Gamescom 2017 summary – Microsoft, Nvidia and HP – Part 1

  • The beginning and end of the event: August 22nd – August 26th.
  • Venue: Koelnmesse – Germany
  • Organization: Bundesverband Interaktive Unterhaltungssoftware

Today we reach the last days of the second largest event in the gaming world, Gamescom, the next event in terms of grandeur and organization of the biggest ever E3 event.

Today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I will present three full articles so that you can know everything that was announced during the biggest four-day event in Europe, then follow what comes from the Gamescom series.

Gamescom

First, as we used to, we will learn about Gamescom, Europe’s biggest gaming event, called E3 Europe, an annual event held every year in a Germany where toy manufacturers, developers and game publishers are also on the rise.

Gamescom is not the same as E3, where no major gaming devices are advertised, but more emphasis is placed on launching other promotions for games already announced in the E3, as well as software and game related software upgrades.

The first event in the Gamescom series was on August 19, 2009, and lasted for eight years until the last of the day ended.

We now begin to list what was announced in the first part of the Gamescom series of articles, and the articles will be about:

The first article:

  • Microsoft
  • NVIDIA
  • Hewlett Packard – HP

The second article:

  • Electronic Arts – EA
  • Bethesda
  • Sony

The third article:

  • Square Enix
  • Ubisoft
  • Nintendo Wii
[td_block_text_with_title custom_title=”Microsoft”]Microsoft began its conference by activating the pre-order of its next Xbox One X, which was the largest advertisement during its conference, as well as what was expected of many followers.

The device is available for £ 449.99 for preorder in all UK stores such as Amazon UK, Game, Microsoft, Tesco and the rest, available at $ 499.99 in US stores such as GameStop, Walmart, Microsoft and Amazon US.

As for the date of the official release of the device is on the seventh of November, around the world.

Aaron Greenberg announced the availability of more than 100 already enhanced games for the new version, including the Battlefront 2, FIFA 18 and Wolfenstein II, as well as a series of slightly older games such as Titanfall 2 and Fallout 4 and others.

The second announcement was for a new addition to Microsoft’s ReCore, including improved graphics for the Xbox One X with support for HDR display and the addition will be free to those who purchased the game.

The third announcement from Microsoft is about the Xbox Design Lab, which aims to provide the possibility to design controls by the players themselves. The project has been expanded to be available in 20 additional European countries, enabling users from these countries to design their own controls.

Custom controls are currently available at rates ranging from $ 79.99 to $ 89.99 if they are designed with your name.

The latest news was the Xbox One S, the announcement of the release of a new version of the device under the name of Shadow of War bundle, next to the special version known as Minecraft Console.

Both versions are available for pre-order and will arrive by October 3rd and 10th of the same month.

During the Microsoft conference, two new promotional performances were launched for Assassin’s Creed: Origins and Middle Earth: Shadow of War.

Assassin’s Creed: Origins will be released on Oct. 27 this year as a continuation of the Assassin’s Creed series, the most important series of games developed by Ubisoft. This part of Egypt revolves around the story of the founding of the movement.

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Shadow of War is the second part of the Middle-Earth series developed by Monolith Productions and developed alongside Batman: Arkham, the best-ever series based on a movie story. The game will be released on the tenth of October on all platforms in addition to the release of two versions for the systems of iOS and Android for free.

Further details were announced during the conference as for Sea of ​​Thieves, with a cross-play feature in the game, which means that it can be played through Windows 10 and Xbox One.[/td_block_text_with_title][td_block_text_with_title custom_title=”Nvidia”]Nvidia, the world’s first graphics processor manufacturer at the Gamescom conference, was filled with surprises in terms of collaborating with several gaming companies to achieve the highest possible performance and quality.

The company did not talk about new graphics cards, but its ads were more specific to the games. Jeff Fished, vice president of GeForce, started talking about the percentage of GeForce users among the world’s players. He said that the number of players is 2 billion players worldwide, Two hundred million users for GeForce alone.

The first was Destiny 2, the new part of the game. The game was fully integrated with the mouse and the keyboard on the PC, as well as the ability to adjust the vision settings, Multisampling and Anti-Aliasing features, with 4K resolution and supporting HDR.

The second announcement was about Ansel, which offers players the SLR feature so they can take distinctive, high-quality shots from within, adding filters and moving the camera around.

The third Nvidia announcement was on PlayerUnknow’s Battlegrounds, when the game support to ShadowPlay Highlights was announced, Important shots will be automatically recorded in the game, such as shooting shots that automatically shoot and allowing them to be shared across Social platforms.

The latest Nvidia was Final Fantasy XV, which was released by Hajime Tabata on the PC, built with the new Luminous Square Enix engine, which integrates the features of Nvidia Gameworks such as advanced shooting scenes, shadow techniques, in addition to the ability to Play the game with 4K resolution and even 8K, and it supports the HDR10 display, and this part will have a play style from the perspective of the first person.

Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition announced at last, but the system requirements might scare you away[/td_block_text_with_title][td_block_text_with_title custom_title=”Hewlett Packard – HP”]The last thing we will talk about in the first article of the series is the announcement by HP, a manufacturer of laptops and desktops for its new Omen eSport laptop, the HP Omen X.

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The laptop has been announced and will be available in November. It is designed for eSports players. It comes in several versions, all of which share the Intel Core i7 processor. The first version comes with 16 GB RAM, Nvidia 1080 graphics processor and a 256GB SSD disk, available at $ 1999.

The second version will be available with an overlocking-able processor of the seventh generation of Intel Core i7 processors, in addition to the same graphic processor and a 1TB SSD disk at $ 3699.

The HP Omen features Omen Command Center, an application that allows players to customize the performance settings of a computer based on how much power they need, even up to the speed of the Internet that arrives at the device – as is certainly available.

I have arrived here at the end of the first part of the Gamescom 2017 series of events in Germany. I look forward to your comments in the comments section below, and do not forget to follow the series which I will refer to here after they are completed.[/td_block_text_with_title]

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