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I've been to Gamescom six times - here's what excited me this year

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I've been to Gamescom six times - here's what excited me this year

Gamescom is the largest in-person gaming event in the world, and this year it lived up to expectations with big games on show from The Witcher 3's new expansion, to Alien: Isolation 2.

Last year over 350,000 people flocked to the halls of the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany to get a chance to see and play the most hotly anticipated games.

This year that number of attendees is expected to have been even bigger, with the likes of Xbox and Sega showcasing games to the public alongside indie studios with only one or two developers.

This was my sixth time attending Gamescom, which never fails to make me excited about the games industry. Here are a few of the big things I got to check out this week.

Gamers will once again play as the gruff-voiced Geralt of Rivera in the new The Witcher 3 expansion

When CD Projekt Red announced it was making a new expansion for the hugely popular action-role playing game The Witcher 3, it came as a shock.

Yet it was clear sitting in the crowd for Opening Night Live on Tuesday that there's still a lot of love for the older game. There were gasps and audible shouts of joy when the team announced they were providing a free upgrade to the original.

As for the expansion, Songs of the Past will follow the gruff-voiced protagonist Geralt in an adventure discovering more about the past of his close friend Dandelion.

Doug Cockle, who voices Geralt, told me it was a "thrill" to return as The Witcher.


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