April 9th, 2010 by CGEU
Norbreck Castle, Blackpool - 6/7 November 2010
R3PLAY (pronounced “Replay”) is a brand new show celebrating four decades of gaming history. Presented in association with Retro Gamer and gamesTM magazines, this unique event will offer gamers of all ages the chance to experience gaming systems from the 1970s to present day. Hosted by TV personality and videogame fanatic Gail Porter, the R3PLAY Expo will take place at The Norbreck Castle Exhibition Centre in Blackpool on 6/7 November 2010 – the final weekend of this year’s famous Illuminations.
More than 300 systems will be available at R3PLAY comprising the finest possible selection of consoles, coin-ops and computers from all over the globe (with all machines set to free-play). Visitors will have the opportunity to take part in prize gaming competitions, listen to Q&A sessions with guest speakers, participate in workshops, view galleries of video game artwork, win fantastic raffle prizes, tender bids in a special auction and much, much more! Ticket holders will also be able to purchase games, systems, accessories and memorabilia via a number of specialist seller stands.
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March 29th, 2010 by CGEU
We were planning to make the “official” launch of the Computing & Gaming Events Union website coincide with the announcement of our upcoming event R3PLAY (which is due to be confirmed soon).
However, we’ve been given a surprise (and very welcome) mention in Issue #75 of Retro Gamer magazine (thanks Paul!) so we think that now is as good a time as any to open our doors!
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March 28th, 2010 by flicky
Lass O'Gowrie, Manchester - 3-5 September 2010
We are pleased to announce that tickets are now on sale for Eurocon 2010.
This is an annual event bringing together classic gaming fans from all around Europe. This year’s event (the eleventh) will take place from 3rd-5th September 2010 in Manchester at the Lass O’Gowrie pub.
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February 23rd, 2010 by SirClive
Retro Reunited - The Official Video
The Retro Reunited show in Huddersfield last September was kindly filmed by Darren Doyle Digital Imagery. The film was originally planned as a full DVD release, but logistical issues scuppered this so it is now available to all and sundry through the magic of YouTube.
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January 30th, 2010 by SirClive
26-28th January 2010 - ExCeL Centre, Docklands, London
The European Amusement and Gaming Expo, held at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre was the inaugural staging of the industry’s newest mega-event. With the promise of over 130 exhibitors and nearly 5,000 visitors over the 3 days, myself and fellow CGEU member Arcadian were quite excited to see what the EAG Expo had to offer. ..
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January 29th, 2010 by StarshipUK
The second Retro Computer Games Festival will be taking place on Sat 13th March, starting at 2pm and running through till the end of the day. It will be held once again at the Garden Gate pub in Aldershot.
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January 28th, 2010 by SirClive
26-28th January 2010 - Earls Court, London
Yesterday a couple of CGEU members risked a trip to the big smoke on one of our reconnaissance and profile raising missions at the EAG expo at London’s Excel Centre. As the team were not meeting up until noon and I was already in London on business, I thought I would first take a trip to another expo…
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December 20th, 2009 by StarshipUK
The next RCM Open Day has been confirmed for Sunday May 16th 2010 at the usual venue (Swannington Institute in Leicestershire).
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October 30th, 2009 by StarshipUK
Eurocon 2010 will take place in Manchester from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th September. This will be the third time the event has been held in England, and follows this year’s successful event in Vienna.
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October 19th, 2009 by witchfinder
The do's and dont's of running competitions
Following on from yesterday’s rant, here is the page I’ve prepared regarding Gaming Competitions, that will hopefully be of some use to those looking to host their own event.
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October 18th, 2009 by witchfinder
Witchfinder gets it off his chest!
After organising both Byte Back & Console Combat (and providing lots of systems to other shows), I was asked to provide a summary of my thoughts and experiences with regards to staging gaming events.
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October 17th, 2009 by Arcadian
Later today, a gang of CGEU members will meet to discuss the logistics of how a large-scale event could be jointly-staged next year.
The session will take place in Sheffield and will be hosted by Shaun Scott, who himself is also in the process of organising a gaming event.
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October 7th, 2009 by SirClive
6th October 2009, Royal Armouries, Leeds
This was the 2nd year of the Eurogamer Expo and the first time the show had been brought up north. 3 members of the CGEU team made the trip and found the event to be lively and fun, but lacking somewhat in atmosphere.
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September 22nd, 2009 by StarshipUK
From Simon Hewitt:
Just to make you all aware of the UK’s first Vintage Computer Festival on June 18th*-20th 2010.
In and around the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, this is a three day event celebrating the history of computing in the UK. It will cover everything from early machines to retro gaming!
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September 20th, 2009 by SirClive
12/13th September 2009 - Cedar Court Hotel, Huddersfield
Despite taking 6 months of planning the event came around surprisingly quickly and was unfortunately over far too soon. I enjoyed almost all of the last 6 months and thought I would give you an organiser’s view of the show along with my highs and lows of putting on an event of this size.
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September 18th, 2009 by CapnB
12/13 September 2009, Cedar Court Hotel, Huddersfield
Last weekend I went to Retro Reunited at Cedar Court Hotel on Ainley Top – an exhibition and conference for folks who have little better to do with their time than play with computers and games from 25 years ago; I count myself among those, being a consummate Acorn-head. The show was run by volunteers and this was the first to feature Acorn World – a completely separate conference room with as much BBC Micro and Acorn kit as we could cram into it.
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