FORMAT Group

📣 RE:FORMAT MANCHESTER VIP GAMES INDUSTRY MIXER TICKET BURSARY ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 🎫 Our RE:FORMAT event is an exclusive gathering of business leaders across the UK video games industry, bringing together professionals from tech, digital, finance, investment, publishing, music, TV, advertising, and more. It offers a unique opportunity for networking, collaboration, and the cultivation of meaningful business relationships. 🎮 The video game industry is currently facing one of the most challenging periods in its history. Many talented professionals have been impacted by widespread layoffs and redundancies, leading to an unprecedented wave of uncertainty for those who have been at the heart of creating the games we all love. 🧡 At FORMAT Group, we believe in the power of community and the importance of supporting the people who make this industry great. Our mission has always been to provide a platform for both game players and game creators, and now, more than ever, we feel a responsibility to stand by the amazing individuals who have helped shape the world’s most dynamic entertainment sector. 🎟 In light of the current circumstances, we are proud to announce our RE:FORMAT November 2024 Ticket Bursary. FORMAT Group will fully sponsor tickets for 30 individuals who have been affected by the recent layoffs, enabling them to attend this exclusive event. Our goal is to provide these professionals with a chance to reconnect, build new relationships, and explore opportunities that will help them re-establish their careers within the industry. We are committed to helping our community navigate these difficult times, and we believe that by coming together, we can help ensure a brighter future for all those who make the games industry what it is. TERMS AND CONDITIONS - PLEASE READ: 🔸 You must have been impacted by the 2024 games industry redundancies to be eligible for a funded ticket to RE:FORMAT Manchester. 🔸 All applications must provide proof of their employment within the games industry or relevant sectors. 🔸 Successful applications will be contacted by the email address provided in their applications. BURARY APPLICATIONS: https://lnkd.in/epcM8azb The Events Hub / Aardvark Swift Recruitment / Neil Parmar / Ian Goodall / Ruby Sweeney / Viki Freeman / Game Republic / LucidLink / Escape Technology / Brabners / Lenovo / Six Degrees Music & Sound / The Bierkeller / Ukie / Dominic Shaw #videogames #gamesindustry #bursary #events #Manchester #gaming #Manchestercityregion #videogameindustry #networking #B2B #B2Bevents

📢RE:FORMAT NOVEMBER SPONSOR ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 RE:FORMAT x Escape Technology 🤝 Joining our final RE:FORMAT VIP industry mixer of 2024 this November as a headline sponsor is the leading trusted partner and expert technology consultant for the creative industries, Escape Technology. We'd like to thank the Escape Technology team for their generous support of FORMAT Group's FORMATGG 2024 event season. Through their generous support, we have been able to host game industry events that have attracted thousands of attendees and dozens of businesses from across the UK and internationally to Manchester and Liverpool to highlight the United Kingdom as one of the greatest places in the world to create video games. 🎟️ Limited VIP tickets available for purchase below. https://lnkd.in/e4ZWWshC

🏆 AWARD NOMINATION ANNOUNCEMENT 🏆 The FORMAT Group is proud to announce that both our team and Founder/CEO, Simran Whitham, have been nominated for the Community Player Award at the Game Republic Awards 2024. 🎖️ November is set to be a busy month of award ceremonies for our team, and we are beyond honoured at just how many award nominations we have received the past year alone. None of 2024's achievements would have be possible without our amazing community and industry partners 🧡 See you all at GaMaYo at WX on 21st November 🍾 #GRAwards

You didn't think we were done did you? 👀 We've been busy cooking behind the scenes! 🔥 🧡 Orange is the new black or is Black the new orange? 🖤 Introducing the new FORMAT X Wraith Energy flavours!! 🧉 Hundreds of people were lucky enough to try these two flavours FORMATGG Liverpool. The feedback was that these are up there with the best, if not the best we've had! 🆚 Pick a side: Orange Sherbet or Black Sherbet... Or both 🆚 🔗 Available now https://lnkd.in/eRxq-cGn

📢NEW 2024 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Manchester, we're coming home! 🐝🧡 We're closing off FORMATGG 2024 event season with one final signature RE:FORMAT VIP industry mixer on November 28th 🍾 Soon, we will welcome dozens of industry leaders from across the creative and digital sectors to Manchester for an evening of exclusive networking and forging meaningful business relationships! ⏳ FORMATGG 2024 has been the greatest event season in FORMAT Group history, and we can't wait to celebrate all the achievements of the past year with our industry family in our home city of Manchester ✊🕹 RE:FORMAT NOVEMBER 2024 PROUDLY SPONSORED BY // Escape Technology / Lenovo / LucidLink /Airship Interactive /Brabners / Six Degrees Music & Sound 🎟️ https://lnkd.in/e4ZWWshC

