Starts:
9:00 AM
Tuesday 27 October 09
Ends:
7:30 PM
Wednesday 28 October 09
Organisation:
Eurogamer
Location:
The Royal Armouries
Description
Thousands of Yorkshire video-gamers will get a chance to play the latest game releases before anyone else in the UK.
Eurogamer Expo will debut at The Royal Armouries in Leeds on 27th and 28th October before moving on to London.
Screen Yorkshire and Game Republic have partnered with Eurogamer to ensure 4,000 games enthusiasts will be able to sample games that won’t be released until Christmas 2009 and spring 2010.
Taking place alongside the Expo is the GamesIndustry.biz Career Fair, the UK’s premier recruitment event for the games industry and a number of Yorkshire’s leading games companies will be exhibiting and giving careers advice.
Yorkshire has four of the top 100 games development studios in the world including Wakefield based Team 17 who are responsible for the Worms game amongst others and York’s Revolution Software who developed Broken Sword.
Eurogamer Expo is also expected to bring major inward investment into Yorkshire for the two days it will take place.
This year’s Eurogamer Expo is sponsored by hmv, who are also the show’s official retail partner, meaning that gamers will be able to buy games at the event as well as play them. The Eurogamer Expo is about putting the best games in the hands of gamers.
Many publishers have already signed up to exhibit their biggest titles of this Christmas and beyond, and these will be announced over the coming months.
The website for the 2009 event is live now, where tickets are already on sale, priced at £6 per day.