Category: Gaming Events & Festivals

The UK’s biggest game jam for professionals was held for its second year in Manchester this weekend, bringing together more than 200 people across three days to create brand new games from the ground up.

Judges from Sony, Unity, Supermassive, and more chose “Shape The Future” as this year’s theme, which gave birth to such ideas as an infinitely replayable “Terminator”-inspired shooter from Clever Beans (developers of “Wipeout: Omega Collection”), and “Congruence” from Next_Level where the players could send real-world text messages into the game.… Read the rest

Producers of the MEGASHOW: Games. Music. Art., a new roaming event series from the creators of Indie MEGABOOTH dedicated to creative indie communities, have revealed virtual reality (VR) content that will be showcased at the one-day event. The first edition of the festival is taking place in Atlanta, GA at  the Tabernacle on July 15.… Read the rest

The growing list of speakers at the devcom developer conference now includes yet another games industry legend: Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, will deliver the business keynote on the final day of the devcom developer conference. This was announced today by Aruba Events, Koelnmesse and BIU – The German Games Industry Association, the organizers of devcom.… Read the rest

Hundreds of people standing in the pouring rain at 9 a.m. in the morning. Not quite the usual sight in Vilnius. They were all waiting for the Biggest gaming culture convention in the region to open its doors.

14.000 visitors in “GameOn” were attracted by vast expo spaces, huge eSports competitions, cosplay contests, two conferences for those, who seek wisdom and bustling expo space full of various gadgets and the newest games last year.… Read the rest

The Golden State Pops Orchestra and full choir perform music from leading video games. The concert features special guest conductors and performers along with projections and a laser light show. World premiere videogame music performances from… Detroit: Become Human (game releases Fall 2017), Gran Turismo (game releases Fall 2017), World of Warcraft: Legion, Halo Wars 2, Prince of Persia and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture.… Read the rest

LAN events are a gamer’s idea of heaven, and now the rAge team – who have been delivering South Africa’s biggest LAN  for 15 years – are hosting the first ever Winter NAG LAN at Rush this July.  Running over the last weekend of July school holidays, the NAG LAN is the ideal way to spend some quality time with online mates before the reality of “all work and no play” sets in once again.… Read the rest

Aniplex of America has announced today that it will host a Launch Celebration for the English-language release of Fate/Grand Order at the upcoming Anime Expo in Los Angeles, CA. The event will be held on July 1st at 3:00 pm local time in Petree Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center, and will open admittance to approximately 2,000 show attendees.… Read the rest

Local independent game developer and publisher The Behemoth will be exhibiting at San Diego Comic Con International for the 15th consecutive year!

Along with their ever popular custom built arcade cabinets for Pit People, BattleBlock Theater, and Back Off Barbarian, the game studio has invited several other independent game developers to showcase their video games with them at Booth 229.… Read the rest

Rice Digital is excited to announce that Revolution returns this October for the fifth edition of the premier fighting games tournament in London. Sponsored by Rice Digital and organized by NGI, Revolution 2017 will take place at the Rocket Complex at London Metropolitan University on October 6-8, 2017.

Check out the Revolution 2017 website here:
http://ngi-revolution.co.uk/… Read the rest

The genre-defining exhibition of art, design, film & literature

Barbican Centre, London, UK
Saturday 3 June – Friday 1 September 2017
Media View, Thursday 1 June 2017, 10am –1pm
#intotheunknown
www.barbican.org.uk/intotheunknown

Opening in June 2017, major Barbican exhibition Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction is a genre-defining exploration of one of popular culture’s most celebrated realms.… Read the rest

On 23 August, Cologne will be again the place to be for interested business representatives from all industries, as well as creatives, educators, politicians and researchers. How credible is influencer marketing? How does a long-haul flight become a multiplayer session? What are computer games doing at MoMA? Why are games important for training journalists?… Read the rest

Scotland’s biggest gaming festival, Insomnia X Resonate, is in Glasgow from 21 to 23 July for a weekend of all things gaming featuring a new Virtual Reality Zone and the first Scotland v England YouTubers battle.

The action-packed festival takes place at Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Glasgow from 21-23 July.

The new VR Zone will allow visitors to experience the latest headset and games through virtual reality; the Retro Zone is an old-school throwback to classic games and the Indie Zone is an interactive area where guests can play, compete and watch up-and-coming games before they are released!… Read the rest

Organizers of MEGASHOW: Games. Music. Art., a new traveling event series dedicated to indie communities and produced by the creators of Indie MEGABOOTH, have opened early bird and VIP ticket sales for the first edition of the festival taking place in Atlanta, GA on July 15. The one-day event being held at the Tabernacle will bring together niche creative indie communities from game developers to musicians and visual artists, to throw a “MEGA” indie event.… Read the rest

Square Enix, Blizzard and Wizards of the Coast will be among the companies at MomoCon, the convention with the largest gaming floor in the Southeastern United States. The annual event, which is expecting more than 30,000 attendees for its thirteenth year, will take place Thursday, May 25 – Sunday, May 28, 2017 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.… Read the rest