This is Outlast, a first-person, combat-free horror game about investigating an asylum. It's coming to PC (Steam) at the end of the winter by new development studio Red Barrels. We saw the game at PAX East last weekend.

This week's Random Encounters is a special bonus video edition! Here's footage of my JRPG panel at PAX East last weekend, brought to you by MMO Reporter.

I was running out of PAX East last Saturday. I had to catch a bus. But I wanted to check one last cranny of the show floor to make sure I wasn't missing anything. I'm so glad I did, because I nearly missed Eon Altar. What, you've never heard of it?

Kotaku video editor Chris Person and I are not thieves, but if there was one game we'd like to have absconded with last weekend at the PAX East show in Boston, it was Quadrilateral Cowboy. Watch the video, and you too might be considering a brief flirtation with crime.

The man best known for helping create Gears of War had a spotlight talk at PAX East this past weekend, where he talked about his relationship with video games. It’s a poignant monologue where Bleszinski talks about getting teased for his love of Nintendo as a kid, how games helped him cope with rough moments and helped him meet his wife.

"Luftrausers" is a made-up word. Sounds German, but it's not. "Luft" means "air", but "rausers"? It's nonsense. Oh, but Luftrausers does mean one thing: "simple, stylish game about being an ace fighter pilot" coming to PS Vita, PS3, PC, Mac and Linux by mid 2013.

If PAX East was Training Day, Robert Khoo would be Denzel Washington, flashing terrifying grins, oozing confidence. Riding shotgun, the rookie: Guy Blomberg. Nervous, but ultimately capable.

There will be no ingestion of illicit narcotics, this weekend will not end with a climactic shootout on the cold, hard streets of Boston, Massachusetts. But, by the end of PAX East, Guy 'Yug' Blomberg — co-creator of The Mana Bar, now content & communications manager of PAX Australia — will hopefully have some understanding of how to take what he has seen here and apply that to PAX Australia in three months time.

Today is his Training Day.

Smitten as we are here at Kotaku with the amazing iOS game Ridiculous Fishing, we had to get some tips from the people who made the game. They know how to ridiculously fish.

If you were to describe a game to me using the words Secret of Mana, Rogue and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, you would immediately pique my interest. That's exactly what happened last weekend at PAX East when I saw Delver's Drop — a recently Kickstarted, indie, action RPG from small development studio Pixelscopic.

A fighting game that has only two buttons — and that only has one-hit kills. A fighting game dreamed up as a joke but now targeted for the pro fighting scene. A game that will be playable on PC, PS3 or by two players on one PlayStation Vita. The is Divekick.

We haven't talked a lot about Dishonored since it came out last October, which is really too bad, because I think Dishonored is a fantastic game. Good news for anyone who agrees with me: we're getting downloadable content in just a few weeks that will tell a new story in the grisly world of Dishonored. It's called The Knife of Dunwall, and it's out on April 16.

Gotta love the world map, that humble little collection of icons that offers up a treasure trove of discoveries and possibilities. Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4, coming soon, has a killer, old-school-styled world map that I really want to dig into.

"You use your feet all the time in life, to control really complex things," explains Stephane Rivard. "You drive a car with your feet, why not play video games with your feet?"

Why not indeed.

In all its Supergiant Games glory, here is that 15-minute PAX East demo, thanks to TotalHalibut. Listen to that music, listen to that awesome voice acting. And take in all the art.

Alright, well that was an epic flight. Just ten minutes ago I arrived at the Kotaku offices straight from the airport and I don't look good. Still that doesn't take anything away from the fact I had a great time at PAX and saw some pretty flat out weird things. Below is a quick wrap up of some of my favourites!

I got to play about an hour and a half of Metro: Last Light at PAX East this weekend. What I played felt like two different games.

Transistor — Supergiant Games' latest project since their incredibly compelling Bastion — is a sexy game. Not because there's any actual sex (or at least none that I know of!). And not because of any of the other traditional definitions of the word. This isn't a typical kind of sexiness where short skirts and muscular men automatically mean sexy, no. Transistor is sexy for much more interesting reasons.

I'm just about to head off on a gargantuan flight back from Boston to Australia. I've had a great time at PAX East and it's got me wondering how PAX Australia will compare — what the differences will be, how they'll make the event more 'Australia'. I thought I'd put it to you guys and girls — what would you like to see from PAX Australia?

There were a lot of big games at PAX East over the weekend, including Watch Dogs, Assassin's Creed IV, The Last of Us. However, the biggest lines were for Transistor, the newest action-RPG from the makers of Bastion.