Eric Caoili for Gamasutra:

Organizers for PAX East have inked a deal with the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority to keep the annual game convention in Boston through 2023, and to donate $325,000 to the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute.

The show’s organizers had already committed to keep PAX East in Boston through at least next year, but this news extends the deal to 2023. The event drew about 70,000 attendees when it moved to the mammoth Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in South Boston in 2011.

PAX East is put on by Reed Exhibitions and is owned by the makers of the popular Penny Arcade Web comic.