{"id":73257,"date":"2015-03-12T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T11:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=73257"},"modified":"2015-03-12T15:13:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:13:08","slug":"electronics-gaming-expo-for-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/73257-electronics-gaming-expo-for-cape-town","title":{"rendered":"Electronics &#038; Gaming Expo for Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mother City may finally get its own rAge-like expo in 2015:\u00a0the Electronics &amp; Gaming Expo (EGE), which is scheduled\u00a0to run from 29 to 31 May.<\/p>\n<p>EGE is set to take place at the Cape Town International Conference Centre and is being organised by Impact Exhibitions\u00a0\u2013 organisers of\u00a0the Boat Show, and Wings &amp; Wheels in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>No ticket price has been set yet, but Impact Exhibitions said the prices are expected to\u00a0be between R60 and R80 per person.<\/p>\n<p>Of some concern is that the floor map published on the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egesa.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">EGE website<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0still appears quite empty.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about this, Impact said that a number of exhibitors have reserved spots so far, and these reservations will be confirmed in the next week or so:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn3D<\/li>\n<li>Friends of Design<\/li>\n<li>Skycastle<\/li>\n<li>CNA<\/li>\n<li>Apex<\/li>\n<li>Aperture<\/li>\n<li>Frontosa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is not the first time there have been promises of a Cape Town-based gaming expo offering a similar experience to the Really Awesome Gaming Expo (rAge) that happens in Johannesburg every year.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, an expo called GameX which was set to take place on the weekend of 12\u201314 April 2013 was\u00a0<strong><a title=\"GameX postponed, organiser responds\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52632-gamex-postponed-organiser-responds.html\">postponed until 2014<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0due to a trademark dispute. There was no further news about the event in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Impact Exhibitions said while it\u00a0has faced challenges with contacting the relevant people in South Africa\u2019s gaming industry, so far things look positive and the event is a go.<\/p>\n<p>Within the next week or two Impact Exhibitions said it\u00a0will have finalised which stand reservations have been confirmed, as well as the ticket price.<\/p>\n<p>It has\u00a0also received a large space in the CTICC which will allow for the hosting of a LAN and e-sports component, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat rAge is offering really has been awesome, but Cape Town has really been starved of a gaming event like this,\u201d\u00a0Impact Exhibitions said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More SA gaming event news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/70028-rage-2014-this-is-how-big-it-was.html\"><strong>rAge 2014 \u2013 This is how big it was<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/69941-rage-gamers-smash-100tb-on-5-2gbps-connection.html\"><strong>rAge gamers smash 100TB on 5.2Gbps connection<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/69831-hands-on-at-rage-2014-the-good-and-the-bad.html\"><strong>Hands-on at rAge 2014: The Good and the Bad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/69555-rage-2014-what-you-missed.html\"><strong>rAge 2014 \u2013 what you missed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52632-gamex-postponed-organiser-responds.html\"><strong>GameX postponed, organiser responds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 may finally be the year Cape Town gets its own major gaming exhibition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":73263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13367,13371,4926,21,13369],"class_list":["post-73257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-cape-town-international-conference-centre-cticc","tag-electronics-gaming-expo-ege","tag-gamex","tag-headline","tag-impact-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73257","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\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73269,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73257\/revisions\/73269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}