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  • People playing Arcade Games in a Fed Square venue.
  • Performers on stage including someone dressed as a large chicken.
  • Adults, children and a Star Wars warrior dancing on stage.
9 Oct

Big Games Night Out

  • Free
  • Family and kids

Australia’s largest free celebration of games is back at Fed Square, with over 100 free-to-play arcades, digital and tabletop, esports and indie games.

The iconic Cosplay Parade, Just Dance-offs, ACMI late-night programming and a spectacle of live music, markets, prizes and roving entertainment will light up Fed Square.

Little Games Night Out is a festival where children and adults can dress up and party together. This family-friendly afternoon will feature games, free face painting, Dr Hubble's Bubbles, and Joey Lightbulbs' Family Rave.

Jump back into the lost era of games culture with Electric Arcadia. A week-long tribute to the timeless Amusement Plaza, this vintage video arcade will transport fans to the classic era of the 1980s and '90s games nostalgia.

Tabletop and Roleplay take over the Edge Theatre with Indiginerd's Stranger Things-inspired Dungeons & Dragons, Local Games Market, and life-size playable board games.

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Date Times
Thu 9 Oct
  • 3pm - 11pm 3:00pm - 11:00pm

Location

Main Stage, The Edge Theatre & The Atrium
Fed Square
Swanston St & Flinders St
Melbourne 3000

Open in maps location for Fed Square

Price and bookings

This is a free event

Booking not required

Contact details

  • telephone number: 03 9655 1900
  • email address: biggamesnightout@gmail.com
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  • Accessible toilets
  • Auslan interpreted
  • Mobility access
  • Quiet spaces
  • Service animals

All accessibility information is self-reported by the listing owner. It has not been verified by the City of Melbourne.

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