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GameAcon Coachella Valley Gaming Convention

Name: GameAcon Coachella Valley Gaming Convention
Start: 2026-10-17T04:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-10-18T13:00:00-07:00
Location: 72840 CA-111, The Shops at Palm Desert, Palm Desert, CA 92260

GameAcon Coachella Valley — playable games, competitions, panels, a full weekend in Palm Desert. Desert gaming con energy is underrated. Less crowded than the big ones, people are there because they …

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Sat, Oct 17 – Sun, Oct 18, 2026

Sat 4:00 AM PDT – Sun 1:00 PM PDT

72840 CA-111, The Shops at Palm Desert, Palm Desert, CA 92260

$29/day or $39 weekend

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The Shops at Palm Desert, 72840 CA-111, Palm Desert. October 17-18, 2026. $29/day or $39 weekend. GameAcon is the Coachella Valley's dedicated gaming convention — two days of tabletop, console, video games, and the community that builds around all of it in a region that needed exactly this.

The Coachella Valley gaming community is real and has been waiting for an event that takes it seriously. GameAcon does: real tournament infrastructure, a dealer's room that covers the range from retro console to current tabletop, panel programming about games and game design, and the specific energy of a convention that belongs to the community that built it.

$29/day or $39 for the weekend. October 17-18. gameacon.com for the full schedule and the game list. Palm Desert in mid-October sits in the exact temperature range where the desert is at its best — warm without punishing, cool in the evenings. The Shops at Palm Desert is accessible from across the Valley. If you're in the Inland Empire or the desert and have been making the drive to San Diego or LA conventions, GameAcon is the one that came to you.

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