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There is a bizarre collection of “serious” games and comic fans who like to go to conventions. Nout wrong with that I hear you cry and I have to agree, but cosplay is an entirely different level.

If you happen to be in London on October 25th and feel like breaking a world record, then grab your mask, your cape and your pansy red booties for the opening day of the London Games Festival, and enter the cosplay record breaking attempt.

The record was set at a (let be honest here) pretty lame 80 people, so but don’t think you can jump in with your bat utility belt and start swinging from the roof tops - there are rules.

• Your character must come from a film, tv show, book or comic
• However, your character must have starred in a video game before appearing in other media

This basically means that you could go as Sonic because he was a games character, before being a comic book one. If you want to go Batman, however, you need to read up on your game knowledge….he wasn’t a video game character until 1986, but he started life in a 1939 comic book series.

So if you really want to look like a bit of a numpty, head to the London Excel Centre on October 25th for 12.30 lunchtime and wait outside the entrance. You’ll be unlikely to miss the cue at the door.

Just make sure you take your Sonic packed-lunch box and your Mario flask and remember how cool everyone thinks you look.

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