Game On Expo

12/20/2024

This is not a drill - Tony Hawk is making his con appearance debut at Game On Expo in 2025!

👉Tony will be appearing on Saturday April 5th ONLY!
👉We HIGHLY recommend pre-ordering autographs and photo opportunities - availability is limited, so order now to ensure you get what you want!
👉Click the link in our bio for pre-orders!

Tony Hawk was just nine-years old when his brother gave him his first skateboard. By fourteen he’d turned pro, and by sixteen he was widely considered the best skateboarder on earth. In 1999, he became the first skater to ever complete a 900, and shortly thereafter, launched Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, his now billion-dollar video game franchise.

The Hawk empire includes Birdhouse Skateboards, Hawk Clothing, and the Tony Hawk Signature Series products, as well as his production company, 900 Films. In 2022, a biographical documentary film titled “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off” by award-winning director Sam Jones debuted on HBO, giving an in-depth look at Tony’s legendary career and personal life.

Tony founded the The Skatepark Project, which helps underserved communities create safe and inclusive skateparks for youth.

VIP, day and weekend passes are still available on our website, pass prices will be increasing as we get closer to the event, so get them while you can, and if you want to come and see Tony, remember, he will be appearing on Saturday only!

Immerse yourself in the vibrant cultures of gaming and anime at Arizona’s Game On Expo. Enjoy exciting esports and live music in a fun-filled setting.

12/20/2024

BIG THINGS ARE COMING TO THE DESERT 🌵

HUGE GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT DROPPING TOMORROW THAT WILL TAKE GAME ON EXPO TO THE NEXT LEVEL! 👾

THEIR FIRST TIME CONVENTION APPEARANCE! 😄

Stay ahead of the game and get your passes now - click the link in our bio! Pass prices go up on January 1st 🎟!

Who do you think it could be? 👀

12/19/2024

Are you ready initiates? HITMAN's Agent 47 aka David Bateson is coming to Game On Expo, and this is his US con appearance debut!

👉 David will be appearing all weekend!
👉 VIP, day and weekend passes are available now: www.gameonexpo.com
👉Pass prices go up on January 1st, so purchase now and save.

David is the face and voice of IO Interactive’s AAA game franchise Hitman, playing the lead character of Agent 47 for the last 25 years and still going strong. Agent 47 is an immensely complex character and David Bateson has brought a brooding, melancholic intensity to the Hitman character. His portrayal of a cloned assassin-for-hire is both dangerous and appealing both in its flawed humanity and very subtle humor. In fact, in a world survey carried out in 2024 by BAFTA Games, of who is the most iconic gaming character of all time, Agent 47 came third! In this fast-developing and ever evolving industry, this is an extraordinary achievement.

David is also the Danish voice of Bowser, made famous by Jack Black. While at university, he created a disguised hitman character that “whacked” people with pies to raise money for charity!

He has performed extensively in TV, film and theatre in both SA, the UK and in Denmark but it’s in the medium of voice recording where he has really established himself internationally, winning voice acting awards at the Voice Arts Awards in New York; the One Voice Awards in London and most recently, the VOX Awards, also in the UK.

12/19/2024

One of our favorite parts of GOEX is our free play arcade area. Here is a picture of some of our pinball area in 2023. In April you can expect an even bigger free play arcade area!

12/19/2024

Agents, we have a new assignment - get yourselves to Game On Expo and meet BAFTA award winning actress Jane Perry, voice of Diana Burnwood in the HITMAN series!

👉 Jane will be appearing all weekend!
👉 VIP, day and weekend passes are available now, just click the link in our bio!
👉Pass prices go up on January 1st, so purchase now and save.

Aside from HITMAN, Jane has voiced many other icons in video games including Selene in Returnal (for which she won a BAFTA for Best Performance), she plays Mystra in Baldur’s Gate III, Rogue in Cyberpunk 2077, Sharon Holt in As Dusk Falls and Karen Bowman in Ghost Recon: Wildlands.

