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Last week, Gamer Network CEO Rupert Loman declared his disappointment in GAME. He was referring to the retailer’s new GAMEFest event, a consumer expo that will take place four weeks before his own EGX show… and at the same venue (Birmingham NEC). Upon making some allusions to the fact the …
Read More »GAMEFest targets 100,000 visitors
Retailer GAME expects its next Insomnia festival – which will include the GAMEFest expo – to be the UK’s most popular gaming event this year. The firm targets a record number of attendees over the August Bank Holiday weekend, and says it will be investing heavily to ensure it hits …
Read More »Rupert Loman on GAMEFest, queues and the future of EGX
Gamer Network won the 2016 Events Team MCV Award for its work on EGX. We speak to founder and CEO Rupert Loman about the company’s past and upcoming shows, and its renewed rivalry with GAME. Why do you think you won the MCV award?EGX is a show that delivers a …
Read More »GAMEFest timing is disappointing, says Gamer Network’s Loman
Gamer Network boss Rupert Loman says he’s disappointed by GAME’s decision to go head-to-head with his EGX event. GAMEFest will form part of Insomnia58, which starts on August 26th at Birmingham NEC. That’s just four weeks before EGX, which will take place at the same venue from September 22nd. On …
Read More »GAME Fest returns to Birmingham NEC just four weeks before EGX
GAME is bringing back its consumer expo between August 26th and 29th. That’s just four weeks before rival event EGX, and it is also taking place in the same venue – Birmingham NEC. However, unlike the last GAME Fest (which was also the first one) in 2011, this year’s event …
Read More »Virgin Media and Gfinity running eSports Hexathlon at EGX across every genre
Virgin Media and Gfinity are looking for the best gaming all-rounder in the UK with an eSports Hexathlon concluding at September’s EGX. Players will compete over six games online between now and the 19th of September, with 10 finalists making it to the main stage at Birmingham’s NEC between the …
Read More »Games Media Profile: Gamer Network
Gamer Network co-founder and CEO Rupert Loman talks about the diversity of games media formats Eurogamer has long been a staple of the UK games press, and the outlet’s events are similarly becoming a cornerstone of the consumer games circuit. The firm’s EGX show attracted over 80,000 gamers this year …
Read More »EGX moving to Birmingham NEC from next year
Next year’s EGX will take place outside of London for the first time in the event’s history. Then titled Eurogamer Expo, the event first took place in 2008 at the Old Truman Brewery before moving to Old Billingsgate Market and Leeds’ Royal Armouries Museumin 2009, followed by its recent home …
Read More »Ukie announces new members and initiatives
Ukie has announced 10 new board members and two new initiatives at its AGM at EGX. The newly-elected members on the trade body’s board are as follows: Ella Romanos, commercial director at Strike Gamelabs Fergal Gara, VP and MD at Sony Computer Entertainment UK and Ireland Helana Santos, lead programmer …
Read More »‘Boris Johnson is demolishing the spiritual home of the UK games industry’
Rupert Loman has told MCV that the planned destruction of Earls Court Exhibition Centre will not hinder the growth of the EGX event. The co-founder and CEO of Gamer Network, the parent of Eurogamer and host of the annual games show, was speaking ahead of the event’s sixth iteration next …
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