Convention Fans:
PAX East 2010 - Day 3 Report

The Convention Fans Blog/Alltern8 team rolled back into Philly late last night, after enjoying the final day of PAX East 2010. We're all pretty tired, and two of us are sick, but the general consensus seems to be that it was all worth it.

Day three of PAX started pretty early. Us members of the press had been invited to a Media Only Q&A with Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins ("Tycho") and Mike Krahulik ("Gabe"). It was originally scheduled for 9 am, but when we arrived at 8:30 to line up, we were told by the convention center security staff that we couldn't go upstairs until 9. That didn't seem right, so we walked over to the PAX info desk. That's when we were told it had been moved to 10 am.

We were, admittedly, a little frustrated. We ended up having to rearrange our entire morning, and get checked out of our hotel room before the Q&A. It was during all this that one of our fellow media friends texted us to let us know that the location had also been changed. None of this had been communicated to media via any official channels.

In the end, however, all the frustration melted away, because the Q&A with Mike and Jerry was, in a word, "AWESOME." For reasons I don't quite understand, only 20 or so members of the media showed up. What we thought was going to be a pretty packed room where we may get to ask one question if we were lucky, turned into an intimate Q&A where everyone had a chance to ask multiple questions. It was definitely the highlight of the entire convention. Look for a full report on that Q&A within the next few days.

After the panel, there was some much needed gaming to be accomplished. We checked out the third floor's open console gaming, which worked just like the board game/tabletop library we had visited the day before. Attendees could check out games and go play them on any of the open stations. Much Halo 3: ODST was played that afternoon. After that, we ventured back to the board game library and picked up "City of Murder," which was a lot of fun. That was followed by some more Magic the Gathering.

By the time mid-afternoon rolled around, our crew was pretty tired, and we faced a five+ hour drive back to Philly, so we packed up and said goodbye to PAX East 2010.