five things to do at the Parisian video game show

2024-10-24 23:00:00

Paris Games Week” fair on October 23 at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris. ” sizes=”(min-width: 1024px) 556px, 100vw” width=”664″ height=”443″/> A visitor during the “Paris Games Week” fair on October 23 at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris. DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP

For this 2024 edition, the video game exhibition awaits almost 200,000 people curious to try the latest news, preview unreleased titles and participate in the various activities organized in the stands. If you decide to stop by this weekend, here’s what you can do during your day.

Prepare the list for Santa Claus with the children (or for yourself)

The main interest of Paris Games Week remains being able to form an opinion on the games which, at 80 euros each in some cases, can represent a real budget. The largest contingent is present on the stands of the major publishers and producers: impossible to miss, they are often the most impressive and colourful.

If you are ready to face the sometimes long queues that stand between you and these stands, you can try your hand at the most important titles released recently such as Astrobots (Sony stand), Star Wars Outlaws (Ubisoft stand, we loved it), The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo stand, also appreciated by The world) or the last one Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Xbox stand) which, even if it no longer attracts the public it did a few years ago, remains one of the most popular points of interest at the fair.

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Try the games first

Unlike Gamescom, the German show, which is older, bigger and comes earlier in the year, Paris Games Week offers fewer preview games. But that doesn’t mean they are completely absent.

• At the Plaion stand. In the midst of the hay you will discover the joys of managing a farm Farming simulator 25 (scheduled for November 12th).
• Also in Plaion, if you like medieval knights, follow (really) the sound of swords: there, practitioners of medieval fencing regularly give demonstrations. Take the opportunity to spot the pillory installed for the opportunity to try your hand Kingdom Come: Liberation IIscheduled for February 11, 2025.
• Japan is also well represented with, from SEGA, a playable version of Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii which will arrive on February 21st.
• At Capcom, Monster Hunter Wildsthe new work of the hugely popular monster hunting license scheduled for February 28th.

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Discover the French scene

On the pavilion Games made in Francethese are the local games that are in the spotlight. Far from the blockbusters that take the lion’s share of the media agenda, these titles more modest in size are sometimes developed by very small teams. But in the field of video games, size doesn’t always matter!