Aside from video game developers showing off their works and retailers pandering to the assemblage of high nerddom, representatives of video gaming's semi-estranged older brother, the tabletop game, were at PAX in force. Upper Deck, Wizards of the Coast, Privateer Press, Wizkids, Paizo, Fantasy Flight Games, all the big kids of the industry were there, trying to woo attendees away from their controllers with the siren song of clicky bases and rattling dice. And who would fall to their seductive call this year but Fruit Brute himself.

Hit the jump to check out a few glimpses of the plastic and cardboard hotness from the exhibitor hall floor, including Upperdeck's upcoming expansions to the World of Warcraft collectable card game, Wizkids's HaloClix, and something Uncivilized.

Upper Deck literally kept a tight lid on their upcoming Molten Core Raid Deck. The glass was probably there to keep WoW players from therapeutically tearing up the card of raid-buster Ragnaros.

This year's holiday gift must-have for your favorite WoW addict... becuase murlocs are still too hard to wrangle under a Christmas tree.

At the WizKids booth, Fruit Brute gets a lesson in Haloclix, which pretty much combines his two favorite things in the whole wide world: Halo 3 and clix-based strategy games. The neat thing about these, a lot of the new aliens and enemies from Halo 3 will be appearing in clicky form with Haloclix's release several days before the actual video game.

The upcoming Halo ActionClix Scarab Vehicle. At some point, these things stop being "miniatures."

A teaser for the little known "Gobilin Game," one of Wizards of the Coast's upcoming, pay-to-play Gleemax games.

Scary chicks and big swords at the Wizards of the Coast booth.

Even the blackout in the exhibitor hall on Sunday didn't stop the murderous Kill Doctor Lucky demos from going on at the Paizo booth.

The PAX exhibitor hall is kind of dark. Maybe it's to keep the glare off all the flashing screens, maybe its to make those glowing signs really pop, or maybe it's to make the more reclusive attendees feel like they're in their natural habitats. Regardless of the reason, gleaming through the half-light every year is a pink paradise of retro gaming: Pink Godzilla. As if the name wasn't enough to make you fall in love, the shop—which hails from Seattle's International District and has a webstore—has the most adorable little pink Godzilla mascot and has even put out a cute little card game wherein you design your own video game. Hanging on one of the few pink fur walls that weren't papered in NES games was an awesome, I-wish-it-were-real, oversized card from their Pink Godzilla Dev Kit card game (seen to the right). Too cool.

I'd elaborate on all the nostalgic titles and imported delights they had for sale, but I refused to let myself get too close after Fruit Brute produced a collection of tiny Zelda: Twilight Princess figurines… which I covet. When it comes to capsule toys and other small Japanese collectables, I have a problem. But I snapped a couple of pretty pink photos from a safe distance, which you can see right after the jump.