Gamescom 2016 - Koln, Germany - Day 1

Gamescom 2016, Europe's biggest trade fair for interactive games and entertainment kicked off today.

Even though it will be fully open to the public as of tomorrow, the 18th of August, I was amazed by the amount of people that were able to get in today given the fact that the first day is available only for businesses and the press. "only".
It seems thousands of people were able to get their hands on Guest Invitations from all the companies that are exhibiting there or are benefiting from a special set of Trade Visitor entry passes.
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Now moving to the fun part, as it's certainly been a fun day for the visitors of the big showoff halls, mostly Hall 7 & 8.

Ubisoft had a large section, made up of two sides

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A close up of some Watch Dogs 2 characters
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Blizzard had a huge section at the back of a halle.

They have hundreds of computers that can be used by gamers to test various games (extensions)
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A panorama of the Gigantic showoff stand

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The Sony - PlayStation VR stand was packed

Long lines that are very short comparing to what they will be in the next days. People wanting to try out the PlayStation VR, which is in a sold out Pre-order state right now might have to spend 1 day inline. I heard in the last years people have been waiting for 6 hours in general to get in and try out the new Sony stuff..
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Tekken 7

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The EA stand for the FIFA fans

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Crossout

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And off course Overwatch

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Misc

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Definitely looking forward to the next days of exploring the other halls.

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crazy man how many people are playing fifa17 :D I love games and I like as well the ubisoft postation... it is great!

yeah, it's crazy at many stands over there to see hundreds of people playing at the same time.

Yes crazy but cool at the same time :)

That's awesome! I go to PAX here in Seattle and we don't have nearly as much room to walk around as you guys do, we are packed in there like sardines haha

haha. Nice one. And I've only showed pictures of 2 halls (7&8), there's at least one or two more more that I'll check out tomorrow and there's like almost a full one with shops and apparel fanstuff etc. Seen some really crazy stuff over there.

Keep eyes and ears open for a Nintendo GameBoy musician by the name of "Tronimal", he's good!

Cool, will certainly do it. Nintendo was in the next visit section planned for tomorrow :)

I don't even know where he'll be, probably all over the place, he's quite mobile and if he's not playing inside, he's busking outside somewhere (often between one of the entries and the short path to the train station past the guys who throw Coca Cola cans at you). If you get to talk to him, say hello for me ;)

Neat, have fun andu :)
TBH I really struggle to stir up any desire for most of the games I see these days.. Fingers crossed they do a better job with Watch Dogs 2 then the original

I am having fun haha! Some of the games are similar with just some minor differences and I guess each one is fit for some people while others for other people :)