One of South Africa’s best-loved geek weekends out has announced that it will be taking a break in 2020. The announcement also reveals the festival is under new ownership. This sees the seven year old event returning in 2021, with a promise to ‘return to basics’. In 2019, the event joined forces with Rush, who this year moved to Rand…
SOWETO TECHFEST EXPO BACK AGAIN – BIGGER – FOR 2020! 26 – 27 June 2020, Soweto Theatre, Soweto. The 4th Ekasi Techfest & Gaming Expo, now simply called “Techfest Expo”, aims to meet the needs of technology and gaming enthusiasts in Soweto and the surrounding areas which are together home to several million people, most of them under 30 years…
We are pleased to announce Z-Fest – a community gaming event – which is being brought to life with the good people of ZA Gaming Alliance and ZA PlayStation Association. The event is a one day community gaming event intended to ‘connect communities’. It will be an opportunity for Cape Town gamers and geeks, and members of the two Facebook groups to…
After 2018’s inaugural event at the Castle in Cape Town, Playtopia returns for its second outing later this year. The 2019 iteration sees Playtopia and Make Games Africa (MGA) joining forces and for three days. It will again be held at the Castle of Good Hope and promises “local and international indie games, eye melting interactive and digital art and…
rAge 2019 Ramped up with a new look and feel and more game than ever before #comeandplay rAge has secured its spot as one of the most mind-blowing events to take place in Joburg each year. 2018 saw over 34 000 gamers and geeks swarm the TicketPro Dome, and this year visitors will once again cross the threshold to a three-day…
In case there was any doubt, rAge 2019 is happening. It’s still on 27 to 29 September, and being held at the TicketPro Dome in Northgate. Yes, that still means it is just days after Comic Con Africa, but did you really think someone was going to budge on that from either side? Certainly not that close to the expected…
Get your geek on at Time Square If there is one festival which should be on the bucket list of every gaming geek, sci-fi and fantasy freak, this is it – the annual Geek Fest. This year, being the seventh, GeekFest heads to Time Square in Menlyn Maine for the first time. Geekfest is a pop cult convention with a…
Winter is coming – to South Africa! 6 June 2019, On Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 September Comic Con Africa will welcome one of this year’s most recognisable tv actors – Isaac Hempstead Wright, better known as Bran Stark from Game of Thrones. Reed Exhibitions Africa and ReedPOP announced the latest addition to the talent roll today with the news that…
Press Release May 2019 ComicEx – entertainment sensation that’s out of this world! Jozi’s South’s favourite entertainment destination, Gold Reef City (https://www.tsogosun.com/gold-reef-city-casino) is exploding with excitement ahead of the first ComicEx SA taking place on Saturday, 8 and Sunday, 9 June. This ground-breaking entertainment explosion has something for the entire family from retro, arcade games, tournaments, cosplay, ComicEx Idols, comic…
Nolan North and Troy Baker to appear at Comic Con Africa 2019 30 May 2019, Reed Exhibitions Africa and ReedPOP today announced that American voice actors Nolan North and Troy Baker will be appearing at Comic Con Africa in September 2019. Nolan North is both an actor and a voice actor and is known for characters such as Nathan Drake…