Here's Shift 2: Unleashed being played at PAX East on three extremely large television screens, shot by our man there, Stephen Totilo.

The Penny Arcade Expo East is shaping up to be the everyman's E3: An enormous expo dedicated to all things video game.

SNAPSHOT | PENNY ARCADE EXPO EAST: Imprisoned in Columbia for 15 years, Elizabeth takes a break from Bioshock Infinite to hang with caretaker Him... and squish Totilo. Make sure to hang around for three days of Penny Arcade Expo coverage.

Just in time for PAX East, the latest update to Monday Night Combat brings Penny Arcade's revered Cardboard Tube Samurai to the game's PC version, as a uniform for the assassin class. Check him/her out in that vidja above.

The Boston edition of the Penny Arcade Expo kicks off this Friday, and we'll be there. So too will BioShock creators Irrational Games, who will be hosting an interesting panel (and handing out free stuff).

On Friday at 5pm EST, BioShock Infinite's Creative director Ken Levine, art director Nate Wells, lead artist…

Going to PAX East? So is Kotaku's own Stephen Totilo, where he will join Newsweek alum N'Gai Croal in sorting out which video games deserve to be included in the ten best of all time.

With the Penny Arcade Expo's habit of selling out far in advance, fans eager to attend next year's PAX East should probably register as soon as humanly possible.