Things are going to be a little bit different at this year's PAX Australia. The convention will play host to EB Expo like some sort of convention babushka dolls or maybe it's more like Voltron.

Either way the two conventions are teaming up.

After spending the last few years in Sydney, this year's EB Games Expo will herald the event's return to Australia's warmer, northern parts. Scheduled for October 7-8, the expo will set up shop in the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, with tickets going on sale in March.

Video: EB Expo will be on until Sunday, but if you couldn't make it today, the Esports Arena is livestreaming the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament right now.

The night before EB Expo kicks off proper, media are given a chance to mill around at a few of the booths to check out games beforehand. There isn't full access to the venue, with most of it locked down due to "still being under construction". But there was a chance to check out the Nintendo and PlayStation booths, where I finally got to check out a few things in the flesh.

We're just 24 hours out from the first day of EB Expo, one of the bigger Sydney conventions of the year.

Well, that's quite the surprise, and quite a coup for EB Games.

EB Expo's inaugural and nonsensical Ultimate Cosplayer Pass has quietly disappeared from the EB Expo website. The $300 ticket was met with widespread criticism from the local cosplay community, despite formerly taking pride of place on the event website.

In today's gaming world, most people either are cosplayers, know a cosplayer or follow one on social media. It seems EB Expo has cottoned on to this fact, and they're getting in on the trend. Kinda.

They're not inviting cosplay guests, or offering their high-stakes cosplay comp again. This year, they're adding a cosplay repair station and cloak room -- and charging cosplayers $300 to actually use them.

If you're making the trip out to Olympic Park today or tomorrow for EB Expo, then you're probably prepared to see a lot of costumes, games, merchandise and terrible food. So to help make the most out of your Expo Experience, here's five tips from the show floor.

EB Games was hardly going to turn its back on one of its best concepts ever, but just in case there was ever any doubt, today it was announced that the EB Expo is returning to Sydney in 2015.

The EB Expo kicks off today, but the employees of EB Games have already had their run of the show over the last few days and, they've just announced what they think are the games and products on show at the event.

The EB Expo is back this year, returning once more to the Sydney Showgrounds and tickets are now on sale for the event that takes place between 3 October and 5 October.

At the EB Expo this year, next to the Ubisoft booth, there was a man painting. That man was artist Garry Donnellan and for three days, during the expo, he worked on the above: a painting of Edward Kenway from Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. Now the painting is being auctioned off for charity.

I, like most of you reading, grew up with video games. We all have those memories. Those weird, twisted, distorted memories of video games: the consoles we played, the games we played. They're part of our history. At EB Expo they have a really nifty Retro section. It's small, but it's pretty great.

By almost every measure you could name, last year's EB Expo was a big success. So it was almost a formality that the retailer would unleash a third event, bringing its Expo to Sydney for the second time during the first week of October 2013.

Potaku is a podcast put together by those lovable bacon loving scamps from the Kotaku community, ShiggyNinty and Doc What. Normally they just talk about bacon and Zelda, but at the EB Expo? They brought the magic of video to the table, interviewing Josh Holmes -- Creative Director of Halo 4 -- at the show!

Most of you have probably guessed this already but, yes, you will be able to play the Wii U at the EB Games Expo next weekend.

This year's EB EXPO is shaping up to be a pretty definitive event. I love the idea. EB already attracts developers to Australia for its own vendor show, so it makes perfect sense to go the extra mile and create a consumer event. It's good for the developers, good for retail, and it's awesome for consumers. Jolly good show. Now EB has put together a preview video explaining the event itself, and precisely what you'll be able to see if you attend.

Thinking about going to the EB Expo this year? You might want to get a rough idea of what publishers will be attending. MCV Pacific has a list of who's going, and the answer is "pretty much every publisher in the known universe". Looks like this will be a great event.