Category: Gaming Events & Festivals

Nish Kumar, Sue Perkins, Ed Gamble and Sara Pascoe will take part in a Dungeons & Dragons live stream on the 8th May to benefit vulnerable people affected by Covid-19.

Hosted by Comic Relief and Wizards of the Coast, the creators of the popular storytelling game, Comic Relief plays Dungeons & Dragons will bring together some of the country’s most beloved comedians at a time when many of us feel isolated at home.… Read the rest

Corona Relief Done Quick (CRDQ) begins, a speedrunning marathon hosted by Games Done Quick in efforts to help those in need during the global COVID-19 pandemic. CRDQ is an online-only event kicking off today at 12 p.m. EDT and running through April 19, 2020 on the official Games Done Quick Twitch channel.… Read the rest

Bungie is excited to announce the Guardian’s Heart fundraising initiative. With all profits going directly to charity Direct Relief, this campaign will raise money to buy supplies for frontline healthcare workers around the world. Bungie’s community of content creators all over the world are also jumping in to help from all over the world.… Read the rest

February is in full swing, so we figured it was time to touch base with you about this year’s Game On Expo – the largest and most popular gaming event in Arizona.

For the first time, voice actors Steve Burton and George Newbern will appear as special guests at a west coast show!… Read the rest

CCP Games, creators of the in-depth and uniquely player-driven spaceship MMO game EVE Online, are proud to reveal a brand-new video that brings the irreverent spirit of Fanfest together with Iceland’s techno punk rock darlings and Eurovision Song Contest 2019 finalists, Hatari.

Featuring CCP Games’ own Permaband, Hatari are charting a course to headline EVE Fanfest 2020, held this year in Reykjavík, Iceland across 2-4 April.… Read the rest

The 8th annual VFX Festival, hosted by Escape Studios, returns to the Southbank Centre from 16 – 18 March 2020, with a focus on discovering and developing new and emerging talent, featuring sessions on Fortnite and Spider-Man.

The VFX Festival is an annual celebration of visual effects, animation, games and motion graphics.… Read the rest

With those New Year fireworks fast fading to memory, the National Science and Media Museum is excited to announce the final speakers for the forthcoming Yorkshire Games Festival in Bradford, running between 5-9 February 2020.

Serving both as a bastion for the UK’s ever-ambitious and successful games industry in the north of England and the first major games event in 2020, we can now reveal Sabrina Carmona – senior producer at mobile and casual gaming giant King – will be taking to the stage to, in her words, help ‘demystify mobile game development’.… Read the rest

Interactive Futures – Leamington Spa’s celebration of the games talent and culture within the region – will open its doors to the public on Saturday, February 1.

Taking place at the Royal Spa Centre, Interactive Futures (https://interactive-futures.com) will give students, young people, children and their parents the opportunity to discover the myriad of job opportunities there are available for all within the thriving video games industry.… Read the rest

Game On Expo is back in 2020 with even more eSports championships, retro and tabletop play, music performances, anime cosplay, celebrity guests – and the same welcoming atmosphere from previous years. Boasting more than 10,000 attendees in 2019 alone, Game On Expo has quickly become the largest and most popular gaming event in Arizona.… Read the rest