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Beginner’s Guide to Pinny Arcade Trading

June 16, 2024 by Mike 3 Comments
Pinny Arcade Trading

Pinny Arcade has a massive community of collectors and traders, and it’s a fun and exciting part of the PAX experience. But trading at the event has changed since the beginning, and the official website’s information is out of date. The community has its own lingo, etiquette, and some shared perception of pin value. I learned a few lessons in my first few years of trading; some from wonderful and supportive community members and some lessons from the school of hard knocks. This guide is here to help you avoid the harder lessons and get the most fun out of your pin trading experience.

Posted in: Blog Posts, conventions, PAX Tagged: advice, Beginner's guide, convention, conventions, PAX, pax east, PAXEast, Pin Trading, Pinny Arcade

PAX Report 2024

April 1, 2024 by Mike Leave a Comment

The clouds have cleared, the rain has dried, and another amazing weekend at PAX East is in the rear view mirror. The Expo hall floor was admittedly different this year, competing with GDC for independent game creators’ attention. But, while some of the chatter from nay-sayers online was that PAX wasn’t the same, there was … [Read more…]

Posted in: Blog Posts, PAX, Roleplaying Tagged: emberwind, PAX, pax east, PAXEast, ttrpg, unmatched, video games

54: Film Club – Open Range

May 29, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Open Range Cover

We got a hankerin for a new episode, it’s an all new Geek at Arms! James happily kicks off Geek Out with his thoughts on the recent season of The Mandalorian and Star Trek: Picard. Next he shares how much he enjoyed attending this year’s Texas Blade Show and what new knives he bought. Bryan gives an update on the Tales … [Read more…]

Posted in: conventions, Episode Show Notes, Film Club, PAX, Podcast, Roleplaying Tagged: animal crossing, film club, mandalorian, open range, pax east, picard, star trek, star wars, tales from the loop, texas blade show

PAX Report 2023

March 29, 2023 by Leave a Comment
First time guide to PAX East

The dust is settling after another PAX East, and this time there is just too much PAX goodness to pack into one episode, so we have a special post just for the con. People have asked whether after the pandemic, is PAX back to it’s former glory? After the unfortunately necessary move to make 2021 … [Read more…]

Posted in: Blog Posts, PAX Tagged: dice, everdell, finji, hyde's haunt and seek, pax east, Pinny Arcade, tunic, Zelda

49: Nostalgic Media

May 29, 2022 by Leave a Comment

The days are getting longer, and so is our runtime, it’s the all new Geek at Arms! In this episode James kicks it off with a lengthy Geek Out about the new Marvel show Moon Knight, and how much he enjoyed virtually shooting pirates in the VR Experience at Zero Latency and trying to solve puzzles while not freaking out … [Read more…]

Posted in: conventions, PAX, Podcast Tagged: Book of Boba Fett, clone wars, ghostbusters, min/max, Owl House, retro rewind podcast, star trek, star trek discovery, star trek picard, star wars, teenage mutant ninja turtles, XCOM2

28: The Mandalorian

April 17, 2020 by Leave a Comment

Geek at Arms is back with yet another Super-Sized episode. In Geek Out Bryan shocks us with his purchase of a PS4 and the game Destiny. He then shares his enjoyment of the Netflix adaptation of the graphic novel Locke & Key. Next, James gives an review on the second season of Netflix’s Lost in … [Read more…]

Posted in: conventions, Episode Show Notes, PAX, Podcast Tagged: 7 of 9, akira kurosawa, Andrew Henry, baby yoda, birds of prey, black canary, black mask, blade hq, brent spiner, cara dune, cbs all access, clone wars, columbus, cowboy bebop, curry, darths and droids, data, deku, destiny, dm of the rings, fellowship of the ring, firefly, gabriel rodriguez, harley quinn, huntress, indian food, jeri ryan, joe hill, jrr tolkien, knives, laris, locke & key, lone wolf and cub, lord of the rings, lost in space, ming na-wen, moff gideon, murder dad, murder mom, my hero academia, nemesis, parker posey, patrick steward, pax east, peppers, playstation, ps4, rebels, religion, religion for breakfast, renee montoya, robert picardo, spices, star trek picard, star wars, star wars clone wars, star wars holiday special, star wars rebels, the mandalorian, trade, whitney houston, yodito, zhaban

Guide to Your First PAX East

March 18, 2019 by Bryan 2 Comments
First time guide to PAX East

You’ve just scored tickets to your first PAX East. Congrats! So, now what? You’re going to find over 500,000 square feet of the Disney World of gaming cons. A lot of first-time PAX goers want a little advice as to what to see and how to see it. Below is an aggregation of my own … [Read more…]

Posted in: Blog Posts, PAX Tagged: advice, conventions, PAX, PAXEast, Penny Arcade

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