Gameskinny – Gamescom is truly unlike any other video game convention in the world. For anyone who’s been to San Diego Comic Con, the 300,000 people who make the annual pilgrimage to Cologne Germany is twice the attendance of the more famous celebration of games, movies and pop culture in Southern California.
"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)."
This show gets more relevant each year, especially ahead of PAX Prime.
It is a place where Europe can strut its stuff. I know in the UK we have a strong game developer movement which is gaining more track as the years go by. Europe is a similar situation.
Gamescom was great this year. Next up TGS!
Just got back home from Germany....man Gamescom was amazing. I'm stunned by how the whole city of cologne seemed to embrace the event. It was insane!
Definitely going next year!
Gamescom becomes bigger every year while TGS becomes more irrelevant...