A fine read just got posted over at Gamers with Jobs, and it echoes my own beliefs on the dearth of human interactivity at PAX. The problem is that PAX brings together people who think they share the same passion, who believe they are all part of a collective culture that they have defined individually.…
For part two of my look at my PAX 2010 experiences, I’m going to mainly focus on tabletop gaming, and some deeper observations about the convention at a meta level. The Tabletop Gaming Experience In stark contrast to the Big Media Sensations of the Expo Hall and its surrounding environs, the tabletop gaming sections were…
Last weekend Three weekends ago (this has taken longer to write than I initially expected), I attended the gargantuan beast of a convention that is the Penny Arcade Expo, or simply PAX. To use an adjective some feel is watered down by internet overuse, the convention was quite Epic. Not as Epic as last year’s…