PAX East

PAX East is finally over and I’m dead. At least for now. I’ll return in my new form on Monday. Also Graveyard Keeper on Switch is good. 

Nintendo brought Sandbag along to PAX East so Smasher players could pay homage to him. When asked about the unorthodox rule set Nintendo had selected for its PAX East Smash Ultimate tournament he declined to comment.  

Square Enix is trying to get players back into Final Fantasy XI by helping them reactivate their old accounts. At PAX East in Boston, the company has a tiny station next to its giant Final Fantasy XIV showcase where someone will use your original email or other info to try and perform some internet archeology.

And they say couch co-op is dead. Enter the Gungeon came out back in 2016, but its developers at Dodge Roll keep finding reasons to bring it back to PAX East. Of course, even back then it had local co-op, before getting ported to Switch made that sort of thing cool again.

PAX East has begun and Kotaku is here to check out the giant selection of indie games present and the best convention snack spread on the East coast. If you spot us (me) give a shout!

Cosplayers of League of Legends’ Kindred (Lamb on the left, Wolf on the right) make their slow, spooky way across a skywalk at PAX East 2018.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds stations dominate the Xbox booth at PAX East. Behind that, the PlayStation booth opted to front-load Detroit: Become Human, with a couple of setups for upcoming titles like Soulcalibur VI and Yakuza 6 buried in the middle rows. Nintendo’s big draw is the Wolfenstein II Switch port demo.

The most topiary-packed booth at PAX East hosts Deathgarden, Behavior Interactive’s newly announced multiplayer action blood sport game. The greenery of this garden is not alive. It never was. Plasticgarden.

We’re at PAX East—well, some of us and a lot of you! Kotaku reporters are in Boston to play some video games. Bonus points if you can find Waldo in this shot.