PAX West 2025
PAX West is a celebration of gaming and gaming culture featuring thought-provoking panels, a massive expo hall filled with the best publishers and studios, new game demos, musical performances, tournaments, and a community experience unlike any other.
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Seattle, United States
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PAX West 2025 Spotlight
We looked for a horse at PAX West 2025
How hard is it to find a mighty steed at PAX West 2025? Harder than you'd think
Why did we keep seeing Guardians from Destiny at PAX West 2025?!
Yes, we kept seeing Guardians from Destiny at PAX West 2025, but there was a good reason (and we weren't imagining them)
PAX West 2025 crowns its Omegathon winner after beating everyone in Minecraft & Mario Kart World
As the dust settles on Seattle's prime video game convention, we recognize the winner of 2025's PAX West Omegathon.
Graeme McMillan
The opening movie of Final Fantasy Tactics remake is gorgeous beyond expectations and a huge flex
Any game that makes me stop and spout affectionate profanity in its opening moments is a game worth playing.
Trent Cannon
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Trails beyond the Horizon has the beautifully blended combat system JRPG fans have been waiting for
Fans of both turn-based and action RPGs will find themselves with plenty to do with the latest entry in the Trails series.
Trent Cannon
Video games can help you find out who you really are, and what you really want (romantically, at least)
The Decades of Digital Love panel at PAX West 2025 makes the case for playing around virtually to explore your real life game settings, so to speak
Graeme McMillan
The defining feature of early erotic video games and the "first smut boom"? Sexual assault, depressingly
PAX West 2025's Decades of Digital Love panel highlighted a worrying trend in early erotic video games
Graeme McMillan
PAX West 2025 Feed
We looked for a horse at PAX West 2025
How hard is it to find a mighty steed at PAX West 2025? Harder than you'd think
Why did we keep seeing Guardians from Destiny at PAX West 2025?!
Yes, we kept seeing Guardians from Destiny at PAX West 2025, but there was a good reason (and we weren't imagining them)
PAX West 2025 crowns its Omegathon winner after beating everyone in Minecraft & Mario Kart World
As the dust settles on Seattle's prime video game convention, we recognize the winner of 2025's PAX West Omegathon.
Graeme McMillan
The opening movie of Final Fantasy Tactics remake is gorgeous beyond expectations and a huge flex
Any game that makes me stop and spout affectionate profanity in its opening moments is a game worth playing.
Trent Cannon
The long journey to recreate Final Fantasy Tactics, from Square Enix's Kazutoyo Maehiro and Hiroshi Minagawa [Gamify My Life]
We talked to two of the people who worked on the original Final Fantasy Tactics about how The Ivalice Chronicles came to be.
Trent Cannon
PAX West 2025's Omegathon approaches its end - and here's how you can get involved
There's a charity component to the Omegathon that you can take part in - and it might change the wardrobe of the MC of the event for the final if you do
Graeme McMillan
I brought my kid to PAX West 2025 and all he got was excitement, self-discovery and a whole new community
What happens when a 13-year-old gamer gets to go to PAX West for the first time? A simple declaration: "I have found my people"
Graeme McMillan
The upcoming Resident Evil: Requiem will have first- and third-person play, giving us two distinctly different and frightening ways to play the game
Whether you love the 3rd person POV from classic Resident Evil games or the uniquely terrifying experience of 1st person in RE7, Requiem has got you covered
Jules Chin Greene
Capcom's Pragmata team admits to "difficult times" internally as the game has gone through four years of delays
Capcom's Pragmata director reveals the questions that percolated inside the development team as delays mounted.
Chris Arrant
The upcoming Resident Evil: Requiem is going deep into the roots of the franchise: specifically, 2003's Outbreak
While we all wanted to see Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil: Requiem, Grace Ashcroft ties back into the franchise’s roots
Jules Chin Greene
Trails beyond the Horizon has the beautifully blended combat system JRPG fans have been waiting for
Fans of both turn-based and action RPGs will find themselves with plenty to do with the latest entry in the Trails series.
