PAX says swine flu is apparently a gaming fan

By Rodney Brown

The folks behind the Penny Arcade Expo are bringing their gaming conference to Boston next March, but hopefully leaving the swine flu behind in Seattle.

According to the official Twitter feed of PAX, the conference, which ran Sept. 4-6, just confirmed via testing the first case of swine flu. In between sessions with serious titles like “Breaking into the Game Industry the Educated Way” and not-so-serious titles like “How can we make online gaming communities suck less?” apparently at least one conference attendee failed his saving throw versus H1N1 against his constitution (yes, that’s an old-school D&D reference).

PAX East will bring the creators of the Penny Arcade webcomic to the Hynes Convention Center March 26-28 of 2010. Penny Arcade creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins — known better to the geek community by the names of their webcomic alter egos Gabe and Tycho — say that the Boston version of PAX will share many of the elements of the Seattle conference but have enough of its own character to draw visitors from the West Coast.

Let’s hope they decide not to share the swine flu, and leave it back in the land of Starbucks and Microsoft.

Posted by Brendan Lynch

Tags: H1N1, PAX, Penny Arcade, Rodney Brown, Swine Flu, Twitter

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