Those that attended the PA Q&A at PAX will know what that means.

PA East cost in 2010 in Boston. Dates not yet announced, but awesome.

I think next year, PA is going to conquer Seattle, much like they nearly did to Bellevue before moving the con to the Washington State Convention Center.

Fallout 3 is going to be amazing. I haven't played 1 or 2 yet (will hopefully get through before 3 comes out), but the reaction at PAX was simply that Fallout 3 is going to kick your ass in all the right ways. BEAUTIFUL game and looks incredibly deep. Think Mass Effect meets Fallout and you're still not even close to how awesome this game is going to be.

Spore too. But you all already know that, so enough said.

I didn't really have a plan put together for this post (like I sort of had for the previous one on education), but there are a few things I wanted to mention.

Bioware premiered there next game toolkit, which was developed for Dragon Age: Origins. I must say the amount of detailed control you have to create modules is absolutely amazing. NWN had an awesome toolkit. Dragon Age is going to put that to shame. Unfortunately, its apparently a single player only game, but which likely limits what can be done, but still. I guess you could compare it to something like Oblivion, and in which case, there is definite potential.

Lets see, what else. Freezepop was awesome. Jonathan Coulton was even more awesome (Felicia Day sung Still Alive with him!!!). Darkest of the Hillside Thickets I think is tied with Coulton for my favorite performance, both were incredible.

New Coulton and MC Frontalot collaboration is coming on Frontalot's new album. I can't wait, it sounded so awesome live. Oh, and Frontalot mentioned Brad Sucks during his performance. I don't know how many know who he is, but that made me smile inside.

Wil Wheaton is awesome as usual. Such and incredible writer and speaker and definitely need to pick up his books.

PAX is evolving. It is interesting seeing how things change each year. Or rather, what doesn't. Tabletop seems to have been more of a second thought this year (at least for the freeplay and tournament stuff) than usual, but otherwise, a lot of whats there is really more of whats always been there. More games. More pro-game talks. More game pitches and just more awesome. I look forward to finding out what the approximate attendance was this year. I fully expect it to be around 80,000 people, and leads me to believe we will see close to 160,000 people next year. PA will dominate the convention center. It's just how it is.

Thank you Mike and Jerry, you have given gamers an incredible opportunity to come together and celebrate.

I might post more later. I have a ton of pictures, but many are fuzzy and crappy, so I don't know what I'm going to do with them all.

Oh, and Gabe, Tycho, Kara and Khoo on expert on Rock Band 2 performing Any way you want it by Journey. INCREDIBLE.

--nullpuppy(out)