Microsoft is the only company out of the so-called “big three” that will exhibit at this year’s PAX East, according to a guide that was quietly released on the Guidebook app this week. Nintendo and Sony are not included on the sprawling exhibitor list, though a small booth for “PlayStation Community” is listed.
The completely, utterly sold-out PAX East runs from April 11-13 in Boston.
2K Games, Bethesda, Blizzard, Square Enix and Ubisoft are among the other AAA companies listed as PAX East exhibitors. This gives us hope that we might see the forthcoming Watch Dogs, or Evolve, the upcoming 4v1 multiplayer game coming from the Left 4 Dead creators. We know for certain that Blizzard will show off Heroes of the Storm and Diablo III: Reaper of Souls for PlayStation 4.
For those interested in seeing if virtual reality is really their cup of tea, the creators of Oculus Rift and the Omni treadmill, which make us dream of running laps in Skyrim, will also be on the show floor.
Several indie developers will show on the exhibitor floor, including Double Fine, creators of Broken Age; 17-Bit, creators of Skulls of the Shogun and the upcoming Galak-Z: The Dimensional; Klei Entertainment, creators of Don’t Starve and the upcoming Invisible Inc.; and Vlambeer, creators of Ridiculous Fishing and the upcoming Nuclear Throne.
I’m particularly excited to see that indie publisher Devolver Digital will be there, meaning we might have a chance to meet its mysterious and equally illustrious CFO, Fork Parker. I’m also interested to see if Team Meat will actually show off their crazy-cat simulator Mew-Genics, like they were supposed to last year.
PAX East 2014 exhibitor list:
- 11 Bit Studios
- 17-Bit
- 2K Games
- 505 Games
- 92 Apps
- Ack Studios
- Active Gaming Media
- ADATA Technology
- Adult Swim Games
- Age of Empires Studio
- Aimpad
- AlgoCrunch
- Amplitude
- Asinine Games
- Asteroid Base
- Astro Gaming
- Batterystaple Games
- BattleGoat Studios
- Becker College
- BenQ
- Bethesda
- Big Fish Games
- Binary Solo
- Blizzard
- Bootsnake Games
- Boston Indie Selections
- Brace Yourself Games
- Broken Crown Games
- C63 Industries
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Chainawesome Games
- Champlain College
- Chessex
- Citeremis
- Command D
- Cooler Master
- Corsair
- CPU Magazine
- Crooked Tree Studios
- D3 Publisher
- Desconstructeam
- Decoy Games
- Defiant Development
- Dejobaan Games
- Dennaton Games
- Devolver Digital
- Die Gute Fabrik
- DigiPen
- Discord Games
- Disruptor Beam
- Dissident Logic
- Double Fine
- Drinkbox Studios
- ECA
- Eclectic Eccentricities
- Edge of Reality
- Elms College
- Endgame Studios
- ENERMAX
- EVGA
- Experimental Gamer
- Fangamer
- Fenix Fire
- Filthy Casual
- Fire Hose Games
- Fitchburg State University
- Flippfly
- Flyleap Studios
- Foam Brain Games
- Foe Hammer Shop
- Forge on Games
- Frogdice
- Gaijin Games
- Game Underground
- GameChurch
- Games by Mo
- Gaming ETC
- Gears for Breakfast
- Geek Chic HQ
- Genius / GX Gaming
- GGN Game Studios
- GIGABYTE
- Greater Than Games
- Greenbrier Games
- Grey Box
- Grimm Bros
- Gunnar Optiks
- Hanakai
- HappyGiant
- Heart Machine
- Hololabs
- Hyperkin
- Indie Mini Booth
- Indie Tabletop
- Initive
- Innex
- Intel
- Iridium Studios
- Iron Galaxy Studios
- iTapArcade
- Japanime Games
- Kingston
- KinifiGames
- Klei Entertainment
- Kongregate
- Klumobius
- Last Limb
- Lazy 8 Studios
- Level Up Studios
- Lifespark Entertainment
- Logitech
- Love Conquers All Games
- Louisiana State University
- Lumenox
- Machinima
- Marauder
- Marc Ten Bosch
- Mass Digi
- Matrix Games
- Mayfair Games
- MEGA64.COM
- Mercury Learning
- Mesa Mundi
- MI-Clos Studio
- Microsoft
- Midnight City
- Mimoco
- Mixamo
- MSA
- Muse Games
- Muzzy Lane Software
- NCsoft
- Necrophone Games
- Nevernaut
- New England Institute of Art
- New England Institute of Technology
- Newegg.com
- Nine Dots Studio
- NinjaBee
- Nnooo Pty
- No Goblin
- Noble Whale Studios
- NVIDIA
- Oculus VR
- Owlchemy Labs
- Paradox Interactive
- PAX East Indie Showcase
- Phosfiend Systems
- Pinball Arcade
- Pixelscopic
- Plantronics
- Play It Now
- PlayStation Community
- Plyngo
- PNY Technologies
- Polycrime
- Power A
- Press Play
- Privateer Press
- Proleteriat
- Ragequit
- Red Hook Games
- Reentry Games
- Refract Studios
- Renegade Kid
- Replay’d
- Reverb Communications
- Revolution 60
- Riot Games
- Risen Phoenix Studios
- Robit Studios
- Robot Entertainment
- Rocket 5 Studios
- Ronimo Games
- Rooster Teeth
- RunJumpDev
- Sanshee
- Sauropod Studio
- Schell Games
- Scry Interactive
- Sennheiser
- Skull Candy
- Skull Skill Studios
- Skunkwerks
- Skylance Studio
- Showrunner Productions
- Square Enix
- Stone Blade
- Sudden Impact
- Supergiant Games
- SWD Tech Games
- Switchblade Monkeys
- TableTop Arena
- Team Aurora
- Team Colorblind
- Team Meat
- Telltale Games
- Tenwall Creatives
- That’s Entertainment
- The Behemoth
- The Domaginarium
- Thefty Jack
- Think Geek
- Thoughtshelter Games
- Tiger Style
- Tin Man Games
- tinyBuild
- TinyMob Games
- Trendy Entertainment
- Tribute Games
- Troll & Toad
- Turbine
- Turbine Inc
- Turtle Beach
- Twitch
- Uber Entertainment
- Ubisoft Entertainment
- UCC Distributing
- UDON Entertainment
- Undead Labs
- Unknown Worlds
- Unreal Engine
- Untame
- Unveil NYC
- Utilikilts
- Vagabond Dog
- VIDEOGAMESNEWYORK
- Virtuix
- Vivid Games
- Vlambeer
- Wacom
- WeLoveFine.com
- Will O’Neill
- Wither Studios
- Wizards Of The Coast
- WPI
- Xaviant
- Xotic PC
- Yatch Club Games
- Young Horses
- Zafty
In case you were wondering, yes, I manually typed all of these exhibitors into the post. Please massage my fingers when you see me at PAX East in a few weeks. I sometimes look like this.
Source: Guidebook
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