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UK Games Expo 2018: Friday Live Blog

UK Games Expo 2018: Friday Live Blog

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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.

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.

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Queue Questions & A Quick Dash About Hall 1

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As the queue formed outside the Expo, Justin and John headed out for a quick chat with the attendees and to see how things were getting on in Hall 1.

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Liontower Miniatures Roar For Their Shortlisted RPG Minis [PRIZE]

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Liontower Miniatures have some cool minis to show off this year, including some examples of their upcoming Kickstarter minis and their RPG Range, which have been shortlisted as best miniatures range at this weekend.

Be sure to get comment below to get your chance to pick up a Kickstarter Exclusive mini.

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Gloom of Kilforth with Hall or Nothing Productions

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Justin gets to see Gloom of Kilforth and Lifeform with Tristan from Hall or Nothing Productions, but he is also teased with the upcoming 1066 board game by them. It’s an impressive range of fantasy, historical and sci-fi!

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PlayFusion Become Age of Sigmar Champions

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We have been loving Lightseekers here in the office so we couldn’t resist stopping by PlayFusion to see what they’ve been cooking up.

At this UKGE, they are also showing off their upcoming card game Age of Sigmar: Champions and give us a few hints about the direction the game is heading in.

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More Wild West Exodus with Warcradle [PRIZE]

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Justin can’t resist the calling of Wild West Exodus from Warcradle Studios, and neither can we! Stu takes us through what they’re showing off at UKGE at one of the most beautiful stands this year.

Comment to win a Hex Posse Starter Box.

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D&D Accessories with Battlefront [PRIZE]

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Justin updates us on the D&D stock situation with Gordon from Battlefront. Happily reporting that the spell cards are back in stock there’s also another surprise in the shape of an undead dragon!

So comment below to be in with a chance to win a Dragolich miniature from Battlefront!

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Fantasy Flight Games Tell Us About A Galaxy Far, Far Away

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There are a lot of exciting new goings on in the Star Wars universe and we stopped by with Fantasy Flight Games to hear more about X-Wing 2.0.

Are you excited to get started with X-Wing 2.0?

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Crashing a Fallout Demo

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Justin jumps in on a Fallout demo game by Fantasy Flight Games. Returning to the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the series, we find out a little more about the mechanics and how it plays.

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Drawlab Shows Off Witless Wizards and Shiny Shiny Coins

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Justin joins Evangelos from Drawlab to have a look at Witless Wizards. In addition to looking at the hapless sorcery of the ageing wizards, Justin also gets to look at some of the beautiful metal coins Drawlab have made.

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Making Mutant Fish with Gate Keeper Games [PRIZE]

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Justin stops by with John from Gate Keeper Games to talk about both Halfsies Dice and A.D.A.P.T. Battling until the demise of your opponents is of core concern in A.D.A.P.T, but Gate Keeper also showed off their Halfsies Dice.

Comment below to win a set of halfsies dice!

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Warlord Games Soar High With Blood Red Skies [PRIZE]

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Warlord have landed at the front of UKGE’s Hall 1, where they have been running demo games of their fantastic WWII aerial combat game, Blood Red Skies.

Comment below for a chance to win the Blood Red Skies Core Set.

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tomd

I like the new format very professional :).

Have fun, and spend, spend, spend

pagan8th

Oh dear… Justin in a red shirt…. red shirts never last long.

captaingarro

wish I was there…. so many goodies and cool things to see

stvitusdancern

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.

deltagamegirl22

Wish we were there, but this is certainly the next best thing. Have a great show, guys!

jockjay

Keep you eyes peeled for the guys from the Average gamers podcast! Represent!

embracraig

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?

grodd1016

Check out Village Attacks at the Grimlord Games booth, and Last Days at the Osprey booth

while

Have a good one!

thelostdog

Seriously it’s about time someone started covering these events properly, absolutely brilliant coverage guys, really enjoying it.

vapian

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

mrchewy2k1

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!

etherealistic

Minis are white, minis are grey, I like to paint minis every day.

jahatch28

Looking like more and more great stuff! Really nice variety in games and styles too!

dafthelmet85

Fantastic coverage as always.

soapdodger

Such a better format this year guys well done!

tankkommander

For some reason Gaslands reminds of an old game Battle Cattle where you up-armoured bovines in to a mighty fighting moochines 🙂

andre77

Nice to see you having fun.

nixtone

This seems to be an awsome event!

chuckles

Enjoy the expo, beasts of war. Looking forward to all of the updates

papabear

Fantastic coverage and community involvement, website looks great!

dane001

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!

curlydesign

Awesome, Wish I could be there

danny76

Great new style for the site.
Spent way too long looking at all these articles ?

kadmon

I love this show coverages 🙂

longshotte

Looking forward to watching all of the coverage!

kantor72

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.

theayanamirei

This would be a super cool thing to visit one day!!

jaze

Enjoying the content, next best thing to being their in person.
Many thanks for the awesome work

pablito

God bless 2.0!

sunabe

Show us the shiny

alext

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!

shaunbag

Legit! (i think thats what the cool kids say) looking forward to catching up on this over the weekend 😀

buddmatthew

Awesome!

paragon

Wow, so many posts!

lawnor

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.!

benthebrave21

oof, glad I didn’t go, would have any money left to live off of. 😛

benthebrave21

oof, glad I didn’t go, wouldn’t have any money left after Blood red skies table to live off of. 😛

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