PAX Gaming Convention Adds Fourth Event in Texas

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By Chelsea Stark2014-04-12 19:28:56 UTC

The Penny Arcade eXpo (PAX), America's biggest consumer video-game convention, is adding a fourth annual date in Texas. PAX South will debut in San Antonio, Texas on January 23 to 25, 2015.

Creators of web comic Penny Arcade, Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, created PAX in 2004. The first convention in Bellevue, Wash., drew around 4,500 attendees, but now draws more than 65,000 to Seattle each Labor Day weekend.

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"Since its launch in 2004, PAX events have doubled in size almost every year, and our Seattle and Boston events represent the two largest gaming festivals in North America. We've been hearing for years that those in the south had a tough time making it to the northern corners of the country; PAX South has always been a matter of 'when' rather than 'if,'" Robert Khoo, Penny Arcade's president of operations and business development, said in a release.

In 2010, PAX expanded to the East Coast with PAX East in Boston, and then to Australia in 2013.

Krahulik and Holkins made the PAX South announcement during a PAX East panel Saturday morning.

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Topics: Entertainment, Gaming, PAX