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Oct 27, 2026
KevHOST
But enough of my decisions, let's get into the meat of the episode, which is looking at these three different games in a bit more depth.
KevHOST
So we'll start off with Moonstone, which not only won the Best Miniatures range and the Best Miniatures rules, it won it in both the judges' choice and the public vote at the UK Games Expo 2023.
KevHOST
Whenever I go around my local game store, I'm forever seeing starter boxes, and there'll always be someone when you pick it up saying, you need to try that, it's really good, I've got the starter set, you ought to buy it.
KevHOST
I don't know where these people come from, but they seem to be summoned whenever you pick up the starter set.
Ben MaddoxHOST
Because, so we have this event every year at Essen, which is beer in the car park.
Ben MaddoxHOST
And Mark Cook, formerly of Aircon, now of UKGE, usually organises it, right? And he said it's not happening this year because I'm working for UKGE now and I need to be fucking professional.
Ben MaddoxHOST
So I didn't think that it was a fucking thing.
Ben MaddoxHOST
But actually, it's basically developed so much of its own momentum that just a load of people turned up.
JamesHOST
We've not got real committed experience to doing a podcast or public speaking or anything.
JamesHOST
But since then, we've had a live show, which we did at the UK Games Expo.
JamesHOST
We've recorded nigh on 100 episodes of this podcast, edited and released them.
JamesHOST
We've had interviews.
AndyHOST
Yeah.
JamesHOST
for which we travelled to Durham train station here in the UK, not too far from ourselves, and bought it from a vending machine.
JamesHOST
That was a commitment we decided on the way to the UK Games Expo, when we got the train and saw there was a vending machine with Buenos, we figured that's where we'll buy it from.
AndyHOST
And they were in a terrible state.
Jess CarrierGUEST
But it is also our goal mostly to bring awareness of our games and who we are as a company to more of our friends in the content creation world and to more of these fine folks who have never seen or met us before and that we are...
Jess CarrierGUEST
To see some of our friends from other conventions who have been fantastic to us over the years, including my friends from the UK Games Expo, who just stopped through here to say hi.
Jess CarrierGUEST
It's
Ben MaddoxHOST
hilarious.
Jess CarrierGUEST
Yeah.
Jess CarrierGUEST
You let me know how I can make that happen, and we joke about that, but how much of it are we really joking about? Right, indeed.
Jess CarrierGUEST
So we've had such a lovely time at UK Games Expo and at Essence so far, and it's been so rewarding.
Jess CarrierGUEST
If we break even on this booth...
Frank WestGUEST
So I now kind of see them as a like, I enjoy being at shows, I enjoy meeting people and chatting, but I don't think that for me, the time investment is worth it.
Frank WestGUEST
So you don't even do UKGE anymore? No, I don't.
Frank WestGUEST
I haven't done that one probably for about four years now either.
Frank WestGUEST
And the same thing, it's that time investment, because it's not just the few days at the show, but it's the days of prep and management.
Jessica HancockHOST
It is theft from you, and every writer who has gone before you repackaged dishonestly and shamelessly as original.
Jessica HancockHOST
In other AI news, recently the UK Games Expo publicly stated their new AI policy, banning it across events.
Jessica HancockHOST
The policy prohibits generative AI text and art across all trade halls.
Jessica HancockHOST
UK Games Expo has issued a formal apology after publishing official promotional artwork containing generative AI shortly after publishing this policy.
Jessica HancockHOST
The art piece has now been removed and they apologise for the oversight.
Jessica HancockHOST
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BarryHOST
Greg let's wait for the most complicated model in this wave
AlexGUEST
and then Jonathan from Germany won the UK Games Expo and German Grandmasters and he's got two ninja models so one of those is Eclipse and Raycon's And one of those, I'm not sure.
AlexGUEST
That's not in this way.
AlexGUEST
Yeah, because you've got Shiho Amato and Tatekai.
speaker_9GUEST
I'm wondering if UKGE is starting to be in that battle as well, but yes, Essen is the most important, I think.
Ben MaddoxHOST
The, the thing is, the thing, the big thing with Essen as opposed to Gen Con, Gen Con slightly but UK Games Expo certainly, is the weight of releases, right?
speaker_9GUEST
Oh, it's a shopping show.
Ben MaddoxHOST
Yes.
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Ben MaddoxHOST
Right.
speaker_11GUEST
If there was a big show in March, the, um... that would probably be the biggest one of the year.
speaker_11GUEST
PAX and UK Games Expo are both trying to, um, become more important.
Ben MaddoxHOST
So, so what are their size? A, a couple of people have said this to me.
JPHOST
And I think Essen do it really well.
JPHOST
Compared to the UK Games Expo, Essen... you can properly like network schmooze.
JPHOST
I like to call it schmoozing, but yeah, you can properly network and make connections and, I think off the back of that day, there's potential of like five or six guest episodes I could do.
JPHOST
So I'm kind of filling up the backlog, which is good fun.
Davey BoydHOST
Well, there's two things for me.
Davey BoydHOST
UK Games Expo, I thought this year is the best year ever for new games.
Phil GardnerHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Davey BoydHOST
Right? And also...
Davey BoydHOST
Do you know what I mean? I bet that was done.
Davey BoydHOST
Well, that came out of Gen Con.
Davey BoydHOST
That came out of UK Games Expo.
Davey BoydHOST
That came out of Tokyo Games Market.
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