We Can’t Wait to Check out These 5 Games at PAX East 2019

We Can’t Wait to Check out These 5 Games at PAX East 2019

Borderlands (3?)

Tomorrow, during PAX East 2019, Gearbox will be unveiling their new Borderlands game. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a numbered entry in the Borderlands series, seven years to be exact.

Borderlands fans have been wanting to go back to the unique cel-shaded looting and shooting world that Gearbox has created. The company has been teasing this announcement for what feels like eons and we can’t wait to see what’s revealed.

Borderlands lets you play with up to four players in a shared world and cooperate to take on monsters and obtain money and loot to upgrade your weapons.

What makes Borderlands so unique is its art style, making use of bright colors and cartoonish visuals to make the planet of Pandora feel ever so alive.

We don’t know if it will be Borderlands 3 or something else, but unless Gearbox is massively trolling everyone, something will be shown tomorrow.

We Can’t Wait to Check out These 5 Games at PAX East 2019

Streets of Rage 4

It has been 25 years since we’ve gotten a proper numbered entry in the sidescrolling arcade beat ’em up, Streets of Rage.

Ever since developer Dotemu announced that they, along with Guard Crush games and Lizardcube, would be revitalizing the classic Sega Genesis series with a similar 2D art style, we’ve been so pumped to actually get our hands on it.

Streets of Rage 4 will be playable for the first time at PAX East this upcoming weekend and we can finally see for ourselves if this long gap between Streets of Rage 3 and 4 was worth it.

The sidescrolling beat ’em up genre hasn’t been in vogue for a while, but it’s great to see such an old franchise come back into the spotlight, even if just for a little bit.

We Can’t Wait to Check out These 5 Games at PAX East 2019

Shovel Knight and Yacht Club’s New Game Cyber Shadow

During PAX East this weekend, Yacht Club Games will not only be hosting playable demos for Shovel Knight: King of Cards and Shovel Knight Showdown, but the company will also be letting folk try out their newly announced platformer, Cyber Shadow.

This fast-paced action-platformer stars a ninja and is being developed by Mechanical Head Games and will be published by Yacht Club Games.

Yacht Club shook up the world with the retro-styled 8-bit platformer called Shovel Knight that ushered in a wave of indie games that took inspiration from classic titles such as Super Mario Bros. 3, Ducktales, and Zelda II.

We were already excited to check out the two newest content packs for Shovel Knight, but we’re also very interested to see more of Cyber Shadow.

We Can’t Wait to Check out These 5 Games at PAX East 2019

The Messenger: Picnic Panic Expansion

The Messenger is a 2d sidescrolling Metroidvania that made waves when it came out on PC and Switch last year. The action-focused platformer puts you in the role of a ninja who is on a quest to deliver a scroll.

Sabotage Studios were inspired by retro sidescrollers like Ninja Gaiden, but what made The Messenger so different was the 8-bit and 16-bit art style.

Since you have to complete missions in two different time periods, the game shifts back and forth and completely throws you for a loop.

Picnic Panic is a free expansion for The Messenger that will feature new worlds and challenges. Picnic Panic will be playable on the show floor and we hope to see a release date of some sort soon.

We Can’t Wait to Check out These 5 Games at PAX East 2019

Katana Zero

Katana Zero is a neon-retro-styled 2d action game stars a character named Dragon, who is a deadly assassin who must go through several stages to defeat enemies, similarly to Dead Cells or other roguelikes.

If you get hit just one time in Katana Zero, your character dies but the time rewinds letting you fix your mistakes and try to not die; but on the flip side, enemies die in one hit as well.

Askiisoft and Devolver Digital are bringing this little indie gem to the Switch and PC later next month and we can’t wait to die over and over again at Katana Zero’s PAX East booth.

What are you most hyped up for? Let us know in the comments below.