Other titles include Elite Dangerous, The Division, Lego Starwars, Alien: Isolation, Assassins Creed: Odyssey, Mass Effect, Shattered State, Dirty Bomb, Soma, Quantum Break, Grey Goo, Dreamfall Chapters, Draugen, Forza Horizon, 007 Legends, Need for Speed.

Jane has over 25 years of experience in film, TV, theatre and voice work. She also became part of Sci-fi TV history when she played Dorothy Bahnsen, the FBI secretary responsible for The X-Files being called The X-Files. Jane is highly experienced in games and has worked on over 60 titles, from independent projects to numerous AAA critically acclaimed IPs.

12/18/2024

🎵Music guest announcement time - SHIHORI is coming to Game On Expo!🎵

👉Shihori will be performing on Saturday April 5th during the evening - time TBC, watch this space for more details soon!
👉She will also have a panel during the weekend, and will be at Game On Expo all 3 days!
👉Passes are available now - www.gameonexpo.com!

SHIHORI s a J-pop singer/songwriter based in LA. She’s known for the theme songs for popular games such as League of Legends, Omega Strikers, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, AKF Journey, and dozens of PC games, and some of the internal songs for the famous franchises for PUBG, beatmania ⅡDX and Initial D The Arcade.

She’s also known for being one of the first singers in the Doujin music industry for Touhou Project as a former member of “SOUND HOLIC” and “A-One.”

She has written and composed over 130 songs for J-pop artists such as Nana Mizuki and Momoiro Clover Z, and for such famed shows as Fairy Tail, My Little Pony, Ultraman R/ B, Tomodachi Game, Macross Frontier and The Irregular at Magic High School besides her original works.

After many of her releases have made the Oricon Chart in Japan with 13 of her hits hav- ing attained Gold Disc Certification, in 2018 she moved to the U.S. where she has en- joyed international success performing lead vocals on ”Holy Steel," the fan theme song for "Jojo 's Bizarre Adventure” (over 14M views on YouTube,) and Billboard-charted single “The Real Folk Blues.”

12/18/2024

Hey Spider-Man fans, are you excited? We can't wait to meet Jim Pirri, Tara Platt, Jason Spisak and Yuri Lowenthal at Game On Expo in 2025!

Who else d'you want to see?

Immerse yourself in the vibrant cultures of gaming and anime at Arizona’s Game On Expo. Enjoy exciting esports and live music in a fun-filled setting.

12/17/2024

Grab your passes now - starting January 1st, all full event and day passes will be increasing by $5 each. Buy them now, because we have many more guests, activities and panels to announce, trust us, you will NOT be disappointed! Our 10th anniversary is going to be very special indeed - don't miss out!

Kids 10 and under get in free when accompanied by an adult pass holder!

To buy passes, just click here: www.gameonexpo.com

12/16/2024

Yuri Lowenthal is coming to Game On Expo in 2025!

Yuri is a talented actor working in film, television, theatre, web and as a voice actor in games, animation and commercials.

Yuri’s prominent roles include Sasuke Uchiha in Naruto, teenage Ben Tennyson in Ben 10, Jinnosuke in Afro Samurai, Simon in Gurren Lagann and Suzaku Kururugi in Code Geass. In video games, he voices The Prince in Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia, Hayate/Ein in Dead or Alive, Matt Miller in Saints Row: The Third and Saints Row IV, and Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Insomniac’s Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Spider-Man 2.

Yuri is fluent in several languages and studied martial arts before recently settling into yoga like most L.A. actors. He is a published author, having penned the “crimedy noirvella” TOUGH CITY (available on Lulu.com), as well as a variety of children’s books and short stories and almost a dozen feature screenplays.

Not content to wait for green lights, Yuri created production company Monkey Kingdom Productions with life partner-in-crime Tara Platt.

