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PAX East 2017 – Booth #14005

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We’re coming back for you, Boston! Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) East starts a few weeks earlier this year. From March 10-12, we’ll be at Booth #14005 with our custom built arcade cabinets and our Gift Shop with tons of official merch!

This year, we’re bringing 12 Pit People single player demo stations, 4 Pit People two player co-op demo stations, the Castle Crashers Remastered arcade cabinet, a Back Off Barbarian arcade cabinet, and a BattleBlock Theater arcade cabinet!

Our PAX East booth from 2016

 
We’re bringing lots of new stuff to the Gift Shop, including a new set of Pinny Arcade Pins, new plushies, and new t-shirt designs! See the MEGA Merch Reveal for all the photos.

This year PAX East attendees can also join our daily tournament where you can go head-to-head in the Pit. Get all the details here: First Ever Pit People Tournament of Attendees

See you there!

[Edit on 2/27/2017] Added Tournament details
[Edit on 2/28/2017] Added Merch link

PAX East 2016 – Raffle Winners

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Jay happily working at the booth and helping people with sign ups
Jay happily working at the booth and helping people with sign ups

At PAX East this year, we had early sign ups for our Pit People closed beta, which has been announced to come to Xbox One first, and then Steam to follow. On top of entering our closed beta, attendees were also able to opt into a raffle for a chance to win a new Xbox One!

Today, we drew a few winners for various prizes, including a Pit People t-shirt, Behemoth Chicken plush, and the grand prize of a signed Xbox One. Here are the winners:

Pit People logo tee
Winners Drawn:

-Christian Tremblay

-Kyle Kellogg

Behemoth Chicken Plushie
Winners Drawn:

-Josh Arbic

-Alicia De Fonte

SignedXboxOne

GRAND PRIZE: New Xbox One signed by Pit People dev team
Winner: Matt Fielden

Many thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and took the time to sign up! Congratulations to the winners!

Our next raffle will be held at the Rooster Teeth Expo, from July 1-3 in Austin. See you all then!

PAX East 2016 – Day 3 + Press Coverage

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Updated 5/4/2016 – Additional press links
 
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PAX East 2016 – Day 3 Photos

 
After three full days of showing off Pit People and our other games, our team is home now after some adventures in Boston for PAX East. We’re back to development and getting ready for the Pit People closed beta. You can sign up for our e-newsletter now to get our latest game updates, including notice when the closed beta registration form goes online.
 
For those who didn’t make it out to PAX East for our early sign ups, we’ll be posting more info and the registration form in the next few weeks.
 
For those who signed up at PAX East, we’ll be sending out an email in the next couple weeks to everyone and this Friday we’ll email out to those who wanted to opt in on the raffle. Keep an eye on your inboxes!
 

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Press Coverage of Pit People

 
At this year’s PAX East, we had our first demo of Pit People co-op! It was awesome to get so much positive feedback from players on the show floor. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to try our games on our custom built arcade cabinets!
 
We also had several interviews and they’re starting to pop up now. Here are just a few we’d like to share:
 
Video coverage:

–‘AVE A GANDER AT – Pit People

–Pit People @ PAX East 2016

–Castle Crashers creators’ next game is filled with swords, uzis, and living cupcakes

–The Behemoth’s Pit People Interview | TYF @ PAX East 16
 
Written coverage:
–Behemoth’s Pit People Is a Turn-Based Strategy Game That Embraces the Ridiculous

–Pit People pairs players perfectly at PAX East – Hands-On with the game’s co-op
 
Podcast coverage:
–PAX East 2016 Interview: The Behemoth’s John Baez Talks Pit People

 
More articles, podcasts, and videos to come! We’ll also post on the Pit People Facebook when we get some more coverage to share.