Giant Robot Store and GR2 News

Game Night 5, brought out a game hungry crowd and served as a nice kick off to the summer, or perhaps it’s a post E3 for the indie gamers. We jumped on to the Nintendo 3DS Street Pass which happened to be on the same day. Perfect. The 3DS above started with a zero friends and ended with 14. People would walk by and see the 3DS and they’d wave theirs nearby and a connection gets made.

 

We had three game stations inside showing Skullgirls and Skull of the Shogun. The games of the event. Before it got dark, we already had a decent crowd inside anticipating the night for the projections outside.

 

That’s Kinuko Mariel who’s the lead animator on Skullgirls and Scott Spatola from Meatbun, one of the hosts of the event.

 

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We are featured in UCLA Magazine. Thanks to writer Scott Fields and photographer Mathieu Young. Yes, come and visit us. UCLA’s support has always been great. Actually, not just UCLA, but most of the Southern California Schools have been great to us. Thanks much. “Visit one of three Giant Robot locations on the Westside opened by a former UCLA East Asian Studies major and get a dose of Japanese pop culture. There’s a store, a restaurant and a gallery space that promotes local artists. All three are hip, urban, international and different.” (UCLA Magazine - Bruin Guide to L.A.)  
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