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  • Gamescom Bulletin: Day 3

    Wilkommen to our third and final Gamescom update. The show's going to continue over the weekend, but the business folks are packing up and fleeing, leaving the vast showfloor to the general public to drift between heaving booth demos, like Dead Rising but with more Final Fantasy cosplayers.
    This means that we have indeed gone a whole show without any Sony vs. Microsoft throwdowns, which after the last couple of years of heavyweight slugging feels crushingly anticlimactic. PS4's best and only hope was an awkward, over-produced booth tour with Jim Ryan, which does at least capture a classic trade-show experience of spending half an hour with somebody who is contractually obligated to say nothing new or interesting.
    Things weren't much better over at the Blizzard conference, which turned out to be roughly a thousand years of filibustering about lore that even the level-100 diehards didn't remember. We woke up to discover that the new expansion is called Legion, which adds a new Demon Hunter class and all the weapon-levelling stuff that Bungie just took out of Destiny. Good to see that Activision supports recycling. Meanwhile the Away Team had a chat with Blizzard about the changes to Hearthstone, covering all the new stuff and how it won't be making the game impenetrable to newcomers.
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