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PAX Embiggened For 2007
The Penny Arcade Expo has moved to a new venue and plans to double in size over the 2006 show. The Washington State Convention center is the new home of PAX for the forseeable future, boasting 200,000 square feet of usable space. Organizers of the convention, started by the duo behind the Penny Arcade comic in 2005, are conservatively expecting 30,000 people to attend the three-day long event. Information about this year's show: "In addition to a show floor filled with contests, tournaments, and unreleased games, PAX 2007 will play host to the annual Omegathon three-day gaming competition, as well as a number of musical acts. Penny Arcade writer Jerry Holkins told GameSpot today that Jonathan Coulton ('Code Monkey,' 'Re: Your Brains') and Freezepop (whose music can be heard in games like Amplitude and Guitar Hero) will be performing at PAX 07."
Could they be anticipating a lot of people no longer going to E3 (Due to downsizing) will go to PAX instead?
PAX Embiggened For 2007: The Penny Arcade Expo has moved to a new venue and plans to double in size over the 2006 show. The Washington State Convention center is the new home of PAX for the forseeable future, boasting 200,000 square feet of usable space.
That event sounds quite cromulent.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Embiggened is a perfectly cromulent word!
30,000 is quite a lot of people. How many years has this been going on? I didn't find any links to past info on the site.
I do believe that the first PAX was actually in 2004, not 2005.
The first PAX was indeed in 2004. This new venue was being talked about before PAX even opened last year, as there was far too little room for the gamers and talent that showed. Here's to hoping the larger spaces translate into less standing on line. Freezepop also comes as little surprise, as Jerry (Tycho) dropped their name in a Q&A panel in PAX'06 as the artists he was most interested in providing a venue for. Here comes a special con!
I made a post on the Internet!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_neologisms_on _The_Simpsons
Is that even a word? Gah! You guys sound like one of the Viaga emails....
HDGary secures my bank
Explanation here.
You need several paragraphs explaining why Tycho is rubbing Gabe's dismembered penis on a TV? Sicko.
Usually they're very funny if you keep up-to-date on the daily happenings of the games industry.
If you don't get the jokes, then they probably weren't meant for you in the first place. In the meantime, all of us video game junkies still get a kick of out them (hence their massive popularity).
If that attitude seems a bit elitist, then yeah, I guess we're guilty of that.
-- jchenx
I think they should robustify their standing in the expo space by means of incentiments and good leadershipping before going for an embiggenment like this. I mean, wouldn't it be better to for example, flexitate the visitor experience instead of spending money doubling the space?
They should keep in mind that if you're not onboard with quality excellence, you're underboard. But really, why do I even bother to try moralify these people?
it was SMALL before.
now it's where sakura-con is.
aka, it'll be big enough now. That means that I won't have fat sweaty men (wearing free nvidia tees) repeatedly bumping into my chair while I'm winning money playing guildwars.
How long before they outgrow just one convention center and start renting cities?
I'll meet you at the intersection of "Should be" and "Reality"
Freezepop also wrote a song for Achewood , so obviously they're all hip to that whole webcomics scene, man.
There's a special nod to Achewood fans in my original post, though perhaps that's why you mentioned the fruit of Onstad's genius in the first place.
I made a post on the Internet!
Duh. No, I was completely opaque.
Even with the dozen paragraphs, the stuff still isn't funny, unless you are the sort of "person" that finds random cursing and constant references to stuff like the male genitalia "funny."