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EGX Rezzed Con Diary: The Changing Face of Gaming

by Holly Rose Swinyard | Apr 24, 2017 | Essays, Features

I have never been to a gaming convention. I come from a comics and literature con background–sci-fi at a push–but a video game convention? EGX Rezzed is an industry-based event, promoting new games, showing off the demos that people have spent years putting together, and putting Square Enix and Nintendo next to the tiny indie teams who have done it all off crowdfunding in their front room. Honestly, I wasn’t sure what I had let myself in for. (more…)

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