Last week during GDC 2024, two different award ceremonies took place with the Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) and the Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards. First off, the GDCA picked up where others had left off, giving Baldur's Gate 3 their Game of the Year award, as well as a few other accolades, with The […]
Ahead of GDC 2024, The Mix and Kinda Funny teamed up to present everyone with the Spring Game Showcase 2024. As you might suspect, this is an almost two-hour presentation, where they relentlessly bombarded us with over 60 trailers, showing all kinds of new indie games on the way. Since this has become the norm, […]
Organizers behind the 2024 Games For Change Festival revealed the first set of guest speakers who will be taking part in this year's convention. Some of the first speakers include Melanie Harke, Tristan Marra, Corinne Dey, and Ava Volandes, as the team has chosen an interesting mix of voices from various important organizations. The team […]
Google will be a part of GDC 2024 this year, and as such, they are bringing back their Google For Games Developer Summit with some new additions to the mix. Among the areas that will be covered by the company will be Google Play and Ads, as they will discuss with developers how they can […]
ReedPop and Penny Arcade revealed that PAX East 2024 will be offering up some exclusive promotions and more during the event this month in Boston. Among them, Marvel Snap fans will be able to snag the specially designed "Welcome Home Bundle," League of Legends players will get the re-released Cardboard Tube Samurai skin and the […]
London Comic Con (Spring) was a very Doctor Who affair. The big lines on Saturday were for Billie Piper and Anita Dobson – though Anita probably had the edge. This was Anita Dobson's first comic con, and her fame from her years on Eastenders has now been dwarfed, within the chilly walls of London Olympia, […]
Willy's Chocolate Experience was an unlicensed "lookalike" event unofficially based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Willy Wonka movies that made worldwide headlines after its opening in Glasgow, Scotland. Especially the "surprise" character known as… The Unknown. Well, it seems that The Unknown escaped the Glasgow baying mob and heading down south, turning […]
Yesterday, Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson did a signing at HMV in London, for his new The Mandrake Project album wearing a high-vis jacket, with no added explanation. And it caused quite a discussion online. Had the great man been on a building site? Was he taking part in protests on the streets of Paris? No. […]
Okay, so ECCC may be all ablaze in Seattle right now. But in London, Showmasters kicked things off with a small but perfectly formed convention in London's Olympia Hall with the London Comic Con (Spring) 2024, well, one of them at least. Full of cosplay, comics and autograph hunters. There was also higher ratio of […]
You know the drill. Go to a Bad Idea panel, where they give out a free exclusive brand new comic book to all attendees, flip it on eBay from $150 to $250 and pay for going to the convention in the first place. Except that… maybe you don't. Because this is the first time Bad […]
Organizers behind the Game Devs of Color Expo announced the nonprofit event will be returning this September and are already taking signups for the event. If you're not familiar with the convention, this one is specifically dedicated to the people of color in the gaming industry and has been running for a few years now […]
San Diego Comic-Con's first official cruise has been reconfirmed for the 5th to the 9th of February, 2025. But not in San Diego, instead it's sailing from Tampa, Florida, to Cozumel in Mexico on the Royal Caribbean's Serenade of the Seas as Comic-Con: The Cruise, The Ultimate Fan Adventure. Guest Host Felicia Day along with […]
Penny Arcade and ReedPop revealed more exhibitors and games that will be a part of PAX East 2024, set to take place next month in Boston. Among the new attendees include The Pokémon Company, who undoubtedly will be showing off new content coming to their titles; Square Enix will be bringing Final Fantasy XIV to […]
Penny Arcade and ReedPop dropped new details this week about some of the exhibitors you'll find at PAX East 2024 in Boston. The event will be returning to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC) and will run from Thursday, March 21, through Sunday, March 24, 2024. The event will have a strong mix of […]
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) has released its 2024 State of the Game Industry Survey, and it is a grim report coming from those who took it. The biggest reports coming back from the survey focus ont he fact that the industry has pushed massive layoffs (some of which appear to have been unnecessary) and […]
Would you like to win a set of four-day badges to PAX East 2024? All you need is a Twitter account to take part in this giveaway. Before we continue, we must stress that you READ ALL OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED, AS WELL AS THE RULES! The folks over at Penny Arcade have provided us […]
Organizers behind the Game Developers Choice Awards have officially revealed the finalists for their 24th Annual event, taking place during GDC 2024. As it has been for a while now, these will honor achievements in gaming from the previous year, with the event happening on March 20th in San Francisco. GDC attendees can be a […]
That was MegaCon Live London 2024, the now-contractually-allowed inaugural London show from Malo Events. And following MegaCon Live shows in Dublin, Birmingham and Manchester, from co-founder of MCM Comic Con, Bryan Cooney. The show is around a quarter of the size of MCM, which is also about the size of MCM when it began. However, […]
Hello Neil Gibson of Twisted Tales! Thank you for introducing the From One Side Of MegaCon Live London 2024 To The Other video above! This morning I set off from Kingston Vale to the London ExCel Centre, but for the first time in two decades, not for MCM London Comic Con. Instead, it is home […]
After the past few years of trying to resurrect the corpse of the Los Angeles event , the Entertainment Software Association has finally killed off E3. In true ESA fashion, the group did the bare minimum of letting people know they had decided to end the convention: by posting a notice on Twitter/X that simply […]