Tagged Midwest Gaming Classic

The 2026 Midwest Gaming Classic dominated the Baird Center this past weekend, and it was another glorious, geeky, Dankey Kang-sized blowout for the books. Pinball! Retro games! Tabletop games! Tournaments! Musi...

"The 2025 Midwest Gaming Classic was BIG." That's what we wrote after last year's Midwest Gaming Classic, Milwaukee's ever-growing retro gaming / pinball / tabletop / arcade / homebrew blowout. And we weren'...

Walking through the buzzing exhibit halls and stuffed ballrooms of the Baird Center on Saturday, it was common to hear murmurs of the number "40,000." That's how many pre-sale tickets, it was rumored, had been ...

Remember when the annual Midwest Gaming Classic was held at the Brookfield Sheraton? Remember when that seemed like a big convention? Remember when MGC moved to Milwaukee's oft-renamed downtown convention cente...

Remember when the annual Midwest Gaming Classic was held at the Brookfield Sheraton? Remember when that seemed like a big convention? Remember when the annual Midwest Gaming Classic moved to Milwaukee's oft-ren...

In a city absolutely stuffed with events, the annual Midwest Gaming Classic is one of our favorites. Want to relive the 2023 installment? Read our one-day minute-by-minute report HERE. Want to experience all th...

This article was originally published in 2021. It has been updated for 2022. The author stands by his rankings, though he has been playing more PS4 lately. Beginning Friday, April 29, and running through Sun...

If you've been missing the Midwest Gaming Classic and can't wait for its glorious return November 5-7 at the Wisconsin Center, have we got an event for you. Yes, from the creators of MGC comes Game Nights, a...

This weekend, the 2019 Midwest Gaming Classic will somehow stuff more than 10,000 gamers, pinball pros, tabletop enthusiasts, cosplayers, vendors, and entertainers into the 150,000 square feet of the Wisconsin ...