Trent Cannon
Life is Strange actor Han Soto wants to play the boulder that killed his character - and save his own life
Everyone wants to change the course of their destiny, but only Life is Strange actor Han Soto has a specific plan that involves him playing the object that killed him
Graeme McMillan
Video games can help you find out who you really are, and what you really want (romantically, at least)
The Decades of Digital Love panel at PAX West 2025 makes the case for playing around virtually to explore your real life game settings, so to speak
Graeme McMillan
Life is Strange Avengers? The voice cast of the long-running Square Enix episodic series is ready to have their team-up moment
What if the characters from the multiple different Life is Strange installments got to meet? The actors behind the game are ready to make that happen
Graeme McMillan
Life is Strange actor Han Soto's best fan interaction ever was barcrawling and singing karaoke at PAX West 2025
One PAX West 2025 attendee got the Backstreet Boys partner of their dreams, and didn't even realize at the time
Graeme McMillan
Behold, the Sinister Six card available only at Magic: The Gathering’s Spider-Man panel at PAX West 2025
At PAX West 2025, Magic: The Gathering x Marvel's Spider-Man panelists unveiled an exclusive card called Behold, the Sinister Six!
Jules Chin Greene
There's going to be a rare Magic: The Gathering x Marvel's Spider-Man card variant only available if you play at participating game shops
Looking to build out your Magic: The Gathering gobin deck? Consider this foil Ultimate Green Goblin promo from Marvel's Spider-Man
Jules Chin Greene
Final Fantasy XVI's Ben Starr was hesitant to voice Dycedarg in Final Fantasy Tactics because of how much we all love Clive
Ben Starr's role as Dycedarg in Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles is quite different from his heroic turn as Clive Rosfield
Jules Chin Greene
How SquareEnix lost the source code to Final Fantasy Tactics, and how they used online fan content to bring it back to life for the 2025 remake
If you're rejoicing because of Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles's release next month, you have other Final Fantasy fans to thank
Jules Chin Greene
Marvel & Spider-Man swing into PAX West 2025 to bring a little bit of NYC to Magic: The Gathering (including a Daily Bugle!)
There's a lot of exclusive Spider-Man for Magic: The Gathering fans to pick up at PAX West 2025
Graeme McMillan
The defining feature of early erotic video games and the "first smut boom"? Sexual assault, depressingly
PAX West 2025's Decades of Digital Love panel highlighted a worrying trend in early erotic video games
Graeme McMillan
Spider-Man, Borderlands 4 rage rooms, and manga publishers learning new tricks: Three of our favorite PAX West 2025 booths
Magic: The Gathering, Shueisha Games, and Borderlands 4 are some of the most exciting booths PAX West 2025 attendees can find during this weekend's show
Graeme McMillan
Prepare to defeat your foes in Magic: The Gathering with the power of Todd McFarlane's Spider-Man art
Magic: The Gathering's crossover with Marvel's Spider-Man features Venom and Spidey art by the iconic Todd McFarlane
Jules Chin Greene
What happens when the manga publisher behind One Piece and Dragon Ball gets into gaming? PAX West 2025 attendees can find out for themselves
Shueisha Games is showing six games at PAX West 2025, including one described as "Spirited Away with camera mechanics"
Graeme McMillan
A Marvel partnership was a bucket list item for Magic: The Gathering when Wizards of the Coast began dreaming up Universes Beyond years ago
It took four years to do a Marvel x MTG set, but we've now learned it's the first one that came to mind - and the biggest - since Universes Beyond was first dreamt up.
