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WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Who's going to the Eurogamer Expo in Leeds?

I'll be attending on one of the days (I've got a press pass for both days). So, who wants to go and on which day? I'll go on that day and we can have a beer and that. Come on, nerds!

Details are here:

http://expo.eurogamer.net/

A press release I received earlier:

Quote:

Games industry shows widespread support for Eurogamer Expo 2009

Press Release
Brighton, England, 12th August 2009: Eurogamer is pleased to announce that 12 of the games industry's biggest publishers have signed up for this year’s Eurogamer Expo.

Sony, Microsoft, Electronic Arts and Ubisoft will all bring playable games to the event, along with Eidos, SEGA, Capcom, Konami, 2K Games, Bethesda, Namco Bandai and Deep Silver.
The Eurogamer Expo will take place in two cities this year to give even more gamers the opportunity to attend. The Leeds event is being held at The Royal Armouries on 27th and 28th October. The London event will be hosted at Old Billingsgate on 30th and 31st October, as part of the London Games Festival. The Expo is in partnership with hmv.

Games playable at the event will include Christmas blockbusters Assassin’s Creed 2, Halo 3: ODST, Borderlands, Tekken 6 and Left 4 Dead 2. Expo visitors will also get to go hands-on with games slated for release in 2010 such as Dante's Inferno and Aliens vs. Predator. More games will be announced during the build-up to the event.

"This year’s event is coming together really well," said Rupert Loman, managing director of Eurogamer. "We’ve got some fantastic games on show and ticket sales are miles ahead of last year. With such great support from the industry we’re on course to making the Eurogamer Expo the UK’s best gaming event.”

The Indie Games Arcade will also make a return to the Eurogamer Expo in 2009. A raft of well-known and not so well-known indie titles will be on show, including games from Tunatech, Introversion, Robert Fearon, Hayden Scott-Baron, Rudolf Kremers and Alex May.

Visitors to the Expo will also gain entry to the GamesIndustry.biz Career Fair. Some of the world's leading games studios will attend including Crytek, Starbreeze and Team17. In addition the BAFTA surgeries will return, giving students and graduates the chance to discuss their career options directly with experienced games industry professionals.

Tickets for the Eurogamer Expo are priced at £6 per day. They are available now via http://expo.eurogamer.net.

Exhibitor space at the event is now limited. All last minute enquiries should be directed to David Lilley: [email protected] / +44 (0)7779 224 138

About Eurogamer Network:
Founded in 1999 by brothers Rupert and Nick Loman, Brighton-based Eurogamer Network is the publisher of Europe’s most popular independent videogames website, Eurogamer.net. The company also publishes a video site, Eurogamer TV, and a social network for gamers, Eurogamers. Eurogamer is available in German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Romanian editions. The company also operates live events such as the Eurogamer Expo and the GamesIndustry.biz Career Fair, and publishes the world's market-leading industry resource, GamesIndustry.biz. http://www.eurogamer.biz

Yep, we can play Aliens Vs Predator! Yay!

NOTE: If you're going to the Southern leg, you're automatically classifying yourself as a fairy.

Trousers · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3073

I'll have me some of that - count me in.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Wahey! Pie and Peas! etc!

myp · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 15:50

Both the southern and the northern ones are too far for me to be arsed.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 15:51

myp wrote:

Both the southern and the northern ones are too far for me to be arsed.

Not to mention the date on which they occur.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

But we've added the element of meeting people off the internets!

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16639

Maybe, I'm on jury service that week though. Do they have juries at weekends?

myp · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 15:55

Dimrill wrote:

myp wrote:

Both the southern and the northern ones are too far for me to be arsed.

Not to mention the date on which they occur.

You can't get much further away than where I'll be.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 15:55

Not interested in games expos, sorry. The last one I went to was shit.

kalmar · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 15:56

Leeds is way too South man.

Also, it's a computer game expo, attended by computer game fans? Why would one want to go to such a thing?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16639

For the delightful aroma.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 15:57

Malabar Front wrote:

Not interested in games expos, sorry. The last one I went to was shit.

The last one I went to was the Future Entertainment Show in '94.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 15:58

I can think of better ways of spending my time than queuing up for hours with individuals of questionable aroma* to play games that will be out in a month or so afterwards.

* No offence, guys

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 15:59

Dimrill wrote:

myp wrote:

Both the southern and the northern ones are too far for me to be arsed.

Not to mention the date on which they occur.

