RAGECON
RAGECON
We hitch a ride to the biggest little city in the world as Ben Maddox shows us what’s all the rage at RageCon in Reno
Written by Ben Maddox
It’s not often you get invited to a free trip to the States, especially if you’re as objectionable as me, but the organisers of RageCon, the Reno Area Gaming Expo Convention (please forgive the rampant tautology), thought it expedient to buy me a plane ticket and give me a hotel room in exchange for me allowing some Americans to see a British person in the wild. I think it was the proximity to July the 4th, so they could see that they really didn’t make a mistake having that little fracas 200 odd years ago.
RageCon is held in the Nugget Casino in the town of Sparks, a conurbation to the east of Reno. We get our stuff out of the car, head across the skybridge to the casino and the first person I see is an elderly gentleman wearing a t-shirt that sports the legend: