Gyeonggi Province announced on the 10th that the largest convergence game show in the metropolitan area, ‘2022 PlayX4’, will be held from the 12th to the 15th at Kintex, Goyang, as an offline event for the first time in three years.
Hosted by Gyeonggi-do and hosted by Gyeonggi Content Agency and KINTEX, Play Expo is a combination of ‘Play’, which encompasses all content that can be enjoyed, and ‘X4’, which contains the pronunciation of ‘Expo’, which means exhibition. It is a compound word meaning pleasure (eXciting), experience (eXperience), excellence (eXcellent), and professionalism (eXpert).
Global console game companies such as Bandai Namco Entertainment Korea, Neowiz, Daewon Media Game Lab, and H2 Interactive will participate in Play Expo, which has not held offline events for the past two years due to COVID-19.
It is composed of game-related contents in various fields such as arcade games that can be experienced by people of all ages, unique games and technologies developed by indie and sprout companies, retro marketplaces where you can enjoy nostalgic games, and board games.
In particular, this event will be held together with the ‘Gyeonggi e-Sports Festival’, which includes an e-sports competition for the disabled, an influencer invitational (invitation to a celebrity), and a campus competition. A publicity center for a pilot project for a point-compensation arcade game experience (redemption game), which is not easily accessible to the general public, will also be operated to promote a healthy game use culture.
In addition, in order to provide a venue for the festival to be enjoyed by all, programs in which visitors can participate will be expanded.
Game-related quiz contests that anyone can participate in, costume contests and parades in which the general public participates, and game original soundtrack (OST) performances, as well as the BEMANI MASTER KOREA final, held every two years, is the largest ever played It will be held at the expo site.
In addition, it is expected that small and medium-sized domestic game developers will expand into overseas markets as game contents are diversified and participation increased compared to the previous year. In this export conference, 146 developers and 172 buyers applied for participation in advance, recording the largest number of participations in history.
In particular, it is expected that more connections will be made through 24-hour online Biz-Matching, as buyers from North America and Europe have a lot of online participation.
Ryu Gwang-yeol, head of the provincial economic department, said, “I think it is meaningful that Play Expo will be opened again offline after 3 years. said
This event will be held at Kintex Exhibition Hall 2 from the 12th to the 15th. Admission is free if you pre-register on the website until the 11th. Tickets can also be purchased on site, and residents of Gyeonggi Province receive a 50% discount.
