Virtual Calais XXL video game show returns the weekend of October 5-6

2024-09-04 05:00:00

This is an event that all gamers and video game enthusiasts in Calais look forward to. The Virtual Calais Digital Leisure and Imaginative Culture Expo will replace the Gambetta Forum on the weekend of 5th and 6th October. The event attracted 16,000 attendees in 2022 and is now held every two years to expand. The city of Calais, the organizer of the exhibition, has decided to make admission free.

Role playing, robotics, video game decathlon…

now baptized Virtual Calais XXLthus referring to the new brand of the cluster Grand Calais land and seathe show will offer one hundred free-to-access video game stations, spaces dedicated to retro games, training and educational games, French independent studios and simulators. There will also be a cosplay costume contest for the humanoid robot Pepper…and, for the first time in a long time, the arcade Decathlon contest will also return. Will multi-award winning Calaisian Dylan Deloison still be there this year?

This year’s new video game programs will be exported to the city’s media library¹. Visitors will be able to try virtual reality, test new games, and even compete in the famous game Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

(1) Virtual Calais will take place from 2 to 6 pm at La Rose des vents in Bonningues-lès-Calais (September 11), Louis-Aragon in Calais (September 14), L’Octogone in Coulogne ( Held on September 18), “The Little Prince of Calais” (September 25), “The Hat and Morte of Sangatte” (September 28) and “Attucks” (October 2) .

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