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Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra Unboxing – New Mobile Phone

Unboxing a new Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra 512GB in titanium yellow.

Samsung introduced their new Samsung Galaxy S24 phones.

I pre-ordered a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra 512GB in titanium yellow from Vodafone, which arrived on time on official release date 24.01.2024.

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Inside the box are the phone and an inner accessory box.

Opening the box

The box contains the phone, USB-C to USB-C cable and pin tool. Also included are a quick start guide and warranty leaflets in multiple languages but no charger.

The box contains the phone, an inner box which contains a slide-out with manuals, guarantee certificates, USB-C to USB-C cable and the pin tool

I always like the included charges because with Samsung phones they became a bit more capable over time. As many will have numerous chargers in the house those can be used and leaving out the charger is considered ecologically friendly.

USB-C to USB-C cable included but no charger

Note the the included cable is a USB-C to USB-C type. This means you either need a charger with USB-C outlet. If yours still has a USB-A port you need to find a suitable USB-A to USB-C cable.

Wireless charging of course works but is slower than a wired charger.

The screen is protected with an opaque black sticker film

The Galaxy S24 Ultra screen is protected with an opaque black sticker. It cannot be used as an initial screen protector. Other phones sometimes have a clear protector applied which can be used as an initial protector. Here, if you want screen protection you will need to bring your own.

I find it practical to apply a screen protector straight when unboxing a new phone

Before launch, I ordered a set of screen protectors which come with a guide. The guide aligns the protector with the phone: Insert phone, then insert protective film which will be guided by three pins. Then close the lid, pull out the protective back. The lid can slide back and forth. Doing so will move a rubber roller (green roller in the picture) across the screen. This will press the protector firmly onto the screen and eliminate most of the air. I had very little air under the film at one edge which I could easily push out with an included squeegee.

This protector comes with an guide which aligns the protector with the phone and then works as a roller to evenly apply it. Two protectors are included.

The backside has a nice yellow tone and is flat except the five camera lenses, which do protude a little.

Never was a fan of “golden” phones but I really like the titanium yellow.

I really liked the yellow color. For over a decade my phone were mostly either black or white. Lately I like colored phone. The iPhone Pro Max 12 blue was really nice, as was the Pro 14’s deep purple.

Out of the 2024 color range, yellow, black and titanium have matching colored bezels. The other colors (violet and the three Samsung store exclusive blue, green and orange) have titanium colored bezels which do not match the back color.

That is another reason to like the titanium yellow: You get matching colored bezels. I also liked the violet but would have preferred violet bezels over the titanium colored ones.

Out of the 2024 color range, yellow, black and titanium have matching colored bezels. The others (violet and the three Samsung store exclusive blue, green and orange) have titanium colored bezels which do not match the back color

The glass back, bezel and camera borderings are tone-in-tone.

Buttons are only one one side, leaving the opposite bezel clean. This also avoids accidental button presses i.e. when tilting the phone up on the side to watch a video in landscape format.

Same for the camera borderings, yellow, black and titanium have matching colors

You can see the slim plastic strips in the titanium bezels which separate the antennas.

Transfusion in progress: Transferring data, apps and settings from the old S22 Ultra to the new S24 Ultra

Samsung has the Smart Switch software installed on their phone which will let you sync your data, apps and settings from your old phone.

Smar Sync will give you a summary and also explicitly list what will NOT be synced. In my case this was one app (Homo Machina, an educational app) which was noted as incompatible. A bit strange since I tested installing same app on the new phone after the sync and that worked without issue.

I had only to enter my WIFI password and Samsung Pass passwords.

Transfer complete, the S24 keeps working in the background but can already be used

When the transfer completes you can detach the cable. The phone continued to work in the background but could already by used.

