attempt on Twitch.TV (courtesy Milkchan)

So remember that one time I tried to schedule a tournament around the new year? Yeah, wasn’t that awesome?

Luckily, I learned the error of my ways and we have rescheduled the Expert and Stamina events from the Deal2 tournament and put them into their own event called New Year Tourney: The Deal With It Saga Continues.

The tournament will take place on the 26th of Jan 2013 at the Sandy Nickelcade in Sandy Utah.

A tournament pack has already been uploaded and you can find that along with rules and more information on the event page on Facebook.

We will also be streaming this tournament live via our Bambuser channel, in case you can’t make it to the tournament!

But we hope you can make it.

It should be awesome.

New Year Tourney: The Deal With It Saga Continues event page on Facebook

Oh hey look. IT’S 2013. Time for a new year of music gaming! From all of us here at Beatgamer, we hope you get to play harder, faster, better, stronger, or however that song goes, in 2013!

Hi all,

Due to low turnout (HEY LET’S SCHEDULE A TOURNAMENT THE WEEKEND OF THE NEW YEAR!) I’ve cancelled the Expert event today and the Stamina event tomorrow. I will be moving those events to a later date, so please check here or on our facebook page for more information.

Our Mod event will continue as scheduled and will be livestreamed at 7PM MT.

More info to follow.

We’re live here at the Sandy Nickelcade (facebook link) for our Deal2 tournament! If you aren’t here, you can watch us live right now on Bambuser! Our Expert tech event will begin shortly after 1pm Mountain, followed by our Mod event around 7pm mountain. Tomorrow we will have our Stamina tech event at 2pm Mountain! Check out the live stream for the action!

Deal2 tournament LIVE STREAM OMG (Link goes to our channel, you can find the link to the live stream there)