The Penny Arcade Expo includes five big gaming conventions every year (not including the developer-only mini-PAX Dev), but PAX West is always the biggest. Formerly called PAX Prime, PAX West is the original expo from the explosive web comic team of Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik back when it was just a single annual convention.
PAX West 2017 is the 13th PAX West event. It’s taking place this weekend at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. Tickets for PAX West sell out notoriously quickly and this year wasn’t any different.
The keynote speaker is Luke Smith, Bungie’s Game Director for Destiny 2. Holkins will interview him on stage this morning to kick off the four day convention. Click here for a full list of the PAX West 2017 schedule, including board game tournaments and Omegathon tournament.
For the full list of exhibitors at the expo hall, you’ll need to download the PAX Guidebook app. It’s available on iOS and Android. Exhibitors include the usual big name publishers such as Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, and Bethesda, as well as dozens of hopeful indies. Both PAX Rising and PAX 10 include curated groups of indie games in prominent booths on the expo hall.
The main PAX website has also been recently updated and given a nice makeover.
If you weren’t lucky enough to get tickets to PAX West this year, you can still watch many of the panels and shows via Twitch.tv. Three different channels will broadcast shows and panels throughout the four-day weekend, while a fourth will broadcast the PAXArena.
Tickets are still on sale for PAX AUS (Oct), PAX Unplugged (Nov) and PAX South (Jan 2018). PAX West 2017 starts today and ends Monday, September 4.
