A guide to the VKontakte Fandom Fest has been published

Artists from China and South Korea will perform on the main stage. The lecture hall will discuss video games, manga, short stories and film premieres. Guests will test Honkai: Star Rail in the VK Play zone, and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang in the Expo zone. The presentation of the new action adventure game "Zemsky Sobor" will take place at the festival. Detailed information about all the activities and participants of the festival can be found in the official community. Tickets are available on the event's website.

The festival will be held on November 22 and 23 at the Main Stage in Moscow. Key performances will take place on the main stage, in the lecture hall, Expo zones and autograph sessions. Viewers will be able to meet with artists and illustrators on the "Alley of Authors", with cosplayers — on the "Alley of Cosplayers". Geek Market will feature merchandise stores from different universes and other fandom accessories. The main stage will be hosted by rapper BIG RUSSIAN BOSS, blogger Dima Maslennikov, musician Nikita Sudar and streamer BIGRUSSIANMUM.

On November 22, the DKB group from South Korea, the NOMADS boy band from Kazakhstan, musicians and bloggers WEIYI and Xing Kaizheng from China will perform their tracks at the festival. On the main stage, the audience will see performances by "Improvisers" and Alexander Breganov, a game designer and HSE lecturer. In the cosplayer contest, participants will present images of characters from different universes. The K-pop Cover Dance Champ will also take place here. The jury will select the winners on each of the two days. They will share the total prize pool of 1.1 million rubles.

Actors Yuri Kolokolnikov and Fedor Fedotov present the action adventure "Lefty". NMG Film Distribution, Vodorod Studios and Art Pictures will present the film "Pinocchio". Screenwriter Andrey Zolotarev, actors Vitaly Kornienko and Stepan Belozerov will show exclusive materials and answer questions from the audience. Central Partnership will hold a presentation of the film "The Spinning Top" with the participation of actors Evgeny Tkachuk, Daniil Vorobyov and Mark-Malik Murashkin.

BUBBLE Publishing House organizes a public talk about the creation of comics, and the editorial staff organizes a MYTH.Prose will hold a presentation of the sequel to Rita Hoffman's dark fantasy "Red Disaster".

On the second day, ballad rock singer Dima Permyakov and bands from South Korea will perform on the main stage.: The Last Live and the headliners of the EVERGLOW festival.

A meeting with the actors of the film adaptation of Anna Jane's bestseller "Your Heart will be Broken" will take place on the main stage. Veronika Zhuravleva, Daniel Vegas, Alya Mayer, Maxim Saprykin, Ivan Trushin and Alexandra Tikhonova will answer questions and exclusively present a fragment from the future film premiere to visitors of the VKontakte Fandom Fest. The creators and actors of the third season of the series "Vampires of the Middle Lane" will perform on the main stage. Marshmallow Books will hold a public talk with book bloggers. Irina Skugar, Lisa Varvara Aranova, Lyudmila Lichi and Maria Markova will discuss the plots of school classics and rewrite the annotations to books so that they will want to be read in 2025. The meeting will be moderated by Angelina Kartunova, blogger and influencer manager of the Alpina publishing group.

On November 22, Daniil Ponomarev, developer of the ASPIS thriller game from Dream Wire, Igor Ilyukhin, operating director of the Far Far Games studio, and Saikono, author of the Tiny Bunny horror visual novel, will discuss the trend towards a Slavic setting in video games. Cyberia Nova Studio presents a new action adventure game "Zemsky Sobor". In it, players immerse themselves in the behind-the-scenes intrigues of 1613 through the story of Kirsha the Cossack. The discussion "History vs gamedev — when historicism gets in the way of gameplay" will discuss the balance between authenticity and a dynamic game plot. The participants of the public talk are Sergey Russian, creative director of Cyberia Nova Studio, and Alexander Artemov, creative director of Navigator of the Gaming World magazine.

For the first time, one of the most popular mobile MOBA games, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, will be presented at the VKontakte Fandom Fest. At the lecture hall, streamers Titamin and TrexteriNO will play it in one-on-one mode.The Fogame platform will hold a meeting on the topic "What is the phenomenon of video games with Asian vibe?". A public talk from the editors of OGIZ (AST nonfiction) will talk about European motifs in modern Japanese culture and the transformation of the archetype of the hero senen. The speakers will examine the phenomena using the examples of the hits "Van Pease", "Naruto", "Attack of the Titans", "Dororo" and "Chainsaw Man".