PAX 2012 Seattle Cosplay Pictures

Cosplay Pictures from PAX 2012 Seattle 

Penny Arcade commonly known as PAX is on right now at the Seattle version of the event. And what does PAX mean? Well, aside from a little bit of Halo 4 news, PAX means cosplay. Here's some that was spotted by Gawker. I'm sure you'll agree, the quality of these characters and their costumes is pretty amazing - check out the ladies (!?) from Zelda!

The sentence is death... by exile

Halo 4 has been revealed featuring a map called Exile

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The above video shows some Halo 4 glory released at PAX, a new multiplayer map known as Exile and some Capture the Flag gametype action.

Rumour has it (sing it like Adele does if you like....) that a big changes to the traditional capture-the-flag mode is the flag carrier will find them selves in the position of not being able to intentionally drop the flag. The flag carriers also will have a waypoint marker over their head that both sides can see.

Exile itself looks big and grand and the game play in the video looks pretty sweet.

Bioshock Infinite Pax Details

Panels are all the rage these days and PAX 2011 is no exception. Bioshock: Infinite fans were treated to one hosted by Irrational Game’s Ken Levine, and voice actors for the game, Troy Baker and Courtnee Draper chatted about the third game in the horror series.

Game Informer provides the key points from the discussion panel

• Ken Levine didn’t meet any of the actors from the first BioShock, he only ever talked to them over the phone before recording sessions, but for Infinite he was extremely hands on, often getting in the recording booth to help out the actors.
• The actress who plays Elizabeth – Courtnee Draper – is going to law school, and was actually about to quit acting when she got offered the part for BioShock Infinite. She actually hadn’t heard of BioShock before her audition.
• The Uncharted games really inspired Ken Levine while working on BioShock Infinite.
• Few of the dramatic sequences in BioShock Infinite are not truly scripted. BioShock Infinite has a system that watches for cool opportunities to introduce dialogue sequences, so the game’s story will evolve differently for every player.   
• Ken Levine wanted every line of dialogue to sound perfect, so a lot of time was spent rerecording lines. Three lines, in particular, proved to be so challenging that it took the team over an hour to record what they wanted.
• At least one scene in the game was not originally planned for the game, but was pieced together using ad libs and extra lines from other recording sessions.
• During one particularly difficult recording session, actress Courtnee Draper was having trouble working up the emotions necessary to deliver her lines, so Draper encouraged the actor who plays Booker DeWitt (Troy Baker) to start berating her until she was in tears. Finally she was able to deliver her lines perfectly.

Pax 2011 Cosplay Pictures

Here's some cos play from Pax 2011. As you'd expect from such a popular event, the costumes are all over the place ranging from Fallout to Bioshock: Infinite.

Check out these great pictures!

Some Assassins working on their creed

Looks like Elizabeth needs some rescuing 

Looks like Carmine is alive and well at Pax. At least for now - do you think Carmine will live or die in Gears of War 3. It's out next month. Excited much?

Let's Duke it out if this is a good cosplay costume or not

Portal fans are almost a mandatory requirement at a gaming convention these days

Here's some cos photos from a PAX event earlier in the year.

Anniversary Campaign Screenshot

Here's a couple of screen shots from the Campaign of Halo: Anniversary as released to the wild at Pax. They are from the level 'Guilty Spark' - it's infamous for a) meeting the flood b) meeting Guilty Spark himself and c) meeting the Flood d) visiting the Library. Do you think the flood know how to re-start a flooded chainsaw?

Halo 4 Starship Concept Art

So nothing Jaw dropping has come out of Halo Fest yet. We've learnt the names of the new maps for Anniversary and saw the Warthog that will be in Halo 4 plus a Mega Blocks Master Chief- but a crafty Kotaku reporter has videoed the Halo 4 Panel and shared his discovery, namely what appears to be some Halo 4 Concept Art.

Here's a big ship: Is it the Grandeur or is the marketing simply talking about the Grandeur of Halo 4? No, it's merely a 'Starship Technology Prototype'.

Starship Technology Prototype

Mega Blocks Master Chief

The title says it all really, here's the Master Chief built out of Mega Blocks. This fellow apparently graced the exit to the Halo Fest which happened as part of the 2011 PAX.

Penny Arcade Expo 2011: Pax Cosplayers

Don't mess with these three ladies!

What a great weekend this has been for cosplayers attending the Penny Arcade Expo, or Pax as the l33t like to call it. Here's another round of awesome costumes designed by the fans, taken from their favourite games and films:

Legends

Guitar heroes

Dragon cosplayers

Crisom Bonnie and and Clyde

Noel

Starwars bounty hunter?

So even if the game announcements at Pax didn't blow anyone away (bring on Bungie at E3?) it's great to see so many fans running with the day and dressing up as their favourite game icons. Want more? Check out these sexy cos play babes and this sexy batgirl.

Penny Arcade Expo Cos Play: The Sexy Girls Edition

Why so happy?

Let's face it, one of the reason we love costume play is we get to see beautiful women dress up as our favourite sexy character characters. See the above batgirl / joker combo above. You cannot complain can you?

These costume pictures are of hotties from the 2011 Penny Acarde Expo, commonly known to many simply as PAX. Some are fans dressed up, others are paid to promote games and are often referred to as 'booth babes'.

Pictures from Penny Arcade Expo 2011 - Pax

A giant fucking robot

We started the day with some Pax cosplay photos, now where just taking the good shots from the whole floor show - as game publishers and producers vie to show of their gaming wares, we get to see some great promotional guff, booth babes and of course, the punters themselves.

Duke Nukem has always known it was about the babe's so why no have some real life ones as you promote Duke Nukem Forever?

Duke's Babes wearing extra small white shirts. 

Pax 2011 Cos Play Photos

Is this a red bat girl?

Simply some cos play fans in action from the 2011 Pax Convention that I found lying around the place. I just love how people are so diverse - from Pokemon to fairies to Gears of War, the Penny Arcade Expo brings out the best of costumed fans!

Some sweet Cole Train action!

Santas' Little Helpers?

A sweet Mass Effect costume

The Beast and the Fairy Beauty...

Here's a girl dressed as Pikachu from the Pokemon series:



And here's another Pikachu which is more peek at you...

Are you Born Heavy? Pax Reach Panel 2010

Check out this Pax Panel with the Bungie staffers. They describe the origins of Reach from a design point of view, the planning and how the planet Reach is intended to be a character in the game.

References to the back story of the planet include that those born on it are known as Born Heavy as Reach is slightly bigger than the planet Earth. That also reminded me of how Engineers are named! (see novel Contact Harvest for explanation).

Part One:



Part Two, Three, Four.

Rosenda and Tom where originally two other Spartans that were to appear as part of Team Noble - this was beacause the team was modeled on the Seven Samurai / Magnificent Seven example but they were ultimately cut.