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The move sees founder, and incumbent CEO, Craig Fletcher move up to Executive Chairman; where he’ll be working closely with a gaming community he’s fostered since 1997, whilst also developing wider opportunities for the Insomnia event brand.

Insomnia is returning after more than two years of inactivity. Richie Shoemaker talks to its creator and Player1 Events CEO Craig Fletcher about why it’s better to wake rather than shake up the venerable gaming festival

Sleepless in Cairo

Monitor manufacturer AOC has been announced as the sponsor of the UK Masters CS:GO tournament, with the finals set to take place at Insomnia 60 next month.  The competition itself is already underway, with the best UK Counter-Strike teams battling it out online. The top four teams from this online …

Multiplay has announced that it will be hosting a Call of Duty World League open event at Insomnia 60.  The CWL Birmingham Open will take place at I60, which is due to run between the 14th and 17th April at the NEC. The competition will feature a $50,000 prize pool …

New video games expo GamerMania has been cancelled. It was set to take place between July 29th and August 1st at London Excel. The event was being organised by MCM, the team behind the successful Comic Con events in May and October. GamerMania was announced in September last year as …

Only seven per cent of the consumers who go to Multiplay’s Insomnia also visit rival event, EGX. Speaking to MCV this week, Multiplay founder and CEO Craig Fletcher said that the growing number of games shows, and particularly EGX and Insomnia facing each other later this year, is not a …

Last week, Gamer Network CEO Rupert Loman declared his disappointment in GAME. He was referring to the retailer’s new GAMEFest event, a consumer expo that will take place four weeks before his own EGX show… and at the same venue (Birmingham NEC). Upon making some allusions to the fact the …

Retailer GAME expects its next Insomnia festival – which will include the GAMEFest expo – to be the UK’s most popular gaming event this year. The firm targets a record number of attendees over the August Bank Holiday weekend, and says it will be investing heavily to ensure it hits …

GAME is bringing back its consumer expo between August 26th and 29th. That’s just four weeks before rival event EGX, and it is also taking place in the same venue – Birmingham NEC. However, unlike the last GAME Fest (which was also the first one) in 2011, this year’s event …