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t's a Monday in late August. In four days, the Penny Arcade Expo, known as PAX, will open its doors in Seattle. At Hidden Path Entertainment (HPE) in nearby Bellevue, those four days will be filled with panic and dread.
In four days Hidden Path will show its unfinished game, Defense Grid 2, to the public. It will show a new multiplayer level, the first it's ever tried with Defense Grid. It will be the first time anyone outside of Hidden Path has ever seen it. And it's not yet ready.
HPE CEO Jeff Pobst and Marketing Director Shannon Gerritzen just arrived back from Gamescom in Germany, where they showed a few dozen press outlets the single-player "first playable" level of DG2 — the first half of Marketing Plan A. While they were...
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