PAX Australia and EB Bazaar will accompany armament this year

EB Bazaar and PAX Australia are abutting armament in 2018, acceptation Melbourne now has the cartel on Australian amateur conventions. To spell it out: EB Expo, which aboriginal launched in 2011, and PAX Australia, which debuted in 2013, will now appear at the aforementioned time, at the aforementioned assemblage centre. 

The collective advertisement accustomed this afternoon. Allegedly EB Expo's attendance will booty in best of the above publishers, while mainstays including the EB Bazaar Alive Theatre and EB Amateur pop-up abundance (y'know, it's EB Games, but at a convention!) will additionally backpack over.

As far as the PAX component, that'll acceptable break the aforementioned too. The advertisement acicular out that over 180 companies will affection at the 2018 convention, as able-bodied as "thousands" of playable amateur and "over" 150 hours of on-stage content. 

Oh, and the assemblage will booty comedy from 26-28 October this year, abiding to the Melbourne Assemblage and Exhibition Centre. No chat on admission sales aloof yet, nor on whether the amount will acceleration to annual for all the new stuff.

Shaun Prescott

Shaun Prescott is the Australian editor of PC Gamer. With over ten years acquaintance accoutrement the amateur industry, his assignment has appeared on GamesRadar , TechRadar, The Guardian, COMEDY Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, and more. Specific interests accommodate indie games, abstruse Metroidvanias, speedrunning, beginning amateur and FPSs. He thinks Attractive by Metallica and Lou Reed is an best archetypal that will accept its due analytical reappraisal one day.