Conventions


Willy Wonka Glasgow Event Has Already Inspired Cosplay Of The Unknown

Willy Wonka Glasgow Event Has Already Inspired Cosplay Of The Unknown

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 […]

We Know Why Bruce Dickinson Wore A High-Vis Jacket At His HMV Signing

We Know Why Bruce Dickinson Wore A High-Vis Jacket At His HMV Signing

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. […]

From One Side Of London Comic Con (Spring) 2024 To The Other

From One Side Of London Comic Con (Spring) 2024 To The Other

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 […]

Pay For ECCC By Flipping Your Free Comic At The Bad Idea Panel Today

Pay For ECCC By Flipping Your Free Comic At The Bad Idea Panel Today

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 […]

Game Devs Of Color Expo 2024 Returns This September

Game Devs Of Color Expo 2024 Returns This September

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: The Cruise From Florida To Cozumel In 2025

San Diego Comic-Con: The Cruise, From Florida To Cozumel, In 2025

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 […]

PAX East 2024 Reveals More Exhibitors &#038 Games For Boston

PAX East 2024 Reveals More Exhibitors & Games For Boston

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 […]

PAX East 2024 Reveals Details On Attending Exhibitors

PAX East 2024 Reveals Details On Attending Exhibitors

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 […]

GDCs 2024 State Of The Game Industry Targets Layoffs &#038 AI Ussage

GDC's 2024 State Of The Game Industry Targets Layoffs & AI Ussage

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 […]

Giveaway: Win A Set Of PAX East 2024 Four-Day Badges

Giveaway: Win A Set Of PAX East 2024 Four-Day Badges

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 […]

Game Developers Choice Awards Reveals 2024 Finalists

Game Developers Choice Awards Reveals 2024 Finalists

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 […]

86 Shots Of Cosplay From MegaCon Live London 2024

86 Shots Of Cosplay From MegaCon Live London 2024

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, […]

From One Side Of MegaCon Live London 2024 To The Other

From One Side Of MegaCon Live London 2024 To The Other

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 […]

The ESA Has Officially Killed Off E3

The ESA Has Officially Killed Off E3

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 […]

Star Trek: Discovery Final Season Halo Season 2 Get CCXP Spotlight

Star Trek: Discovery Final Season, Halo Season 2 Get CCXP Spotlight

With CCXP kicking off on Thursday, November 30th, and running through Sunday, December 3rd, fans who are able to make it out to the four-day Brazilian pop culture fest are going to be in for a serious good time. With the WGA & SAG-AFTRA strikes having officially wrapped (pending the actors' union ratifying its new […]

MagicCon Announced For Chicago Amsterdam Las Vegas

MagicCon Announced For Chicago, Amsterdam, Las Vegas

Wizards of the Coast revealed this week that they will be holding three different MagicCon events for Magic: The Gathering in 2024. The company revealed they will be holding two events in North America located in Chicago, Illinois and Las Vegas, Nevada, with Amsterdam in the Netherlands for the European show. Plans are obviously tentative […]

PAX East Will Celebrate Conventions 20th Anniversary Next March

PAX East Will Celebrate Convention's 20th Anniversary Next March

Penny Arcade and ReedPop announced they will be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of PAX during PAX East 2024, set to happen in late March. While no official plans have been announced yet beyond the dates and location, the team wanted to make sure attendees knew this year would come with a major birthday bash as […]

83 Cosplay Shots From Thought Bubble Comic Con in Harrogate 2023

83 Cosplay Shots From Thought Bubble Comic Con in Harrogate 2023

Thought Bubble Comic Con in Harrogate isn't as cosp[lay focused as some shows; it's more about the comic books. But you can't keep a good cosplayer army down, and at Thought Bubble this weekend, fine designs were on display – and on the catwalk, courtesy of the cosplay parade sponsored by Dead Northern at the […]

Diablo IV Reveals Vessel Of Hatred Expansion During BlizzCon 2023

Diablo IV Reveals Vessel Of Hatred Expansion During BlizzCon 2023

Blizzard Entertainment revealed a new expansion is being planned for Diablo IV, as they revealed the new Vessel Of Hatred expansion at BlizzCon 2023. The team didn't get into too many details as the expansion won't be coming until sometime in 2024, but they did give us a hint that Mephisto would have a hand […]

World Of Warcraft Classic Reveals New Season &#038 Expansion

World Of Warcraft Classic Reveals New Season & Expansion

During BlizzCon 2023, Blizzard Entertainment revealed two new additions coming to World Of Warcraft Classic over the next few months. The first was the reveal of a new season as they'll release the Season of Discovery. The content from the season will launch on November 30 and bring with it a few new additions, including […]