{"id":11287,"date":"2023-08-22T12:37:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T10:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/22\/like-going-to-glastonbury-gamescom-boosts-festival-feel-to-draw-gamers\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T12:37:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T10:37:33","slug":"like-going-to-glastonbury-gamescom-boosts-festival-feel-to-draw-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/22\/like-going-to-glastonbury-gamescom-boosts-festival-feel-to-draw-gamers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like going to Glastonbury\u2019: gamescom boosts festival feel to draw gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Other key conventions may have hit hurdles, but Cologne\u2019s annual games jamboree has high expectations<\/p>\n<p>Like Glastonbury and Primavera for music lovers, huge video game conventions have traditionally been a beloved gathering place for gamers, and a focal point of the year for gaming news.<\/p>\n<p>At events such as E3 in Los Angeles and gamescom in Germany, hundreds of thousands of fans would turn up to play forthcoming games in cavernous halls full of light and sound. But where music festivals have roared back since the Covid pandemic, video game conventions have struggled to regain their former essential place in the calendar.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/aug\/22\/like-going-to-glastonbury-gamescom-boosts-festival-feel-to-draw-gamers-back\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6a85f0afca8b0d8fa86f6941061b02b79eeee8e9\/0_358_7824_4694\/master\/7824.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=73066cf6618df908fa8574ec72b273b2\" title=\"\u2018Like going to Glastonbury\u2019: gamescom boosts festival feel to draw gamers\" \/>Other key conventions may have hit hurdles, but Cologne\u2019s annual games jamboree has high expectations<br \/>\nLike Glastonbury and Primavera for music lovers, huge video game conventions have traditionally been a beloved gathering place for gamers, and a focal point of the year for gaming news.<br \/>\nAt events such as E3 in Los Angeles and gamescom in Germany, hundreds of thousands of fans would turn up to play forthcoming games in cavernous halls full of light and sound. But where music festivals have roared back since the Covid pandemic, video game conventions have struggled to regain their former essential place in the calendar. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other key conventions may have hit hurdles, but Cologne\u2019s annual games jamboree has high expectations Like Glastonbury and Primavera for music lovers, huge video game conventions have traditionally been a beloved gathering place for gamers, and a focal point of the year for gaming news. At events such as E3 in Los Angeles and gamescom &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/22\/like-going-to-glastonbury-gamescom-boosts-festival-feel-to-draw-gamers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Like going to Glastonbury\u2019: gamescom boosts festival feel to draw gamers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}