Paris Games Week: Gaming behemoths collide with art and culture in the City of Lights

Source: arstechnica.co.uk --- Monday, November 02, 2015
Paris Games Week is the second largest gaming trade show in the world. 27 more images in gallery This year, Paris Games Week became the focus of considerable intrigue after Sony skipped GamesCom, the world’s largest video game trade fair, to host its press conference in the legendary City of Lights. But despite the onslaught of foreign press, the event itself remains unmistakably, vividly French. Unlike GamesCom where English is the lingua franca, Paris Games Week is steeped in the local vernacular. Everywhere you go at Porte de Versailles (the convention centre), there are gargantuan screens captioned in French, voice-overs in French, and announcers bellowing to the crowd in French. But linguistics are only one part of the show’s identity. It’s no secret that Paris loves culture, an affection that evinces itself even in the landscape of Porte de Versailles. Walk through the doors into the main hall and, chances are, the first thing you’ll see is a crowd enthusiastically, if slightly perplexedly, gyrating to the rhythms of Just Dance 2016 . Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments ...

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