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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land The official schedule for Penny Arcade Expo hit the PAX forums over the weekend. The fairly chunky schedule includes a nice cross-section of the gaming industry and the folks who cover it.
Some of the highlights I noticed, from my quick perusal, includes:
Ken Levine’s keynote EndWar, Prince of Persia, Far Cry 2, Fallout 3, Dawn of War, This is Vegas, Dragon Age and Spore presentations The Growing Role of Women in the Industry Game Criticism and Old Game Journalism The Art of the Dungeon Master History of Harmonix Family Feud PAX Edition The Wil Wheaton Panel GamerDad’s Gaming With Children
Of course you’ve also got live music, movie screenings, the tourneys and a chance to see Tycho and Gabe create a strip live. Sounds like a fun time. Who’s planning on going?
The PAX 2008 Schedule [PAX]
PAX is largely fantastic, but for us, one event stands out above all others. The Omegathon. It’s like that bit in Neverending Story when Atreyu has to run through those statues that shoot laser beams, but instead of jumping through one pair, imagine jumping through six pairs. And they may not all shoot laser beams. Some might shoot ninja stars, or boomerangs encrusted with rusty barbs. And if he makes it to the other side, he gets an all-expenses paid trip to TGS. Yeah, that’s exactly what it’s like. This years event – which as usual sees combatants facing off across a series of six games/events – will kick off with Peggle, before moving onto Boom Blox, then Pictionary, then Rock Band, then Jenga, then the brutal, unforgiving, final mystery event, which we hope is some kind of old-timey yo-yo contest. Click through for the full details.
Apparently in reaction to gamer-centric convention E For All’s news today that Jonathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel will be the face of their show, Penny Arcade announced that Fatal1ty won’t be the face of theirs…. or even welcome.
World’s Top Gamer “Fatal1ty” will not be at the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX)
PAX is proud to announce that they will not be welcoming E-sportsman Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel to the event.
“There is no one else in the video game industry quite like Fatal1ty and we’re thrilled that he won’t be attending our show” said Gabe, Chief Executive Officer of the Penny Arcade Expo, the greatest video game festival in the universe. “Seriously, if he even tries to come we’ll kick him out.”
Fantastic news! Hey, I wonder if Gabe and Tycho will let me submit a list of other people who won’t be welcome at PAX… let’s see…
As I started my prep work for coverage of this year’s Penny Arcade Expo I pulled up a copy of this year’s show floor: Pretty impressive stuff.
It looks like nearly 80 companies will be showing at this year’s show. The list ranges from such heavy weights as Bethesda, Electronic Arts, Sony, Nintendo, Activision, Ubisoft and Microsoft to developers like Rockstar, Bungie and Turbine.
Is it just me or does this look like a much more impressive show floor than E3? Of course, the big difference is that I can’t imagine there will be any major publisher or developer announcements coming out of PAX. That doesn’t mean we won’t get a chance to go hands on with a lot of games and perhaps even needle some news out of the reps on hand.
Either way, looks like it’s going to be a really good show this time around.
Let me start by saying that, yes, I do know that each year massive groups of die-hard Penny-Arcade fans band together to drive through the day and night to get to the expo. In fact, the Cross-Country Super Trip was one of the inspirations for my decision to drive instead of fly to Penny Arcade Expo this year.
There are two reasons I’m not joining the CCST: I’m going with my wife and son and neither are big fans of overnight drives. Also, while I could detour to meet up with one of the groups, none of them come through Colourado. I know, I suck.
I’m still working out the details for my own drive, but this is what I’m thinking:
