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The Living Tombstone — SOMA, San Diego

In 6 days · Oct 10 SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San …

If you know The Living Tombstone from the internet — and statistically, you do, because Yoav Landau's tracks have been streamed a billion times across YouTube and Spotify without most people knowing his name — then you already know the sound. Electronic, rock, and chiptune fused into something that lives in the space between video game soundtracks and proper dance music, made by someone who built a career writing songs about Five Nights at Freddy's and then kept leveling up until the music outgrew the meme. The SOMA show brings Landau's project to a venue that fits the vibe — standing room, all ages, the kind of crowd that discovered this music through gaming communities and fan-made animations and now gets to hear it through speakers that weigh more than they do. The live show translates the production in a way the bedroom headphone experience can't — bass you feel, drops timed to lighting rigs, the communal energy of a room full of people who found the same strange corner of the internet. Saturday, October 10, 2026 at 8:00 PM. SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San Diego, CA 92110. All ages. General admission.

Pokemon TCG City Championship — Temecula

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Pokemon TCG City Championship — Temecula

In 7 days · Oct 11 $20 27380 Jefferson Ave Ste 101, Temec…

You have been grinding League Challenges and rebuilding the list around the matchups you kept losing, and a City Championship is the day all of it becomes visible - preparation you can finally point at, against the full regional field. This is the fall qualifier where Championship Points start to matter, and the Temecula bracket tells you what kitchen-table testing cannot. The field draws from across the Inland Empire, San Diego, and Riverside, which means the competition level reflects the full regional scene. City Championships are where the players who did the work show up with something real to prove, and the prize structure rewards a deep run. Come with the list you have been testing since the last Regional. $20 entry. GameStar Hobbies, 27380 Jefferson Ave, Temecula, October 11th. Event details and registration at play.pokemon.com.

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Los Angeles Pinball League — Monthly Tournament

Monthly · Next Oct 13 Various venues, Los Angeles, CA

Somewhere in this city tonight there is a back room where the pinball never stopped — machines everyone assumed died with the arcades, lined up, lit up, and played for blood by people who know each ruleset cold. You thought it was nostalgia. They kept it a sport. Once a month the league runs a real tournament: matchplay, a new opponent and a random machine every round, points stacking across the night. It is IFPA-sanctioned, but that is not why the regulars come. A good table is the most honest machine there is. It does not care who you are, only whether you can read the ball. Here is what outsiders never expect: this crowd wants you to get good. Show up knowing only how to keep a ball alive and someone ranked will lean over between rounds and show you where the safe nudge is, when to let it drain on purpose. Venues rotate. Check the league's Facebook group and the IFPA calendar for this month's location. All-ages at most stops, 21+ at the bars.

Metaphor: ReFantazio Orchestra Concert — Peacock Theater, Los Angeles

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Metaphor: ReFantazio Orchestra Concert — Peacock Theater, Los Angeles

In 9 days · Oct 13 Peacock Theater, 777 Chick Hearn C…

You spent eighty hours inside that world. You heard the battle theme so many times it became the sound of your own stubbornness — the part where the strings climb and the choir enters and you refused to put the controller down because the next cutscene was the one that was going to break you. Shoji Meguro writes like the music knows something about you that you have not said out loud yet. The tavern theme that made you pause the game and just sit there. The boss transition where the orchestra swells and your hands went cold. The quiet field track that played while you were supposed to be somewhere else, but you walked around anyway because the melody was doing something you could not name. Now a full orchestra and choir perform that score live, and the difference between hearing it through speakers and hearing it fill a hall is the difference between remembering a place and standing in it again. The Japan premiere sold out; this is the first orchestral realization of these compositions in the United States. The audience is the quiet part made loud — a thousand people who each spent those hours alone in a room, and were in the same room the whole time without knowing it.

