So, I work conventions for this comic book store that my gf works for at Anime Boston and Conneticon, and just a few days ago the owner approached me and said that the manager did not want to go to PAX to check out rival competition Anime Pavillion. So, he knows I'm into games and computers and the lot, and bought me a ticket.

Has anyone ever been to PAX and can tell me what I can expect? Conversely, is anybody else going?

"The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) is an annual gamer festival held in Washington state, USA. PAX was created by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, the authors of the Penny Arcade webcomic, because they wanted to attend a show that gave equal attention to console gamers, computer gamers, and tabletop gamers.

Created in 2004, PAX has nearly doubled in size each successive year and has been hailed as a weekend-long celebration of gamer culture. Defining characteristics include an insider keynote speech, game-inspired concerts, panels on game industry topics, exhibitor booths, after-hours parties, tournaments, and freeplay areas.

Jerry Holkins has said that "PAX and Child's Play will outlive Penny Arcade. Substantially."^[1]

After many years of success with PAX West, 2010 will bring the first PAX East Coast, in Boston, MA, with preregistrations for tickets indicating that it may be bigger than any other previous PAX conventions held in past years."

3 Day tickets are completely sold out by the way.

PAX was a television network that had shockingly low ratings.

It had shows like Miracle Pets.

haha, AND Supermarket Sweep.  But let's not forget Doc, PAX's number rated series starring none other than Billy Ray Cyrus.

If you ad a K- in front of it, it is the planet that Prot comes from

Can you get me a ticket as well? I'll help you out!

Is it PAX east? Because I know the regular PAX isn't for a while.

One of my greatest regrest in life was never being on Supermarket Sweep.

Show looked like so much fun.

"He's loading up on Turkeys!"

I think it's probably pax east then. It's at the very end of march I think. Anyway, for the uninformed, PAX is:

"The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) is an annual gamer festival held in Washington state, USA. PAX was created by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, the authors of the Penny Arcade webcomic, because they wanted to attend a show that gave equal attention to console gamers, computer gamers, and tabletop gamers.

Created in 2004, PAX has nearly doubled in size each successive year and has been hailed as a weekend-long celebration of gamer culture. Defining characteristics include an insider keynote speech, game-inspired concerts, panels on game industry topics, exhibitor booths, after-hours parties, tournaments, and freeplay areas.

Jerry Holkins has said that "PAX and Child's Play will outlive Penny Arcade. Substantially."^[1]

After many years of success with PAX West, 2010 will bring the first PAX East Coast, in Boston, MA, with preregistrations for tickets indicating that it may be bigger than any other previous PAX conventions held in past years."

sounds good,

enjoy

Yeah it's Pax East which will be held in Boston. I don't know if anything new will be shown because E3 will be only a couple of months away.

The companies that are announced so far are: 2k Games, Dell, EA, Harmonix, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nvidia, Rockstar Games, Sega, Ska Studios, The Behemoth, Turbine, Twisted Pixels, Ubisoft. Expect more companies to be there.

You also got Panels there and some musical acts.

Any hot booth babes go to PAX?

If so, INTERESTED...

If it's just going to be a bunch of dorky kids playing videogames, meh... ¬_¬

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