Cascadia News Bytes: July 30th, 2008

Anime Evolution announced a new venue for their convention next month.

The Seattle World Bid sent out a press release about parties they're involved with at the upcoming Devention.

According to the Seattle Times, the Twilight series of teen vampire books is set in the town of Forks, Washington. Tours are now popping up with fans traveling to the town to see locations written about in the book.

A blogger has posted their report about their experience at PDX Lan in Portland.

The Space Elevator Conference this year was held on the campus of Microsoft. Here's some news from what took place.

Cosmic Log
KIRO TV
Redmond Reporter
Seattle PI
Space Elevator Blog


The Casual Connect Conference held in Seattle devoted towards casual video gaming has a variety of stories online about the current state of gaming.

Casual Gaming Biz
Gamasutra
Game Critics
Game Daily
Game Zebo
Seattle PI
Seattle Times
WordPress
Xconomy