Eurogamer Expo

Posted by oddbob on October 7, 2008 · Lovingly Filed Under Gobby Shite 
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Probably (hopefully) the only time I’ll print a press release verbatim on here…

BRIGHTON, ENGLAND, 6th October 2008: The best consumer gaming event of 2008 just got better, with 56 playable games now confirmed for the Eurogamer Expo, which takes place at the Old Truman Brewery in London on October 28th and 29th.

Headlining the new arrivals are two highly anticipated first-person shooters - Killzone 2 for PlayStation 3, and Left 4 Dead, which will be playable on Xbox 360 for the first time in Europe. Wii fans aren’t left out in the cold either, with Nintendo’s Disaster: Day of Crisis and Wario Land: The Shake Dimension also confirmed for the show.

Eurogamer is also proud to support Pixel-Lab’s Indie Arcade at the Expo, showcasing 10 of the best titles in independent PC game development. See below for the complete list of titles.

Tickets are now on sale for Eurogamer Expo, costing just£5 per day, with all proceeds after credit card processing fees going to UK videogames charity GamesAid. The Expo is open from 11am to 10pm each day. Visitors must be aged 15 or over to enter.

Tickets also admit visitors to the GamesIndustry.biz Career Fair, with 20 exhibitors now confirmed as attending, including Fable II creators Lionhead. Other exhibitors include Crytek, Relentless Software, Realtime Worlds, Starbreeze, Ubisoft, SEGA Europe and Microsoft Game Studios.

To register for tickets, visit http://expo.eurogamer.net/register

For more on the Eurogamer Expo, visit http://expo.eurogamer.net

Full list of new playable titles:

  • Killzone 2 (PlayStation 3)
  • Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360)
  • Disaster: Day of Crisis (Nintendo Wii)
  • Wario Land: The Shake Dimension (Nintendo Wii)
  • PSN Power Pack (PlayStation Portable)
  • PSN Puzzle Pack (PlayStation Portable)

Pixel-Lab Indie Arcade:

  • Braid (PC)
  • Dangerous Highschool Girls In Trouble (PC)
  • Jetpack Brontosaurus (PC)
  • Multiwinia (PC)
  • Plain Sight (PC)
  • Psychosomnium (PC)
  • Samorost (PC)
  • Shift (PC)
  • War Twat (PC)
  • World of Goo (PC)

Just. Woah.

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6 Responses to “Eurogamer Expo”

  1. Duds on October 7th, 2008 5:15 pm

    Which would be super, if the twats hadn’t decided the best time to host an expo was Tuesday and fucking Wednesday when the world is at work.

  2. Richard Phipps on October 7th, 2008 5:23 pm

    Wartwat? How did you wrangle that then?

  3. oddbob on October 8th, 2008 1:30 am

    Aye, I won’t be there either Duds. I could probably push it at a weekend, but definitely not on a schoolday.

    Rich, I didn’t wangle anything (for a change!). First I found out about it was Dan pointing me to this months OLL podcast where they’re discussing the expo and someone mentions the game they’re most looking forward to is War Twat. A bit of Google Fu later and turned this up.

    Bloody hell! :-D

  4. Barrie on October 8th, 2008 8:33 am

    Nice! Great that people are going to turn up the accessible version too when tracking War Twat down post-show. Good work!

  5. Stephen on October 9th, 2008 1:01 pm

    Well considering I wrote said release, thanks for reprinting without edits. ;)

    Sorry we didn’t get word to you directly, but as you can appreciate there are lots of games and lots of people to contact about stuff.

    Glad you posted this though, every bit of publicity helps.

    Hope to see you down at the Expo yourself??

  6. oddbob on October 9th, 2008 5:50 pm

    No worries, Stephen. I really wouldn’t stress over not dropping me a line - I’m really not bothered about that sort of thing :-D

    I’m going to try, but it means cadging a lift down there off a mate so his time off depending, I’ll hopefully get down there if only to point and giggle like a small child.

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