{"id":6781,"date":"2022-08-23T12:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/23\/pushing-buttons-the-games-event-thats-low-on-glamour-high-on-gossip\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:37:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:37:52","slug":"pushing-buttons-the-games-event-thats-low-on-glamour-high-on-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/23\/pushing-buttons-the-games-event-thats-low-on-glamour-high-on-gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: The games event that\u2019s low on glamour, high on gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t have the pizzazz of E3, but Gamescom in Cologne is a great place to check out the titles you\u2019ll be reading about in future newsletters<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A slightly shorter missive this week as I\u2019m on my way to Gamescom in Cologne, a convention I attended for the first time in 2006. I played the then-unreleased Nintendo Wii for the first time at my first Gamescom. A few years later, I got a look at Project Natal, Microsoft\u2019s mad motion-controlled game experiment that later became the Kinect. I once had the uncomfortable experience of being driven around Cologne in a limo for 20 minutes, while being shown dodgy footage of a licensed Stargate online game that was never released. For more than 15 years, I have honed my journalistic technique by plying tipsy, jetlagged American game developers for rumours after a few pints of K\u00f6lsch by the river.<\/p>\n<p>Gamescom has never had the LA glamour of E3; it was always more workmanlike, great from a coverage perspective but light on pizzazz. I\u2019m fond of it though, not least because as the biggest games convention in the world \u2013 with more than 300,000 attendees \u2013 it challenges the video games industry\u2019s US-centrism. There are many millions of gamers in Europe too, folks! We deserve a big event. PlayStation, Nintendo and EA have eschewed this show for a while, and in their place you get a mish-mash of unexpected exhibitors that reflect gaming tastes on mainland Europe. Simulation games are huge here, and massive swathes of the show floor are usually given over to games like Farming Simulator. PC gaming is bigger here, so point-and-click adventures, war games and strategy games are also more prominent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/aug\/23\/pushing-buttons-gamescom-worlds-biggest-gaming-convention\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5e721249a0d2cb2328048a69be28c94c9257129b\/0_145_5943_3565\/master\/5943.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ab47cbfd8b07f28c1780096c956a2454\" title=\"Pushing Buttons: The games event that\u2019s low on glamour, high on gossip\" \/>It doesn\u2019t have the pizzazz of E3, but Gamescom in Cologne is a great place to check out the titles you\u2019ll be reading about in future newsletters<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nA slightly shorter missive this week as I\u2019m on my way to Gamescom in Cologne, a convention I attended for the first time in 2006. I played the then-unreleased Nintendo Wii for the first time at my first Gamescom. A few years later, I got a look at Project Natal, Microsoft\u2019s mad motion-controlled game experiment that later became the Kinect. I once had the uncomfortable experience of being driven around Cologne in a limo for 20 minutes, while being shown dodgy footage of a licensed Stargate online game that was never released. For more than 15 years, I have honed my journalistic technique by plying tipsy, jetlagged American game developers for rumours after a few pints of K\u00f6lsch by the river.<br \/>\nGamescom has never had the LA glamour of E3; it was always more workmanlike, great from a coverage perspective but light on pizzazz. I\u2019m fond of it though, not least because as the biggest games convention in the world \u2013 with more than 300,000 attendees \u2013 it challenges the video games industry\u2019s US-centrism. There are many millions of gamers in Europe too, folks! We deserve a big event. PlayStation, Nintendo and EA have eschewed this show for a while, and in their place you get a mish-mash of unexpected exhibitors that reflect gaming tastes on mainland Europe. Simulation games are huge here, and massive swathes of the show floor are usually given over to games like Farming Simulator. PC gaming is bigger here, so point-and-click adventures, war games and strategy games are also more prominent. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t have the pizzazz of E3, but Gamescom in Cologne is a great place to check out the titles you\u2019ll be reading about in future newsletters Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here A slightly shorter missive this week as I\u2019m on my way to Gamescom in Cologne, a convention &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/23\/pushing-buttons-the-games-event-thats-low-on-glamour-high-on-gossip\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Buttons: The games event that\u2019s low on glamour, high on gossip<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6782,"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\/6781"}],"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=6781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}