2026 was UK Video games Expo’s greatest 12 months ever

UK Video games Expo came about this previous weekend, and the conference reported report attendance figures of 51,196 distinctive attendees (up from 42,000 in 2025), holding on to its place because the third largest tabletop gaming conference on this planet. Distributors on the ground reported report gross sales figures, and the occasion itself has now expanded to cowl a number of occasion halls with over 800 exhibitors.

By comparability, Gen Con 2025 boasted virtually 72,000 attendees, however fewer exhibitors, whereas Origins Sport Honest pulled in 19,171. Essen Spiel, in Germany, printed 220,000 guests in 2025, however solely studies turnstile figures, not distinctive attendees (i.e. if a customer enters and leaves greater than as soon as, they get counted a number of times–this is the determine that UKGE calls ‘whole attendees’). The highest 6 listing additionally consists of Pax Unplugged (30,000+ estimated attendees) and Italy’s Play Bologna which boasted 35,000 distinctive attendees this 12 months. There are, in fact, different giant conventions which cowl the broader subject of popular culture, together with Comedian Con, DragonCon, and so forth, slightly than being tabletop gaming particular.