The Games Convention: Europe's biggest game show - and I was there! Rather I was one of 183,000 visitors, so you can imagine how big this event is and how damn lost you can get inside the big convention halls.

It was fun nevertheless and a great thing to see. There were DJs, special guests, moderated events and and and everywhere all the time. And I better not forget to mention all the gorgeous booth babes that were around.

Yeah, GC was really a visual feast. But first things first:
A friend and I arrived at about 11 am and stayed for 6.5 long hours and visited every hall and almost every booth. Some of our highlights were:

• Saw some great case moddings (pictures below)
• Saw Sebastian Lahm (German soccer player who is in the national team) at the Nintendo booth signing footballs
• Heard some known hip-hopper singing at the EA booth (but silly me, I've already forgotten his hip-hop artist name)
• Played and watched a preview of Crysis
• Previewed Gothic 3 and watched the trailer
• Played Stalker - yeah, it's finally going to be release soon - really!
• Met Fatal1ty at the Creative Labs booth, where he moderated a lottery. People had to ask him good questions to win a prize - but I didn't dare ask him about the reasons why he lost against the Chinese Doom3 player, should I have?
• Stayed in queue for about 30 min to play Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (after other friends of mine had waited for an undisclosed time but gave up their seats for us - thanks to them, Michi & Olli). It really kicks ass and I can't wait to play it online.
• We also met Wils and Digibob at the SplashDamage/ET:QW booth (bongoboy was around, too, but I didn't know him from IRC). Wils was so kind to guide me around in ET:QW and show me some tricks throughout the game session. Thanks Wils!
• Saw a lot of hot chicks but I've mentioned that already, didn't I?

Ok, ok, so this was the text part. I know that you all want to see some pictures, so here we go - but due to their amount and the lack of auto-generated thumbnails (thank you, WordPress), I had to add a 'More' tag. I hope it doesn't bother you. Enjoy the pictures.

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This is my first post here and I guess people introduce themselves with their first post. I'm going to introduce my fish instead. He's so much cooler than I am - although I'm bigger than him, but who isn't?

You see, actually I don't even know whether he really is a 'he', if you understand what I want to say. I mean, how do you determine this for a fish? I guess the male fish don't have a, well, a counterpart to what the female fish don't have.. you understand, do you?

Actually I think: I shouldn't know. People who know such stuff and publicly tell other people about it.. Who cares anyway? It's a fish after all. Though.. no, no, let me go back to the task of describing the fish - my fish.

It - let's call it it for a while although now he it looks at me a bit furiously - isn't that big, a lot smaller than my 1.88m. I daresay as big as fish nowadays get but you never know after Chernobyl and all that other almost melt-downs and leaks. The color of fish is indifferent, isn't it? Let's just say my fish is yellow. I don't want to discriminate my fish. With all that lawsuits because of people's color and race and smoking habits, I really don't feel like taking part in that discussion.

I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. So let me simply declare my fish is some yellow fish. It's a pity that it - you can't say no to those eyes - he has no arms and no hands but only fins. We're already a perfect team but we would be invincible, if he could give me a hand with coding. But the way things are, he can only assist me with his mind and his well-educated comments and notes on my work. You're going to appreciate his words, too - believe me.

By the way if someone wants to know more about me, simply take a look at the About page.

Andreas