PLAY EXPO (formerly Replay), 13-14 October 2012, Manchester

[consolepassion]

Today we are rather pleased to say we have received confirmation of attendance from another major publisher. Our good friends at Namco Bandai have confirmed they will be exhibiting at Play Expo this October and naturally we are delighted with this news.

We can reveal they will be bringing Tekken Tag Tournament 2, the tenth instalment in the awesome Tekken series, to the show and that we will be featuring a rather excellent Tekken celebration in our re.play section.

We have some other big plans that we are discussing with Namco but we have to remain tight lipped at the moment! All will be revealed very soon...


AndyB

[subzero]

I received a nice message from walter day on facebook asking me if i knew who runs play, hes obviously serious about attending with twin galaxies, anyway i put him onto gordon, fingers crossed he can make it

[badger2609]

Awesome news about Namco Bandai attending. And if Walter Day arrives too that will be pretty great, especially if he's gonna be giving a talk, here's hoping

[Replay]

We are pleased to confirm for the third year running that we will be featuring a classic video games arcade at Play Expo, presented once again by JAMMA+.

For the past two years the Replay Expo has had some of the very best arcade machines of the past 30 years and this year will be no exception.

With a planned 75 machines available, all set to free play, you will be able to relive bygone memories on such classics as Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Outrun, Defender, Track & Field and many more!

If you want to get an idea of the cabs that have been pledged for the event so far, make your way over to the following thread on the JAMMA+ forum...

http://www.jammaplus.co.uk/forum/forum_ ... ges-thread

[SirClive]

Spoke to Walter yesterday. They are really serious about getting over here and doing something special, so fingers crossed about making it happen.

[Scapegoat]

So long as he doesn't start singing one of his god awful songs it'll be awesome. Tell him guitars are banned in the UK.

[witchfinder]

So long as he doesn't start singing one of his god awful songs it'll be awesome. Tell him guitars are banned in the UK.

My missus wants him to come over to do a live acoustic set!

It would be awesome to get Walter over though, in all seriousness. He is a legend!

[DPrinny]

The lass has plans for after show goodies.

Maybe a showing of our play thats going out on tour

[sscott]

Spoke to Walter yesterday. They are really serious about getting over here and doing something special, so fingers crossed about making it happen.

Fingers crossed indeed!

[Replay]

We are pleased to confirm that Play Expo will feature a Q&A with Mike Montgomery, former MD of The Bitmap Brothers. Mike will be sharing his memories of working with the legendary developers of classic titles such as the Speedball and Xenon series, The Chaos Engine and Z.

Further details of when this talk will take place will be confirmed in due course so please stay tuned!

[Replay]

We can now confirm that EA will be bringing their two state-of-the-art exhibition trailers to the show, allowing visitors to trial the latest EA video games on High-Definition technology.

Over the weekend 'The Hub' will feature the latest Need for Speed Most Wanted game as well as other unconfirmed titles and on the Sunday we will be running a FIFA 13 tournament in the EA Sports Dugout. We will confirm more details as they become available.

[markopoloman]

All good news! Have you tried to get Codies there? Would love to get a look at Grid 2!!

[Replay]

We've been very busy over the last week and have a whole bundle of confirmations to share...

Northern Lights Pinball bringing 75 pinball tables to Play Expo
Get your flipper fingers warmed up ready - Northern Lights will be bringing pinball to the masses in style. 75 different pinball tables will be on display at the show throughout the weekend and every one will be set to free play.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 European championship qualifier
In the lead up to the Tekken Tag Tournament 2 European final at the Electronic Sport World Cup (ESWC) in Paris, Namco Bandai UK are looking for the best players from the UK and Ireland to represent the UK.

We are delighted to be able to host one of the qualifier events to help find the 16 top players who will then battle it out at the UK final in London at the end of October. The qualifier will take place on Sunday 14th October with the final rounds on the main stage in the afternoon.

Reflections Software founder Martin Edmondson Talk
Martin Edmondson of Reflections Software and Thumbstar Games will be talking about his past and present projects.

Martin co-founded Reflections in 1983 and created several BBC Micro Games including Ravenskull and Codename: Droid. He went onto work on many other well known titles with Reflections including Shadow of the Beast, Ballistix, Destruction Derby, Stuntman and most recently the Driver series, of which he is currently Creative Director. Martin also co-founded Thumbstar Games, a global developer, distributor and publisher of mobile games and apps including Bounders World, the reimagining of classic 1980′s game Bounder.

DDR:UK returns to Play Expo in the Cosplay Area
After supporting our Replay Expo for the past two years we are happy to confirm that DDR:UK will once again be returning to Play Expo, bringing their unique blend of Bemani, Rhythm Action Games and DDR arcade machines to our event. We look forward to seeing what they have in store for us this year!

'From Bedrooms to Billions' film preview and Q&A session
We are very lucky to have an exclusive sneak preview of upcoming videogames documentary 'From Bedroom to Billions' at Play Expo with a Q&A session from Film Maker Anthony Caulfield afterwards.

Anthony will be discussing the history of the film from its inception through to the recent successful Indiegogo campaign and will also share his experiences of meeting some of the people from the documentary. Who knows, maybe one or two of them will come along and make an appearance...

Making of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Talk and Q&A
Sumo Digital Executive Producer Steve Lycett will be talking about the making of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed and will hold a Q&A session afterwards.

Steve will be discussing working on the sequel, what changes and improvements you can expect and may even reveal a secret or two about Sega's upcoming kart racer!

[HalcyonDaze00]

you got anything on Black Ops 2 there?

[subzero]

what the about the traders?? i hear theyre being left out in the cold this year?