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PAX East Pledges to Stay in Boston for 11 More Years

The organizers for PAX East and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA) announced recently that the popular video game convention will remain in Boston until 2023. The organizers are hoping to grow the number of attendees to around 100,000, making it one of the largest public gaming conventions in the world (behind Germany's Gamescom and Japan's Tokyo Game Show).
PAX East will also make a sizable donation to digital games education, as Massachusetts Digital Games Institute will receive a $50,000 contribution this year alongside an annual donation of $25,000 a year [...]

Final Fantasy XIII-2

This past week was exciting! For those of you who dont know… A three day gaming festival called PAX was held this past weekend. Sounds awesome, right? I for one was extremely excited to see that there was a special appearance at PAX where they showed a new Final Fantasy Xlll-2 trailer!

The trailer featured a few battle scenes and a bit of the storyline here and there. It focused mainly on Serah who didnt really seem to make it into the frontline of all the action in FF Xlll-2, despite being a main character. Now it seems like [...]

This weekend, I was lucky enough to have the chance to attend PAX East in Boston. It was my first gaming convention and I have to say, I had a blast.
From the beautifully designed booths (and the ones that obviously had been put together very last minute to say the least), to the intriguing panels to the cosplay that probably took months to design, to the worst sandwich I think Ive ever eaten (that cost me $12!!!), everything about PAX was new and exciting to me.
The convention experience started on Friday with me basically just exploring and getting a feel [...]