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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.

Often when we go to events like PAX East, getting swag is usually par for the course as you tend to get handed things like t-shirts, buttons, pins, the occasional freebie copy of the game and whatnot. Checking out Cede was the first time someone gave me a plant to take care of when I got home.

If you've ever hitchhiked in your life, chances are you know the paranoia of not knowing who you're with. Now add in a creepy mystery about who you actually are with a fixed POV and you get Hitchhiker: First Ride, which we tried out at PAX East.

It isn't often you have a developer sit there and watch you play the game and ask "are you trying to break it?" That was the case for me when I tried out Sky Noon at PAX East, being developed by Lunar Rooster and published by Reverb Triple XP.

For a lot of us, when we get a dungeon crawler where you eventually get out and return to do other things, the prospect of death is minimal. Moonlighter changes all that as we discovered when we swung by the 11 Bit Studios booth at PAX East.

In the crossover event we never predicted would happen and probably should have, The Walking Dead will partner with PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in a four-hour tournament involving some high-profile Twitch streamers.

There's nothing more satisfying than being able to take our hordes of zombies just be doing something stupid. And that's the exact kind of fun we got to have when we tried out Double Kick Heroes at PAX East.

Today, Rare released a brand-new video along with some notes about their content plans for Sea of Thieves moving forward. 

Today, Blizzard and Twitch released a new announcement detailing new ways the two would partner up to make the Overwatch League a much more interactive experience, which includes introducing an All-Access Pass for viewers.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be Lumiere from Beauty & The Beast? Zodiac Interactive brought their own version of that experience to PAX East as we got to try out Candleman: The Complete Journey.

One of the cooler looking titles we got to mess with at PAX East came to us from China as Zodiac Interactive brought over a few titles for the event including Tales Of The Neon Sea.

In a move that even we have to question the rationality behind, Electronic Arts today announced that they would be bringing back purchasable crystal microtransactions back to Star Wars: Battlefront II. 

There's nothing like dealing with a cult to get the blo0od pumping in the middle of the day! That's the experience we got to have at PAX East as PAranoid Productions brought their latest title The Church in the Darkness to the con last week.

Once in a while, you come across an indie developer that makes your heart smile for days because you know they're making an awesome effort. That's the way I felt after chatting with the husband and wife duo of Robot Loves Kitty as they showed me their latest game, Super Tony Land.

Visiting with the crew at Devolver Digital at PAX East, we were able to sit down and try out one of their new co-op games that kind of put a smile on our face as we tried out The Swords Of Ditto.

Earlier today, BAFTA (The British Academy of Film and Television Arts) made the formal announcement for the list of winners for their 14th annual game awards. In a very surprising win, What Remains of Edith Finch took the top honors as Best Game.

Sometimes, when you're a media person covering events like PAX East, your appointments fly by fast and you get some time to check out other cool stuff along the way to getting to other appointments. Such is the case with Dark Devotion, as I briefly tried it out on Friday morning.