PAX West Archives

The second game we tried out at Annapurna Interactive's booth at PAX West 2019 was a 5-v-5 game known simply as Due Process The game plays a lot like Rainbow Six Siege, in that you have a team of five attackers and five defenders with specific goals around a single location One side is the[...]

We got a look at a new indie title from Annapurna Interactive as they brought with them the bizarre game If Found… to PAX West 2019 The game puts you in the role of an astronaut who is in a deep section of our solar system looking for a new planet She shoots to it[...]

Our visit with Capcom at PAX West 2019 took us back into Monster Hunter World as we faced off against a new foe in the Iceborne expansion Back at E3 2019, we got a sampling of what we were up against in the expansion with a new creature and a returning one, but both were[...]

Before PAX West 2019 kicks off this week, Outright Games decided to do a more proper reveal of Jumanji: The Video Game with pics and a new trailer! The big news coming from the reveal is that the game now has a new release date, being bumped up a week to November 8th You can[...]

GungHo Online Entertainment is the latest company to announce what they have planned for PAX West 2019 in Seattle, which includes a tournament First and foremost, for those of you looking for game demos to try out, the company will have three around for you to try out Those three will be Puzzle & Dragons,[...]

Fresh off of Gamescom 2019, Square Enix have revealed what they'll be bringing to Seattle for PAX West 2019 this weekend This year they're planning to bring Midgar to life in Booth #2335 with several familiar sights from Sector 1 That will include a re-creation of the train station and "a stunning Mako reactor that looms[...]

For PAX West, so far we know all of those games will be there But shortly before the weekend kicked off, the company announced they would be showing a brand new unannounced game. Credit: Yacht Club Games What exactly the game will be, no one truly knows for certain Of course, we hope it's a sequel to[...]

Ahead of PAX West 2019, Level 99 Games has announced their latest board game in partnership with Yacht Club Games with Exceed: Shovel Knight This is a fighting card game based on the Shovel Knight universe where you can play as Shovel Knight, Shield Knight, Enchantress, and all eight knights from Order of No Quarter[...]

With less than a week until the convention happens in Seattle, Ubisoft has revealed what they'll have in store for PAX West 2019 attendees The company will have its own booth at #605 and will be featuring content from Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Rainbow Six Siege, and Roller Champions The last one on that list was[...]

After the announcement this week of Nintendo's plans for Pokémon at PAX West 2019, Nintendo has finally revealed the rest of their plans We now know all of the games the company will have on display at their booth during the event, which includes Luigi's Mansion 3, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Pokémon Sword, Pokémon[...]

Nintendo revealed some of their plans for PAX West 2019 today as they will be bringing a pop-up Galar Visitors Center for Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield The company will be hosting a series of pop-up tourism centers, where fans can learn more about Galarian culture and must-do regional activities The first of which will[...]

PAX West announced this week that award-winning author, screenwriter, and game journalist Gary Whitta will be giving the keynote speech this year If you're not familiar with his work, Whitta is the writer behind the Denzel Washington film The Book of Eli and co-writer of the Will Smith film After Earth Whitta is also a regular contributor[...]

This week, Penny Arcade revealed their complete list of panels for PAX West 2019, along with tournaments and exhibitors coming to the convention We have some additional info from the announcement below, but yo check out the full list of everything going on, you can read more on the official site or their Guidebook app. credit//Penny Arcade Many of the[...]

Would you like to attend PAX West 2019 this year for all four days? We're giving you the chance to try to win a four-day pass to the event! PAX West is one of the biggest gaming conventions in North America, showing off AAA and indie titles, as well as tabletop, board games, card games,[...]

After announcing dates for PAX West 2019 earlier this month, Penny Arcade has officially started selling badges for the event starting today 2019 will see the official return of four-day badges, which will be sold for $220 a piece If you can't go all four days, individual badges for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday will[...]

Cool news from Penny Arcade this morning as the company has officially announced dates for both PAX West 2019 and PAX Unplugged 2019 PAX West will officially make its return to the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle from August 30th through September 2nd, while PAX Unplugged will return to the Pennsylvania Convention Center in[...]

At least, in microcosm. When I demoed the game back during PAX West in September, I got to play through the Storm Chaser tornado mission, while the NYCC demo was mostly just some fun sandbox shenanigans involving the various grappling hook abilities And, honestly, despite lacking in some substance (I was just playing around blowing up[...]

We just finished a bunch of projects and they're all just now starting to get announced, so I sure have some slack again which is nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAMwNtsl3wVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Acquisitions Incorporated Live – PAX West 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAMwNtsl3w) [...]

At PAX West, the JC dev team from Avalanche walked groups of press through the massive thunderstorm that takes over parts of the rain forest in an effort to show us just how brutal the extreme weather conditions can be While the Gamescom footage of Just Cause 4 showed the tornado gameplay, the PAX West presentation focused[...]

The last appointment I had at PAX West was in a private session outside the convention where I was shown The Blackout Club Almost like an homage to Stranger Things, which is a weird thing for me to write about a TV show that's only two years old, the game puts you in the shoes[...]

One of the last appointments we had during PAX West this year was a visit at the PAX 10 booth to check out Shift Quantum This is a game where you will zip between worlds of black and white in order to escape from each platformed level If this game seems a bit familiar, the[...]

The last game we got to check out at the Daedalic Entertainment booth at PAX West was Edna & Harvey: The Breakout – 10th Anniversary Edition If you're not familiar with this particular game, this is a point-and-click title where you play a woman in an insane asylum trying to get out, who talks to her stuffed[...]

Another game we got to check out at Daedalic Entertainment's booth at PAX West was a cool little puzzler called Felix The Reaper When I first saw previews of this game I had no idea what to make of it, but after playing a little, it actually warms my heart a bit Felix is, as you would[...]

Daedalic Entertainment set up an appointment with us during PAX West to show off some of their upcoming and familiar titles, starting with Witch It If you've never played this game before, it's basically Prop Hunt with magic One team of witches will transform themselves into objects on a map while the second team of[...]

Akupara Games brought in a brand new card game to PAX West that put our memory to the challenge as we tested UFO A Go-Go The game is a multiplayer challenge in memory as you and the other players are aliens throwing your own parties Every time you draw a card, yo get a new[...]

Back at PAX East, we enjoyed getting a taste of Projection from Blowfish Games, so we had to double-down and try it out again at PAX West If you haven't seen this game yet, you're playing as a shadow puppet in a land where depending on what angle light shines at, you can interact with[...]

One of the games we didn't expect to find at PAX West was a little title you may be familiar with in Storm Boy: The Game Blowfish Games brought a short demo of the game for people to check out, but the key word about the demo is "short" The game is based on Colin Thiele's[...]

When you see a game with a name like Boyfriend Dungeon on it at PAX West, your mind starts racing as to what it could specifically be about Turns out it was a pretty awesome concept Created by Kitfox Games in Canada, the game is half dating sim half dungeon crawler For half the game[...]

If you have a strong sense of family and love adventure, then you might enjoy Children of Morta from 11 Bit Studios which we tried out at PAX West The Dead Mage developed game centers around a family of adventurers, specifically around two children (at least in our demo) who take portals and head off[...]

Like when we tried out Space Cows at PAX West This game really doesn't need a ton of explanation, as we weren't given much when we played the demo You're a naked human in space tasking to save his beloved cows from an alien/mutant infestation within a milking space station It's one of those games[...]