Gamescom in Cologne Shows Big New Games
The world's biggest games event happened again in Cologne, Germany.
Gamescom is the biggest games event in the world.
It happens in Cologne, in Germany.
Last year more than 350,000 people came.
This year the number is bigger.
Big companies like Xbox and Sega showed games. Small studios showed games too.
One new game is Alien: Isolation 2. In this game you must run away from an alien.
A new game called Fable will come in 2027.
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Witcher 3 Expansion and Alien Sequel Shown at Gamescom
More than 350,000 people came to Cologne last year, and this year the event was even bigger.
Gamescom is the largest gaming event in the world. It takes place in the halls of the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany.
Last year over 350,000 people came to see and play new games. This year even more people were expected, because big companies like Xbox and Sega showed their games to the public. Small studios with only one or two developers were there too.
CD Projekt Red announced a new expansion for The Witcher 3. This was a surprise, because the original game came out 11 years ago. The expansion is called Songs of the Past. The team also said the original game will get a free upgrade.
Alien: Isolation 2 is the sequel to a game from 2014. This time players are not the daughter of Ellen Ripley. They play as Blake, a chief executive of the Weyland-Yutani corporation.
Playground Games showed Fable, which is coming in 2027. The team wants players to hear real British accents from cities like Newcastle, Edinburgh and Cardiff.
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Gamescom in Cologne Reveals New Witcher, Alien and Fable Games
The BBC's Laura Cress attended the world's largest in-person gaming event for the sixth time.
Gamescom, the largest in-person gaming event in the world, was held again this week at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany. Last year over 350,000 people attended, and this year the number of visitors is expected to have been even bigger. Xbox and Sega showed games to the public alongside indie studios with only one or two developers.
One of the biggest surprises was a new expansion for The Witcher 3, announced by CD Projekt Red, 11 years after the original action role-playing game was released. The expansion, Songs of the Past, follows the character Geralt as he learns more about the past of his close friend Dandelion. A free upgrade to the original game was also announced. Doug Cockle, who voices Geralt, said returning to the role was a "thrill".
Alien: Isolation 2, the sequel to Creative Assembly's 2014 survival-horror game, was also shown. Players take the role of Blake, a chief executive of the Weyland-Yutani corporation, and must avoid the Alien in spaceship corridors and in larger open-air spaces. The game's Project Art Director, Anastasia Sopikova, said open spaces would not always feel safe. "Suddenly you realise you're really vulnerable," she said.
Ralph Fulton, the founder of Leamington Spa-based Playground Games, said the 2027 reboot of Fable had "two tonal pillars": "Britishness" and "fairy tales". The team wanted to avoid generic English accents, he said, because accents in the UK change every 15 to 20 miles.
Elsewhere at the expo, players took part in Games Done Quick, an event where people try to finish a game as quickly as possible. According to business director Ashley Farkas, its charity marathons have raised "62 million dollars for charities in the last 16 years".
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