FREE for George Mason University Students!
General Public: $19 per day pass (price includes fees).
Fees apply to purchases made online or over the phone but are waived for in-person purchases at the Center for the Arts Ticket Office. ($4 per ticket). Tickets can also be purchased on site at the Center for the Arts Ticket office during regular business hours on the days of the event. No fees if purchased in person at the Center for the Arts Ticket Office.
Community tickets can also be purchased on site at the Center for the Arts Ticket office during regular business hours on the days of the event.
GAMEmason takes place in and around the George Mason University Center for the Arts, located at 4373 Mason Pond Dr, Fairfax, VA 22030. If you are driving to GAMEmason, you can park for free in Lot K near the Center for the Arts, or you can use the pay-to-park garage located on Mason Pond Deck on Mason Pond Drive.
From Lot K, you can walk across Patriot Circle at the crosswalk nearest Mason Pond and follow the path to the Center for the Arts.
From Mason Pond Deck, exit the garage, and the Center for the Arts is directly on the left.
Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street has been making video games for 25 years. He currently leads an R&D team at Riot Games. Still, he has also worked on the Entertainment team that produced Riot Music, Riot Forge, the Emmy-winning Arcane series on Netflix, and Riot’s flagship title, League of Legends. Before that, Greg worked on World of Warcraft at Blizzard Entertainment for six years. Before that, he worked on the Age of Empires series for Ensemble Studios and Microsoft. Greg calls him a game designer first and foremost, but he has worn many hats, including the narrative lead, producer, and general manager. Before getting into gaming, he was an oceanographer specializing in crustaceans, which is where his crab avatar comes from. Greg has always tried to prioritize communicating with players and fans of games around the world in an open and approachable manner. Greg enjoys travel, nature, history, yoga, and boxing outside of work.
James Landino is an internationally recognized video game/anime composer and DJ from Los Angeles, California. His influence of electronic music bridges the gap between gaming, anime, and nightclub culture, amassing millions of plays across multiple platforms.
He is best known for his work on the musically acclaimed video game NO STRAIGHT ROADS, along with other projects, including TOWER OF GOD, OMEGA STRIKERS, ROBLOX, CHUNITHM, OSU!, RWBY, CYTUS II, AMPLITUDE HD, PUBG MOBILE and DROPMIX.
Once an audio developer for HARMONIX MUSIC SYSTEMS, James now works full-time as an independent talent working with the entertainment industry’s best professionals. His notable clients include SEGA, SQUARE ENIX, MONSTERCAT, SONY, CRUNCHYROLL, TENCENT, and ROOSTER TEETH.
James tours worldwide at various events as a performer and speaker celebrating video games and anime, sharing the stage with renowned acts M-FLO, TEDDYLOID, and DEMONDICE, and releasing official remixes of internationally recognized artists such as KUMI KODA, FLOW, and TOKYO MACHINE. Recently he founded RARE DROP, a music publishing and artist management company representing music composers in the video game industry.
Born in Cali, Colombia, Carolina Ravassa is known for her voice work in the video games OVERWATCH (Sombra), VALORANT (Raze), GRAND THEFT AUTO V (Taliana Martinez), FAR CRY 6, CYBERPUNK 2077, MAX PAYNE III, RED DEAD REDEMPTION II, and JUST CAUSE 4. She is a series regular on Disney’s HAMSTER AND GRETEL, and has voiced characters on THE CASA GRANDES (Nickelodeon), RIDLEY JONES (Netflix), BIG NATE (Nickelodeon), MAYA AND THE THREE (Netflix), BIG CITY GREENS (Disney), VICTOR AND VALENTINO (Cartoon Network), and LOUD HOUSE (Nickelodeon), among others. On camera, Carolina has appeared on THE AFFAIR opposite Dominic West, MR. ROBOT with Bobby Cannavale andRami Malek, and has shot a few shorts with Reggie Watts. She recently wrapped the titular lead role in the independent feature MORGAN’S MASK, which she also produced, and starred in the independent feature HAVANNA DARKNESS. Carolina produced, directed, and starred in the webseries HISPANGLOSAXON, which won an Imagen Award for Best WebSeries. Other credits include the films STEP UP 3-D and MAYBE TOMORROW.
https://www.carolinaravassa.com
Bit Brigade performs rock covers of full NES game soundtracks as their gamer speedruns the game live onstage.
“When was the last time you attended a live music performance with a genuine element of risk? And no, going to a Gwar show with a white t-shirt doesn’t count. When Bit Brigade takes the stage, your mind will oscillate between “Oh! Agh!! Please don’t die!!” and “YES! He’s doing it!!”Combining the dread and daring of a live video game speed run with the spot-on technique of a live band covering the musical accompaniment to everything you’re seeing on-screen in real time, Bit Brigade will have you swinging between the two mediums. From thrashing about to live renditions of your favorite stage themes, fingers yearning to the sky in a rock ‘n roll parody of sea anemones seeming to silently plead, “Please, feed us more fretboard pyrotechnics!” to being locked in stock-still rapture as the infallible maestro of the d-pad, Noah McCarthy, takes on the final boss and risks his video game life under the threat of intense peer scorn (or the reward of night-long glory and a credits score). No matter the outcome, BitBrigade must play on until the deed is done – which it always is – on the first (and last) try. Once Noah’s NES buzzes on, there’s no turning back.” – Metalhead Mike of The Shizz, summer 2011
All Hell Breaks Loops is a multiclass mixed Japanese DJ/VJ from Los Angeles, California. A digital staple of the southern California club and rave scene, AHBL has the rare distinction of transforming his talents at all major American anime conventions from coast to coast. Proving that being terminally online can still have a pulse, his open format media style draws from the pastiche of pop and traditional culture, Japanese doujin fan creations, 3D renders on par with AAA game titles, social media filters, and an underlying discourse worthy of video essay analysis.
