Brian Wissner News Today

The Monroeville Convention Center will be shuttered this summer to make way for a Hobby Lobby, a national art and crafts retail chain. Owners Oxford Development confirmed Monday the 100,000-square-foot expo center — adjacent to Monroeville Mall and the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel on Mall Boulevard — will close. The

Little did Brian Wissner know that his father-daughter hobby of game collecting would spin into the Pittsburgh Gaming Expo, an annual convention dedicated to all things related to gaming culture. The event returns Sat., Sept., 30-Sun., Oct. 1 at the Monroeville Convention Center, where attendees will find, among many other offerings, hundreds of arcade, pinball, and board games, all of which are free to play.