First, what is PAX? PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) is a gaming convention. According to Wikipedia, “The first Penny Arcade Expo was held on August 28–29, 2004, in Bellevue, Washington, at the Meydenbauer Center, and was attended by about 3,300 people.” Now more than 70,000 people attend. The latest convention in Seattle was called PAX Prime 2015.
Mr. D attended three days and I just attended one of the four. We attended a handful of panels, demoed new games coming out in the coming year, and got to experience the crowds. On one of the days Mr. D attended he entered into a tournament playing a game that got it start on Kickstarter called SuperFight, won, and got a free copy of the game.
Here is a list of some of our favorite tabletop games:
- Monopoly Deal
- Settlers of Catan with the Cities and Knights expansion
- Ticket to Ride
- Splendor
- Bang!
-Mr. D and Mrs. M
This year was a great year at PAX prime. I saw a lot of great indie video games up on the 6th floor and some pretty great AAA stuff on the main floor. As always if you attend PAX there are a few must to items to add to your adgenda. 1. Acquisitions Inc is an absolute must. If you don't know what it is, the TL;DR version is the founders of Penny Arcade, Patrick Rothfuss, and Scott Kurtz play D&D with Chris Perkins; hands down one of the funniest things I see in a given year. 2. The evening concerts. 3. The final round of the Omegathon.
ReplyDeleteThose are great suggestions to add to our list! We will for sure need to check them out next year! :)
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