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The inaugural PAX Unplugged focuses on tabletop and card gaming. Omegathon Finals: Crossy Road, played with a balance board controller made by rudeism.The fourteenth PAX in the Pacific Northwest. Omegathon Finals: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.PAX East 2017 Custom beer for the Giant Bomb panel. PAX South 2017 The first chance to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on a Switch. The thirteenth PAX in the Pacific Northwest was renamed. PAX East 2016 The Mario Maker World Championships The twelfth PAX in the Pacific Northwest. Omegathon Finals: Pac-Man Battle Royale.Keynote Speaker: Dan Connors & Kevin Bruner.The inaugural PAX South made San Antonio the fourth city to host a Penny Arcade Expo. Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre.The second annual PAX Australia moved to a larger venue as well as a later time in the year. The tenth anniversary of the Penny Arcade Expo. PAX Prime 2014 Giant Bomb Guide to eSports Victory The tenth annual PAX and the first to cover four days. The first PAX to be held outside of the United States.

The fourth PAX East was the biggest PAX to date. PAX East 2013 Supergiant Games' Transistor PAX sells out in record time as tickets were gone within a few days of release. The eigth PAX Prime, and tenth overall PAX, expanded to utilize the entire WSCC with help from Halo Fest. PAX Prime 2011 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Omegathon Finals: The Omegaclaw (Claw/Crane game)Īfter just one year, PAX East expands to a larger venue.

The Penny Arcade Expo grows to take over more of Seattle.

Omegathon Finals: Super Mario Bros., Rad Racer, Tetris, Contra.

Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center The Penny Arcade Expo expands to the east coast. The Penny Arcade Expo sells out prior to the event for the first time.

Washington State Convention & Trade CenterĪttendance nearly doubles for the fourth year in a row.

The Penny Arcade Expo upgrades to Seattle. Much like the original PAX, the East version immediately outgrew its venue and, in 2011, moved to the newer and much larger Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.Īt PAX Prime 2012, Holkins and Krahulik announced a third iteration of PAX, which would take place in Melbourne, Australia in July 2013. Hynes Veteran's Memorial Convention Center. And, in 2013, PAX Prime sold out in less than six hours.Īt PAX 2008, Holkins and Krahulik announced the inaugural PAX East would be held on March 26-28, 2010 in Boston's John B. Every PAX since 2009, the show has completely sold out prior to the show. Attendance during PAX 2009 was 60,750, and it has been indicated that a cap on ticket sales prevented an even larger number of people attending. Since moving to the larger venue, PAX has used more of the WSCTC each year until 2009, when the entirety of the venue was utilized.

The exponential growth of the show forced the show's organizers to move to the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in downtown Seattle in 2007, effectively doubling the space available for the 30,000 attendees that came to the event that year. The first PAX also featured a tournament to end all tournaments known as the Omegathon.Īfter 2004, the show's attendance practically doubled each year. And there were also concerts by bands such as The Minibosses and MC Frontalot. But it wasn't just about the miniature E3-like expo hall, as many panels allowed attendees access to discussions among developers and other Internet celebrities. The inaugural event was held over two days at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, WA where roughly 3000 attendees came to see offerings from Microsoft, Nintendo, Ubisoft, and other developers/publishers. The Penny Arcade Expo was created by Jerry "Tycho" Holkins and Mike "Gabe" Krahulik of the Penny Arcade web comic and was announced on April 12, 2004.