Games Convention focuses on online games.

Change of strategy in Leipzig: Because the industry association's Games Fair has moved to Cologne, the Leipzig Games Convention trade show her future as a special event for online gaming treat. Whether the largest in this industry is involved, remains questionable.

 

Leipzig - the future, the exhibition "Games Convention online" and are specific to online and mobile games concentrate. The online gaming company
Bigpoint and
Gameforge have already expressed support for the new exhibition explains - but significantly less likely to fail than the old Games Convention, so far one of the biggest video game trade shows in the world.

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Games Convention (Archivbild, 2008): Newly-invention as an online game show

Messe boss Wolfgang Marzin said the Games Convention will be Online "several tens of thousands of visitors in Leipzig, and several million visitors in the whole world." The latter will be on an accompanying online event reach across the network would "Millions of gamers added," then "live" at the fair opportunity to take part. Partner country of the new show found the online game-crazy South Korea will be.

Instead, the new finding, 31 Fair July to 2 August. The old deadline was the end of August
Cologne competitors Games Com, the industry association BIU in first this year will support the Leipzig weggeschnappt.

Browser and partially client-based games, and how they Bigpoint Gameforge offer are in fact a booming growth market. Bigpoint spokesman Nils-Holger Henning believes: "In the area of online and casual gaming is the need to exchange high, the evidence established international trade fairs."

Whether the new show but the fans will be similarly inspired as the old, a cult event ripened Games Convention, is questionable. An important role is played, whether the major online game providers such as Blizzard Entertainment (World of Warcraft "), Sony (" Everquest ") or Codemasters (" Lord of the Rings Online ") at the fair will participate.

This, however, seems at least questionable - from Leipzig was reported at the request of blogs ONLINE initially, the actual recruitment phase begins just erst Sony and Activision Blizzard's parent company, but at least include the BIU - and has focused on the Cologne exhibition site as a set.