PAX Aus has always been the Southern Hemisphere's largest and most prominent gaming expo, but it's about to get a heck of a lot bigger. EB Games have announced they're going to take their EB Expo to PAX in 2018 to make a bigger and better event with more games than before from publishers and developers and, of course, that means more hands on games for you at the event itself.
So what does this mean for the event, exactly? It means a dedicated on floor area for publishers to showcase all their upcoming titles, a brand new theater along with the 6 already present for developers to talk about their games, dubbed the 'EB Expo Live Theater' and, of course, Australia's biggest EB Games popup store so you can get your hands at all the games you could imagine at the event.
This means that event-goers will get more access than ever to new games, developer panels, and more major publishers at the event with a reported 180+ companies from around the world going to be attending. Thousands of playable games and over 150 hours of on-stage content has also been promised. In previous years, developers have had to split their content up between the two events, taking place at different times of the year and at different sides of the country. There have been many a year where I've looked at the schedule of EB Expo only to find things I wish I could have seen at PAX.
PAX Aus will be held at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Center from October 26-28.