In addition to several short films, and almost 50 episodes of the hit comedy webseries SHELF LIFE, they have produced two features, the psychosexual thriller TUMBLING AFTER (available on iTunes), and their newest film, CON ARTISTS, now available on Vimeo On Demand. He is the co-author of the book VOICE OVER VOICE ACTOR: What It’s Like Behind the Mic and follow up VOVA: THE EXTENDED EDITION (w/ Tara Platt), published by Bug Bot Press.

We can’t wait to meet Yuri in Phoenix next year, make sure you grab your passes ASAP! VIP, day and weekend passes are available from our website:

www.gameonexpo.com

Immerse yourself in the vibrant cultures of gaming and anime at Arizona’s Game On Expo. Enjoy exciting esports and live music in a fun-filled setting.

12/14/2024

We're very excited that Tara Platt will be joining us at Game On Expo in 2025!

Tara Platt is an actor/writer/producer with an extensive list of credits.

She has provided voices for dozens of English-language versions of anime films, television series and video games. Her notable roles in anime include Temari in Naruto and Reina in Rave Master. She also voices Kali Belladonna in RWBY, Mitsuru Kirijo in Persona 3, Edelgard von Hresvelg in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Miriel & Flavia in Fire Emblem: Awakening, Anna Williams from the Tekken series, as well as characters in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Saints Row: The Third, Bayonetta 2, Soulcalibur IV and League of Legends. She recently starred as Yuri Watanabe in the video game Spider-Man.

Platt also just celebrated the 15th anniversary of her production company, Monkey Kingdom Productions, where she’s produced and acted-in two features: award-winning psychological thriller Tumbling After and mockumentary Con Artists. She also created, starred in and produced several successful web-comedies, four seasons of Shelf Life, four seasons of travel docu-comedy Up Up & Away, and one season of heartfelt comedy Whatta Lark. For TV & Film you may have caught her on-screen on Scandal, Hawaii Five-0, Castle, and even in the Halle Berry movie The Call.

Together with her husband, Yuri Lowenthal, she wrote the best-selling award-winning book, Voice-Over Voice Actor and subsequent VOVA: The Extended Edition. Platt also wrote the children’s bedtime book Relax Your Toes and interactive journal of a traveling Romani girl Zartana. They have also given a TEDx Talk on Storytelling.

Is there anything Tara, can't do? We're proud to have such a talent join us in Phoenix - VIP, weekend and day passes are available now:

www.gameonexpo.com

Immerse yourself in the vibrant cultures of gaming and anime at Arizona’s Game On Expo. Enjoy exciting esports and live music in a fun-filled setting.

12/13/2024

We're excited to welcome to Game On Expo in 2025!

Jason Spisak’s successful Voice Over career spans more than 27 years. Jason has created the voices of Silco in Arcane, The Joker, in Batman Hush, Lux Bonteri and Cristo on "Star Wars: Clone Wars", The Lego Joker in two Warner Brothers Animated movies, Kid Flash/Wally West on "Young Justice", Scorpion in Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man for PS4, the Voice of the disembodied Silias for "Vampire Diaries" on CW, Justin Hammer in Disney XD "Avengers Assemble",, Silico on “Power Puff Girls”, Paralon in "Transformers" and loads more.

Jason has also brought to life many famous game characters, including Penguin/Oz in Telltale Games Batman, Vulpes Inculta in "Fallout: New Vegas", Lust in "Darkseiders 3", Bartz in many "Final Fantasy" titles, Penguin/Oz in Telltale Games Batman, Dante in "Uncharted: Golden Abyss", Marty in "Mafia 2", Jester in "Socom Navy Seals", in game Spyro in "Skylanders", and had roles in "The Last of Us", "Guild Wars 2", "Xenogsa", "Tony Hawk Underground 2", "Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption" all the way back to "Renegade - Command and Conquer"!

If you want to meet Jason or any of our other wonderful guests, day, weekend and VIP passes are available on our website, just click here: www.gameonexpo.com

Immerse yourself in the vibrant cultures of gaming and anime at Arizona’s Game On Expo. Enjoy exciting esports and live music in a fun-filled setting.

12/13/2024

Mortal Kombat Reunion 2017: Back in 2017 we hosted a Mortal Kombat reunion! We will be hosting more Mortal Kombat guests in 2025 with some new and fun interactive things you can do. Stay tuned!

Grab passes for 2025 now: www.gameonexpo.com

12/12/2024

Kraven the Hunter is coming to Game on Expo in 2025!

Jim Pirri is known for playing the iconic foe of Marvel's most famous webslinger, Spider-Man is Marvel's Spider-Man 2, but Jim's extensive resume includes an array of performance capture, voice, TV and animation credits. His gaming credits include Birgir in God of War: Ragnarok, Boozer in Days Gone, Angelo Bronte in Red Dead Redemption 2, Rais in Dying Light, King Regis in Final Fantasy XV, and Nathanos Blightcaller in World of Warcraft.

Jim's TV roles include playing the dad on the series Victorious, the Executioner on CW's Batwoman, and Sergei the diplomat, Phoebe's love interest on Friends.

In animation, prominent roles include Alador Blight in the series The Owl House, and Sal Maroni in Batman: The Long Halloween 1 and 2.

We can't wait to welcome Jim to Phoenix in April 2025 for our 10th Anniversary - day, weekend and VIP passes are available now:

www.gameonexpo.com

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12/10/2024

Is everyone ready for another amazing year of tabletop gaming at Game On Expo?!
Game Master submissions are now live through CONGeon for board games, RPGs, and much more! Head over to https://enter.congeon.com/.../6f5929/r/2Oq11LoT8E4IFkhNIajW to sign up today!
If you're new to how CONgeon works: you will need to sign in with your email address and an access code will be emailed to you. You should receive it pretty quickly, so make sure to check your spam/junk folder and if you have any questions or need assistance there is a help button available in CONgeon or you can email [email protected] for assistance! Player signups are estimated to open mid-February.
We look forward to another amazing year with all of you!
Thank you! ~ the Crit Hit team

12/09/2024

As you may have seen earlier, panels are open for submission for Game On Expo! We're trying something a little different this year and shifting tabletop gaming specific panels to a secondary room. If you have panels about board games, RPGs, or anything related to tabletop gaming you'd like to submit please use the form below. If you have already submitted through the main form posted earlier, please do not resubmit, we will organize them accordingly. Thank you! ~ Crit Hit Tabletop Team
https://forms.gle/qWTH2yrMjpFFLP5BA

12/09/2024

Get ready to share your ideas! Panel submissions are now being accepted until Friday, February 28th 2025.

To ensure a smooth process, please read the submission form thoroughly, as it includes key information about panels for this year. The submission form is live on our website:

https://gameonexpo.com/apply-join/panels/

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas for Game On Expo in 2025!

12/01/2024

Join our Team!

We're looking for volunteers for Game On Expo's 10th Anniversary - April 4th-6th 2025!

Benefits include:

👉 One full event pass to Game On Expo
👉 One exclusive Game On Expo volunteer shirt
👉 A complimentary meal voucher during each shift.

You can apply via our website now, all details are on the form, here:

https://gameonexpo.com/apply-join/volunteer/

We're looking forward to working with you!

11/29/2024

Our last Game On Guild Affiliate announcement is voidvia!

voidvia aka Lumi is an Arizona-based cosplayer, photographer, and actor who loves everything from anime to musicals. They began cosplay in 2020 and fully committed to it in 2022, immediately discovering a true passion for craftsmanship. They love to bring their favorite characters from the screen to reality!

Lumi on becoming a Game On Guild Affiliate:

"I'm so excited to join Game On Expo this year as an affiliate, and look forward to seeing everyone there!"

Image: .photo (on Instagram)