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PAX East Breaks Attendance Records

By james_fudge

This weekend's Penny Arcade Expo East conference in Boston, Massachusetts saw nearly 70,000 gamers, game industry professionals, and media types converged on the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. According to organizer's this year's numbers are a 32 percent improvement over 2010's event. The actual final attendance account was 69,500, up from the 52,290 in 2010.

"The venue we have this year is massive - it's legitimately two to three times larger than last year's venue, so the amount of breathing room was fantastic," Penny Arcade business manager Robert Khoo told Big Download in an e-mail. "I didn't hear a single complaint about overcrowding. I never thought I would see the day." Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on March 14, 2011 (boomark / email).