UK Games Expo 2018: Friday Live Blog
Welcome to the UK Games Expo for this year at the NEC in Birmingham. We're going to have some awesome stuff for you to get stuck into this year including a series of livestreams AND our Live Blog running throughout the three days.
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Get Involved!
Of course, you can comment on all of the posts throughout the three days here and we'd love for you to tell us what YOU want to see.
- UK Games Expo Awards & Awards Shortlist
- Viking Village & Orc Encampment
- Seminar Schedule
- Cosplay
- Traders
- Publisher & Designer Track
Opening Times For UK Games Expo
- Friday - Trade Halls Opening: 9.30 to 6pm
- Saturday - Trade Halls Opening: 9.30 to 6pm
- Sunday - Trade Halls Opening: 9.30 to 4pm
We hope you join us for our adventures here at UK Games Expo and if you see us out and about, say hello!
Prizes To Be Won!
We're going to have loads of prizes up for grabs this weekend, so be sure to leave a comment with your thoughts on different posts below.
- Brambledown Designs - Porg Print
- Mostly Curious Games - Steampunk Millennium Falcon
- Gaslands - Gaslands Rulebook, Templates and Dice
- UK Indie RPG League - The Spire PDF
- Oink Games - Deep Sea Adventure
- Gatekeeper Games - A Set of Halfsies Dice
- Lulla Games - Crime Writers
- Infamy Games - Holmes and Sergeant Crookes Miniatures
- Lay Waste Games - Dragoon
- Fighting Fantasy Ian Livingstone - Signed Copy of Deathtrap Dungeon
- Battlefront D&D Accessories - Dracolych
- Warcradle - Hex Starter Box
- Warlord Games - Blood Red Skies Core Set
- Liontower Miniatures - Kickstarter Exclusive Model
Welcome To The UK Games Expo!
We’re here at the kick off for UKGE 2018! There is loads to see and do this year and we cannot wait to get stuck in and bring it all to you.
If we can survive the rush, that is!
Check Out Our Live Streams!
All weekend, we are running a series of Live Streams where people from a variety of different gaming companies sit down and tell us about all the exciting stuff they are working on.
Check out the schedule to see who’s on, and head on over to our Live Stream.
TTCombat Bring Monsters To Dropzone And Fishmen To Carnevale
TTCombat are showing off a bunch of exciting stuff for some of their games, including a look at how things are developing with Carnevale, an expansion for Rumbleslam and some exciting goings on in the world of Dropzone…
Bar Pig Pour Us A Drink For Their Game
The bar has opened for a new game, Bar Pig, a fun card-based game that’s perfect to play while enjoying a pint.
Let us know what you think of this game in the comments below.
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The Second Block Of Live Streams Get Under Way
Live Streams have been going well today. Now Ben takes his turn in the chair to talk with all the awesome game creators and companies here today.
Head over to the Live Stream to check it out.
Talking Gizmos, Dragon Castle & Way of the Panda with CMON
Sam joins Victoria to talk about an array of games from CMON. First up is their in-depth Game of Thrones miniatures games (of which you can find several Let’s Plays on our site). But Sam also gets to see three of their newer titles on the show floor: Dragon Castle, Gizmos and Way of the Panda.
Creative Quest Gear Up For Fantasy Adventuring
Family team Creative Quest have made a bunch of different, stylish accessories for fantasy RPGs, ranging from tokens and flight stands to cool cases to keep it all together.
Dice Sports Game Across Air And Sea
Dice Sports have got a couple of games with them at Salute, ranging from the comic book survival horror of Z War One to a dexterity based WWII dogfighting game that adds elements of pool?
Which of these two games appeals to you the most?
Oversized Games in the Family Zone
We’ve wandered over into the Family Zone to check out some cool oversized games everyone has been playing.
It’s really cool to see all the different ways people can engage with the event and these are definitely a fun way to get the family gaming.
I like the new format very professional :).
Have fun, and spend, spend, spend
Oh dear… Justin in a red shirt…. red shirts never last long.
wish I was there…. so many goodies and cool things to see
If you live near Birmingham or can get there over the next three days I highly recommend this show. We loved last year and it is eating us up we can’t be there this year.
Wish we were there, but this is certainly the next best thing. Have a great show, guys!
Keep you eyes peeled for the guys from the Average gamers podcast! Represent!
Glad to see you talking a bit of Gaslands – I’ve not managed to give it a shot yet, but it looks a lot of fun. I mean who wouldn’t want to convert up some old Hot Wheels to game with?
Check out Village Attacks at the Grimlord Games booth, and Last Days at the Osprey booth
Have a good one!
Seriously it’s about time someone started covering these events properly, absolutely brilliant coverage guys, really enjoying it.
Thanks for bringing us the highlights. Stuck at home doing DIY and chores for the missus… and it’s not even a bank holiday!
Can’t wait to see what other show exclusives you can bring us
I have found the secret to success!
Spray paint random stuff with silver and brass tones spraypaint and call it “Steam Punk”………
Otherwise everything looks pretty awesome at this years Con!
Minis are white, minis are grey, I like to paint minis every day.
Looking like more and more great stuff! Really nice variety in games and styles too!
Fantastic coverage as always.
Such a better format this year guys well done!
For some reason Gaslands reminds of an old game Battle Cattle where you up-armoured bovines in to a mighty fighting moochines 🙂
Nice to see you having fun.
This seems to be an awsome event!
Enjoy the expo, beasts of war. Looking forward to all of the updates
Fantastic coverage and community involvement, website looks great!
Saw Justin and John dive past me this afternoon and had some very starstuck boys. It was such a great day,we’re now catching up on all your content of the bits we missed. Hopefully we’ll be back up sunday for some more gaming!
Awesome, Wish I could be there
Great new style for the site.
Spent way too long looking at all these articles ?
I love this show coverages 🙂
Looking forward to watching all of the coverage!
Check out some cosplayers, there are some really great ones in the UKGE photo’s i’ve seen so far.Also, the Viking and Orc ( Uruk ? ) villages themselves.
This would be a super cool thing to visit one day!!
Enjoying the content, next best thing to being their in person.
Many thanks for the awesome work
God bless 2.0!
Show us the shiny
Oh I wish I could have made it there this year. Will book early for next year instead…and in the meantime live vicariously through your excellent footage, thanks guys!
Legit! (i think thats what the cool kids say) looking forward to catching up on this over the weekend 😀
Awesome!
Wow, so many posts!
God damn it! I’m most of the way through the day and you’ve just reversed the order of the videos on me. Grrr.!
oof, glad I didn’t go, would have any money left to live off of. 😛
oof, glad I didn’t go, wouldn’t have any money left after Blood red skies table to live off of. 😛