“I … can’t imagine it stealing any of our thunder. We have a ridiculous amount of thunder and honestly if they were to steal some of it we probably wouldn’t even notice. Just yesterday we accidentally left some of our thunder in our pants and then they went into the washing machine and the thunder got ruined. It wasn’t a big deal to us, though, because we have plenty more thunder. I don’t see it having any effect on PAX, no. E3 has always been and looks like it will continue to be about the industry. PAX is about the community around games as much as it’s about the games themselves.” – Penny Arcade’s Mike “Gabe” Krahulik

Ahhh, there is a difference between E3 and PAX. PAX is for more of the Indy developers and for the people. Yes big developers do attend PAX as well, but there presence is not shown as much as E3. All this may change if E3 keeps going the way it did last year, but it seems like they are trying to fix that problem.

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