YouTubers Syndicate, Yogscast and MumboJumbo join Birmingham Insomnia60 line-up

YouTube and Twitch star Syndicate poses with a fan at Insomnia 57 in Birmingham (Photograph: Adam Yosef)

Insomnia60, the UK’s largest gaming festival, which runs over the Easter bank holiday weekend, will see the most star-studded lineup in its 17-year history grace the stage at the NEC in Birmingham, as YouTube superstars Syndicate, Yogscast and MumboJumbo, with a combined fanbase of nearly 20 million people, will be meeting fans and enjoying the countless gaming features and events on offer.

This follows the news that on the Saturday evening there will be music from Years and Years, Chase & Status, Wretch 32, Disciples and Jaguar Skills. These new music acts add to Insomnia60’s status as a truly fantastic day and evening out for the whole family.

Here’s how post-apocalyptic Birmingham would look in 1,000 years

Upcoming action role-playing video game Horizon Zero Dawn launches in the UK on the 1st March (Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment)

This post-apocalyptic scene featuring Birmingham’s famous Rotunda and Selfridges buildings may seem like a snapshot captured in a distant future, but it is in-fact part of a nationwide publicity campaign to promote an upcoming video game.

The makers of Horizon Zero Dawn – which launches in the UK this week, on the 1st March – have re-imagined Brum along with cities across the UK as neglected futuristic cities populated with robot dinosaurs, or ‘robosaurs’.

Birmingham duo hold grueling 24-hour gaming marathon for charity

Luke Wilson (left) and Jamie Chapman hosted a 24-hour gaming marathon for charity (Photograph: Jamie Chapman)

Two young men from Birmingham have held a grueling 24-hour gaming marathon to help raise hundreds of pounds for charity.

Jamie Chapman and Luke Wilson put themselves through a whole day and night of sponsored non-stop live streamed game-play and raised just under £400 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Spooky ‘Pokemon Go’ walk planned for Halloween

The Pokewalk is based on the latest gaming craze Pokemon Go (Photograph: Birmingham Pokemon)

A special Halloween themed charity Pokéwalk, inspired by and incorporating popular gaming app Pokémon Go, is to take place in Birmingham next month.

Following on from the successful Pokémon walk in July, during which fans of the franchise walked through the city streets catching Pokémon to raise money for charity, the event will once again be taking place in aid of Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

Pokémon Go fans to descend on Birmingham for Pokéwalk

Harvey McDonald (right) and Conor Court have been working together to organise Birmingham’s first ever Pokémon walk (Photograph: Adam Yosef)

A mass Pokémon Go flashmob walk is set to take place in Birmingham city centre this weekend, with hundreds expected to attend as the Nintendo gaming craze continues to grip the country.

Co-organised by Birmingham mega fans of the latest gaming trend to hit city streets, the aptly named Pokéwalk was announced on July 15 and since amassed the interest of 1,500 people on its Facebook page.

Gadget Show Live returns to Birmingham for 2014

The Gadget Show Live team will be back in Birmingham in April.*

The UK’s biggest consumer tech event returns to Birmingham NEC from April 9-13 bringing the very best in cutting-edge technology to gadget fans.

More than 200 top tech companies will exhibit giving visitors the chance to see, try and buy thousands of futuristic products, from TVs, toys and tablets, to cameras, cars and consoles.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II launched in Birmingham

The latest Call of Duty game was launched at midnight by gaming outlets across the country

Gaming fans turned out in full force last night as the eagerly anticipated Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was finally released early this morning.

Avid gamers began queuing early in the day outside the Bullring’s GAME store, in the hope of securing a spot to become one of the first to get their hands on the game ahead of it’s special midnight launch.

Gaming Gods gather at Gadget Show Live

'Make Something Unreal Live' will bring gaming icons to Birmingham

A distinguished line-up of video game icons, including Peter Molyneux of 22 Cans and Cliff Bleszinki from Epic Games, will help to judge Make Something Unreal Live, the groundbreaking game development competition coming to the Gadget Show Live at the NEC in Birmingham.

The elite team will join the ‘Make Something Unreal Live’ advisory board comprised of industry mentors and Train2Game directors to review the program’s new Fighting Fantasy™ iOS games and coach start-up teams with their unique acumen and words of wisdom.  

Gamers descend on city for GAMEfest 2011

Avid gamer Jamie Chapman enjoys GAMEfest 2011 at the NEC Birmingham

Eager gamers from across the country and abroad descended on the city yesterday for the chance to be amongst the first to play some of this year’s most anticipated games at the GAMEfest event held in the NEC.

With London’s EuroGamer Expo being only a week away, this inaugural show of gaming extravangance was brought to Birmingham by UK retailer Game in the hope of debuting exclusives to avid gamers while wetting the appetites of the many who’ll be more than happy to queue for hours in the upcoming months as these top titles are finally released.