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Catch up with all of Popverse's PAX West 2024 coverage!
Scary monsters and super peeps abound with stories about Magic: The Gathering, Marvel vs. Capcom, Monster Hunter Wilds and more!
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We’ve been at PAX West 2024 all weekend. Has it been fun? Only enough fun to help someone that didn’t understand the appeal of gaming to finally get it. (That link is Members Only, please note.) But what have we actually been up to at the Seattle Convention Center for the past few days? We’re glad you asked.
Here’s a list of the many PAX West stories from the weekend. (Yes, we’ll keep it updated as new stories come in):
- How Gears of War defined the development of Xbox 360 hardware for Microsoft, according to Phil Spencer
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is Aerith voice actor's game of the year (and would be even if she wasn't in it)
- How World of Warcraft helped scientists make the real world a safer place
- Civilization VII isn't a historical recreation, it's asking 'What If?' on a giant scale
- The Last of Us fungal infection couldn't spread to humans in real life... right now
- Cozy gaming might be teaching important life lessons
- PAX's Omegathon is the perfect distillation of the show as a whole (and the best sporting event you could ever dream of attending)
- Monster Hunter Wilds' Rey Dau might be an apex monster, but there's something worse out there
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer sees community as central to his idea of gaming
- Before PAX, there was Necrowambicon, Penny Arcade's first attempt at a real-world event
- Four new Vault Hunters are being created for 2025's Borderlands 4
- Borderlands 4 will bring the new to the videogame franchise, with new characters, new tech, and a whole new world to explore
- Borderlands 4's creators break down the secrets of the game's first teaser trailer
- The key to making video games sexy is to be authentic, says Baldur's Gate 3 writer
- How (and why) one bear romance changed the way people thought about Baldur's Gate 3
- Freddy Fazbear has been making kids nervous for a decade, but at PAX West 2024 Five Nights at Freddy's is giving back to the fans on his 10th birthday
- Magic: The Gathering has created a whole new plane that is a haunted house in first Duskmourn: House of Horror trailer
- A new homage version of DC's Sandman has been created in Magic: The Gathering
- The four Duskmourn: House of Horror commander decks revealed for Magic: The Gathering's newest set
- Magic: The Gathering teams with iconic Silent Hill artist Masahiro Ito for its new horror-themed set
- 1980s horror (and a superbad demon) rule over Magic: The Gathering's new Duskmourn set
- Marvel & Capcom are teaming up for the most in-demand (and hardest-to-find) comic crossover of 2024
- Monster Hunter Wilds creators stress how (and how much) weather will change your hunt
- Capcom reminds fans there's more to Monster Hunter Wilds than just Gemma
- Talk about an emergency meeting! Capcom's Ace Attorney Investigations comes to Among Us
And if you want to watch some of the panels for yourself, we’ve got you.
- Watch Xbox boss Phil Spencer's PAX West Storytime event!
- Watch the official Borderlands 4 panel from Gearbox Software at PAX West 2024!
- Watch Capcom's PAX West 2024 panel livestream for Monster Hunter Wilds, Street Fighter 6, Ace Attorney, more news
If all of that feels like too much information, just head to our PAX West 2024 hub.
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