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This past weekend was PAX East 2025, the Boston installment of the annual video game event that saw tens of thousands of gamers and fans descend on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for four days of… well, everything you could imagine related to gaming, really.

Popverse was there for the whole thing, and we shared what we saw with you — but in case you weren’t online all weekend to see it in real time, we thought we should make a list to help you keep track of all of our PAX stories... and there were a lot. Don't believe us? As no greater authority than Bruno Mars once put it, just watch. 

• The MVP of PAX East 2025's Elden Ring Nightreign demo was a random fan pulled from the crowd
• Halloween villain Michael Myers was the key to licensing Dead by Daylight's many killers, says the game's director
• Mafia: The Old Country confirms FOUR returning characters will appear in new prequel (but they're not saying who)
• Elden Ring Nightreign might finally be the game that turns me into a loot goblin
• Dead by Daylight/Witcher collaboration screenshots leak online hours before 9th Anniversary PAX East 2025 panel
• Dead by Daylight x The Witcher sees Doug Cockle return to the role of Geralt of Rivia
• Dead by Daylight is adding Dragula hosts the Boulet Brothers as DLCs
• Matthew Lillard returns to Five Nights at Freddy's Springtrap before FNAF 2 as a playable character in Dead by Daylight
• PAX East 2025’s Pokémon booth has made me realize how old I actually am
• Dead by Daylight x Five Nights at Freddy's will be the first time fans can become Springtrap
• Final Fantasy sets for Magic: The Gathering aren't out yet, but I already nabbed official MTG x FF items for Arena at PAX East
• Dead by Daylight game director praises Blumhouse's upcoming movie: "They absolutely get what we're trying to accomplish"
• 4,000 cans of Red Bull, live art & more: Inside the novel PAX East creator lounge for artists, streamers, and creators
• World of Warcraft's next remix will introduce a 'shattered timeline' where "everything went worse," tease developers
• No, Dead by Daylight's Witcher outfits won't let you access Geralt's mutant abilities... but there's a lore reason why (maybe)
• The hottest club at PAX East 2025 is practically silent (and that's a good thing)
• I have finally met the PAX Pin Man here at PAX East (and his iconic 40 pound trenchcoat full of over 1000 pins)
• Nicolas Cage's Dead by Daylight character is the real thing, because "there's never been a Nicolas Cage soundalike," according to the Con Air, National Treasure and Face/Off star
• The first Natural Six US live show at PAX East was like watching The Beatles debut on Ed Sullivan
• Yoshitaka Amano returns to the Final Fantasy series to paint his favorite video game creation of all time for the upcoming Magic: The Gathering crossover
• World of Warcraft's developers reveal the one secret that almost evaded gamers in the game's history
• I don’t even play Magic: The Gathering but I need all of the Sephiroth stuff from the Final Fantasy crossover
• Imagine a 200-hour crash course on Final Fantasy XIV in just one month - this Magic: The Gathering designer just did it for all right reasons
• Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy set is more complex because Final Fantasy fans are already gamers, but is that what Final Fantasy fans want?
• The future of World of Warcraft is in housing, as the game invites players to own "a little slice of Azeroth"
• Affinity for complexity: A Wizards of the Coast executive revealed how they gauge how complex (or how simple) to make a Magic: The Gathering set like Final Fantasy
• There are still two iconic movie killers the Dead by Daylight director still wants to see in the game - here's who they are
• Here's what you need to know about Mafia: The Old Country's new feature: Knife combat
• Prepare for a new kind of Chocobo Racing that even Post Malone might play, as the Golden Chocobo will be the ultra-rare card in the upcoming Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy set
• Upend your ideas of what a "cozy game" is with this political indie game about post-colonial Southeast Asia
• Carnies on Consoles: A shocking personal realization from PAX East 2025 concerning the connection between spectacles from ye olden days and now
• Get ready, player one: PAX East 2026 dates are here

That’s not all; we’re going to be continuing to roll out PAX coverage over the next few days, so keep your eyes peeled — and, yes, we’re already preparing for PAX West 2025, which starts August 26 at the Seattle Convention Center. Tickets for that one go on sale May 22, so everyone on the left coast, get ready… that’s very, very soon. While you're waiting, though, why not check out one of the stories above to see what to expect?

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