PAX East Archives

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. The game plays a lot like a mix between Spore and Civilization where you are essentially creating a brand-new land[...]

Have you ever just wanted to call it quits on the rock you'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. The game is your basic hex builder with a few added[...]

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 If you have an old-school DOOM itch that needs scratching, this is probably going to do it[...]

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. This game will give your fingers a workout[...]

However, talking with design director Matt Jackson at PAX East, he assured me the similarities are just coincidental. So while Deathgarden is an asymmetrical multiplayer game with an immortal antagonist, the runners can fight back against the Hunter They can't damage him, but can stun him to let another runner escape, which gives them quite a[...]

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 game has you playing as a faceless person on the other side of a computer terminal talking[...]

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 I'm a sucker for anything that uses time travel and messing with time in general as a mechanic, so having control[...]

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 The shorthand version of the game is that you play a small eggshell white colored figure[...]

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 The game kind of puts you in an Interstellar type scenario where Earth is a rotting pile of garbage and it's[...]

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.  The game is actually kind of fun and takes the idea of living[...]

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 quickest and cutest card games you'll ever come across The premise of it is simple: you have four sets of cards that do four specific actions When you[...]

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[...]

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 What we got to play was basically a big enough build to give us[...]

The first people we got to visit with at PAX East who had gear to show off were Dell and Alienware We got introduced to three major changes across the board, the first being that Alienware beefed up their 15 and 17 laptops with 8th Gen Intel Core i5, i7 and i9 high-performance processors and an[...]

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 The game will give you command over one of three characters in the form of a fighter, a sorcerer, and[...]

That's how we felt picking up the demo for Disco Elysium from Humble Bundle at PAX East The game literally started us off as a drunken cop, lying naked on a hotel room floor with his memory gone of how he even bothered getting there, let alone doing the job he was supposed to do[...]

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[...]

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 The game puts you into the role of a faceless hitchhiker who gets into the car of an older man who is just driving through the countryside eating[...]

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 The game is a first-person western brawler[...]

And that's the exact kind of fun we got to have when we tried out Double Kick Heroes at PAX East The game plays out like a lot of rhythm games like Guitar Hero or Floor Kids (which we'll discuss later) as you command a band on the back of a car playing music and[...]

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 The game was actually quite fun to play as you are a living candle making your way[...]

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 If you have a love for Blade Runner and puzzles, this is basically going to be right up your alley[...]

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 The game put you in the role of a family[...]

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 The game has you and a friend running around a semi-modern town trying[...]

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 The game itself is an[...]

Another title we got to try out at PAX East was Dusk from New Blood Interactive, which we're just going to say right off the bat, had us going back in our minds to the glory days of playing Quake online, with all the intensity and bloodshed you might expect The game itself makes absolutely[...]

Speaking with the team at PAX East, it was obvious that Ashes is a labor of love for everyone involved in the project — from producer to art designer — the team was incredibly passionate about making an MMO that's not just a clone of World of Warcraft. The world structure is dynamic and built to[...]

We got a taste of a couple new titles from New Blood Interactive at PAX East this year, and while there is a fondness in our hearts for first-person bloodbath PC titles, something caught our eye about both of their games starting with Amid Evil Amid evil puts you in the role of a warrior-type[...]

Not a commentary on difficulty preference in the Western market. During PAX East, one of the game's community managers flew through early game content for an audience of press only to show off the changes coming to the game The cutscenes and combat we watched took place about a half hour into the game, and showed[...]