Really like the flat screen without the previously rounded edges and the flat titanium yellow bezels

I have been using the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra now for three days since launch date 24.02.2024 and must say I really like the phone. For the last two years I have been using a Galaxy S22 Ultra as my company phone. The one thing I did not like so much were the rounded edges. They looked nice but made the phone a bit more difficult to hold without touching the screen. The rounded edges also made it more difficult to apply a screen protector. I used a film type protector to fit the edges. If one preferred a hard protector you had to get one made for the rounded edges.

The flat display is also more usable with the S-Pen.

The slide-out panel which lets you pin app shortcuts and has a ruler is available with the flat screen. In the old days (around S6 to S9) this slide-out panel was exclusive to the models with the edge displays but not the flat ones if I remember correctly.

So far a great phone! I got a Samsung Standing Grip Case in “Dark Violet” along with the phone. It is essentially a silicone case with a kind of integrated lug on the back.The lug is normally flat and almost flush with the back but can be slid a little which will make it bend outwards, giving a curved strap to either hold your phone or to prop it up in landscape mode to i.e. watch videos.

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Homo ludens @Gamescom 2015 – Trade Visitors Day

This year’s trade visitors’ day was noticeably less crowded than the years before. The convention was much stricter with admittance, hence less visitors.

Entering Gamescom 2015:
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Ready to play?

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Farming Simulator (Landwirtschaftssimulator) is back! Has become a staple over the years.

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Microsoft booth:

Mega Bloks spire at the Halo 5 Guardians entrance

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Halo 5: Guardians and most other games at Microsoft were playable with the new Elite Controller. The 150$ price tag seems steep but I have to say I really like it. Has a nice heft and exceptional build quality. For shooters like Halo the trigger locks are really a plus. Less travel until the trigger switches act.

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You can see the small green switches for the trigger locks on the top of the backside.
The four green dots below are the switches for the paddles. Unfortunately I did not see the paddels anywhere on any of the games.

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For Forza 6 there is a special 10 year anniversary D-pad for the elite controller:

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These controllers have gorgeous Forza-esque paint jobs. Those are “classic” controllers, not elite ones, though:

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Forza 6 now has night races and rain. Played both and both really add to the experience. Car will react to puddles of water on the track. Best: everything now is 60 fps.

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Visitors playing Forza 6:

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Rise of Tomb Raider at the Microsoft booth. The game will be time exclusive on Xbox One before coming to PS4 one full year later. Usually you will then get the game with all DLC as some GotY or similar edition.

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FIFA 16 was also playable at Microsoft. usually entirely overrun on Gamescom I managed to play a match, even winning 2:1.

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Gigantic (by motiger) had a presence right in the center of the Microsoft booth. They have a marketing deal. Game will be available on Xbox One and Windows 10. Microsoft have been marketing the game as a showcase during their Windows 10 launch.
Gigantic and Fable will have cross-play and cross-buy between Xbox One and Windows 10.

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One of their ‘community coaches’ explaining the ins and outs to the players:

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Gigantic also had its own booth in Hall 8:

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The logo being too gigantic to fit the frame 😉 They used it as a projection screen. I generally liked the game design a lot and also the design of their booth.

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They have a central stage for competitive play:

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On the morning of trade visitors’ day there meren’t many visitors. That would change soon…

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Both the Xbox One and the Windows 10 version were playable.

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I had a nice talk to one of their character designers. Windows 10 and Xbox One version run off pretty much the same engine. Underneath it’s Unreal 3 with custom frameworks.

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EA have a huge presence (as usual). On the first day they will only open after lunch since they are running their press conference in the morning.

Star Wars: Battlefront was the big highlight this year. Easily recognizable by the big TIE fighter and ATAT models:

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Mirror’s Edge Catalyst

Catalyst is a successor to a game that won over critics more so than consumers. Happy to see a sequel.

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Unravel seems promising. Some did comment it has a lot from Sonys’ Little Big Planet’s Sackboy character.

