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.
Now, let’s start with the case modding pictures. They aren’t great and there aren’t many of them since I needed the flash space for something else - you guess.
We also saw some guys dancing on dance pads, the nice booth of EVE online and a live reggea band playing some good music:
There were also like 30 plastic models of famous game and comic characters (Solid Snake, Spiderman, Ms. Croft, and and and). Most of my pictures only look good at 100x100 since they are too blurry otherwise, so I’m only going to show you a famous orc and the batman.
Another cool thing, which hadn’t had anything directly to do with games, were some hot cars (notice the booth babes behind the orange one - they were hot, too):
At the Midway stand (publisher for Unreal Tournament 2007, etc) there was a huge - and with huge I really mean it - Unreal Tournament model. It was like 4 meters high and looked like rendered - my fish points out that things are normally the other way but it really looked like it was taken out of some UE3 screenshot..
And now finally we arrive at the type of pictures you have all waited for: the booth babes.
Let’s see: do you like Lara Croft?
Okay, that shot wasn’t perfect, so what do you think of this one?
Better eh? Or if you don’t like her, what about her?
Maybe you like them in conjunction with cars?
Or do you want to see them in a group? 
I hope you enjoyed these photos as much as I did when I took them..
Stay tuned,
Andreas