This year’s Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle (PAX West 23) started Friday with a well-attended keynote speech by Reggie Fils-Aimé, who took the stage to discuss his personal business philosophies… Read More
ReedPop, the events company behind the annual Penny Arcade Expo gaming convention in Seattle, announced that this year’s PAX West will be an in-person event. Tickets for PAX West 2021,… Read More
PAX West, the giant video game convention originally planned for Labor Day weekend in Seattle, is being turned into a 9-day, free online event as COVID-19 forced organizers to cancel… Read More
PAX, the gaming convention created by Seattle-based Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins as an offshoot of their gaming webcomic Penny Arcade, has expanded from a single show in Bellevue, Wash.… Read More
At first glance, Heartbound looks like a nostalgia trip. Its Steam page describes it as a “non-traditional RPG,” with hand-drawn pixel-art graphics and a jazzy, catchy chiptune soundtrack, in the… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Tim “The Tim” Ellis is a regular GeekWire contributor and perennial PAX attendee.] Every year at the PAX video game expo in Seattle, rather than facing the growing… Read More
When Penny Arcade co-creator Mike Krahulik announced the first PAX gaming expo in 2004, he described it as “a big ass, two day party for gamers.” A lot has changed… Read More
PAX West, the video game convention that brings tens of thousands of gaming fans to Seattle every summer, opened Friday morning with subtle signs of heightened security but no less… Read More
Now that I’ve had plenty of time to recover from four solid days of PAX West over Labor Day weekend (my twelfth PAX West in a row!), I’d like to… Read More
In the midst of the giant PAX West gaming convention in Seattle this past weekend, one panel dedicated its conversation to not playing games. More specifically, the discussion on Monday… Read More
Penny Arcade co-founder Jerry Holkins sat down with GeekWire this weekend at the PAX West game convention to discuss the past, present, and future of Penny Arcade, as well as… Read More
Top eSports stars may not end their battles with the same bumps, bruises and breaks as other top-level athletes do, but the games still take a toll on even the… Read More
The scene at the giant gaming convention PAX can be overwhelming: Dramatically lit booths tower over tens of thousands of people as they race to try out new games and… Read More
The scents of juicy Taco Bell beef engulfed my nostrils as I walked inside The VUDE event space in Seattle on a sunny summer Thursday evening. Asteroids, Star Wars, Pac… Read More
Amazon-owned live video streaming giant Twitch made one of its biggest announcements of the year on Wednesday as it revealed more than 20 new extensions to help content creators increase… Read More
At PAX South on Friday in San Antonio, Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik announced PAX Unplugged, a new convention focused purely on tabletop gaming that will take… Read More
Q: What do robots, polar bears, lobsters, tigers, a giant monster abomination, and vocabulary have in common? A: The new card game Stiches, now in its final days on Kickstarter.… Read More
It’s going to be tough for the organizers of PAX to out-do themselves after this. For the big finale of the thirteenth annual PAX West (and twenty-fifth PAX overall) Penny… Read More
Even with four days to take it all in, it’s impossible to experience everything that PAX West has to offer. That’s especially true if you spend hours at a time… Read More
With the U.S. presidential campaign in full swing, and PAX West 2016 underway in Seattle, we decided to bridge the worlds of games and politics with a thought-provoking “Geek on… Read More
Didn’t get tickets to PAX this weekend? Here’s an inside look at the mega-video game convention that fills Seattle’s Washington State Convention Center with crowds, cosplay and a dizzying assortment… Read More
Cole Wetle and Alissa Lawhon were dressed as the characters Celes Chere and her love interest Locke Cole from “Final Fantasy VI” this morning, as they got ready to leave Seattle’s Queen… Read More
Virtual reality has officially arrived, if the convention floor at PAX West is any indication. VR experiences are seemingly around every corner at the gaming extravaganza, which began today in Seattle. Game… Read More
Robert Khoo, the business leader who grew Penny Arcade from a small webcomic into a global force in games, is leaving after 15 years. Khoo originally created his own job at… Read More
Tickets to this year’s PAX West (formerly known as PAX Prime) went on sale Tuesday afternoon at 1 p.m. sharp, instantly triggering a feeding frenzy as hordes of geeks rushed… Read More
After nearly an hour of grueling trial and error between the top two Omeganauts during this year’s PAX Prime Omegathon, Ryan “Lysander” Anderson finally beat the final round. No, it wasn’t Dark Souls… Read More
Earl Thomas isn’t quite satisfied with his player rating in Madden NFL 16, even though the Seahawks star is the second-highest ranked safety in the just-released Madden game. “I think I’m 99,” Thomas said when asked… Read More
The twelfth annual PAX Prime gaming convention drew to a close Monday night in Seattle with the top two Omeganauts “Mighty” (Charles Middleton) and “Lysander” (Ryan Anderson) racing to be the… Read More
One of PAX’s central attractions is the Omegathon, a tradition dating back to the very first PAX in 2004. Twenty attendees are randomly selected before the show to compete in… Read More
It was only 15 minutes, but my time playing with Oculus’ latest virtual reality technology on Friday at the PAX Prime game convention in Seattle was the most exciting “video game”… Read More