Gaming
The Biggest Global Gaming Events of 2018
There are dozens of great gaming events held each year and we’ve listed some of the most anticipated events for 2018 below. There some great events to come though including Paris Games Week, Gamescom, Blizzcon, Tokyo Game Show and more and you’ll be able to see all the hot new games and technologies showcased at them.
Best Gaming Events for 2018
Paris Games Week
Discover the best games and novelties of the year. This event takes place every year in Paris with exhibitors and sponsors from around the world bringing their games to the stage including Ubisoft eSports, games made in France, and the biggest video games of the year. Games from the 2017 event included Battleground, Marvel Vs Capcom: Infinite, Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor Martyr, Gran Turismo Sports, and more.
Gamescom
Gamescom 2018 takes place in Cologne from the 21st to the 25th of August. Over 335,000 gaming fans attended in 2017 to see the latest games, software and innovative accessories. Devcom will be there along with industry names include IGN, Gamer Network, and much more. This is the largest trade show in the world with the likes of Microsoft, EA, Blizzard, Nintendo, and more all showcasing new games. Most of the big-name player can be found at Gamescom every year.
Blizzcon
Blizzcon is a massive celebration of epic games from this premier game developer. You get to watch lots of eSports including Overwatch, Hearthstone, Heroes Global Championship, StarCraft II, World of Warcraft, and much more. The date for 2018 hasn’t been released yet but it is normally held in November. It’s a fan convention and a way for them to announce new expansions for their games. It’s also a major eSports event too and the Overwatch league will be launching in 2018 so expect huge crowds.
Tokyo Game Show
This event takes place from the 22nd to the 23rd of September and is the longest running video game conference in the world. At this event, you can expect to get new information from a number of major Japanese game publishers. At TGS 2017, Capcom announced the release date for Monster Hunter: World, Square Enix unveiled its horror game Left Alive and Sony released a new trailer for the Shadow of Colossus remake.
Other events gamers can look forward to include PokerStars events. These are hugely popular with poker players. You may have already missed out on some of the events from the start of the year including the first PokerStars Festival which was held in London as well as the PAX South 2018 which was held in January. During the festival, poker fans get to visit some of the most iconic casinos and poker rooms, play their favourite poker games with friends, including Omaha and Five-Card Draw, and compete for 300 full packages to the PokerStars Players NL Hold’em Championship (PSPC) worth $30,000 each. Each package includes entry to the PSPC event, food and beverage allowance, and accommodation at the Atlantis Resort, Nassau, in the Bahamas.
Other Great Gaming Events for 2018
- PAX South: January 12 to 14. A great event which showcases some interesting titles and a look at new indie games for 2018.
- DreamHack Leipzig: This is the biggest LAN-Party in Germany and offers DreamExpo and receives more than 15,000 visitors each year. Takes place on the 26th January 2018.
- Gaming Instanbul 2018: 1st February 2018 this event is set to be the gaming bridge of EuroAsia and showcasing the Turkish games industry.
- GamesIndustry.biz Marketing Summit: 1st February. Networking event for the UK and European games industry. Will include talks from leading experts.
- VFX Festival: 6th February. A three-day event looking at games, animation, and motion graphics for games developers and more. Held in London.
- Google Play Indie Games Contest: 13th February in London. A public event for anyone who want to try the games being showcased and meet the developers.
- Mobile World Congress: 26th February. Barcelona, Spain.
- Game Developers Conference (GDC): 19th March, Moscone Conference Center, San Francisco, United States. Over 2700 developers, publishers, and service providers. Developeres from around the world come together to discuss the art of game design with keynote speeches on games that have made it big and what to look forward to in the future. There’s also plenty of game news announced. Last year Microsoft’s ID@Xbox indies program showcased 20 titles including Observer and Full Metal Furries.
- PAX East: April 5th to 8th in Boston. This event focuses on giving the public access to current and upcoming games. It boosts exciting indie games and helps to build up buzz. For public attendees, it shows of soon-to-be-released titles.
- London Games Festival: 5th April, London. Events that celebrate the games culture and includes EGX Rezzed and the BAFTA awards.
- EGX Rezzed: 13th April, London. A video games event with plenty of attractions and developer sessions with well-known game designers.
- Reboot Develop: A game developer and games industry conference. Takes place in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 19th April.
