PAX Poised to Explode After E3?
With the downsizing of E3, surely some conventions are set to grow. Will PAX (Penny-Arcade Expo) be the one that benefits most from it? Possibly.
I, personally, think that PAX sounds like an event I’d rather attend, anyway. With a focus on the relationship between the developers and the gamers, it seems that both would benefit more from greater contact with the general public.
Now it would seem that PAX 2007 will have even more to offer. I’ve never been, and that’s unfortunate…but I hope to go to PAX 2007.
Penny Arcades, “Gabe” had this to say:
So what does this mean for PAX? Well honestly I think it’s too soon to say for sure. I personally never thought of E3 as our competitor. The two conventions had very different goals. Now E3, at least as we know it is gone but the focus of PAX has not changed. PAX is about gamers not publishers and geek culture instead of multi-million dollar business deals. We have no desire to turn PAX into a new E3 so don’t worry about that. The only place I think we might see a noticeable change is in our exhibition hall. It’s already quite a spectacle but I think that the lack of an E3 event means our exhibition hall is going to get fu#@ing nuts.
We’ve already started getting phone calls from publishers and developers asking about exhibition space for PAX 2007. There simply won’t be anything else like it. No matter how big it gets the PAX exhibition hall will always be about developers connecting with gamers. It’s also just be one piece in the PAX puzzle. We’ll still have the 24 hour table top gaming, the geek rock concerts, the giant LAN party and bring your own computer rooms, the free console gaming and tournaments, the Omegathon and all the panels. All of that stuff and everything I can’t remember right is what makes PAX special. I’m definitely proud of what it’s become and I’m excited to watch it grow but I’m mostly just thrilled that I get to attend it. It’s the show we’ve always wanted to go to and as long as we’re running things that will never change.
For the full post, titled PAX, go here. [Penny Arcade]
Super Timsy
Posted to Video Games on 2 August 2006
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