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Need for Speed. Another staple series with a new entry. Did not play it. As far as racing games go I am recently having more fun with the slightly more realistic variants, like Forza. Love to tune the car to shave off a few seconds. Maybe also getting old, easier to memorize a race track than an open world city.

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This racing setup (PC) looked really nice. I consciously chose to NOT test drive it. I fear I might buy one if I did.

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More racing game hardware at Logitech:

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Sony booth:

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Horizon:Zero Dawn. Unfortunately only video, nothing playable, yet. Looks promising:

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Star Wars: Battlefron was playable at the Sony booth. 2-player coop split screen single player in some kind of hoard mode. Liked the game a lot, feels like actually being in one of the movies. Stunning graphics. Controls a bit mushy, though. Hope this will be improved until release.

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A visitor testing Sony project morpheus VR experience:

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Street Fighter V on PS4:

Chun-Li watching Cammy battle a mere visitor:

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Blizzard are sharing hall 7 with Sony and have a huge booth.

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More specifically they have a whole set of booths: Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, Star Craft II: Legacy of the Void, World of Warcraft: Legion and Overwatch. Hope I did not forget anything.

I liked playing Overwatch quite a bit:

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Blizzard has life-sized (more or less) figures of some of the Overwatch characters:

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Hearthstone booth:
Did not play it. i felt I could play enough Hearthstone on my phone while waiting to playtest another game.

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Some Murloc vs. play:

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Heroes of the Storm:

Learned right after taking this photo that I should not take any more photos, pity:

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So I took a few photos of some more life-sized figures:

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Hammer time!

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Between the two giants Sony and Blizzard Guitar Hero makes a comeback. Guitar Hero and Rock Band were huge for a couple of years and then more or less disappeared from the lime light. Now they are back. The crew warming up before the visitors take over:

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PES: Another come back of a great series. They were always considered the ‘realistic’ football (I’m German, I will not call it soccer) game until they were somehow overtaken in this regard by FIFA. With the transition to PS3 and Xbox 360 PES fell behind while FIFA 08 and then especially 09 and 10 made great steps forward.

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Fallout 4:

When you go to Gamescom this year you will immediately notice those who played it. They get a blue T-shirt, in exchange for having their hair spray-painted Pipboy yellow.

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Dark Souls III is hotly anticipated by many:

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I did not play it since I never got into Demons Souls, Dark Souls I/II and Bloodborne. Due to work I cannot muster the required patience. There are so many games, I want to try them all rather than master one. This is just me probably, everybody else please enjoy Dark Souls!

Another thing I did not try was Oculus rift. This was unvoluntarily, I went to the booth too late. Will try to get a slot another day and will go there first thing in the morning.

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Nintendo:

By contrast Nintendo have a really small booth this year:

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This is basically the entire booth. To the left were a number of Wii-U available. I played Zelda Triforce Heroes which was a lot of fun. You play with 3 players and have to cooperate to solve puzzles.

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All in all this years trade visitors day of Gamescom was great. Had many nice conversations and could play most games and systems with little waiting time.

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Homo ludens @Gamescom 2012 – Day .5

Spending 1 hour at this years Gamescom 2012 in Cologne before they close for the day. So it does not really count as a whole day. Today the fair opened for the public until Sunday. Will go tomorrow, just stopped by on the way home.

Last year it was really (too) crowded. It usually is already quite full on Thursday and the last two years it got even more crowded until Sunday. Worst time is around noon. After 3-4 pm it gets a little better.
Arrived around 7 pm-ish to use the chance to take some pictures.

Swimming against the current. A steady stream of gamers flows to the train station.

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Staging area where they hand out the bracelets. Don’t be fooled, it will not be this empty tomorrow morning.

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Main entrance. At this time rather the exit. They learned something from last year and are opening another entrance at hall 11 for those who already have a ticket. The hall 11 entrance is right next to the main entrance.

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Some gamers queuing up for Borderlands 2. Thought the first one was a surprise hit. Release date: September 21st. Might be faster to just wait than to wait in line.

