On Friday we reported that Penny Arcade Expo has settled on Boston as it's city to hold its first East Coast version of their fan-oriented video/PC games convention in 2010. Big Download now has more specific info from Penny Arcade's director of sales Mike Fehlauer about the event.

Fehlauer told us in a brief phone interview that after getting input from exhibitors about actual dates for PAX EC they have settled on a late March 2010 date to hold the event (they do not yet have any more specific dates). The actual venue has also been announced. PAX EC will be held at the John B Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center. The venue has 193,000 square feet of exhibit space and is located in the Back Bay community of the city.

As previously reported, PAX have partnered with Reed Exhibitions to handle the grunt work of getting PAX EC on board when it launches. PAX will still control the booking of exhibitors, handle the events and the actual content while Reed Exhbititions will do things like work with labor unions, hotels and other local issues to get the event up and running. Reed Exhibitions runs, among other event, the hugely popular New York Comic Con and the New York Anime Festival.

Fehlauer told us that they are not planning to make PAX EC a huge event in terms of attendees at first. Like the growth of the original PAX, which began with just a few thousand people showing up, PAX EC is also planning to start out slow and grow. When asked about conflicts with the Game Developers Conference (which is usually also held in March) Fehlauer told us that they felt both events were very different; GDC is for game developers while PAX is for the game fan and consumer and there should be little overlap between the two.

We will have more info about PAX EC in the months leading to its March 2010 launch.