Convention News

Want to experience what CeBIT 2010 was like this weekend? ZWAME has a list of photos of the entire showfloor (in Portuguese).

BCCHardware also has complete coverage of the event.

UK's Biggest Videogame Exhibition Heads to Earls Court 1-3 Oct. 2010

Brighton, England, 3rd March 2010. Eurogamer Network, Europe's leading independent games media specialist, is thrilled to announce that Eurogamer Expo 2010 will open to the public on 1st to 3rd October in the Brompton Hall of Earls Court, London.

Date: March 2-6, 2010
City: Hannover, Germany
Location: Hanover Fairground

About CeBIT

CeBIT is the world's largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. The key target groups are users from industry, the wholesale/retail sector, skilled trades, banks, the services sector, government agencies, science and all users passionate about technology.

Vancouver Film School to Host Weekend with Leading Minds Behind Mass Effect 2, ModNation Racers, Dead Rising 2, Many More

February 16, 2010 – Vancouver, BC, Canada – The fourth annual Game Design Expo will take place April 10 and 11, 2010 in Vancouver. This popular event for video game industry professionals and gamers will be tackling the most pressing challenges and trends in the game industry now and for the future, and features the game industry luminaries responsible for today’s most innovative games.

Fan event for global gaming and animation powerhouse studio to take place in Paris on April 17th & 18th

Roubaix, France – 17 February 2010 – Ankama, the global gaming, animation and publishing studio best known for their widely popular Manga-inspired MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) game, DOFUS (www.dofus.com), will be hosting their 5th annual fan festival, the Ankama Convention.

Advance ticket sales for the upcoming Midlands MCM Expo are more than double those of last year’s event – which itself enjoyed record attendance figures, the show’s organisers have announced. In addition, the organisers have revealed that exhibitor floor space for the Expo, which takes place at Telford International Centre on 20 February, has already completely sold out.

Date: February 16-17, 2010
City: New York, NY
Location: Javits Center

About Engage! Expo

Engage! Expo (formerly the Virtual Worlds Conference) is the event for kid, youth and young adult brands, media and agencies to meet and learn how to combine their existing online efforts with the unparalleled engagement opportunities and new revenue streams of the 3D Web and Virtual Worlds. Now in our third year we invite you to sign up to receive our email updates.

Registration closes today at 10pm eastern time for the 4th annual Engage! Conference and Expo (Feb. 16-17 in NYC) which takes place alongside Toy Fair (Feb 14-17). The Engage! Conference includes 32 sessions in 4 tracks: Virtual Goods, Online Games & Virtual Worlds, Toys and Online and Technology Platforms and includes and over 100 speakers. Engage! is the definitive event on youth entertainment technology.