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Last year the Diablo III area at Blizzard was walled of. Now post release there is nothing to hide.
A rare sight to see no lines and only a few gamers actually playing.
Again, I do not expect it to look like this before 5 pm.

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Neither will the SC2 part of Blizzards’ booth be so idle:

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Nor the WoW expansion part – Mists of Pandaria:

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RaiderZ across the isle:

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This one gives an impression of how empty the halls are in the evening.

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Public transport simulations:

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EA manages to retain visitors’ attention even at closing time. Isles are already empty. But do not be fooled, there are really a lot of visitors around, slowly moving to the exits.

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EA brought some cars along for NfS Most Wanted

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FIFA ## never fails to attract fans

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Apart from the fenced-off part the area was empty. Not really sure about their motivation to wait in line for … what?

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More NfS hardware

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Of all sports title I had actually not seen a handball game before. Might try this tomorrow.

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If you squint you can read “My Body Coach 3” on the glass

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Body Coach 3 in action

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Have your picture taken – in defiance

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The “case king” or “caseking” (see above) ruling supreme over some contest.

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It.is.back!!! In 2010 I raised my brow ().
In 2011 Landwirtschafts-Simulator 2012 made it’s way to the 3DS.
Now it is not only back:

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They built a controller for it!!!

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This puts Steel Battalion to shame

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Strictly speaking you need to have one of those age indicating bracelets to play any game not rated “0” at Gamescom. They should be handed out here I was told at the info stand. But someone already had left his/her post. It was almost closing time so this is understandable. Would have saved the time picking one up tomorrow, one queue less.

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Nintendo and Microsoft are notably absent this year. But Sony is still around, wich is a good thing.
2010 and 2011 Sony had put up the best showing I thought. Many games, most could be played with reasonable queuing time.

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Also like the visual style of their (huge) booth.
Little Big Planet Karting:

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Many beanie bags with PS Vitas to play around

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The move based games were popular. Some do not like move. It just does not make the gaming experience better for most “classic” games. When there are games where the concept fits, I actually prefer it to the controller-free Kinect. But I think I can count my move and Kinect games on one hand.

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Ubisoft and Konami booths. PES has a similar attraction level as FIFA.

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PES 2013

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Hitman: Absolution and Sleeping Dogs murals. Would like to play both tomorrow. But need to find out if there are playable demos or just video trailers before standing in line.

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More Ubisoft. I would really like Splinter Cell Blacklist to be good.

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Farcry 3

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Konami promising Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

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But I did not see it at their booth. Walked around it once. They do have their own broadcast studio, though.

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World of tanks seems to be getting some media attention lately. The booth was already closed apart from the large video wall:

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Next door: End of Nations

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Across: FireFall. Will try to play it tomorrow, both was already being shut down for the day.

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League of Legends was a huge hit last year. This year they moved to hall 8.

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Unobstructed view over some competition seats.

Spending 1 hour at this years Gamescom 2012 in Cologne before they close for the day. So it does not really count as a whole day. Today the fair opened for the public until Sunday. Will go tomorrow, just stopped by on the way home.

Last year it was really (too) crowded. It usually is already quite full on Thursday and the last two years it got even more crowded until Sunday. Worst time is around noon. After 3-4 pm it gets a little better.
Arrived around 7 pm-ish to use the chance to take some pictures.

Swimming against the current. A steady stream of gamers flows to the train station.

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Staging area where they hand out the bracelets. Don’t be fooled, it will not be this empty tomorrow morning.

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Main entrance. At this time rather the exit. They learned something from last year and are opening another entrance at hall 11 for those who already have a ticket. The hall 11 entrance is right next to the main entrance.

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Some gamers queuing up for Borderlands 2. Thought the first one was a surprise hit. Release date: September 21st. Might be faster to just wait than to wait in line.