LoL Worlds 2026 — Play-In Stage (Los Angeles)

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LoL Worlds 2026 — Play-In Stage (Los Angeles)

In 11 days · Oct 15 – Oct 18 Riot Games Arena, 12181 Bluff Cree…

Every region sends its dark horses, and most of them go home in the first week. That is what makes the opening stage the most nervous, least predictable stretch of the whole tournament. The Play-In Stage is where teams that did not walk in with a guaranteed bracket spot have to earn one, on foreign soil, against opponents they have only ever studied on video. Nothing is safe and nobody is comfortable. Upsets that reshape the entire championship happen here, in front of a few hundred people, before the broadcast audience has fully tuned in. Riot Games Arena is the tightest, loudest room in North American esports — small enough that crowd noise reaches the stage, close enough to watch a player's posture change when a fight goes wrong. From inside that building it is a different sport. Riot Games Arena, 12181 Bluff Creek Dr, Playa Vista. October 15-18. Tickets through lolesports.com. If you have only ever watched it on stream, this is the one to go to.

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LoL World Championship 2026

In 11 days · Oct 15 – Nov 13 Various Venues — LA, Allen TX, New…

Seventy-three million people watched the last final on a screen. A few thousand got to feel the room move — and that gap is the entire reason to be in the building. There's a moment in a Worlds match where a team's whole composition either clicks or comes apart, and the arena registers it a half-second before the casters do; you feel the shift in the crowd before you understand what happened on the map. This is the biggest event in esports, full stop, and the Los Angeles dates put the bracket inside Crypto.com Arena — one of the best big rooms in the country for exactly this. The teams that land in LA have already survived their regions, international qualification, and a month of elimination; nobody up there is lucky to be there. The crowd on a bracket night knows precisely what it's watching, and that shared literacy is what streaming can't hand you. Worlds 2026 runs October 15 through November 14 across LA, Allen TX, and New York; tickets at lolesports.com. The LA dates go fastest once bracket play starts — book the moment your team's path to the finals comes into view.

GameAcon Coachella Valley Gaming Convention

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GameAcon Coachella Valley Gaming Convention

In 13 days · Oct 17 – Oct 18 $29/day or $39 weekend 72840 CA-111, The Shops at Palm De…

If you live out past the pass, every convention you have ever loved cost you a long drive each way and a hotel room you could not really justify. You went anyway. You have been going anyway for years. This is the one that came to you instead. Two days of tabletop, console, and video games with the infrastructure to take all three seriously — real tournament setups instead of a folding table in a corner, a dealer's room running from retro consoles to current card games, and panels about how games actually get made. The energy is specific to a convention that belongs to the people who built it rather than one that toured through and left. Mid-October in the desert is the good window: warm without punishing, cool once the sun drops, and reachable from anywhere in the Valley. Send it to the friend who has been driving you over the pass for a decade. Tell them it is their turn to ride.

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Nerd Night at Twisted Horn — Monthly Mead and Gaming 2026

Every 3rd Saturday · Next Oct 17 Twisted Horn Mead & Cider, 1042 La…

Nothing kills a board game night faster than a table you have to clear before you finish. Which is the whole reason this one lives in a mead taproom with long communal benches, where a rulebook, a map, four expansions and everybody's drink can stay spread across the wood and no one comes to move you along. There is no tournament, no scheduled game, no entry beyond walking in. Regulars bring things out of their own collections and teach them to strangers. Somebody sets up in a corner with brushes and a half-painted miniature between turns. The staff run the room knowing a three-hour session is the expected use case rather than an inconvenience, and the mead rotates often enough to become its own side quest. Monthly, evenings, twenty-one and up, with food from the kitchen and whatever truck is parked outside. Bring the friend who owns the enormous box nobody will ever agree to learn.

Wuthering Waves Concert Tour: To the New World

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Wuthering Waves Concert Tour: To the New World

In 13 days · Oct 17 Peacock Theater, 777 Chick Hearn C…

Loving a game nobody around you plays is a specific kind of lonely. You have four hundred hours in it, you know the soundtrack better than most albums you own, and the people who would understand are all on a Discord server in other time zones. Then a tour announces a North American stop and the server becomes a group of people you can actually stand next to. This is that night. The score for this game is genuinely orchestral - recorded with real ensembles, not a synth patch pretending - and hearing it played live in a two-thousand-seat theater is the closest the medium gets to a symphony hall treating it seriously. Cosplay will be everywhere and nobody will find it remarkable. If you have somebody in your life who has tried to explain this game to you and given up, this is the night to just go with them. This is the North American debut of the tour, which has otherwise only played Asia. Doors well before the eight o'clock downbeat on Saturday the 17th.

