Hey everybody! I just got an email with the official number for this years PAX East and wanted to fill you all in. The first ever PAX East last year had an official attendance of 52,290 people. That’s pretty impressive. So how would the second annual PAX East fare?
Thanks for tuning back in, faithful readers and intrepid adventurers. Now that PAX East 2011 is over, the articles are mostly published, and all the geek dust has settled (momentarily, of course), I return to the regularly scheduled programming of the two-year D&D campaign. Yulin and Tyghe just established the birth of the Baron’s daughter
Fans of the bestselling fantasy giant Game of Thrones are frothing at the mouth for the forthcoming series based on the novels to air on HBO in just about a month. The show has a full ten-episode run scheduled to begin in April and set many fans’ faces to stunned. The novel series has also
Twisted Pixel, the company that brought you Splosion Man, The Maw, and Comic Jumper, takes away the controller with its new ambitious title, The Gunstringer and turns you into the weapon. The Gunstringer utilizes Microsoft’s Kinect in its upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game. It is a third person shooter which has you controlling a
Saturday morning at PAX East, those involved with the media (and cleared for access) were allowed a one-hour preview of the show floor before opening to all others at 11 AM. I had two objectives: 1) get in line for SW: TOR and 2) play SW: TOR. After waiting in line for nearly an hour
While at the WB booth I was able to check out some of Lord of The Rings Online. The game went free-to-play last year, and has since tripled the company’s revenue. The people working on Lord of the Rings Online believe the reason they have been so successful since becoming free-to-play is that they offer
Rage, the newest first person shooter from id software, is an over-the-top visual feast. Rett and I got a chance to sit in on a live demo of this visceral first person shooter set in a mutant-plauged wasteland. The demo, which lasted around forty-five minutes, took us around the wasteland to a couple of settlements,
I have never really been into fighting games, but I did play some Mortal Kombat for Sega Genesis back in the day. It has been quite some time since I played it, so I did not really know what to expect. Almost surprisingly, besides the graphics and smoother mechanics, the game play itself is virtually
Double Fine was on the floor showing off its newest game, Trenched, which is set to be released on Xbox Arcade. The game focuses around an up-to-4-player co-op that pits you and your teammates against the mono-vision forces. You and your teammates are part of a group called the mobile trench brigade. You control a