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
Blogging At This Event:
DNAR Games Make Great TV With Vikings In Space!
It’s Vikings in Space! I am already loving this concept from DNAR Games, which they are playtesting at UKGE this year before they take it to Kickstarter.
Do you like the idea of vikings in spaaaaaaace!?
More Concept & 7 Wonders with Repos
Ryan joins Nicholas from Repos Productions to talk about the new games from them. One of Ryan’s favourite games of the last few years has a new kids edition so you can teach your younglings to play. And Nicholas also explains one of the new 7 Wonder expansions: Armada
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.
Fantasy Flight Games Tell Us About A Galaxy Far, Far Away
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?
Crashing a Fallout Demo
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.
Drawlab Shows Off Witless Wizards and Shiny Shiny Coins
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.
Making Mutant Fish with Gate Keeper Games [PRIZE]
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!
Lay Waste Games Declare Heads Will Roll [PRIZE]
Lay Waste Games have a couple of new games with them at UKGE, including Heads Will Roll and Human Era, continuing their love of metal components from Dragoon.
Comment below for your chance to win a copy of Dragoon.
Create Crime Fiction with Lulla [PRIZE]
Ben joins Lulla Games to look at Crime Writers. A success in Hungary, Lulla are bringing Crime Writers to Kickstarter in Autumn.
Comment below to win a copy of Crime Writers!
Warlord Games Soar High With Blood Red Skies [PRIZE]
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.
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 ?