Bless PAX's gamers for getting this right. Every nose I saw during the first morning and afternoon was even properly tucked in, and I should know-I spent hours hunting for violations. It's at least refreshing to know complete mask compliance can happen in America. A few marked queues inside the hall suggest staying six feet away from others, but the occasional mass of bodies near, say, a game demo makes me hope the show's 100 percent mask compliance and proof of vaccination or recent COVID tests are doing the trick. Sadly, PAX's organizers at ReedPop elected to block off some large spaces in the convention center's main exhibitor hall instead of using them to spread booths out and better guarantee six feet of social distancing. Both are a lot less crowded this time around. Elsewhere, you can find the DIY play spaces buttressed by TVs, consoles, large tables, and massive lending libraries of board and tabletop games.
#HEAVY METAL MACHINES AT PAX WEST INTERVIEW AND DEMO FULL#
First, there's the vendor-filled expo hall full of brand-new games, hands-on demos, and mountains of merch. This PAX, like most PAXes, is split clearly between two parts. I felt uneasy, but somehow, the expo was also cozy, relatively comfortable, and fun. So when PAX began yesterday, I decided to mask up and dive in. I also do not have regular contact with vulnerable populations like kids. In the past month, I have survived three direct delta exposures (leading me to a weekly nose-swab testing regimen, all negative, all good). This year, PAX has beaten most other wildly visible American nerd expos at putting the "public" back into "public expo." 2021's PAX was set into motion back when vaccination rates and optimism made an expo on Labor Day weekend seem like a good idea. Recently, of course, a little worldwide dilemma got in the way. Ever since, the fest has been increasingly divorced from its comic origins, and the PAX model has been officially duplicated and been liberally borrowed in other regions. But the expo's reputation grew quickly, and it become a multiday, multibuilding extravaganza. Back then, the show was firmly attached to the webcomic Penny Arcade, which is also a Seattle creation. My perspective on PAX West, arguably the largest Northwest expo dedicated to gaming culture, is biased by the lines, crowds, and hype I've seen at every incarnation since its first downtown Seattle sellout in 2007. a modest, regional, and relatively fun nerd convention. SEATTLE-From the ongoing wreckage of a variant-riddled pandemic comes.
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