CHRONO TRIGGER Orchestra Concert: Melodies Across Time — Dolby Theatre

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CHRONO TRIGGER Orchestra Concert: Melodies Across Time — Dolby Theatre

In 14 days · Oct 18 Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd…

You were maybe twelve, it was late, and you had gotten to the part where the music changes and the screen goes quiet, and you sat there with a controller in your hands feeling something you did not have words for yet. Thirty years later you still do not have the words. You do still have the melody. The 30th anniversary concert that ran in Japan this January comes to Hollywood for one night, conducted by Nicholas Buc, with a full orchestra playing Yasunori Mitsuda's score the way it was always arranged in your head but never actually sounded through a console speaker. Chrono Trigger is the game people cite when they argue that the form can do what a novel does, and its soundtrack is the evidence they reach for first. What makes the room worth it rather than the recording: you will be surrounded by several thousand people who all went quiet at the same moment in the same game, alone, decades ago, in different bedrooms. When the first notes of a particular theme land, you will hear the entire theatre react at once. That sound — the collective recognition — is not on any soundtrack. Sunday, October 18, 8 p.m. Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd. No recording of any kind permitted.

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UCLA Bruins vs Michigan State Spartans

Oct 24, 2026 $30+ Rose Bowl, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasa…

Green and white in the arroyo is still a sight that scrambles the brain a little — Michigan State, a proud Big Ten blue-collar program, three time zones from home, playing a late-October game in a stadium ringed by palm trees and mountains. That surreal collision is exactly why the new era of West Coast college football is worth seeing in person: matchups that used to only exist in bowl games or video games, now happening on a random autumn Saturday at the Rose Bowl. The Bruins get another heavyweight, the crowd gets another only-in-Pasadena spectacle, and the whole thing unfolds in the golden California light that makes Midwestern visitors a little jealous. Saturday, October 24, 2026, Rose Bowl, Pasadena. Claim a tailgate spot in the shadow of the San Gabriels, walk the historic concourse, and come watch two very different football cultures meet in the grand old bowl on a perfect fall afternoon.

Pokémon Night Out Concert — Los Angeles 2026

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Pokémon Night Out Concert — Los Angeles 2026

Oct 24, 2026 Intuit Dome, 3930 W Century Blvd, …

You have had the theme song stuck in your head since you were eight. Somebody finally built a rave out of it. Marshmello and Alison Wonderland headline with sets constructed entirely around that universe — the 30th anniversary show for the generation that grew up with the games, the cards, and the music. Eighteen thousand people, most of them in costume, none of them embarrassed. This is not a tribute act. The Pokémon Company produced it, and the lineup was chosen to match the feeling rather than the nostalgia: artists who already work at the intersection of electronic music and the visual world those games built. The production treats the music as source material instead of set dressing. Intuit Dome, 300 W Prairie Ave, Inglewood. October 24, 2026. This is what a 30th anniversary looks like when the people behind it understood that the audience grew up too.

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Bear Ghost – Tiny Hitman Tour 2026

Oct 25, 2026 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

Theatrical rock made by people who are obviously having a wonderful time is deeply unfashionable and completely undefeatable in a live room. This Arizona band writes songs with narrative arcs, key changes that should not work, and a horn part when a horn part is funny — the sort of thing that finds its audience through video games, animation communities, and the general internet rather than through radio. Their crowd is young, extremely online, and knows the words to material that never charted anywhere. Expect the room to handle whole sections unprompted. Sunday evening in an upstairs Masonic hall in Highland Park, wood floors, no seats. Music at 7:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56. Fandoms built in Discord servers and comment sections are the ones most likely to turn a normal concert into something closer to a convention, and that is the atmosphere here.