P1070118

Last year the Diablo III area at Blizzard was walled of. Now post release there is nothing to hide.
A rare sight to see no lines and only a few gamers actually playing.
Again, I do not expect it to look like this before 5 pm.

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Neither will the SC2 part of Blizzards’ booth be so idle:

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Nor the WoW expansion part – Mists of Pandaria:

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RaiderZ across the isle:

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This one gives an impression of how empty the halls are in the evening.

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Public transport simulations:

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EA manages to retain visitors’ attention even at closing time. Isles are already empty. But do not be fooled, there are really a lot of visitors around, slowly moving to the exits.

P1070128

EA brought some cars along for NfS Most Wanted

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FIFA ## never fails to attract fans

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Apart from the fenced-off part the area was empty. Not really sure about their motivation to wait in line for … what?

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More NfS hardware

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Of all sports title I had actually not seen a handball game before. Might try this tomorrow.

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If you squint you can read “My Body Coach 3” on the glass

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Body Coach 3 in action

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Have your picture taken – in defiance

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The “case king” or “caseking” (see above) ruling supreme over some contest.

P1070151

It.is.back!!! In 2010 I raised my brow ().
In 2011 Landwirtschafts-Simulator 2012 made it’s way to the 3DS.
Now it is not only back:

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They built a controller for it!!!

P1070157

This puts Steel Battalion to shame

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Strictly speaking you need to have one of those age indicating bracelets to play any game not rated “0” at Gamescom. They should be handed out here I was told at the info stand. But someone already had left his/her post. It was almost closing time so this is understandable. Would have saved the time picking one up tomorrow, one queue less.

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Nintendo and Microsoft are notably absent this year. But Sony is still around, wich is a good thing.
2010 and 2011 Sony had put up the best showing I thought. Many games, most could be played with reasonable queuing time.

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Also like the visual style of their (huge) booth.
Little Big Planet Karting:

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Many beanie bags with PS Vitas to play around

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The move based games were popular. Some do not like move. It just does not make the gaming experience better for most “classic” games. When there are games where the concept fits, I actually prefer it to the controller-free Kinect. But I think I can count my move and Kinect games on one hand.

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Ubisoft and Konami booths. PES has a similar attraction level as FIFA.

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PES 2013

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Hitman: Absolution and Sleeping Dogs murals. Would like to play both tomorrow. But need to find out if there are playable demos or just video trailers before standing in line.

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More Ubisoft. I would really like Splinter Cell Blacklist to be good.

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Farcry 3

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Konami promising Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

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But I did not see it at their booth. Walked around it once. They do have their own broadcast studio, though.

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World of tanks seems to be getting some media attention lately. The booth was already closed apart from the large video wall:

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Next door: End of Nations

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Across: FireFall. Will try to play it tomorrow, both was already being shut down for the day.

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League of Legends was a huge hit last year. This year they moved to hall 8.

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LoL tournament theater. 15 minutes before closing time.

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Directly next to the LoL theatre the SC2 high level play still pulls a crowd

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So to sum up 1 hour of Gamescom 2012:
Refreshingly calm in the evening. Still a few lines for the big titles. For theaters: Still unclear most of the time if there is a playable demo or just some video reel. Which I could watch from my smartphone – waiting in line somewhere else. Where there IS a playable demo.

Riding into the Cologne sun set until tomorrow.

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People in Beta Video by TechBerlin

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TechBerlin posted a short video about last weekend’s People in Beta Festival at betahaus.

See the video at TechBerlin.com

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Audio Coverage from Fridayatsix People in Beta

Derk from Fridayatsix and Niko from TechBerlin moderated a radio show special during the People in Beta Fesival.

Listen to it on SoundCloud!.

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Homo ludens @Gamescom 2010

As i am currently in Cologne working for a client I used the chance to visit this year’s Gamescom 2010, the german CVG (that’s “Computer and Video Games”) expo formerly known as Games Convention. The former GC was held in Leipzig but the powers to be in the CVG business decided to move to the more central location of Cologne. Pity for Leipzig but in this case lucky for me.

