I don’t like Guitar Hero but I like this video

Even if you don’t like Guitar Hero this video is worth watching…enjoy

Slicing, Dicing, Rolling and Skating @ the Gamescom ’09

I immediatly thought back to last year’s 4-day trip to the Leipzig Games Convention together with Fred Prefuse when i found out last week that i won two tickets for the Gamescom in Cologne. We did think about going again earlier this year, but actually didn’t get to plan something serious. Now NG-gamer provided us with two tickets we just couldn’t resist the call to at least go and have a look. And as part of the price there where two Fairytalefights goodie bags and caricature drawings by an art director of Playlogic waiting for us when we got there. So after discussing our options and getting Fred Prefuse’s girlfriend to come along we decided on going saturday….

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Gamescom 2009 // pulls in 245,000 attendees

Organizers of the Gamescom claim the five-day trade fair pulled a total of 245,000 attendees, made up of 17,000 visitors to the trade show portion, and 228,000 coming to the consumer portion. I’m working on a full report about a day at the Gamescom and it will follow later this week.

more numbers after the jump.

Prefuse @ Gamescom

We have visited the Gamescom on saturday. A full report about this event will be posted later this week. Meanwhile enjoy the trailers and try and get some fresh air.

Open source and free to play games to get through the summer.

Quake Live: www.quakelive.com

This is a fast first-person shooter currently in beta phase but already open for public. The game features the old-school quake arena feeling only its playable straight from your web-browser.

Quake Live is a new and innovative browser-based multiplayer game experience that offers players of all skill levels a totally free and easily accessible multiplayer game and social community through a single state-of-the-art web site.

More open source and Free to Play games after the jump!