{"id":52632,"date":"2013-04-09T10:16:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T08:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=52632"},"modified":"2013-04-09T10:18:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T08:18:36","slug":"gamex-postponed-organiser-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/52632-gamex-postponed-organiser-responds","title":{"rendered":"GameX postponed, organiser responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GameX gaming expo that was aimed at bringing a fully-fledged video game showcase to Cape Town on 12-14 April 2013 has been postponed.<\/p>\n<p>Due to \u201ctrademark and logistical setbacks\u201d; the event will now take place in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was not an easy decision but seems to have been supported well by the gaming community, who clearly would rather attend a full, exciting event,\u201d said Sean Fowles, who\u2019s behind GameX.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have invited all gamers and electronics enthusiasts to help us with the naming of the event for 2014,\u201d added Fowles. \u201cThis setback does not detract from the good intentions of our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Problems with GameX arised when it became evident that a \u201cGameX\u201d trademark had been registered by another entity weeks before the initial expo announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout the trademark resolution, the show needed to be renamed and all logistics updated to match,\u201d according to a GameX statement.<\/p>\n<p>GameX will be given a new date in 2014 for the show to take place.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More SA gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39569-gamex-cape-towns-first-gaming-expo-on-the-horizon.html\" target=\"_blank\">GameX \u2013 Cape Town\u2019s first gaming expo on the horizon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/52626-sa-comic-and-geek-conventions-you-should-know-about.html\">SA comic and geek conventions you should know about<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52577-polarfluke-pushed-aside-by-nag-mssa.html\">PolarfluKe \u201cpushed aside\u201d by NAG, MSSA \u2013 organisations respond<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trademark and logistical complications cause delay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":52633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4931,4926,4927,21,4928,4930,4929],"class_list":["post-52632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-electronic-gaming-expo","tag-gamex","tag-gaming-expo","tag-headline","tag-local-gaming-event","tag-south-african-gaming","tag-south-african-gaming-expo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52634,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52632\/revisions\/52634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}