Last week I was in Köln, Germany at the GamesCom 2009 convention. I had a great convention with lots and lots of good meeting. Unfortunately I didn’t get any time to try out some new games. Did get to see James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game, the new game for the upcoming film. One version was with some nice 3D effects really working. Looking forward to play the game later this year. And also some clips from Final Fantasy XIV, but still not sure about the game play or the fact that it is a MMORPG, but open to be persuaded.
Most of the time I ran around in the business area from meeting to meeting. Some of the partners I met was: Ubisoft, 2K Games, Electronic Arts, Eidos, 1C and Paradox, aswell as some potential partners. The first two days was packed with meetings, and some parties in the evening. Though we were to tired to party any hard. And at the end of Thursday we even had dinner with our contacts at Ubisoft.
But on Friday I actually had some spare time and took a walk to the entertainment area. Kodus to those who worked in the booth over there. When crazy for all the sounds and people in just under two hours of being there. The lines was just crazy, specially around the Blizzard booth (Or should we call it Castle?). Say around 4 hours of wait, to play 10 minutes of a game. Well well.
All in all I was very happy with the convention as it was my first real one. Next week I am heading over to the States for some meeting and PAX 2009 in Seattle.
Took some pictures from the Entertainment area as well as a Church we visited.
Haha that’s right , everybody looked quite tired on the last day. It has been a crazy week! Keep doing the good job on your blog