PAX West Archives

I certainly did while playing Think Of The Children from Surprise Attack Games at PAX West Developed by Jammed Up Studios, the game is essentially a rushed task manager designed to be a co-op parenting simulator You and the other parents will be in charge of keeping six kids alive for a specific amount of time[...]

One of the biggest surprises during PAX West cam in the form of Dauntless This is an action co-op RPG where you and four other players head to a specific place to take down a monster A good example would be if you Monster Hunter was a team effort. Phoenix Labs did a really awesome job of[...]

Another game I got to try out in the Indiecade area on the last day of PAX West was Spartan Fist Aside from the blocky pixel art to keep the game simplistic, the story behind it is pretty two-dimensional as well You're essentially in a big fighting tournament trying to obtain an item called the[...]

OddBird Studios is already about to release Arrow Heads onto Steam on September 21st, but before the game comes out, we got a final look at the

Making my way to the Indiebooth on the final day of PAX, the first game I came across that day on my schedule was Planetoid Pioneers. This is an interesting

One of the last minute changes to my schedule had me visiting Muse Games in their PR suite to check out two games. The first was a familiar sight as I got a

Short version: There's a lot of parties after off-site awesomeness at PAX West It would be easy to sit here and brag about all the stuff I got to go to that had nothing to do with the primary convention, but the best experience of the four days we were in Seattle was the live performance/taping[...]

While a lot of the focus in the battle royale genre has been on another title, a lot of eyes have been on H1Z1 to see how Daybreak Games would respond to

Even odder is that the game is fully playable on Steam in 4K with 60FPS frame rates. Honestly, I have no idea how on earth they got this thing to run on mobile devices, but the fact that it is actually playable and not super prone to horrific crashes amazes me to this day. I'd mostly overlooked[...]

I almost missed a chance to chat with the folks from Alienware and Dell as our first appointment didn't happen on time, but we managed to catch up later at PAX West and got a preview of some awesome gear Now the primary stuff that was shown off to me was Inspiron Gaming Desktop, the 17[...]

So it was kinda interesting to come across a PC game at PAX West that delved into the latest addition. credit//BKOM Studios BKOM Studios brought with them Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation, a fully licensed version of the game that plays in the same Sword Coast and Chult areas of the next addition to D&D, but made[...]

To say that I have trepidations when it comes to a 3D Sonic The Hedgehog game is an understatement. While I love SEGA as a company and absolutely adored the

It's always awesome to see Adult Swim Games at a convention as they're one of the more laid back groups who pop in and show you what they got because

Intrepid Studios popped into PAX West with a lot of fire under them as they brought in Ashes Of Creation to the floor The game actually looked like one of the best MMORPG titles during the entire convention, and the buildup for it has been impressive as there's always something new being mentioned about the[...]

However, the PAX West build we got to see this year is the one on the way for consoles If you haven't played Conarium, it's basically an exploration game where you're practically living in a Lovecraft world, trying to figure out what happened to the rest of your research crew who have vanished as you[...]

QuantumSquid came to PAX West this year with an interesting little title called Pylon: Rogue that was interesting to try out The game is due out on September 21st, but the devs brought it out to the floor so people could check out the final version of the game before it comes out later this month[...]

Armello has been around for about two years and earned a loyal audience who have enjoyed the game's unique look and feel to the strategy RPG genre. League of Geeks has done an awesome job in that time keeping the game updated and their users happy with new content across every platform, but now they're looking[...]

This time around at PAX West they brought in a couple different titles that were super popular and had long lines The one in the bunch that I got a chance to play was Dandara, which was a Metroidvania throwback with some twists that made me wish I had the game right now Your primary[...]

Sometimes you come across a game trope that you just fall in love with all over again, like what we discovered with Mothergunship in the Indiecade Megabooth at PAX West Created by Terrible Posture Games and Grip Digital, this is essentially a bullet-hell customization game You'll start by running through levels and killing off all of[...]

One of the coolest board games to come across at PAX West this year was sitting in the Indiebooth as Starcap Games brought Now Everyone Get The F%$# Out! to Seattle This is a quick party game where the goal is essential to screw your friends over at a party More accurately, you have a test in[...]

It isn't often you get encouraged to cheat, but that's part of the game in Super Impossible Road, which I found in the Indiecade Megabooth at PAX West this year At its core, this is a racing game from Wonderful Lasers Inc where you're simply a large ball that spins forward Aside from steering, there[...]

So on the third day of PAX West, I had an appointment with Devolver Digital, but for some reason, security won't let the press in before 10 a.m to get anywhere for appointments! Lesson learned (again): don't book anything before 10:30 a.m for any convention So I had a short amount of time to check[...]

Ever since Graveyard Keeper was announced by tinyBuild, I have thought of nothing but playing this game! So when the opportunity presented itself at PAX West, I plopped myself down with their crew and took to my morbidly fun duties If you didn't catch on by the name, this indie title from Lazy Bear Games has[...]

One of the cool off-sight presentations we got at PAX West this year came from Ubisoft as they set up their own press lounge for people to check out three specific games Madeline will have her own words for Assassins Creed: Origins and our combined demo of Far Car 5, while I got to tackle The Crew[...]

I got a chance to try out the demo of the game at PAX West and have a little fun with the story elements to the game. credit//Route 59 Without giving too much of the plot away at the start, your story focuses on a coffee shop in Melbourne that happens to be frequented by necromancers[...]

A gem in the rough in the middle of the Indie Megabooth was a game called Lightfield from Lost In The Garden. The game itself is essentially a racing title

The latest demo available was at PAX West and Bethesda set up a big demo area, complete with strawberry milkshakes in plastic collector's cups like they did at E3 The bits I got to play were the very beginning of the game which has been shown off and leaked in multiple areas, as you crawl[...]

While I had a free moment to roam the PAX West floor, I made my way over to Digital Extremes where I got to try out a demo for Survived By I'm always down for one-and-done games where death is absolute, but this one threw a bit of a twist into the roguelike genre by giving[...]

Dual Universe was an intriguing prospect when I first came across it on the PAX West floor The game is already set for a Pre-Alpha release on September 30th, but developer Novaquark decided to bring it to the convention to give people an opportunity to mess around with the mechanics and explore the worlds they've built. Dual[...]

While roaming the floor of the Indiecade area, I discovered one of my appointments didn't even show up to PAX West So with a little time to kill, I browsed over a couple of tabletop games that were on display One that snagged my interest was a cool card game called Someone Has Died from Gather Round[...]