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Multiplayer Madness

Team up for some multiplayer fun this Easter!

Challenge friends and family in pulsating battles, exhilarating races, and rocking rhythm contests. Plus relive the magic of sitting together in our new social spaces to enjoy Tekken, Mario Kart, LEGO Rock Band and more.

29th March-13th April and 17th-21st April: 10am – 1pm and 2pm – 5pm.

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Gather Your Party

Relive the magic of sitting together in our new social spaces to enjoy a multitude of multiplayer favourites including some new additions:

Tekken 2 (1995) – battle it out in this classic fighting game for the PlayStation. A critical and commercial success, it helped define the 3D fighting genre.

Mario Kart Wii (2008) – this kart racing game (the sixth in the Mario Kart series) was praised for its accessible gameplay and new features like motorcycles and online racing.

LEGO Rock Band (2009) – a rhythm-based music game that combines the fun of the Rock Band series with the family-friendly charm of LEGO.

Chaotic Fun with Gang Beasts

Headlining our Easter extravaganza, is the chaotic fun of Gang Beasts. With its goofy, over-the-top physics and hilarious character battles, the Sheffield made party brawler is guaranteed to leave visitors laughing.

A quirky, multiplayer beat ’em up game developed by Sheffield’s Boneloaf, it features colourful, gelatinous characters that engage in chaotic, physics-based combat. The goal is typically to knock your opponents off the stage or eliminate them in creative ways.

Alongside the regular four player version of the game, exclusively for the holidays, the NVM will feature a prototype version of Gang Beasts. Sink into comfy bean bags, battle it out and experience the game like never before!

 

Multiplayer mayhem with Gang Beasts. Credit: Boneloaf.
Snap and take home pics using a Game Boy Camera

Beyond the Gaming Action

Beyond the gaming action, Multiplayer Madness offers a variety of engaging activities to bring people together. Explore a new gallery trail, collect stamps by teaming up with fellow players and capture fun, retro style mementos using a Game Boy Camera and printer.

Plus enjoy additional Gang Beasts related activities:

  • Gang Beasts Activity Space – Learn how to draw and colour your favourite Gang Beasts characters
  • Teach your Grown Ups to Brawl – First teach your grown up how to play Gang Beasts. Then enter then into a challenge against other grown ups! Be the last grown up standing and impress your family with your newly discovered gaming skills.

Introducing Dunk Dunk

We’re excited to announce an additional game for the Easter holidays—Dunk Dunk! Published by Playtonic Games, Dunk Dunk is a multiplayer action basketball arcade party game packed with chaotic fun.

Badgerhammer Games, a duo of dads inspired to create a game they could specifically play with their children, developed the game!

Now, you can join in the fun too!

With familiar platforming controls and unique stretchy arm mechanics, dress up your dunker and team up with friends and family in Dunk Dunk, playable at the NVM before the official release on PC and Nintendo Switch in May 2025.