In Real Life

Man Booted Out Of PAX For Dropping His Pants

It’s not just young ladies in revealing outfits who were being asked to leave PAX over the weekend. Grown men in their underpants were being shown the door as well.


PC

Borderlands 2 Needed Afros, So Gearbox Added Character Customisation

Earlier today I attended Gearbox’s panel at PAX East, where they revealed a badarse new downloadable class in the works for Borderlands 2.


In Real Life

Skimpy Outfit Gets Lollipop Chainsaw Cosplayer Asked To Leave PAX

Word is that Jessica Nigri, a big-time cosplayer hired to portray the protagonist of Lollipop Chainsaw, was asked to leave PAX East yesterday. Why, you ask? Oh, I don’t know. Maybe that hot pink jumpsuit with a “neckline” plunging to her crotch has something to do with it.


Xbox

Sneaking And Slashing Through Lovely Darkness In Mark Of The Ninja

Mark of the Ninja doesn’t look like your average stealth game. You won’t be hiding in cardboard boxes or waiting 10 minutes for soldiers to turn around. And it’s all two-dimensional.


April 8, 2012
Nintendo

Super Mario Bros. 1-1 With An Upside Down Controller? Not That Hard

Indie-curious attendees of this week’s PAX East gaming show in Boston can get a “passport” stamped for every game they check out in the show’s indie mega-booth. They can’t just stop by the booth. They have to do something.


PC

This Weekend’s Best-Named Game Is Guacamelee

The word “Guacamelee” looked indecipherable when I first spotted it on a sign in the indie games booth at the big PAX East show this weekend. I sounded it out. And then I was smitten.


In Real Life

The Cosplay Of PAX East: Day Two

No way, Hannibal, I ain’t gettin’ on no plane with a crazy fool who don’t look at this gallery of cosplayers at Penny Arcade Expo East.


In Real Life

This Is The Right Way To Cosplay Portal 2 Robot Pals

Here are two people I chased at PAX East. Their costumes aren’t perfect, but their cosplay concept is. They are the puppeteers of the two spindly robots from Portal 2.


PC

Early Bastion Prototype Looked Very Different

You can see many of the ideas behind what would become indie gem Bastion in its original 2009 prototype, which developer Supergiant Games is showing off at its booth during this weekend’s PAX East. But it sure looks different.


Nintendo

Aliens: Colonial Marines Multiplayer Is Adrenaline-Pumpingly Good

If there’s one thing you can say to me to make a first-person shooter experience sound more exciting, it’s that it’s not a modern military shooter. In the case of Aliens: Colonial Marines — out this spring for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and PC — that involves having different classes of aliens with acid-burning blood fighting against a group of marines.