- BigSummit: The largest games event in Japan. 12th May in Kyoto, Japan. Dedicated to the indie game development community and includes Indie MEGABOOTH with lots of new titles being showcased.
- Digital Dragons: 21 and 22 May in Krakow. Central and Eastern European game development held in the ICE Congress Center.
- Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3): June 12th to 14 in Los Angeles. E3 is the conference to really take note of every year. They have keynote presentations from Microsoft, Sony, Bethesda, Ubisoft, and more. All the major publishers and console manufacturers will be there to showcase new games and projects and provide the biggest updates of the year. At E3 2017 some great games were revealed including Assassin’s Creed Origins, Far Cry 5, and God of War.
- Tehran Game Convention: 5th July, Tehran, Iran. Biggest international B2B event in the video game industry in the Middle East. Features 100+ companies and 2300+ game developers from all over the world.
- Develop Brighton: 10th July, Brighton, United Kingdom. Game development community including global superstars.
- Game Connection Europe: 24th October, Paris, France. 2700+ developers, publishers, distributors, and service providers come to find out what’s new in the industry.
- PAX Aus 2018 and EB Expo: 26-28 October, Melbourne, Australia. Featuring over 180 companies from around the world with thousands of games and over 150 hours of on-stage content. Will also play host to EB Expo including a dedicated area for publishers to showcase their upcoming titles.
- Montreal International Game Summit (MIGS): 12th November, Montreal, Canada. Largest game conference on the East Coast. More than 3000 game professionals will be in attendance.
As Assassin’s Creed Shadows is about to sneak up on people in November, Ubisoft says that the time between developing games needs to be longer to find the “right balance.” Shadows has been in development for four years, longer than any other game in the series up to this point. That includes the huge open-world epics Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
Shadows lead producer Karl Onnée (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz) says that the latest AC game took 25% longer to make than Valhalla. He says this is necessary to keep the quality of the series that it is known for: “It’s always a balance between time and costs, but the more time you have, the more you can iterate.” You can speed up a project by adding more people to it, but that doesn’t give you more time to make changes.
Onnée says this has as much to do with immersion and aesthetics as it does with fixing bugs and smoothing out pixels. This is because the development team needs time to learn about each new historical setting: “We are trying to make a game that is as real as possible.” We’re proud of it, and the process took a long time. In feudal Japan, building a house is very different from building a house in France or England in the Middle Ages. As an artist, you need to learn where to put things in a feudal Japanese home. For example, food might not belong there. Get all the information you need and learn it. That process takes a long time.”
You’ll have to wait a little longer for Ubisoft to work on each game. Are you okay with that? In what part of Shadows are you now? Is it interesting to you? Leave a comment below and let us know.
You can now pre-order Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP, a remaster that Dragami Games and Capcom both created. You can now pre-order the PS5 game on the PS Store for $44.99 or £39.99. If you have PS Plus, you can get an extra 10% off the price.
The company put out a new trailer with about three minutes of gameplay to mark the start of the pre-order period. Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is a remaster of Grasshopper Manufacture’s crazy action game from 2012. You play as Juliet, a high school student who fights off waves of zombies.
The remaster adds RePOP mode, an alternative mode that swaps out the blood and gore for fun visual effects. It also adds a bunch of other features and improvements that make the game better overall. You can expect the graphics and sound to be better as well.
The game will now come out on September 12, 2024, instead of September 12, 2024. Are you excited to get back to this? Please cheer us on in the section below.
Is there really anyone who is following the story of Call of Duty’s zombie mode? We’ve known about the story in a vague way for a while, but we couldn’t tell you anything about it. It looks like the “Dark Aether” story will continue in Black Ops 6, but we don’t really know what that means.
For those of you who care, here is the official blurb with some background: “Requiem, led by the CIA, finally closed the last-dimensional portal, sending its inhabitants back to the nightmare world known as the Dark Aether, after two years of fighting zombie outbreaks around the world during the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War timeline.”
Wait, there’s more! “Agent Samantha Maxis gave her life to seal this weird dimension from the inside out.” Even worse things were to come: senior staff members of Requiem were arrested without a reason by the Project Director, who turned out to be Edward Richtofen.
Black Ops 6 will take place about five years later, and it looks like it will show more about Richtofen’s goals and motivations. The most important thing is that you will probably be shooting an unimaginable number of zombies in the head. This week, on August 8, there will be a full reveal of the gameplay, so keep an eye out for that.
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