PAX Adding a Boston Show

August 30, 2008

Couldn't make it to Seattle for PAX?

Maybe Boston will work better for you.

As reported by GameSpot, the Penny Arcade crew has officially announced that they will be adding an East Coast PAX, beginning in 2010. The new show will be based in Boston.

GP: There's no truth to the rumor that game-legislating Mayor Thomas Menino will deliver the PAX 2010 keynote...


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Thanks good job;

Btw, I think Atari and Midway will drop out too, but mostly travesti because  these guys have done nothing travesti or little and need to start saving costs. and dizi izle

YES.

Now I don't have to get off my ass for the important shit anymore!

Whats next, ordering pizza from Xbox live?

Wait... I think that sounds like a good idea.

But I think voting should MAKE you get off your ass, and see outside or a second while you go vote. I mean, your picking the president of the United States of America for God's Sake... least you can do is drive down there and punch out a card.

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I'm all for freedom of ttnet vitamin speech and allowing rent a car game makers to put whatever they want in games, but there's one thing about this app that has me scratching my head.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but from araç kiralama the previous article araba kiralama on this I gathered that players can use Google maps in-game to find the other (real-life?) dealers in their area.  If this is the case, has travesti anyone considered what's stopping someone from using this app to actually move drugs between hands for reals?

But majority araba kiralama of their outrage araç kiralama stems from what it could DO TO children, not the content itself.  Talk to one of these people and you'll find they don't think any books kiralık araba should be banned from children.  Mention American Psycho and they talk about kiralık araç the redeeming value of using imagination to construct a story.  Reading, no matter what the content, is largely viewed as a consequenceless activity for people of any age.  The reason why I mention American Psycho is because of the content itself.  Gaming never has and likely never will have any scenes where someone has sex with a severed head.  Not gonna happen.  Yet despite this, they'll fight tooth and nail to protect their children from two boys kissing in Bully but whatever they read is harmless... yeah.

The entire arguement is kiralık oto based upon a social normality inflicted by luddites who can't figure out the controls for Halo so it's frightening and terrifying and obviously the cause of youth violence on the rise even though, in reality, it's in decline (which is actually a HUGE suprise given minibüs kiralama the economies status).  In  a perfect world, we would have parents that actually parent.  The idea of sales restrictions on media on oto kiralama any form to accomidate parental unwillingness to get involved with their child's life is the real problem to me.  Here I am, 32 years old, and being held up at a self-scan rent a car needing to show ID before I can buy a $10 M rated game all because Soccer Momthra can't be bothered to look at the crap Billy Genericallystupidson does in his free time.  It's too hard for her, so I have to suffer?

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The US already has a PAX - the UK should get one, too :)

 

Seriously, though - you'd get a ton of very keen European folks!

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This is great, but I have this nagging feeling this means the death of the Seattle PAX, even though that's overwhelmingly unlikely...

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Awesomeness. Finally Anime Boston will not be the only convention I go to from now on in Massachusetts! Can't wait for 2010.

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Ahh, but I plan to be there.  Word.  Jack Thompson

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I'll be able to go in 2010 hopefully.

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It's funny how just a few days ago I was saying how Boston needs a game show, then I heard about this on Kotaku. It's good to be from Boston. Makes me glad I'm staying here after college.

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Please the Hynes and not the BCEC...really....although unless they booked the space a couple years ago, the Hynes probably isn't available.

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Well! I am in Seattle right now for PAX, but I live in Boston, so this is certainly great news.

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Oh god YES.

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And thus it finally pays to have a brother who goes to college in Boston that one can mooch off of for free rooms.  xD

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I hope that crazy mayor of Boston doesn't send in the riot squad when he learns those murder simulator kids are showing up.  Bring Lite-Brites to protect yourself!

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I've got a Mooninite and I'm not afraid to use it!  MWA HA HA HA~

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I'm not really sure how riot squads even respond to him. They don't call him "Mumbles" Menino for nothing.

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Epic refs. Just, Epic. *sheds a tear of joy*

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YES.  This is GREAT news!

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Sweetness! Good to see PAX spreading out.

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Awesome. 

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WOOO! East Coast represent!

 
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