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Staging area at the entrance. Might be confused with a LARP (Live Action Role Playing) Zergling rush.

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Nowadays one can inform themselves about most things on the web. The thing you cannot learn from online media or trailers are new hardware experiences like the recent motion controls by Sony and Microsoft. They finally seem to catch up with Nintendos’ innovativeness. Sony is more the me-too product almost identically copying the Wii controller including the “Nunchuck” side-kick controller for the left hand.

Here folks are being photographed. The photographer also took some pictures of me while I played, I wonder where they will show up (if they do at all).

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It seems that most of the early games they showed had either some kind of dancing or some kind of fighting topic. Here is an example of the swords play variant:

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Microsofts’ Kinect motion controls work without any physical hand held controller. The players are tracked via a camera array. While at Sonys’ booth I was wondering if someone standing by will accidentally be punched Microsoft had separate booths for each demo station.
I remember reading about some people throwing their Wiiimotes into their TV sets when the Wii was new. This made Nintendo send wrist straps and soft silicone sleeves to all customers.

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Microsofts’ booth was located directly next to Nintendos’.

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Nintendo brought most of their trademark IP to the show. They had a new Zelda game, Metroid: Other M and a new Kirby game amongst others.

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They were showing the new Zelda game. There were some cosplayers at the fair. They young lady in the picture was not on Nintendos payroll but a regular visitor. In case one wonders as who she dressed I took a convenient picture for your leisure:

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For basically all of the big name titles there were lines of some length. For the Zelda game the line went around the corner twice:

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Football (the one you actually play with your feet, not the other one) is huuuge over here. Konami was showing PES 2011 and had huuuge Lionel Messi posters up. The photo puts size into an interesting perspective. He seems to be looking down on us. He wouldn’t do that, would he?

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At the Deep Silver booth you could play the new F1 game which is now being developed by Codemasters. They had a really nice setup for the demo.

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In comparison this farming simulation is rather a niche game:

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New magazine “Return” brings back some memories. I did even have the same Competition Pro joystick for the C64.

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Saving the best (at least for me one of the best) for last, Portal 2. The first Portal game was pretty short but definitely an intelligently made experience. Liked both the concept and the story telling. They made a nice short story from the lab setting. Are you still there…?

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But you already learned about cake, didn’t you? It’s a lie! Please await the party escort.

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Pop Life Hamburg

After starting at London Modern Tate the Pop Life exhibition is being shown at Hamburg Kunsthalle from Feb. 12 through May 9 2010.

As word has it the exhibits range from gaudy over saucy up to raunchy.

You can find more information at Hamburger Kunsthalle and some news reporting at Spiegel Online and even FTD.

Need to go and visit! For starters Flickr has some creative commons licensed imagery to take a peak at the work of featured artist Takashi Murakami.

Photo of his sculpture “Hiropon” (1997) from the London Modern Tate exhibition by Jim Linwood:
Magical Princess Sculpture, Pop Life Exhibition, Tate Modern, London.

Takashi Murakami’s works look like cartoons or anime where something just went utterly wrong or maybe shows some ‘after dark’ scenery where the figures behave quite differently from one would expect.

He is quite successful and among other works he supplied the visual art for some records/videos from Kanye West as evidenced in this photo from Jim Linwood:
Kanye Bear, Pop Life Exhibition, Tate Modern, London.

This looks like Teletubbies’ nightmare, photo by Stefan Andrej Shambora:
Kaikai & Kiki by Takashi Murakami

Update: Some (Koharu) current (Danny Choo) attention (boingboing) seems to be paid to a video from the very same Pop Life exibition. Made by Takashi Murakami and hollywood director McG (wikipedia) and starring Kirsten Dunst as ‘magical princess’ character.