GamesCom

Four confirmed titles plus exciting new announcements ensure strongest show presence to date

NEW YORK – 29th July, 2010 – Paradox Interactive today announced its product line-up for this year’s Gamescom trade fair taking place in Cologne, Germany along with details of its press conference.

Who: Leading Eastern and Central European publisher 1C Company

What: See and play our newest games, meet with top executives and developers

Where: 1C's business booth will be located in Hall 4.2 booth #18, Aisle B

When: August 18th – 22nd. Simply write us at the email addresses above to schedule a time

Large-scale exhibition program with stage events, costume competitions on the main stage, cult model Gina-Lisa at the booth and a cappella metal band ‘Van Canto’ to play live

Berlin, 23/07/2010: For the biggest European gaming exhibition Gamescom 2010 Frogster has organized a varied program of events for all online role-playing fans.

A UK press event for the gamescom Cologne consumer and trade show has been announced by organisers, to take place on May 4 at the Hoxton Hotel in London.

The press event is aimed at buyers and journalists, in an attempt to ensure strong attendance at the 2010 gamescom show in Cologne this August.

TIGA in partnership with UK Trade and Investment Tradeshow Access Programme, is offering £1000 exhibitor funding to eligible businesses involved in the UK games industry that wish to attend GAMEScom in Cologne from August 18-22, 2010.

CEO and founder of Bigpoint- one of the leading companies for online and browser games - is a new member of the fair committee

The premiere trade and consumer show gamescom has appointed the B2B leaders MCV, The Market for Computer & Video Games, and Develop as media partners. The second edition of gamescom takes place in Cologne from 18th to 22nd of August, starting with a trade-only day on Wednesday.

Last year's gamescom attracted 458 exhibitors from 31 countries and more than 245, 000 visitors; including 17, 000 trade visitors and from all over Europe and beyond.

Trade fair and event highlight of the interactive entertainment industry at Koelnmesse goes straight to the top as the world's largest games fair. New level of visitor numbers and internationality. Industry, specialist and private visitors enthused by the trade fair and festival

The premiere of the new leading trade fair for interactive entertainment and games - gamescom - has been a complete success. 245,000 visitors came to the Koelnmesse site from 19 - 23 August to experience and try out game novelties provided by 458 exhibiting companies from 31 countries. Straight away this makes gamescom the largest games fair in the world and with a ratio of around 44 percent, internationally extremely successful. After five intensive trade fair days, event organiser Koelnmesse and its conceptual sponsor, the German Association of Interactive Entertainment Software (Bundesverband Interaktive Unterhaltungssoftware - BIU) were very pleased with the result.

Burning down the house with the Witch Doctor.
by Charles Onyett

US, August 19, 2009 - Even though Diablo III is presumably over a year away from a release date, this game absolutely oozes polish. It runs at a silky smooth framerate (at least on the PCs Blizzard brought to Gamescom), the animations of your characters and magical effects and the deaths of enemies are smooth, detailed, and full of character, and the combat gives you a great sense of weight and impact. This was my first time getting to actually play Diablo III, and as a big fan of the previous games, it was very much along the lines of what I was hoping for.

Event Information

Date: August 19-23, 2009
City: Cologne, Germany
Location: Cologne Exhibition Centre

About GamesCom Cologne

A new era for gamers, retailers and exhibitors starts in August, 2009 in Cologne: the gamescom opens its gates for the first time. As a game trade fair, games festival and business platform, it is the place to be if you want to try out new games, socialise, celebrate or just simply be astonished. Nearly 400 exhibitors from all over the world will present their innovations in the area of interactive entertainment electronics. This is the world and European premiere of numerous computer games which are just waiting for you to test them.

Preliminary report on gamescom: Cologne eagerly awaits the gamescom premiere, with more than 420 exhibitors from 30 countries expected

Fans of interactive entertainment can look forward to world and European premieres of games, action, events and entertainment in Cologne at gamescom, already the international meeting place of the industry at its very first staging

Firework display of novelties at gamescom: More than 100 premieres and new introductions, including world and European premieres

The excitement is increasing from day to day - in just a few days gamescom, Europe's new trade fair highlight of the games industry, will be celebrating its premiere. The construction work on the trade fair grounds in Cologne is already underway. A genuine firework display of new computer and video games are awaiting fans and friends of interactive entertainment at gamescom.

As anticipation grows that Microsoft will reveal a $100 price drop for the 120GB Xbox 360 Elite at its GamesCom conference on August 19, Sony Computer Entertainment has pulled back the curtain slightly on its own Cologne plans. Reports out of the UK have Sony confirming that one of the items on the docket will be the European launch of the PS3 video store. However, given that the announcement of the video store's North American launch took only a few minutes at Sony's 2008 Electronic Entertainment Expo presentation, that leaves the company with plenty of time for other announcements.