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Penny Arcade and ReedPop announced that PAX East 2027 will once again return to the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center from April 22, 2027 through April 25, 2027.

The announcement came as PAX East 2026 came to an end. The event saw "more than a hundred thousand attendees" as they enjoyed a weekend of video game demos, panels, tabletop gaming, and a Storytime Keynote from Xalavier Nelson...

Giant Bomb forever.

The story of Giant Bomb continues as Fandom announces the sale of the website to new owners. During a PAX East panel, Jeff Bakalar, Jeff Grubb, Dan Ryckert, and Jan Ochoa announced that they are the new owners of Giant Bomb. According to Fandom's press release announcing the sale, both Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb are the main owners. Ryckert and Ochoa were also stated to be "owners" during the panel tonight. The four of them also called Mike Minotti...

A look at foraging and barricading.

The first video for the medieval zombie survival game, God Save Birmingham, offered a look at some tense zombie escapes. Today, a new trailer lessens the tension a slight bit. Today, we see another aspect of survival needed during a medieval zombie apocalypse: Foraging for food and supplies and also a lot of barricade building to secure your routes.

Developer Ocean Drive Studio is leaning pretty hard into the idea that you're kind...

Industry veteran Alanah Pearce will provide the opening keynote.

The final list of all PAX East exhibitors was shared today. Before we get into those, we must also note that the opening Storytime keynote for PAX East will be given by games industry veteran Alanah Pearce.

Pearce currently works as a writer for Sony's Santa Monica Studio, the developer responsible for the God of War franchise. When Pearce isn't helping to bring life to Kratos, she is busy doing regular content...

Now called PAX Online 2021.

Penny Arcade and ReedPop just announced that they have cancelled PAX East 2021 because of reasons that should be abundantly clear by now. Hint: It rhymes with BOVID. In its place is PAX Online 2021 that will take place Thursday, July 15 through Sunday, July 18.

The event organizers say that PAX East will return to Boston in 2022. As of right now, the show organizers are "cautiously optimistic" that PAX West and PAX Unplugged for 2021...

The looter shooter is coming to PC.

Exactly six months after the initial release of Borderlands 3 on the Epic Games Store (affiliate link), it will be released on Steam. Confirmed today during a panel at PAX East, Borderlands 3 will be out on Steam on March 13, 2020. Though the Steam Store page is now live for the game, you are not yet able to pre-order the game. You can, however, add it to your Steam Wishlist if you so desire.

If nothing else, the Steam page does confirm...

The tactical modern warfare FPS is jumping from PC to consoles.

Insurgency: Sandstorm is a tactical shooter that has made some decently sized waves in the PC world. In its first year of availability, Insurgency: Sandstorm has amassed one million players, won a fair number of awards, seems to be generally liked by its fanbase. Developer New World Interactive and publisher Focus Home Interactive hope that success will translate well to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One when it releases...

Each game will be playable.

Those going to PAX East this weekend from February 27 through March 1 can stop by Booth #16063 for XSEED Games. The company is bringing four playable demos to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. These games include Rune Factory 4 Special, Granblue Fantasy: Versus, Ys: Memories of Celceta, and Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. ...

SpongeBob and aliens among those making an appearance.

THQ Nordic provided a quick announcement on the video games they will be showing off at PAX East, which runs from February 27 through March 1. They will be at booth #16233. Fans are encouraged to stop by to try out some of the following titles: ...

Adult Swim Games makes it official.

The last the gaming world saw of Samurai Jack was in 2004's release of Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku for the PlayStation 2. The game was based off of the old Cartoon Network animated show called, appropriately enough, Samurai Jack.

Samurai Jack was a TV show that follows around a Japanese samurai known only as "Jack." From the get-go, Jack nearly took out a big, bad evil called Aku by using his magic katana. However, he fell...

Game studios are taking the Coronavirus threat seriously.

Just in the past week or so, we have learned about a number of game developers and publishers that are pulling out of planned trips to the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and even PAX East 2020. Studios that had planned on attending one or both of these industry events have cancelled their plans due to the ever growing threat of the latest coronavirus (COVID-19).

We know that Sony and Facebook will not be going...

Plus, both Chivalry 2 and Maneater will be at PAX East 2020.

There will be a closed alpha beginning March 2020 for Chivalry 2. Those who are interested in trying out the game for themselves well ahead of the game's actual release, should head on over to the Chivalry 2 Closed Alpha signup page.

The alpha does come with the stipulation that you agree to a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). That means if you get in you cannot publicly share any media from the alpha. The teams...

Pathologic 2 was shown off today during the Gearbox Publishing segment of today's Gearbox PAX panel. The game, still in development from tinyBuild, will be released on May 23, 2019 through Steam.

A new trailer for the game shows off just a taste of the game's creepy setting and disturbing cast of characters. The game is in first-person and can best be described as a "narrative-driven dramatic thriller." It's probably a good thing those are the exact words the dev team...

During Gearbox's PAX East presentation, a small segment was devoted to showing off what Gearbox Publishing is up to. One of the reveals today was for Risk of Rain 2. Obviously, we already knew about Risk of Rain 2. That wasn't the big surprise today.

No, the big surprise today was the fact that Risk of Rain 2 is available right now on Steam Early Access. This Early Access release allows players to go in alone or with up to three additional friends for four player co-op action....