Thanks !
I registred last year when I had the feeling DC would be the place to be for XIII, guess I was right given your new relations with Atlus USA^^ (Frionel, would by himself, be that for Risingstar Games, I guess)
Am I right in thinking that Orochinagi is the brit community for KOF? (I have no idea really)
anyways, yeah Gamescom started just a couple a year ago (3 I think), apparently it's a lot more consumer oriented than E3, and wider content-vise (not just games, I think; Kotaku said it's like the woodstock of videogames for ppl or something).
I think a lot of companies are starting to realised more and more each year that it's their biggest (maybe one and only) venue opportunity in Europe, to, like, show stuff they teased at E3, announce when stuff is coming out in europe published by whom, what editions (content-wise) and at what price etc (not only games but hardware too, this year : vita, ps3 price drop etc)
And also that we are a very strong gaming community in Europe (I've been importing games for a bit more than 15years so I know how Europe was considered by companies in the us or japan game-wise xD) but we are harder to "get" compared to japan or north america since we all live in different countries and speak different languages and have (very) different cultures (and for the most of us we don't speak anything else than our mother tongue nor really care about other countries even if we share borders ... I know it might come to you as a shock but it's the sad truth :\ ) so the vast majority of us gamers need some coverage by the french/german/italian/spanish(etc) press in order to have some gaming exposure ^^
it's also a way for the publisher to have a big venu between E3 and TGS, but yeah, pretty much NO new games are shown or anything, just E3 stuff with more content and localised content.
also capcom is using it as one of their monthly place to tease their yearly rebalanced fighting games :p
I used to live in germany for a few years back (for a few years), and will live 5Km from the border german next year, so if I'm free, I really want to go to Gamescom, since I love Köln too ^^
thanks for watching the stream :D (there's some french chicks there too :D)
SAB-CA>hi again :D
a demo ? do tell more !
or you mean the console location test starting over selected locations in japan? (you got my hopes up for a xbl/psn demo like jp KOFXII did for just a sec :p)
DarKaoZ>yup, I stoked about this too ! :D