PAX East 2011
For the second year, Boston plays host to the Penny Arcade Expo with PAX East 2011. With almost 70,000 attendees, 125 exhibitors and multiple panels running every hour, it’s quickly becoming one of the world’s biggest gaming events.
PAX East Impressions from Xbox.ca Community
A few of our fellow Xbox.ca Community members managed to make it down to the show and form their own impressions of what was available.
Gears of War 3
With the beta not too far down the road, Epic Games brought an early version of Gears of War 3 to PAX for an awesome sample of the action to come
L.A. Noire
Rockstar was showing off their newest crime saga, although this time players are solving cases rather than starting them.
The Gunstringer
It seems Twisted Pixel can do no wrong; every single one of their Xbox Live Arcade releases has been pure gold. From The Maw's adorable characters to 'Splosion Man's incredible action...
Portal 2
Valve was on-hand to show off a new demo of Portal 2 and introduce us to a couple of new characters. Our first introduction was to Wheatley, a loose personality core robot voiced by famed British comedian Stephen Merchant (The Office, Extras).
Brink
Blending single player and multiplayer in to one unified experience is what Brink is all about. With drop-in/drop-out action over Xbox Live this blend of competitive and co-op shooter is looking to redefine the way we play online games.
Duke Nukem Forever
If the day of muscle-bound heroes has passed, Duke Nukem never got the memo. After 14 years in development and a lot of jokes, it looks like Duke Nukem Forever is finally going to see a release and there's no harder proof than getting it in to the hands of fans on the PAX East show floor.
Child of Eden
As a huge fan of Tetsuya Mizuguchi it was a great delight to finally get an opportunity to see Q Entertainment's next trippy music game working on the Kinect. Full of colour and life the art style is deceptively misleading of its deep gameplay.
Outland
It's hard to reinvent a genre that's as old as the platformer, but Ubisoft and Housemarque are doing just that with Outland. A blend of classic Prince of Persia gameplay with XBLA favourite Ikaruga have made for a very interesting new game that challenges a lot of our expectations.
