If you’re like me, you enjoy heading to PAX events throughout the United States. Today the Penny Arcade Team has a lot of news coming out. Below is the full news on PAX East badge sales as well as information on the Keynote Speaker for PAX South. I’m just counting the days until another vacation from work to check out awesome indie games throughout the show floor. Trust me, when I say there are a lot of gems hidden throughout our friends the Indie Megabooth.
Badges go on-sale today for PAX East 2020, the east coast’s premier annual celebration of games. Sales will open via the official website at Noon PT / 3 p.m. ET.
From Thursday, Feb. 27 – Sunday, Mar. 1, PAX East will welcome attendees to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for a four-day celebration of all things gaming. Attendees will enjoy game reveals, hands-on demos with the most anticipated upcoming titles, and panels with the industry’s most popular developers, journalists, and content creators. Single-day badges will sell for $60, with four-day badges available for $225.
One month prior, from Jan. 17 – 19, PAX South 2020 will ring in the new year with the first PAX of the ‘20s. Rod Fergusson, Studio Head of The Coalition (Gears 5, Gears of War 4), will give the keynote speech as he kicks off the show with the Storytime ceremony, welcoming gamers of every discipline to the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX and ushering in a new decade of PAX and gaming.
A veteran of the industry, Fergusson has helped create some of the most influential games in history. At Microsoft, he oversaw the Xbox release of Counter-Strike (2003) before joining Epic Games as producer of the landmark Gears of War. Following the completion of the Gears trilogy, Fergusson joined Irrational Games as executive vice president of development, delivering Bioshock Infinite which was named “Game of the Year” by over 40 publications. In 2014, Microsoft struck a deal to acquire Gears and reunite Fergusson with the franchise he helped create. Today, he’s the studio head at The Coalition, the current stewards of the Gears franchise. The latest entry, Gears 5, released in September 2019 to critical acclaim and record-setting player counts.
Badges are available now for PAX South 2020. Three-day badges sell for $95, with single-day badges available for $45.
PAX South panel submissions are open through November 1.
Source: My email
Source 3: https://twitter.com/videogamedeals/status/1187371592210407425
Source 4: https://twitter.com/pax/status/1187389806524940289?s=19
Update: This information above is from the press release recently sent out. Some of you have contacted me asking for a source, while at this time there isn’t a URL of the full press release. I’ve also noted major sites have yet to report on Rod being keynote speaker for PAX South 2020. This press release was sent to provide you the reader news and information on both PAX South Keynote information and PAX East. While many of you reading will think this is another rumor about when badges go live and other information. This is not a rumor and can be confirmed of when to expect all pages to go live. Once other sites start reporting on this news as the press release that was sent out I will include the links as a source.
Update 2: Sources added