Comic Con Los Angeles 2026 — Stan Lee's LACC

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Comic Con Los Angeles 2026 — Stan Lee's LACC

Oct 30 – Nov 1, 2026 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

The big one down the coast takes all the attention. The people who come to this one prefer it that way, and they are quietly glad you have not worked it out yet. Three days at the Convention Center — celebrity signings, panels, and an exhibitor floor that runs independent publishers alongside the major houses. Fifty thousand people who grew up on the same stories, turning a hall into a reunion. The character is different on purpose. This is the industry's own convention, the one people attend in costume because they want to rather than because the press is watching. Comics, sci-fi, gaming, horror, anime, fantasy, across all three days. Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St. October 30 through November 1. The mythology is still being made in that room, and some of the people making it are sitting at a table waiting for someone to say hello.

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Fleet Week San Diego 2026

Nov 6 – Nov 9, 2026 Free admission Broadway Pier, 1000 North Harbor D…

Your chest hears them before your ears do. A sound comes in off the water, every conversation on the Embarcadero stops mid-sentence, and a few thousand heads tilt back at the same moment. This is the week the Blue Angels belong to San Diego Bay, flying low enough that the downtown skyline becomes their backdrop. What visitors miss is the quieter half. You can walk aboard Navy destroyers, submarines, and amphibious ships free of charge, up the gangway and into the passageways where somebody's kid stands on deployment. The Parade of Ships moves through the bay, the bands play, and the city says out loud that the Navy is its largest employer. This is not a show San Diego hosts. It is San Diego looking at itself. Free, family-friendly, on the Broadway Pier and Embarcadero in October, and the trolley beats parking on air show day. Bring the person who has never stood underneath one of those passes.

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San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival 2026

Nov 6 – Nov 10, 2026 Embarcadero, Harbor Dr, San Diego,…

The difference between a tasting and a good tasting is whether the person pouring actually made the thing. Here they did, and by the third table you stop reading the little signs and start asking questions. Five days in November turn the downtown waterfront into the annual meeting point for everyone in this city who takes food and wine seriously. The Grand Tasting is the headline — hundreds of wineries, breweries, spirits producers and kitchens spread along the Embarcadero across a weekend, open to anyone holding a badge. The signature dinners are the quieter, better secret: seated, small, one chef paired with one producer, close enough that you end up in a real conversation with both of them. On Harbor Drive, walkable from the Gaslamp, trolley at the waterfront stop. It is not a budget weekend. Bring the friend who photographs every plate before anyone is allowed to eat. This is their Super Bowl.

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MTG Star Trek Prerelease — TCS Rockets

Nov 13, 2026 7626 Miramar Rd Suite 3900, San Di…

You will read a card twice at once — the mechanical text on one layer, and Picard, the Borg, a familiar ship on the other — and both hit at the same time. That double-take is what happens when Star Trek: The Next Generation arrives in Magic: The Gathering's card frame in November 2026, and TCS Rockets in Miramar is running the Prerelease weekend. Prerelease is played in the sealed format that puts every player on equal footing: six packs, no pre-built deck advantage, every game a puzzle assembled from what you opened. It is the format where experience matters less than instinct — you are building with cards you have never played, against opponents doing the same. Picard on a creature card hits different. The Borg as a mechanic lands exactly how you would expect it to. All experience levels welcome; show up knowing your Star Trek, and learn the Magic rules between packs. TCS Rockets is at 7626 Miramar Rd, Suite 3900, San Diego. See tcsrockets.com for registration and event details. The sealed kit includes six packs and a Prerelease promo with entry.

MTG Star Trek Prerelease — GameStar Hobbies

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MTG Star Trek Prerelease — GameStar Hobbies

Nov 13, 2026 27380 Jefferson Ave Ste 101, Temec…

The overlap between these two fandoms has always run deeper than either side admits, and prerelease day is when it stops being an announcement and becomes a game you are actually playing. The format is the great equalizer: six packs, forty-five minutes to build, then you sit across from people who opened exactly the same uncertainty you did. Nobody has a netdeck. Nobody has a read on the meta, because there is no meta yet. Knowing your Star Trek helps more than it usually would — the card design leans on the reference points — but the play decisions still decide the game, and holding both at once is the whole pleasure of the day. GameStar Hobbies runs prereleases with real infrastructure, and Temecula pulls players in from the Inland Empire, San Diego, and Riverside alike. Send it to the friend who owns both a commander deck and a strongly held opinion about Deep Space Nine. They will clear their calendar.

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