GamesRadar - If you’re not currently located in the glorious realm of castles, dragons, lederhosen and relaxed drinking attitudes that is Europe -- or even if you are -- there’s a good chance that you’re not aware what a huge fat slab of Big Deal Gamescom is. Much younger and far less well-known than the glamourously tanned, sparkle-toothed E3, next week’s GC (based in Cologne, Germany) is nevertheless serious gaming business indeed. Now becoming comparable to E3 in scale, spectacle and industry importance, it’s categorically worth every bit of attention you can give it this year.
"Think of the last E3, or the last Gamescom, or the last Tokyo Game Show. What was the main thing shown at the press conferences held there? The trailers, gameplay videos, and everything else shown are done so to get you excited about a certain game that they want you to be more interested in. If the trailer is well-done and people like it, the hype of the game goes up and people talk about it more and more. But what happens next? More trailers and details for the game are released, just hyping you up more until the game comes out. But sometimes, when the game comes out, it’s not everything you expected. It’s not as fantastic as you had hoped. It’s not all that it’s hyped up to be. "
it leaves you very dissapionted like when they promised big vita news for e3, gamescom and tokyo game show when turned out to be just ps4. there were hardly any vita news just ports and indies , japan always have better games t hen the us, there vita library doubles ours we have to hope for a localization announcement to get some decent games.
Corsual's EXP writes: "They say it's better to be late than never, and in this case, we wholeheartedly agree! Our video editor Stiegi has finished working on our Highlight Video from Gamescom 2013. Prepare for laughter."
David Rodriguez writes, "The dust from Gamescom 2013 is still settling, and PAX Prime 2013 is just on the horizon. Before we get bombarded by the news that that show may bring, we let Giuseppe fill us in on his personal experience at this year’s show (9:49), as well as delving into Joel’s recent admission that Sony proved him wrong with the Vita (46:36), and the recent Grand Theft Auto V leak (1:00:20)."
"Having Gamescom a couple of months after E3 allows them to deliver a two-hit combo of hype, dropping initial announcements in L.A. and then following up with a haymaker of additional content and revelations in Cologne. With the end of this year being next-gen ground zero, Gamescom 2013 is going to be more important than ever in that respect."
Awww yeah, MS and Sony are gonna go all out to hype their consoles up! Bring on the announcements.
I just have to find the times for the U.S. for when the conferences are streamed.
P.S. - Is MS not streaming their conference or am I misunderstanding? I saw something about that earlier today.
cant effing wait...
really really hoping for the 1st party studios to show off their stuff!
im going to love it... because of the upcoming unannounced games
that needed to be announced specially for vita and ps4 ^_^
I can't wait man. Road trip to Cologne! I'm gonna be there on Saturday.
Looking forward to see what more i will possibly be playing on the X1 soon.