After a stellar debut over the weekend, DreamHack Birmingham has announced the dates for the 2027 edition of the festival. Starting out as a small, Swedish LAN event in 1994, DreamHack has grown into one of the world’s biggest gaming festivals, and a centrepiece of the esports landscape. While full-scale DreamHack festivals have taken place around the world for several years, DreamHack Birmingham marked the first time the event has been staged in the UK, swooping into the gap vacated by the now-defunct Insomnia Gaming Festival. But while events like Insomnia have scaled back and disappeared in recent years, the success of DreamHack Birmingham confirms that the appetite for them is just as strong among the British public. DreamHack Birmingham saw more than 54 thousand fans from 65 nations descend upon Birmingham’s NEC for a celebration of all things gaming. Want to see this content? This page contains content provided by Google reCAPTCHA. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as Google reCAPTCHA may use cookies and other technologies. To view this content, …