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Dublin Get Ready To Welcome ‘Token’ May 2017

March 23, 2017 Declan Doody

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Remember when you were a kid and you thought how cool it would be if every place was an Arcade? If every restuarant had games to play! If every shop had video games? At the best of times, I’m pretty crap at heading out for a night out! That’s all about to change! The team […]

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GamerCon 2017 And The Irish Convention Scene

March 20, 2017 Declan Doody

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It’s 12.48pm and I’m sitting on the matted red carpet of the 3rd floor in the Convention Centre Dublin. I’m here for GamerCon, the premier gaming event of the year. In the few hours I’ve been here I’ve done a turn of the floors to get my surroundings and that’s it! Outside in a misty Dublin […]

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ALT Events Dublin Sober St. Patrick’s Day Event

March 15, 2017 Brian Dooley

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ALT Events Dublin and The Clockwork Door are teaming up to offer you a fun, sober alternative to St. Patrick’s Day event. There will be acoustic music, open mic storytelling, board games, video game tournaments, movie screenings just to name a few of the activities! This will be a closed-door event, so to gain access you will […]

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Dublin GamerCon 2017 Lineup

March 14, 2017 Brian Dooley

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It’s only a matter of days before Ireland’s largest and newest convention beings. Join 20,000+ gamers at Dublin GamerCon 2017 where there will be an array of events, panels, guests from popular YouTube stars, cosplayers, live music and most importantly – games, lots of games. There will be all the latest from the likes of Sony and […]

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Tekken 7 Championships Coming To Ireland

March 9, 2017 Declan Doody

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AsOne Productions are teaming up with Bandai Namco to bring the Tekken 7 Championship to our fair shores. In an announcement yesterday evening Bandai Namco tweeted the full timeline of the upcoming tournaments. Announcing the TEKKEN 7 UK CHAMPIONSHIP with @ESLUK! Take part in events in Apr-May 2017 across the country! > https://t.co/qtFQ5QS7MB pic.twitter.com/lA2xrSxq1Y — […]

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Dublin Quidditch Team Host Fundraising Pub Quiz Next Wednesday

March 6, 2017 Niamh Ennis

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The Dublin Draíoctha Dragons Quidditch Club are heading to the European Quidditch Cup. The tournament committee just announced the team will be in group A alongside regional teams from Warwick, Brussels and Italy. But they need your support. The tournament is being held this year in Mechelen in Belgium  and costs are building. Alongside flights, […]

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Cosplay

GamerCon Announce €2500 Cosplay Contest

January 27, 2017 Declan Doody

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So you’ve got All Tvvins on the main stage on both days! A huge area dedicated to retro gaming with Retro Gamer Ireland! In fact it’s really an entire weekend to all facets of gaming! How else can GamerCon get any bigger or better? Well they’ve just gone and announced that cosplay is not only […]

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Naoise O’Hare – Retro Gamer Ireland Interview

January 25, 2017 Brian Dooley

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We chat to Naoise O’Hare, who you may know as Retro Gamer Ireland, as he talks to us about how he got his collection started and his role at the upcoming GamerCon event in Dublin on March 18th & 19th 2017. Brian – Firstly, can you tell us about yourself? Naoise – I am 29 years old, from […]

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Cosplay

Shappi And Lux Cosplay AkumaKon 2017 – Gallery

January 17, 2017 Declan Doody

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AkumaKon 2017 is just around the corner! We are super excited for the packed weekend! The convention boasts a stellar lineup of guests as usual. Amongst that roster of guests are cosplay stars, Shappi and Lux. Shappi Shappi is a cosplayer from Poland who specialises in making armor. She has been honing her craft for the […]

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Dublin and Belfast Quidditch Teams Heading for Tournaments in Europe

January 15, 2017 Niamh Ennis

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Over the past few months I have tried to keep you up to date with this exciting new sport and it’s development in Ireland, and more recently Northern Ireland. It had humble regional beginnings in a university in Galway and the national team fought bravely in last year’s World Cup. But the sport has come […]

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