PAX, AKA Penny Arcade Expo is a now twice yearly get together in Seattle and Boston of key players in the industry to truly pay fan service to the people who fuel the flames of geekery.
Allow us then to welcome to a scrap book of thoughts, photos and edited highlights from the 360GamerCast trip to PAX East!

This was in fact my first trip the the USA. I am in my mid-thirties and for whatever reason had never exited Europe and its bevy of continental breakfasts, proper football and crazy accents. …

In an era of “occupy” everything, oil shortages, bread lines, high street retailer closures, and a certain trilogy concluding with collective fan outcry.  I took time to reflect on games as “Art”. Entertainment should be as defined an amusing experience.  Gaming is a hobby that myself, and hopefully anyone who is reading this enjoys; however over the previous years I have received less enjoyment from games that in the past would have left me in awe. Does this steam from a “mojo” issue… for a long time that seemed to …

Operation Raccoon City suited and booted itself up for a March 23rd release date, and sought to be pure fan service for early Resident Evil lore; however Slant Six studios forgot that looks are not everything. Operation Raccoon City has great character design for the Umbrella Operatives deployed in Raccoon City set to eradicate the dreaded T virus, devastating citizens converting them into rabid zombie hoards, and that is the only compliment I can extend. Inspiration behind the title was sound; tie in plot lines, offer fan service to a …

I’m sure anyone with even a passing interest in videogames has by now heard of the group calling themselves Retake Mass Effect and their crusade to have the ending of Mass Effect 3 remade.  These guys are obviously very organised in what they’re doing as not only have they put together a petition, but there’s also lobbying afoot on facebook and twitter, and even a campaign of charity work has been started to try and gain attention for their cause. Should Bioware listen to these folks and give them what …

We have learned from MCV that Microsoft has been telling partners that the Next Xbox will NOT include a disc drive.
The briefings have been issued under what MCV’s source describes as “the strictest NDA” they have ever encountered.
Although the console will not include a disc drive, it will offer compatibility with some sort of interchangeable solid-state card storage, although it is not known whether this will be proprietary or a more standard format such as SD.
Furthermore, a 2013 launch date for the hardware has been confirmed. What is less clear, …

The following is an episodic, original work of fiction and is intended for mature audiences.

Sun Tzu, the famous military tactician and author of “The Art of War” believed that all war was based on deception. Wes thought this was probably a sound assessment. But he could never understand why you would bother with deception or war when you can so easily get the opposition to surrender or comply by simply telling the truth…
Level 1: Kill Screen
 
Eight hundred seventy-six dollars and fuck knows how many cents. He kept repeating this number …

Growing up in the 90’s was a strange time to be a gamer. It gave us the Megadrive, Super Nintendo, Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, Playstation, N64 and much more. The teens of the 90’s will always be remembered as the Playstation generation. It is the time where gaming really came to the masses.
We have gone from the bedroom gamer who thrived on amazing single player experiences and split screen multiplayer action with our mates, (I spent most my school holidays playing Goldeneye with pals and it was amazing) to gamers who …

The Metal Gear Solid HD Collection was released by Kojima Productions, and it is a compilation of Metal Gear games containing Metal Gear Solid 2:Sons of Liberty (PS2), Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater(PS2), and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (PSP) on two discs. Although these games remain faithful to the originals, it expands upon them in several ways such as: 720p, achievement support, and all three games run at a silky-smooth 60 fps. Something interesting to not for all the cheevo whores such as myself, the HD Collection has …

Binary Domain is a 3rd person 1 player action shooter published by Sega and developed by Yakuza Studio (The team behind the yakuza series for the Playstation) Set in the not too distant future of 2080 where man & machine co-exist together, An incident is brought to the attention of the U.S government where a so called ‘Hollow Child’ (A Human Cyborg) reveals himself prompting the military to act & dispatch a ‘Rust Team’ (Covert Ops) to investigate Japan & the possible source of it’s origin.
You play Dan Marshall a …

The ‘SSX | DEFY REALITY : LIVE’ short film showcases the nerve-wracking moments SSX fans from across Europe arrived at a mystery location to face a truly exhilarating challenge: flying down an iconic London landmark from 60 metres up at speeds hitting 80kph at night. All flying over a giant video screen where more fans were getting hands-on with the game.

Recreating the gravity-defying gameplay and signature stunt action of SSX in an astounding urban landscape, the Live experience was a rush of emotions for the fans who descended from the …