IT'S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN! Where we all start frothing at the mouth like a child let loose, without a parent, in Toys'r'Us over the upcoming releases!
Location: Earls Court, London - 27th to 30th September
Tickets: £9-£12, A couple are left for Friday and Sunday if you fancy going
UPDATE #1
Offical hashtag for NeoGAF is: #GAFEG. Use it to communicate with each other tomorrow.
Highlights this year:
The WiiU is here! Finally letting the unwashed masses in the UK get their hands on it. Be prepared for queues if the Vita from last year was anything to go by. Rezzed has come along to expand the PC showing this year, Indie Games Arcade is back; has been promised to be bigger and better. Retro zone will also be returning too!
Games to see include (credit to IamMikeside for compiling the list):
2K Games:
Borderlands 2
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Activision:
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Bethesda Softworks:
Doom 3: BFG Edition
Dishonored
Capcom:
DmC: Devil May Cry
Resident Evil 6
Codemasters:
F1 2012
F1 Race Stars
GRID2
EA:
Battlefield 3: Premium
Crysis 3
Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
SimCity
Get Games:
Hotline Miami
Luftrausers
Konami:
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Zone of the Enders HD Collection
Mastertronic:
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Sniper Elite V2
Microsoft:
Dance Central 3
Fable: The Journey
FIFA 13
FORZA Horizon
Gears of War: Judgment
HALO 4
Namco Bandai:
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Nintendo:
New Super Mario Bros U
NintendoLand
SEGA:
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
The Cave
Sony:
God of War: Ascention
Gran Turismo 5: Academy Edition
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Smart As
Sound Shapes
Tokyo Jungle
Unfinished Swan
When Vikings Attack!
Wonderbook: Book of Spells
Square Enix:
Hitman: Absolution
Tomb Raider
THQ:
Company of Heroes 2
Ubisoft:
Assassin's Creed 3
Far Cry 3
Just Dance 4
Rocksmith
ZombiU
Other:
AirBuccaneers - LudoCraft
Carmageddon - Stainless Games
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission - Mastertronic
Dead or Alive 5 - Tecmo Koei
Dream - Hypersloth
DUST 514 - CCP Games
DV8: Rules are Made to be Broken - Gamoso
Fluid Football - Appy Nation
Guns of Icarus - Muse Games
Hypoxia - Xpod Games
Natural Selection 2 - Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Strike Suit Zero - Born Ready Games
Warface - Trion Worlds
Developer Sessions with the likes of: Hideo Kojima, Chet Faliszek, Guys from Relic Entertainment (CoH2), Criterion, 343, Ubisoft and more! Be sure to queue early for some of these as they might well be full this year around looking ticket sales.
With regards to Meet Ups I'll leave that to everyones discretion. I know some folks are bringing friends or partners and probably want to see things on their own schedule. But I'll put locations and times in next week so people can meet up and rave about what they saw. It'll be easier to orginize things in the first post than have people digging through the thread like last year.
Thursday
Morn: FREEZING OUR ARSES OFF IN THE QUEUE AT 9AM! / Lunch: / Eve:
Friday
Morn: / Lunch: / Eve:
Saturday
Morn: / Lunch: / Eve:
Sunday
Morn: / Lunch: / Eve:
If you're a first timer and have any questions feel free to ask I know for a couple of us it was our first time last year and we all learned a lot of dos/don'ts from last time. Be prepared and all that. It isn't a race though, I was there for two days last year and saw most of the developer sessions and still had ample time to see all the games I wanted. So don't be arsey with people if you feel they are spending too long playing a game, remember everyone is here to have fun.
Highlights from 2011
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