PAX exhibitors revealed, Star Wars fans should start lining up now

The Penny Arcade Expo exhibitor list is in, and it's a hefty one with nearly 100 attendees scheduled to visit the Seattle gaming convention. Gamers can expect plenty of hands-on action with the hottest (and probably not so hot) games of the year, including a slew of panels and special demonstrations.

LucasArts will showcase the first stateside live demo of Star Wars: The Old Republic and sponsor a cantina for community members to meet various staff and developers. Although delayed until 2010, Splinter Cell: Conviction will also continue to be demoed for attendees, alongside Assassin's Creed 2. Plus, traditional PAX events return with another round of the indie game showcase (The PAX 10), parties to crash throughout Seattle's downtown core and two nights of music from the best in nerdcore -- a genre iTunes has yet to recognize. Fascists!

PAX 2009 hits Seattle from September 4-6 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. A list of exhibitors you'll spend hours lining up to see can be found after the break.
PAX 2009 Exhibors

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2K Games
Aeria Games & Entertainment
Alienware
Alteil
Ankama Games
Antec
Astro Gaming
Atari, Inc.
Bethesda Softworks LLC
Big Fish Games
Bioware
Black Sheep Studios
Blizzard Entertainment
Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
CCP Games
CDV Software Entertainment USA
Chessex
Disney Interactive Studios
Dolby Laboratories
ECA
Electronic Arts
Eminence Group Pty. Ltd.
Fallen Earth LLC
Flying Frog Productions
Flying Lab Software
Frogster America
Funcom
Garage Games
Geek Chic HQ
Gunnar Optiks
Harmonix Music
Hi-Rez Studios
Hothead Games
Hudson Entertainment
iGlove Inc.
Ignition Entertainment
ITT Technical Institute
Jones Soda Co.
Klei Entertainment
Mana Energy Potions
Mega64
Microsoft
Microsoft-XNA
Mythic Entertainment
Namco Bandai Games America inc
Namco Networks America Inc.
NCsoft
Nexon
Nintendo of America Inc
NVIDIA
Omni Consumer Products (Tru Blood)
Oni Press
Patriot Memory
Phantom EFX, Inc.
Pink Gorilla LLC
Playlogic Entertainment Inc.
Privateer Press
Riot Games
Rockstar Games
Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC
Runic Games
SEGA
Sony Computer Entertainment America
Stardock Entertainment
SteelSeries
Sweet Kitty
Swell Games / Simon Fraser University
Telltale Games
The Behemoth
The Dreaming Comics and Games
The Guildhall at SMU
THQ
TN Games
Tozai, Inc.
Tritton Technologies
True Games Interactive
Turbine
Turtle Beach
Twisted Pixel Games, LLC
Ubisoft Entertainment
Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Inc.
Upper Deck Entertainment
Valve Software
Vancouver Film School
Wacom Technology
Warner Bros. Games
Wizards Of The Coast
Y-Bot Classic Video Games
Zalman USA Inc.

Reader Comments (32)

I'm just waiting for PAXEast...

I'm really excited to meet Matt Damon.

You and me both.

The Borne movies were a god send.

I went to PAX 08 and although it saddens me not to go this year, PAX East is my light at the end of tunnel.

yeah, the bourne movies were excellent. pretty far from the books, but still very good.

Ugh are there any video game conventions in New York ever?

Where the hell else can I pick up gamer chicks?? =/

**sigh**. Yeah I know =/

they must exsist somewhere!! There has to be 'core gamer girls somewhere! The type that date & make out, not play halo3 for money in competitions. Playing Only 1 game doesn't count.

there's the NYC comic con, not game specific but close enough

Yeahh but that's not till october 2010... =/

NYCC is usually in February

I'll be there amidst the teeming, pulsing mass of sweaty nerds.

STOKERFIED.

WTB good gaming convention on the East Coast. We have Otakon and Dragon-con and thats about it as far as awesome cons go on the East Coast :(.

I hope we will get to see that old republic demo somehow some way

PAX is coming to Boston next year.....

Otakon's not even that great, to be quite honest. I've been once (the year JAM Project played--and the only reason I went. WORTH IT FOR THAT REASON ALONE.) And really, I've had a better time at every Anime Boston I've been to. Granted, that's coming from someone that took the 10 hour drive from RI, but still.

I haven't been to a DragonCon since I was about seven. In other words, I don't remember a damn thing about it.

Is it cool enough to warrant a visit?

I'll be there. Of course I'll be there. I'm from the area. Not being there gets your gamercard revoked by the board of Nintendo and Microsoft. Based on their pre-order sales, it's going to be super packed this year.

sadly i will not be there. been the last 3 years, and had a blast each time. even having a new baby didnt stop me going last year!

sadly i moved away from Seattle for work, and this year i'll actually be in Germany on a business trip when its going on.

I still dont know that I agree with their decision to move PAX to labor day weekend, but oh well.

go to Leipzig then

whoops, misread that.

I thought you said you moved to Germany for work, mah bad

Went last year, probably never going again.

Was exactly the right size so as to be so big everywhere was crowded, and too small to get decent crowd control. Also, every panel of interest was scheduled at the same time, on opposite sides of the convention center.

And the insane price of parking likewise didn't help at all.

Where did you park? I got $7 valet parking all day in the basement of some hotel a block from the convention center last year. It was weird seeing my POS next to 50k cars. You gotta be willing to hunt and ask around.

Too high up there for me. Wish they'd do something in the middle of the country so it would be easier to get to.

I agree. I'm not forking over $200 to fly 2000 miles to go to any convention..

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really? cause i always thought bethesda would pay well for advertising

I was recently thinking that I don't quite get the appeal of these gaming-related conferences, other than the opportunity they present to meet other gaming enthusiasts.

Then I read some of the comments on gaming websites, and realize that's not much of an opportunity.

You guys enjoy, though!

You mean other than getting to play games that aren't even out yet (or have demos out yet), or getting to grip-n-grin with people in the biz. Not to mention all the swag? What kind of gamer wouldn't look forward to going to one of these conventions?

I really should not go to these things. Money would disappear left and right from my person.

Just be glad you aren't from Ireland - best we have is Q con.

They move in herds. They DO move in herds...

Hell ya Mega64!

What amazes me about the comments above is the fact that people moan about its location. Do you have any idea how many people from outside of the US go to PAX? It's a very large amount, I know I'm one of them as I'm flying in from London. There are others from Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia that attend the event. Spare a thought for those attendees the next time ou believe PAX to be too distant to get to...

Just one issue with this... The image at the top reads "ATTENTION, NERDS: Felicia Day will take your awkward questions in hall D."

However Felicia Day has forsaken us this year for Dragon Con. :(

PAX exhibitors revealed, Star Wars fans should start lining up now

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