Sony Goes Big At The Eurogamer Expo!

Hello everyone! My name’s Tom Bramwell and I’m the editor of a website called Eurogamer.net. We do reviews, news, that sort of thing – but we also run an annual event called the Eurogamer Expo and we’ve got an absolute TON of PlayStation 3 stuff there this year, so I thought you might want to hear about it!
The Eurogamer Expo is at Earls Court in London next Friday, Saturday and Sunday (1st to 3rd October) and consists of a huge show floor where you can play the likes of Gran Turismo 5, inFAMOUS 2, Killzone 3 and more, as well as a special auditorium where top game developers like Media Molecule and Guerrilla Games will be presenting their games and taking questions from the public.

When we started the Expo our goal was to put on an event where everyone can come along and play the games they REALLY want to play without having to queue for four hours. I’ve done that at E3 and it is not fun! Over the years we’ve expanded it to include all sorts of other fun stuff and nowadays it’s a really great place to play games, talk to developers and meet like-minded gamers.

Enough of the hard sell though – you probably just want to hear exactly which PlayStation 3 games we have and which of your favourite developers are speaking, so here’s a rundown:
Playable games!

• Gran Turismo 5
• Heavy Rain (Move Edition)
• inFAMOUS 2
• Killzone 3 (some DualShock 3, some Move control)
• LittleBigPlanet 2
• MotorStorm Apocalypse
• SOCOM: Special Forces
• Sports Champions (Move)
• The Fight (Move)
• The Shoot (Move)

Developer sessions and public Q&A!

• Sucker Punch presents inFamous 2
• Guerrilla Games presents Killzone 3
• Media Molecule presents LittleBigPlanet 2
• Evolution Studios presents MotorStorm Apocalypse

Not content with that, we will also have a few 3D TVs on hand so you can experience PlayStation 3 titles in 3D – Gran Turismo 5, Killzone 3 and MotorStorm Apocalypse will all be available to try out in this configuration too.

As you can see we’ve also got PlayStation Move, so if you haven’t tried that yet – and you should – this is a great opportunity to see how it works in a variety of games.
There’s a lot of other Sony-related stuff going on too. Media Molecule’s having a fan meet-up at the event and should be selling some hot LittleBigPlanet merchandise, and of course there are tons of third-party games that will be available on PlayStation 3 for you to try as well – including Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Brink, Crysis 2, FIFA 11, Fallout: New Vegas, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and PES 2011. Yes, absolutely all of them are playable. We don’t believe in videos!
Tickets for Saturday at the Expo have now completely sold out, but we still have a few left for Friday 1st October and Sunday 3rd October. They’re priced £8 for the whole day and we’re open between 11am and 7pm. Head over to expo.eurogamer.net to buy tickets and get involved, and follow us on Twitter (@Eurogamer_Expo) or Facebook for more updates. We’ve still got some cool announcements to make in the next week.

I’ll be around throughout the Expo along with the rest of the Eurogamer gang (we’ll be the guys in the blue Eurogamer t-shirts) so if you see me feel free to say hello. We’re even doing an “Ask Eurogamer” session at 4pm on the Sunday, so pop along if you have a question about games journalism or want to offer moral support or heckle me. Whatever you do though, I hope to see you at the Eurogamer Expo. Expo!