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UK Games Expo 2019: Friday Live Blog
Come and join us for a weekend of awesome fun here at the UK Games Expo in Birmingham, UK!
Share Your Experiences On Social Media With #UKGamesExpo & #UKGE2019
Friday's Prize Pool
Ninja Squad - Star Realms Frontiers - Limited Edition Dragonborn Triumphant Miniatures - 7TV Pulp Set - Nanty Narking & Europe Divided (When Released) - Dice Summoners - Hide the Pickle & Penguin Brawl - Weird Alchemy - Pictomania - Conquest - Pigasus - Tomb Raider
We're going to be getting stuck into a lot of live blogging and livestreaming over three days here at the event so make sure to get involved!
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Here's some of the information about what to look out for this year.
- Tickets
- UK Games Expo First Timers Guide
- UK Games Expo Guide
- Venue Hall Map
- Seminar Schedule
- Viking Village!
Make sure to tell us what you're looking forward to this weekend!
UK Games Expo Opening Times
Friday - Trade Halls Opening: 9.30 to 6pm
Saturday - Trade Halls Opening: 9.30 to 6pm
Sunday - Trade Halls Opening: 9.30 to 4pm
You will be able to join us across all three days as we delve into all sorts of awesome goodness from across the gaming spectrum. Tickets are available on the door so if you're inspired to come along, make sure to come along!
Smirk & Dagger Face The Menace Among Us
Ryan got a chance to chat to Smirk & Dagger Games about one of their newest games, Menace Among Us.
It’s always good to have a game that really embraces the traitor mechanic and this one seems to hit it on the head. We also have a look at the awesome Shobu and We Need To Talk which is all about interventions.
Geek Native Talk Barpig
It’s easy to spy the BARPIG stand here at UKGE. It looks great, it is surrounded by curious people, and the drinking inspired game was selling well.
The team behind BARPIG have just now announced BARPIG: After Hours which is both a sequel and a standalone game.
In BARPIG: After Hours you’re still a pig, and you’re still drinking, and you’ll have to manage not getting drunk with trips to the market and all the usual challenges, but this version of the game is a little less bubbly and a little darker. It deals with the less savoury pigs.
I’ve overheard a few pitches from license buyers and distributors to the BARPIG team at UKGE in these last few days, and if that isn’t a shortcut of a way to identify one of the hottest ticket items in the Expo, then I don’t know what is.
Para Bellum Wargames Bring Conquest To The Tabletop - Comment To Win!
Warren gets stuck in and talks to Para Bellum Wargames about their soon-to-be-released Conquest wargame. Dive in and find out more about what awaits and trust me…you’ll like the look of these models.
Comment To Win – Conquest
Come and dive in and maybe if you’re lucky you’ll get the chance to snag yourself an awesome starter force for it too.
Ryan Talks About What's New For TTCombat
Jason and Lewis from TTCombat have been updating Ryan about What’s New for Dropzone Commander, Dropfleet Commander, Carnevale.
They also briefly talk about a new game’ Stellaris’ which is going to Kickstarter soon. See them a stand 334.
Bart & Vicky Of Black Box talk To Ryan
Ryan asks Bart and Vicky about their games Itchy Monkey and Neverland.
Itchy Monkey is a pure strategy game with no luck involved and Neverland is a competitive game set in the World of Peter Pan. You can find them on Stand 01.693
Brain Games Talk Pigasus
Ben talks to Anna of Brain Games about their Game Pigasus a cute game of card matching involving 9 animals with mismatched bodies.
Comment To Win-Pigasus
A game taking about 20mins, this is perfect for children
Square Enix Games Talk About Tomb Raider And Chocobo Party-Up - Comment To Win
Ryan saw them set up their stand on Thursday and could not wait to talk to Tim of Square Enix Games.
Comment To Win Tomb Raider
They are talking about their games including Tomb Raider The Board Game and Chocobo Partyup
#UKGE2019 Friday Show Report & Highlights - See You Tomorrow!
We come together to give you the highlights of the first day here at UK Games Expo. Friday has been a blast and we’re looking forward to getting stuck in and talking about more games tomorrow.
Comment To Win Monsterpocalypse Starter Bundles HERE & OnTableTop Store Vouchers
Make sure to comment down below with what you’re looking for here at the show.
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Looks like the event is going super well.
Got to grab a quick chance to browse the blog
Looking forward to enjoying the Weekend live Blogging of UK Games Expo awesomeness! Thanks so much OTT / BoW team.
Great stuff.
That interview stage looks very professional.
Let’s see who they get to interview.
the comment link on the RPG stand (goodman games etc) with the lady front and centre is broken
Hope you guys had a great day…. I’m travelling across on the morrow morn from the darkest depths of Pembrokeshire ?
I would love to go to the UKGE someday.
great coverage guyssss!! see you tomorrow
Looking forward to the content
Fantastic, once again I remain massively disapointed that I can never attend anything even close to this cool here in Australia
Id like to see a look at some of the indie game sections, so the one/two man bands showing their games and get them some wider coverage on this platform.
Be great to have you guys do a bit of boosting the companies that don’t get any press really – help us to uncover some gems please, preferably before sunday so i can go buy any lol.
Just catching up on the content from yesterday I missed when at work.
I remember when tabletop games were a niche for ‘social misfits’. Today, there is this massive event over 3 days, with global franchises like Alien having licensed games being announced.
It never ceases to amaze me how this hobby has grown. I started out buying white dwarf, the one that covered dungeons and dragons andfeatured hand drawn black and white covers, and now we get all this.
Thanks to everyone involved for the hard work that brought all this coverage.
…everything Mythic Games
awesome first day lots of great things
And I’m spent!
I’d like to have been able to come and hunt for those obscure gaming aids and terrain that makes your games stand out.
Great content guys! Keep it up. I’m curious about all the stuff I missed.
Another day with some awesome content. Thanks guys! >-<
Three really excited kids,having walked around the biggest “sweetshop ” they have been to. Lol