My birthday?

kalmar · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 16:00

Hold Beexpo '09 in a pub in edinburgh instead, that would smell fairly similar, is more authentically North, and I might be tempted to attend.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 16:00

He'll be in Hawaii or Mexico or New York.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 16:01

Dimrill wrote:

He'll be in Hawaii or Mexico or New York.

My birthday?

myp · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 16:01

kalmar wrote:

Hold Beexpo '09 in a pub in edinburgh instead, that would smell fairly similar, is more authentically North, and I might be tempted to attend.

Sporrinland is not North - it's forrin.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 16:02

Well your birthday will probably be there too. Maybe myp could take a photo of him with it.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

myp wrote:

I can think of better ways of spending my time than queuing up for hours with individuals of questionable aroma* to play games that will be out in a month or so afterwards.

* No offence, guys

Take your misery elsewhere!

myp · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 16:06

Jonarob wrote:

Take your misery elsewhere!

To Hawaii!

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

kalmar wrote:

Leeds is way too South man.

The only expo thingy that's ever looked particularly interesting was Insert Coin & even that seemed like a bit too much hassle just to play old classics properly (wasn't too fussed about playing the newer games).

@Kalmar, I would prefer to never set foot in Edinburgh again :DD

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 16:14

Dimrill wrote:

Well your birthday will probably be there too. Maybe myp could take a photo of him with it.

If myp took a cut out head of me on his honeymoon in order to congratulate me on my becoming older, I'd be disturbed amused. Particulary if there were pictures of him eating and licking 'me'.

devilman · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 16:21

I'll wait for a Midlands Eurogamer Expo.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

I am going to the London one. Sorry.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

I might go, given the fact I'm from - and living in - Leeds.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

"Bete-ites"? Non-canon.

-An Beexer.

metalangel · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 21:33

Dimrill wrote:

The last one I went to was the Future Entertainment Show in '94.

Live '95 - it's not for dead people (god I miss PC Attack, and not just because someone has to)

I went to the Future Entertainment Show in 1998. It was terrible. It was almost entirely Playstation stuff in terms of games, there was nobody there interesting from the mags or anything to talk to, and I bought a copy of Syndicate Wars (so that the crushing disappointment could continue at home)

ChocoboOfDoom · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 279

Do they just give out press passes to everyone these days?

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

ChocoboOfDoom wrote:

Do they just give out press passes to everyone these days?

I've not got confirmation yet, but I got 4 last year.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Aug 13, 2009 0:53

Mr Chris wrote:

"Bete-ites"? Non-canon.

-An Beexer.

GTFF, it's BETEOids.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:35

A shower of Beteoids. Or, in this context, an infrequent shower of Beteoids. (ha. ha.)

devilman · **Posted:** Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:27

Dimrill wrote:

Mr Chris wrote:

"Bete-ites"? Non-canon.

-An Beexer.

GTFF, it's BETEOids.

Ah, like haemorrhoids?

Trousers · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3073

Anyway yes - I have looked at my diary and it would appear I will be elbowing a load of emo fucks out of the way on the Monday whilst watching Green Day at Sheffield so the Wednesday (28th) is best for me.

If you're still up for it jonarob despite the litany of grumps on here then let me know and I'll book myself a ticket with the rest of the plebs.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

The Wednesday it is, then!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38656

I thought the general term was 'Forumite' distilled to 'Bezzie'

myp · **Posted:** Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:24

MrDavPaz wrote:

I thought the general term was 'Forumite' distilled to 'Bezzie'

No, no, no. Bezzie is someone from this forum who plays Xbox Live games with others. You cannot have a Bezzie on their own.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38656

myp wrote:

MrDavPaz wrote:

I thought the general term was 'Forumite' distilled to 'Bezzie'

No, no, no. Bezzie is someone from this forum who plays Xbox Live games with others. You cannot have a Bezzie on their own.

Except in desperate times

*visits poundland*

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:27

myp wrote:

No, no, no. Bezzie is someone from this forum who plays Xbox Live games with others. You cannot have a Bezzie on their own.

You can have an Bezzie by their self, it says so in Grim...'s bezzie tracker thing.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:27

MrDavPaz wrote:

*visits poundland*

864 bananas

Trousers · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3073

I've booked my ticket for the 28th - nerdlinging ahoy.

I asked the wife if she wanted to come just out of courtesy and to make sure I had a free pass. I told her what it was and asked her if she wanted to attend - "Do I fuck" was the answer - it wasn't even a rhetorical question or anything.

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