I spent a bunch of time here as there were so many promising titles on display. The indie scene was very well-represented via the Indie Megabooth and Minibooth. Top-level players from all over came to compete this year, and Twitch did a great job streaming most of the coverage throughout the weekend. League of Legends and Street Fighter V being two heavily-populated spots for gamers. There were multiple game tournaments taking place as well. You could purchase anything from plush dolls to comics and wall scrolls, homebrew reproduction carts, specialty headphones and gear and even Anime love pillows. I’m looking at you, Uncharted 4 Plunder hogs.Īlso in attendance were several local and eastern-based game shops such as Game Underground, Replay’d, Video Games New Yorkand more. All of the big names were in attendance, many with queues an hour or more long. This is where developers and publishers congregate to show fans their latest work and generate a buzz for their upcoming products. Once inside, I headed straight for the showroom floor. Didn’t expect all of this to be outside of the front doors to the convention center, though. There were metal detectors, bag checks and search dogs at the ready to search us then corral us like the cattle that we were. This was new to me, but I had heard about the attendance growing in number each year. I arrived at a flood of people waiting in lines across multiple directions. Since I hadn’t attended in a few years, I was a bit surprised at some of the changes this convention has gone through.įirst, the attendance. Gamers from all walks of life, all age groups, came together this weekend to experience what is ahead for gaming. After a 2 year hiatus from conventions, I decided to return to PAX East this year to enjoy the latest games, get my networking chops flowing again and to absorb the feverish energy that filled the showroom amidst a sea of 100,000 + humans. No such show existed, so PAX was born.” – WikiĪnother year, another PAX East concludes.
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 video gamers, computer gamers, and tabletop gamers. “The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) is an annual gamer festival held in Washington.
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