Gaming & Esports Events
Upcoming events · 132 found
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Pokemon TCG League Challenge — Game Empire SD
Monthly Pokemon TCG League Challenge — the competitive stepping stone before Regional Championships. Earn Championship Points toward the World Championship invite. Masters, Seniors, and Juniors divisions. Bring your best 60-card deck and your game face. Registration opens at 10 AM, rounds begin at 11 AM.
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163 days away
Pokemon TCG League Challenge — Artificer San Diego
Monthly Pokemon TCG League Challenge — the competitive stepping stone before Regional Championships. Earn Championship Points toward the World Championship invite. Masters, Seniors, and Juniors divisions. Bring your best 60-card deck and your game face. Registration opens at 10 AM, rounds begin at 11 AM.
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171 days away
Pokemon TCG City Championship — Temecula
Pokemon TCG City Championship — a major competitive event awarding Championship Points and prizes toward the World Championship. Top-tier competition across all three age divisions. Come to test your rogue deck or run a proven meta list. Either way, this is where the real game happens.
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174 days away
Nerd Nite San Diego — October
October's Nerd Nite SD — three 20-minute talks on topics that will make you feel like you wasted your twenties not knowing about them. Science, gaming history, obscure corners of pop culture — whoever is most passionate about their subject wins the room. Drinks sold separately. Curiosity included.
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175 days away
LoL Worlds 2026 — Play-In Stage (Los Angeles)
The 2026 League of Legends World Championship opens in Los Angeles — the Play-In Stage runs October 15–18 at Riot Games Arena in Playa Vista. International dark horses from every region earn their bracket spots on home soil. The LCS Arena is the tightest, loudest crowd in North American esports. If you've never been in that building during a live Worlds broadcast, this is the match. Tickets via lolesports.com.
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175 days away
LoL World Championship 2026
League of Legends World Championship 2026 spans October 15 – November 14 across Los Angeles, Allen TX, and New York City. The most-watched esports event on earth — over 70M peak viewers globally in prior years. The Play-In stage kicks off in LA before moving to the main event stages and climaxing in a sold-out arena Finals. Tickets vary by city and round. Why go: Worlds is where legends are made — the Faker of your era might be crowned champion here.
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176 days away
GameAcon Coachella Valley Gaming Convention
A weekend gaming and pop culture convention in the Coachella Valley. GameAcon at The Shops at Palm Desert brings playable games, competitions, panels, and vendors across two days. Twenty-nine dollars for a day. Kids under ten free.
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183 days away
Stan Lee's Los Angeles Comic Con 2026
Three days. Hundreds of exhibitors. Celebrity guests from Marvel, DC, anime, gaming, film. LA Comic Con is the west coast's second-biggest con and the one that feels the most like a party. Artist Alley, gaming hall, cosplay contest, screenings. October in LA. This is the con you go to when SDCC feels too corporate.
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198 days away
Pokemon TCG League Challenge — TCS Rockets
Monthly Pokemon TCG League Challenge — the competitive stepping stone before Regional Championships. Earn Championship Points toward the World Championship invite. Masters, Seniors, and Juniors divisions. Bring your best 60-card deck and your game face. Registration opens at 10 AM, rounds begin at 11 AM.
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198 days away
Pokemon TCG League Challenge — Game Empire SD
Monthly Pokemon TCG League Challenge — the competitive stepping stone before Regional Championships. Earn Championship Points toward the World Championship invite. Masters, Seniors, and Juniors divisions. Bring your best 60-card deck and your game face. Registration opens at 10 AM, rounds begin at 11 AM.
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198 days away
Pokemon TCG League Challenge — Artificer San Diego
Monthly Pokemon TCG League Challenge — the competitive stepping stone before Regional Championships. Earn Championship Points toward the World Championship invite. Masters, Seniors, and Juniors divisions. Bring your best 60-card deck and your game face. Registration opens at 10 AM, rounds begin at 11 AM.
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204 days away
San Diego Anime Con 2026
A hotel con has a different texture than a convention center — the hallways are part of the event, the elevators are part of the event, and at 11pm when the programming ends the lobby becomes its own gathering. San Diego Anime Con fills the DoubleTree Mission Valley November 13-15 with anime, cosplay, gaming, and a community that came specifically to be around people who understand the references. Home by midnight. Worth every minute of it.
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204 days away
MTG Star Trek Prerelease — TCS Rockets
Star Trek. In Magic: The Gathering. Beam up, tap your lands, counter their spells with logic. The Star Trek set is the one Trekkies and Magic players both didn't know they needed until now. Prerelease weekend — sealed format, six packs, promo included. All experience levels.
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204 days away
MTG Star Trek Prerelease — GameStar Hobbies
Star Trek. In Magic: The Gathering. Beam up, tap your lands, counter their spells with logic. The Star Trek set is the one Trekkies and Magic players both didn't know they needed until now. Prerelease weekend — sealed format, six packs, promo included. All experience levels.
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204 days away
San Diego Anime Convention 2026
San Diego Anime Con returns for its fourth year November 13-15 at the DoubleTree Mission Valley. Three days of anime culture: 50+ vendors, 50+ artists, a maid cafe, VR and board game rooms, panels, idol performances, variety shows, and game shows. Silk Road Productions has grown this into one of the premier anime conventions in Southern California outside of Anime Expo. Single-day passes from 0, 3-day passes from 0. VIP available at 00. Early registration pricing through June 12. Tickets on Eventbrite.
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209 days away
GTA 6 — Launch Day
The biggest entertainment launch in history drops at midnight. GTA VI. November 19, 2026. PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Vice City. Lucia and Jason. Rockstar hasn't released a mainline GTA since 2013 and this is what they've been building. Midnight launch events at GameStop and Best Buy locations nationwide. Get in a lobby with your crew. This is not a drill.
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210 days away
GTA 6 Midnight Launch — GameStop San Diego
Midnight launch for the biggest game release since GTA V. Show up in line, vibe with the crowd, pick up your copy of GTA VI at 12:01 AM. The parking lot energy at a midnight launch is its own event. Pre-order at your local GameStop or just show up.
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210 days away
GTA 6 Midnight Launch — GameStop Temecula
Midnight launch for GTA VI at the Temecula GameStop. Line up at 11PM, get your copy at 12:01AM. Bring your crew. This is the moment the 13-year wait ends.