At PAX West last year, we got an invite to try out Dunk Lords from Story Fort, but we missed out because our schedules were packed at that point. We weren't making the same mistake twice as we visited with the crew on the last day of PAX East.
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If you've ever wanted to play a game that was basically a first-person view of an action film, you're in luck, as the last game we saw from Rising Star Games at PAX East was their cop drama shooter RICO.
The second game we got to try out at the Rising Star Games booth over at PAX East last week was a little racing game they made with a couple different twists called Trailblazers.
One the final day of PAX East, we got to hit up the booth from Rising Star Games where they had several games on display for us to try, the first of which was an action RPG title called Decay Of Logos.
One of the shorter but friendlier visits we got to have at PAX East was when we checked out the booth for Cygames, who were basically there to show off all the titles they were bringing to the states from Japan and looking ahead to the future.
We, unfortunately, didn't get to book much of anything with Nintendo this time around at PAX East inside their booth. The one appointment we were able to secure was with inside developer Henchman & Goon who wanted to show off their game Pode on the Nintendo Switch.
While Blizzard was on the scene at PAX West, their primary focus (which we'll discuss later) was on World of Warcraft, while Overwatch was more of a featured attraction this time around for fans to have fun with.
During our visit to PAX East last week, we got to check in with a few people here and there that we've chatted with before. One of those groups was the team behind DropMix, as they had a few things to pass out and show us.
Monopoly, in general, gets a bad rap for being a game that causes a lot of fights. And it should to a degree, because the goal of the game is to be a capitalist and put everyone else in the poor house. Which is why we enjoyed seeing a new version stray away from that in Monopoly Gamer from Hasbro, which we saw at PAX
One of the few racing titles we came across at PAX East came to us on the final day of the convention as Wired Productions showed off their new futuristic title GRIP. One of the first things we were asked before playing it was "Do you remember F-Zero?"
So knowing the stigma that the original Shaq Fu has on it, (as well as our own memories of playing it) we went into our demo of Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn at PAX East with a little bit of hesitation but still kept a space open in our minds for some home.
The last game we got to check out from NIS America while they visited PAX East was another dungeon crawler title with a bit of a twist to it called Dungeons with Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk.
One of the games we got to try out from NIA America at PAX East was SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy, and I knew the minute I picked it up that it didn't matter what I wrote about this game, those who are going to buy it will buy it no matter what I write.
Another game from the NIS America library that we got a preview of over at PAX East was The Lost Child, which will eventually be coming out in June 2018 as well.
We're not going to see Happy Birthdays from NIS America on the Nintendo Switch for about two more months, but that didn't stop the company from bringing the game to PAX East for us to check out.
Have you ever just wanted to call it quits on the rock we're standing on and try over again in the clouds? That's what you get to attempt to do in Volantia from Tangled Mess Games which we tried out briefly on the PAX East floor.
It isn't often you're given a floppy disc with a hidden USB inside it from a company, but that's what 3D Realms gave us to show off the game Ion Maiden after we tried it out at PAX East.
Way back in the day, when the show CatDog came out on Nickelodeon, a friend of mine turned to me and asked the question "So which end does it poop out of?" That same question came to mind and made me chuckle as I played Phogs at PAX East.
One of the best games we ran across during the third day of PAX East was a little indie title out of Spain from Appnormals Team called STAY, which is part mystery puzzle solving and part text adventure.
The last game we got to try out at the Team17 booth at PAX East was a beautiful indie title that we're still thinking about sitting here writing other articles, and that's Planet Alpha.
Another of the Team17 games that we got to try out at PAX East was Mugsters, which when we looked at it, we weren't entirely sure what it was we were observing until we actually figured out the mechanics.
A game that combined a few different genres into one experimental title came to use from Team17 at PAX East when we sat down at a PC and gave Genesis Alpha One a shot.
Some fun and interesting news out of Japan this morning at Sega announces they will be releasing their own mini version of the iconic MegaDrive (the Sega Genesis in North America) for the console's 30th Anniversary.
At the end of day three at PAX East, we found ourselves at the Team17 booth trying out several games with their crew, and the first one to come up on our list was a Nintendo Switch title called Yoku’s Island Express.
Another game we got some awesome amount of time with while visiting North Star Games at PAX East was Happy Salmon, which is essentially one of the
Probably the happiest group of people we came across at PAX East this year were the crew from North Star Games, who follow by a creed of making games more about having fun than about winning. That's the experience we got from the first game they showed us in Evolution, both as a card game and an app.
Probably the highlight of day 3 at PAX East was being able to go over and check out the animated beauty that was the tactical RPG Banner Saga 3, as we got to try out a small demo for the game.
Whenever we hit a convention, we do our best to hit up some of the people bringing in hardware since they only take up a small portion of everything you see. The first people we got to visit with at PAX East who had gear to show off were Dell and Alienware.
On the third day of PAX East, one of the more interesting titles to catch out attention was Dungeon Stars, a medieval cartoon platformer developed by Furnace Games and being published by Riposte Games & Co.
There are times when you come across a game where it looks like the designers did all the right things and then somehow threw a sack of dirt on everything to make you feel grimy playing it. That's how we felt picking up the demo for Disco Elysium from Humble Bundle at PAX East.