PAX West Archives

Valve has brought their DOTA card game, Artifact, to PAX West this weekend And yes, it is fully playable on the show floor. Artifact is notable not just because it was designed by Richard Garfield and uses DOTA characters and lore, but because it is Valve's first proprietary game since DOTA 2 was released in 2013. All attendees at PAX can check[...]

Bandai Namco has announced their first console MMORPG, Bless Unleashed, which will launch in 2019 for Xbox One, with a beta phase open now.

While Bendy is already out on PC, the game's final chapter is releasing on Steam at the same time as the full Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch versions go live. I got the chance to demo the Xbox build of the game at Microsoft's ID@Xbox PAX West showcase, and found the game to be more immersive[...]

credit//Behaviour Interactive During the ID@Xbox PAX West showcase, we got a chance to swing by and check in with Behaviour Interactive and Deathgarden The demo build available at PAX this weekend is a newer, smoother version than we saw in the last test phase That said, many of the game basics are the same, and they won't[...]

Yuppie Psycho has you control the hapless Brian Pasternack on his first day of work at Sintracorp, which just might be controlled by a witch.

The day before PAX, we were invited to Nintendo's HQ in Washington to try out several Nindies titles, including the Untitled Goose Game.

Another game we got to try out at the special Nintendo Nindies event before PAX West is a puzzle game called Treasure Stack. Now, at first glance, a lot of people looked at this game, saw things with various colors falling from the ceiling in a specific space, and immediately thought "oh, it's Tetris or Puyo Puyo."[...]

We got an opportunity to sit in on a special Nintendo Nindies presentation during PAX West, which is where we found King of the Hat. This game is a small four-player brawler from Hyroglyphik Games where you choose one of a dozen different characters in a world where everyone wears hats no matter what they do with[...]

One of the games we got to try out during tinyBuild Games' big reveal before PAX West was UnDungeon, but we're not sure what's going on We got the basic premise of the story which is that somehow, seven versions of Earth all collided into one mixed bag where they all coexist as one giant[...]

The stream will show Metcalf playing Surviving Mars with Paradox's Susie McBeth while providing commentary on how the game differs from or coincides with what real astronauts face while traversing the last frontier. If you want more information on the science behind Surviving Mars, you can check out the "Surviving Mars for Real" panel at PAX West. The Museum of[...]

TinyBuild Games announced a few new titles before PAX West kicked off this year, and we got a chance to play some of the demos, like Hellpoint Looking at the game and the way it plays, all of this might seem just a tad familiar to some of you If you haven't already checked it[...]

Before PAX West officially kicked off this year, we got a sneak peek at a couple new products from Razer on the way this year All three of these are a part of the accessories lineup and will be available in stores this September, as we get an upgrade to a mouse, a keyboard, and[...]

Indie publisher TinyBuild announced five new games at their PAX West press conference this evening alongside announcements for previously revealed games like Rapture Rejects, Party Hard 2, and Pathologic 2. Rapture Rejects is now available for pre-order Pre-ordering the game will get you access to the Private Alpha test phase with playsessions happening every weekend until the game moves[...]

The new unit called the T.Flight Hotas 4 will debut this week at PAX West and will be playable for the story mode in the game Here's a snippet of more info about the stick from the press release. credit//Thrustmaster The T.Flight Hotas Ace Combat 7 Skies Unknown edition joysticks offer a brand-new gaming experience for Ace Combat 7 by[...]

We're expecting to play several of these during PAX West this weekend, but if you can't attend, enjoy the video along with a list of the highlights games below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHzsecqX-zUVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Nintendo Switch Nindies Showcase Summer 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHzsecqX-zU) Hyper Light Drifter: Special Edition TowerFall for Nintendo Switch Treasure Stack Zarvot Mineko's Night Market Samurai Gunn 2 Bullet[...]

Today, Reed Exhibitions, the primary organizers behind PAX have announced that PAX West will indeed increase their security this week The news comes in the aftermath of the NFL Madden '19 shootings that took place in Jacksonville this past weekend, in which three people lost their lives, including the shooter Below is a statement from the[...]

Gamescom isn't even officially over and we're now getting details from multiple companies as to what they'll be showing off at PAX West, including Square Enix Below we have some of the company's bigger showcases that they'll be featuring in Seattle next week, but the booth itself is going to have an impressive lineup of games to[...]

Nintendo made two big announcements when it came to PAX West this week The first was their lineup and the second was a new Nindies video! First off, the company will be showing a new Nindies Showcase video live on multiple streaming feeds on August 28th at 9 a.m PDT Much like last year, we're[...]

SEGA formally announced what they'll have in store for PAX West next week, and they've got a lineup worth paying attention to The company will be showcasing several games and events at the convention, including demos and presentations for Total War: THREE KINGDOMS, Team Sonic Racing, Valkyria Chronicles 4, Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, Shin Megami Tensei Liberation[...]

Red Bull is going to give anyone the chance to prove they're one of the best indie gamers around at PAX West with the Red Bull Challenge Mode There will be three games on hand for people to try their skills at including StudioMDHR's Cuphead, Boneloaf and Double Fine Productions' Gang Beasts, and Giant Enemy Crab and[...]

We're less than a month away from PAX West taking place at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, and today Penny Arcade released their full schedule to the public You can check out the entire schedule at this link, as it appears they've loaded it with concerts, panels, and some regular favorites But we're still[...]

This time around, as we prepare to make our way to PAX West in less than a month, the company decided to lay a bit of a teaser on us Taking to Twitter this week, they formally announced their plans for the event… sorta The company simply said, "Dang, we gotta reveal three games before PAX." It's[...]

At the moment, no announcements have been made about an increased price for the western version of the DLC, but it is pretty likely we'll hear about that in a few days. Of course, those who purchased the expansion pass won't have to pay anything more and will be able to download the DLC as soon[...]

It's always cool to see Annapurna Interactive and the games that they bring around. At PAX they basically brought everything they had to offer, both

The second of two titles I got to try out from Merge Games at PAX West was Crimson Keep This is a cool little adventure game that goes back to the old school way of dungeon crawling First-person, single weapon, no map, and the best of luck to you getting through it I wasn't given[...]

Merge Games popped into PAX West with a few different titles this year, the first of two I got to try out was The Long Reach The game is a mesh of genres wrapped up in a pixel art world, as they mix sci-fi, adventure, story crafting, and horror all into a single title[...]

One of the last games I got to see in the Indie Megabooth was an interesting RPG title from SEMISOFT called Legrand Legacy. I didn't get a long demo of the

The company brought several games over for PAX West, and Black Mirror had a fully playable demo for us to check out As it was described to me by the devs, this is neither a sequel or a revised version of the original, but just a simple relaunching of the property with a fresh story[...]

Phantom Doctrine won me over for being the best tactical game of PAX West and I won't even see the game until next year, which is depressing. CreativeForge and Good Shepherd Entertainment brought this little Cold War gem to the convention in one of the most impressive displays on the floor, complete with old office desks[...]

One of the coolest indie games to catch my eye on the last day of PAX West was Where The Water Tastes Like Wine, a story-based adventure that revolves around telling tales and collecting info to pay a debt The game takes place during the great depressions, where many Americans found themselves destitute and, rather than[...]