Category: Gaming Events & Festivals

Interactive Futures will return to the Royal Spa Centre in Leamington in the New Year following its successful inaugural event earlier this year.

The two-day conference and expo will once again showcase to the industry and to the general public the rich seam of talent within the Leamington Games Hub.

The event will highlight the region’s heritage within the UK video games industry, its talent and creativity, the unrivalled community of indie and major studios, and career opportunities – both for students and for those already working in games and beyond.… Read the rest

Gaming’s largest charity fundraiser, Jingle Jam returns for 2019 with a brand-new games bundle – and aims to raise millions more for worthy causes around the globe.

Since launching in 2011, the Jingle Jam has successfully raised over $15m for worthy causes.  In 2018, around 90,000 gamers helped donate $3.3m.  An incredible $250,000 was raised in the first 8 minutes of this year’s fundraising drive.… Read the rest

Gamer Network are delighted to announce that EGX Rezzed will return to London’s Tobacco Dock, on the 26 – 28 March 2020!

Tickets are now available for gamers to gain the opportunity to play the very best pre-release games and hundreds of other breakthrough indie titles, all being showcased alongside many iconic game developers, each sharing their unique insight into the gaming industry.… Read the rest

The wait is finally over as the results of the 37th Golden Joystick Awards are revealed. The winners were announced at the award ceremony held at London’s Bloomsbury Big Top.

More than 3.5 million public votes were cast to determine the winners in 19 categories, including Ultimate Game of the Year, Most Wanted Game and PlayStation, Xbox, PC and Nintendo Games of the Year.… Read the rest

Bungie Foundation is proud to confirm the success of its first Game2give charity event with over 1.6 million dollars raised to support Bungie Foundation’s iPads for Kids Program and Children’s Miracle Network benefitting kids in hospitals across the United States and Canada. Destiny fans proved once again their commitment and generosity through 40,000 individual contributions and the support of 5.5K streamers across 104 countries.… Read the rest

On November 14, 2019, at 8:41PM Pacific time, Desert Bus For Hope 2019 reached $6,000,000 in lifetime donations.

With a record-breaking year just hours from finishing, Desert Bus For Hope 2019 has hit a brand new milestone; just one year after reaching $5 million in lifetime donations, the marathon charity drive has hit $6 million in lifetime donations.… Read the rest

Serving as a bastion for the UK’s ever-ambitious and successful games industry in the north of England, the National Science and Media Museum is excited to announce that the much-celebrated Yorkshire Games Festival will return to Bradford for its fourth outing between 5-9 February 2020.

Once again, the five-day event will be pitched at developers, gamers, and families alike, offering a wide variety of events and activities to appeal across the spectrum.… Read the rest

More than 60 streamers are taking to Twitch today to try to raise $100k for type 1 diabetes research. The weeklong marathon is organized by JDRF, a global nonprofit whose mission is to improve lives today and tomorrow by accelerating life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat T1D and its complications.… Read the rest

Join in 2 minutes  of silence to commemorate the end of WW1 and read below about shell shock. 

One hundred and one years ago today, the Armistice was signed between the allied powers and Germany. Earlier armistices had already been signed with German allies, and the Armistice of November 11th, 1918 finally ended fighting for good.… Read the rest

Mario, Space Invaders and several other classic video game characters, alongside new characters from indie games, will soon find a one-day home in the lobby of the Akron Art Museum. Open World Arcade, a family-friendly arcade event, will showcase some of the classic video games that inspired the artists whose work is featured in the museum’s current exhibition, Open World: Video Games & Contemporary Art.… Read the rest

 PAX Unplugged 2019, the tabletop-only show in the international series of PAX events, rolls into the Pennsylvania Convention Center Dec. 6-8 with a jam-packed schedule featuring titans from the world of tabletop gaming, including keynote speaker Eric Lang, Director of Game Design at CMON.

The 2019 schedule features a star-studded lineup of notable celebrities and creators.… Read the rest