BOSTON – March 25, 2024 – PAX East, the East Coast’s most-attended gaming event, returns to Boston on Thursday, May 8, 2025, through Sunday, May 11, 2025. Additionally, show organizers ReedPop and Penny Arcade announce badges for PAX West 2024 will go on sale on Thursday, May 30.
PAX West celebrates its 20th anniversary in the city where it all started, at the Seattle Convention Center this Labor Day weekend from Friday, Aug. 30, through Monday, Sept. 2.
“We might be wrapping up PAX East, but we’ve already got our sights set on PAX West in September,” said Jerry Holkins, co-founder of Penny Arcade and PAX. “The show’s twentieth year is just getting underway.”
Show organizers ReedPop and Penny Arcade will share more details about PAX East 2025 in the coming months. Badges for PAX West 2024 go on sale Thursday, May 30.
For travel information, event schedules, FAQs, and more, visit the official PAX website, and follow PAX on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, Twitch, YouTube, and Instagram.
About PAX
PAX, or Penny Arcade Expo, is a festival for gamers to celebrate gaming culture. First held in Seattle in 2004, PAX has nearly doubled in size each successive year, with PAX Prime 2014 selling out of tickets in a matter of minutes. Connecting the world’s leading game publishers with their most avid and influential fans, PAX expanded with a second show in Boston in 2010, and a third in San Antonio in 2015, making it the three largest gaming shows in North America. The first international PAX was held in Melbourne, Australia in 2013. In 2017, Penny Arcade established PAX Unplugged, its first tabletop-focused show, held in Philadelphia.
About ReedPop
ReedPop is a boutique group within RX – one of the world’s leading events organizers. Launched in 2006, the group has become the number one producer of pop culture events across the globe as well as a full service digital content provider and media company. Delivering once-in-a-lifetime fan experiences curated specifically for localized audiences, ReedPop currently features events in North America and Europe, including: New York Comic Con (NYCC), Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2), PAX West, East, and Unplugged, Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC), Star Wars Celebration, MCM Comic Con, Eurogamer Expo (EGX), Star Trek Missions and more. In addition to organizing and managing events, ReedPop also runs and operates the Gamer Network and its portfolio of leading gaming websites including Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun and GamesIndustry.Biz. The staff at ReedPop are a fan-based, globally focused group of professionals that are uniquely qualified to build and serve the communities with whom they share a common passion.
About Penny Arcade
Penny Arcade has been the world’s most popular webcomic for over 20 years, with over 3.5 million readers. Started in 1998 in the living room of Mike Krahulik & Jerry Holkins, it has grown into a media empire encompassing multiple beloved properties such as Lookouts, Automata, and beloved D&D live-play series Acquisitions Incorporated. Penny Arcade was responsible for the creation of Child’s Play, a gaming charity that has raised over $45 million dollars for children across the world. They are also the founders of PAX, the number one consumer gaming festival in North America, with hundreds of thousands of loyal visitors every year.
