I'll be there!
Hope to hear you talk about the indie games like Vessel, Containment (kind of hidden behind the Games Workshop bookstore on the 6th floor), Code Hero, Fist Puncher (in the Hyatt next to the Kraken Theater), and Organ Trail (also in the Hyatt). The stories for me have been Assassin's Creed 3's lack of a line--they had a lady with a mic out yesterday begging people to get in line for the demo. Seemt to me that, at least among the hardcore PAX audience, there is serious franchise fatigue around AC. Hope you got to see XCOM: Enemy Unknown--that wasn't one on my radar, but that looks really good. Kind of a reinvigorating of a genre that hasn't been approached from a AAA perspective in a long time. The game that I knew nothing about, but that impressed me (and a lot of other people by the look around their booth) was Hawken. To my eye, it looked like World of Tanks, but prettier and with mechs instead of tanks.
I am not a card game/board game guy, but I really enjoyed learning about & playing "Cards Against Humanity." And of course, when I went back to the booth yesterday to purchase the game, they were sold out.
Looking forward to the show to see what you guys have seen that I missed.