Weeks ago I had heard that there was some big news coming down the road about PAX East and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, which runs the Hynes Convention Center and the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Try as I might, however, I...

PAX will also fund the state’s new games institute to the tune of $25,000 per year. In just two years, the Penny Arcade Expo East (PAX East) has become the largest convention in Boston, posting 69,500 attendees over three days last March. In a release...

Penny Arcade and MCCA (Massachusetts Convention Center Authority) have announced PAX East will stay at the MCC for the next ten years up until 2023. The new deal will mean the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (MassDiGI) will get $325,000 each year...

Arcade claims to have invented performance art, and follows the claim with “I’m sorry.” Last Thursday night, three quintessential Lower East Side performers proudly spoke about their work, offering no apologies. “Ladies of the Lower East Side,” part of...

Double Fine is offering some pretty awesome incentives to give them your money, from a $15 pledge getting you the game on Steam, access to the beta, and the documentary, to a $10,000 pledge netting you lunch with Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert, to a...

After spending years apart working on their own projects (Schafer with Psychonauts, Brutal Legend , and Grim Fandango ; Gilbert with Penny Arcade Adventures , Total Annihilation , and DeathSpank ), Gilbert was hired by the Schafer-led Double Fine in 2010.