Chris Arrant
Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko have officially become Magic: The Gathering artists, thanks to Spider-Man
Can't afford a copy of Amazing Fantasy #15? Magic: The Gathering's crossover with Marvel's Spider-Man has got you covered
Jules Chin Greene
We found the most expensive - $75,000! - Magic: The Gathering card at PAX West 2025 (No, we didn't buy it)
One of the rarest cards in Magic: The Gathering history can be yours if you're at PAX West 2025 (and you have tens of thousands of dollars to spare)
Graeme McMillan
J. Jonah Jameson & the Daily Bugle are getting their own Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair set as part of Marvel's Spider-Man partnership
Magic: The Gathering's Spider-Man set wouldn't be complete without a Daily Bugle reference, hence the upcoming Secret Lair drop
Jules Chin Greene
Teenage rollerblading and Iron Chef point the way to the future of gaming at PAX Rising Showcase at PAX West 2025
Arcane Eats and Rollergirl are two indie games getting the spotlight at the leading games show in the US as part of PAX Rising Showcase
Graeme McMillan
Marvel's Spider-Man lore gets a new form of goblin in Magic: The Gathering partnership
If you're a Spider-Man fan, you've heard of Hobgoblins, the Green Goblin, even the Gold Goblin. Now, Magic: The Gathering adds goblinoids to the mix
Jules Chin Greene
A notorious Spider-Man story has been immortalized as a Magic: The Gathering card
The Clone Saga from Marvel's Spider-Man has been redeemed thanks to art from Bill Sienkiewicz for Magic: The Gathering
Jules Chin Greene
Become a symbiote god with Venom, King in Black from Magic: The Gathering’s Spider-Man set
Venom takes center stage in a functional reprint of Magic: The Gathering's Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon, using Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, and Frank Martin's cover art from Venom #200
Jules Chin Greene
See all the Magic: The Gathering x Marvel's Spider-Man cards revealed at PAX West 2025
Spider-Man, Spider-Men, and villains such as Venom, Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, and more. (Wait... is that Knull?)
Chris Arrant
Livestream Monster Hunter Wilds, Borderlands 4, Magic: The Gathering x Spider-Man, and more PAX West 2025 panels live
Be there from anywhere, as Popverse is livestreaming PAX West 2025.
Chris Arrant
Only one can win the Omegathon at PAX West 2025 (but there's plenty of room for a Chicken Jockey or two in this year's Minecraft tournament)
Every PAX, there's an Omegathon, and this year's PAX West is no different - but who will win in the four-day-long tournament of Minecraft modes?
Graeme McMillan
The most anticipated games at PAX West 2025 including Borderlands 4, the Final Fantasy Tactics remake, and more
Borderlands 4, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and a new Digimon Story game, plus the highly anticipated Final Fantasy Tactics remake! All games we can't wait to play at PAX West.
Trent Cannon
Final Fantasy, NASA Moon missions, monster hunting and video game history: PAX West 2025 is bringing everything to Seattle
PAX West 2025 is the most packed Labor Day weekend you can imagine, and we've picked some of the panels we're most looking forward to from the show
Graeme McMillan
A comic con surival kit, from convention experts to you ahead of San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic Con, and more
Here it is - the ReedPop insider's con survival guide. Accumulated and documented over years of con travel by numerous people here at ReedPop, this isn't the basics - this is the #protip of all pro tips on making your con travels easier.
Chris Arrant
PAX West 2025 dates: We have the details on the gaming expo's return to Seattle
Celebrate gaming with the gaming mecca known as PAX West.
Chris Arrant
Comic Con Essentials: If you're going to a comic con, you'll need this (and this, and this)
It's dangerous to go alone - take this! A comprehensive guide of things to bring to a comic convention
Lauren Sisselman
Magic: The Gathering lets you vanquish Peter Parker for good with a card featuring Spider-Man No More! art
John Romita, Sr.'s The Amazing Spider-Man #50 cover graces Magic: The Gathering's Path to Exile card
Jules Chin Greene
I wasn't sold on the Switch 2 - then I played Final Fantasy 7 Remake on it
Nintendo has no place making a handheld console that can look this damn good.
Trent Cannon
