2022. The first PAX South was held in San Antonio, Texas at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center on January 23–25, 2015. It set a PAX record for highest attendance for an inaugural year. In October 2021, ReedPop announced that PAX South would be discontinued, citing that the event had not seen significant growth since its inaugural edition. New verticals In 2011, Penny Arcade launched PAX Dev, a new event exclusive to the game developer community to "speak freely and focus entirely on their trade". Differentiating itself from other game developer events like GDC, PAX Dev does not allow press. 750 people attended in 2011. At PAX South 2017, Penny Arcade and ReedPop announced that a new event type, PAX Unplugged, would be held on November 17–19, 2017, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. The event was designed as a tabletop-exclusive convention, a gaming segment which was only incidental in other PAXes. Name of PAX in Seattle PAX was originally known as the "Penny Arcade Expo", a Seattle-only event, but quickly became known by its acronym "PAX". As part of an expansion into new cities, Seattle's PAX was renamed "PAX Prime" in 2010. On November 18, 2015, it was silently confirmed that PAX Prime was being renamed to PAX West. Activities PAX consists of the following activities: Freeplay, further broken into: Console, Classic Console, Handheld, PC, VR, and Tabletop. Tournaments, further broken into: Console and Tabletop. Some PAXes feature additional tournaments hosted by vendors. "Bring Your Own Computer" or BYOC, a LAN Party. Panels, talks, signings, and similar events. Concerts. PAX Arena, an eSports tournament. The Omegathon. An Exhibition Hall, which includes game studios, merchandise, and the Indie Megabooth. The Omegathon Each PAX features an event called the "Omegathon", a festival-long tournament consisting of a group of randomly selected attendees competing in a game bracket for a grand prize (which has varied from a large game bundle, to a trip to Japan, to a trip to any PAX in the world). The final round of the Omegathon makes up part of the closing ceremonies of PAX. Past games for the final round of the Omegathon have included Tetris, Pong, Halo 3, and skee-ball. Enforcers Early PAXes were largely run by a large group of volunteers, which the show calls "Enforcers". Now a paid role, most Enforcers are still not professional conference organizers or temps, but rather selected from an