🏆AWARD NEWS!! 🏆 Manchester, our home, this one is for you! ✊🎮 We are HONOURED and ecstatic to announce that FORMAT Group's FORMATGG: The Ultimate Gaming Social has been nominated for the Leading Live Event Award at the This Is Manchester Awards®️ 2024 🐝🏆 We're proud to be representing not only Manchester's amazing and talented games industry at Manchester's biggest business awards ceremony but also Europe's leading games industry's nightlife event, which was born and bred on the streets of Manchester's Northern Quarter nearly 9 years ago. The FORMAT Group was founded in the greatest city on earth to create the nightlife movement that the games industry had been crying out for so long, and since then we've put Manchester on the global stage as the home of the world's biggest and only games industry nightlife movement. Thank you to our wonderful community, industry partners, sponsors, and supporters whose consistent support in helping grow Europe's leading gaming social has enabled us to put Manchester on the map as one of the best places to not only build a business but also as the place to come for the ultimate gaming nightlife experience. Congratulations to all our fellow nominees, we can't wait to see you all at the awards ceremony on the 14th of November! 🍾🥂 #Manchester #Awards #Videogames #Events #Videogameevents #videogameindustry #hospitality #ManchesterCityRegion

📣 RE:FORMAT LIVERPOOL VIP INDUSTRY MIXER PHOTOGRAPHY IS LIVE! 📣 Take a look inside RE:FORMAT Liverpool, where we brought together industry leaders from across the globe to UK for a historic opening night of business networking. On September 25th, the FORMAT Group welcomed 200+ creative and digital industry leaders to the beautiful city of Liverpool for the launch of our official Liverpool expansion of our FORMATGG events and the first RE:FORMAT Liverpool VIP industry mixer for an evening of forging meaningful business connections. The evening was opened by the Liverpool Mayor Steve Rotheram, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, and FORMAT Group Founder and CEO, Simran Whitham, as they welcomed global leaders across video games, tech, finance, music, TV, advertising, and more to FORMAT Group's new second home of Liverpool. 📸 Photography is live below https://lnkd.in/e3Q6rTut... Photos by: Will Norbury

LIVERPOOL BELONGS TO THE FORMAT GROUP ✊ 🎮 Last week, Europe's largest games industry nightlife movement conquered Liverpool. 🎟️ COMPLETE TICKET SELLOUTS ACROSS THREE EVENTS! ✅ RE:FORMAT VIP industry mixer ✅FORMATGG Liverpool: The Ultimate Gaming Social ✅FORMAT AFTER HOURS /// A Taste of Timeless Thank you to our amazing industry sponsors and partners, without whose generous support the largest games industry nightlife movements expansion to Liverpool would never have happened. FORMATGG 2024 event season isn't over yet 👀 A huge thank you to our amazing venue Camp and Furnace, exhibitors, and performers who absolutely smashed it all night long! Our team's FORMATGG Liverpool expansion has been over a year and half in the making, and there have been blood, sweat, and tears put into making the past week happen, and we'd like to thank our community and partners for supporting us in making history for the best entertainment industry in the world. Manchester may have had it first, but Liverpool made it better! 🧡 FORMATGG LIVERPOOL // SPONSORS: Liverpool City Region Combined Authority / Escape Technology / Lenovo / LucidLink / Skyhook Games / Kuoda Ltd / d3t / Riot E-Liquid / Brabners / Airship Interactive / Wraith Energy / Avalanche Studios Group / IMPRNT STUDIOS LTD / EXO Clan / University of Liverpool / Futureworks / Fallen Planet Studios / SCAN COMPUTERS (UK) LIMITED / noblechairs / Sennheiser / CRKD / Other Things / The Gaming Playbook / Six Degrees Music & Sound / Invest Liverpool City Region / Game Republic

📣 FORMATGG LIVERPOOL // SPONSOR ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 FORMAT Group X Skyhook Games 2024 🚜 It is an absolute pleasure to announce that the wonderful Liverpool Games Developer & Outsource Studio Skyhook Games is joining the FORMAT Group's official FORMATGG Liverpool expansion of our events as a headline sponsor and exhibitor showcasing Lawn Mowing Simulator.

FORMATGG LIVERPOOL x Sennheiser 2024 🎧 🤝 We're pleased to say joining the UK's leading games industry nightlife movement as an official tech partner is the phenomenal headphone manufacturer Sennheiser. Experience high quality audio at our Esports zone and exhibitor showcases this September! 🎟 https://lnkd.in/dkpKiseT