Microsoft's PAX booth tour

Yeah, we're kicking it here with our Joystiq pals in beautiful Redmond, Washington for a weekend of rubbing shoulders with the game-nerd elite. PAX's 17,000+ attendees this year are bursting the Meydenbauer Center at the seams, which means exhibitors like Microsoft can't quite have their usual sprawl of a booth. Luckily, they're moving the show -- which is now the biggest games show in North America thanks to the demise of E3 -- to downtown Seattle at the Washington State Convention Center next year, so hopefully the claustrophobic among us will be able to manage a step through a booth in '07. Keep reading for pics of the setup, and start saving your pennies for next year's extravaganza.

[bigbeefe @ Aug 26th 2006 9:05PM]

looks more like games for xbox to me.

[bleh @ Aug 26th 2006 9:13PM]

Nice shots of the games, bozo!

[Student Organization Manager @ Aug 26th 2006 9:45PM]

Am I the only one who doesn't like their space-age green branding colors?

[Brian @ Aug 26th 2006 9:53PM]

It wasn't all that exciting.

[Brian @ Aug 26th 2006 9:53PM]

The reason you don't see any screen shots is because there wasn't anything worth showing!

[bigbeefe @ Aug 26th 2006 10:08PM]

Come on man I'm sure Lego Star Wars II is gonna be TIGHT!

[ackondro @ Aug 26th 2006 11:08PM]

he reason they don't show many games is because the photographs the SHOW NOT THE GAMES(Look at the title??)
I suggest you go to another article or site if you want to see screenshots of upcoming games
also I am glad to see that the giant E3 will continue in some form for me to visit in upcoming years
i also like the green Xbox color theme but would prefer an nice blue option for variety
also LOTS of good games are coming out for the microsoft consoles this next year

[Justin Buck @ Aug 27th 2006 1:29AM]

Good games? Seriously???

Maybe just decent, I waiting for any gaming system let alone xbox to just come out with an AWESOME title!

Think Mario, think Sonic, think Madden, Think Halo...

When is the last time a major title was relased that turned the entire gaming worlds head? maybe Halo i dunno but we need another ground breaking type game or consoles might just lose me.

[Michael Shada @ Aug 27th 2006 5:28AM]

3rd photo down.

Wow! an actual photo of Jabba-the-Hut playing a Star Wars game! lol

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[n2 @ Aug 27th 2006 12:18PM]

Wow, I've learned more about Pax here than at Joystiq, which is posting dribble about things people said.

I still have no clear idea about what this show is or what happpens, but now it's the largest show?? Weird. Am I the only one in the dark about this mysterious show?

[Yem @ Aug 27th 2006 7:46PM]

n2: Nothing mysterious about it.

PAX started as a LAN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN_party
with a broader than usual focus, to include table-top gaming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table-top_game
speakers and vendor exhibits. That's all.

[Ben @ Aug 28th 2006 9:35AM]

I mean no offense, but PAX was in Downtown Bellevue, not Redmond. Downtown Redmond is like, 8 miles away, downtown Seattle is 11 miles. Just because Microsoft shows up somewhere in Washington doesn't make that place Redmond.