Spiel Essen 2010

[Kevin O]

As many of you will know Essen is the premier European gaming event,
lasting 4 days and with around 200,000 visitors -
http://www.internationalespieltage.de/e000.php4

I have never been before but have been encouraged to go and experience
it by many people. If anybody else is going and fancies meeting for a
coffee or a beer please let me know.

Best wishes

Kevin

[Kevin O]

Update - As already stated the Spiel is the biggest games event in the
European calendar and sees people travelling from all over the world.
But to add a little more colour to that statement, it occupies 44,100
square meters of exhibition space for 4 days, from 10am and till 7pm,
with over 760 exhibitors from 31 nations and 400 new games being
released. Last year it attracted over 150,000 people (a revised figure
from my earlier 200,000 (sorry) based on a more accurate source).

The two most surprising things to me was the complete cross section of
society at the show, so unlike an event in the UK and the amount of
space devoted to allowing you to try the games out with no hard sell.
In fact no sell at all when you had finished playing the game you can
just walk off. There is more info and links to games acquired and
photos from the four days at the bottom of my blog post for Essen
should anybody be interested http://kevinandgames.blogspot.com/2010/10/essen-spiel-2010-amazing-trip.html
or feel free to contact me if you would like to find out more.

On 19 Oct, 20:34, Kevin O <kevin...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> As many of you will know Essen is the premier European gaming event,

> lasting 4 days and with around 200,000 visitors -http://www.internationalespieltage.de/e000.php4

[Carl Cross]

Thanks for this Kevin. Excellent blog post as usual.

I've never been to Essen but our gaming group in late October is
always a little like Christmas as we always have at least one Essen
attendee coming back with goodies. Sadly I've not been to my group for
a couple of weeks so I have no idea what he's bought back with him
this year! Can't wait for this week.

Good to see Martin Wallace and Treefrog mentioned in your post. I've
not always been a massive fan of Martin's but I was lucky enough to
play a pre-pub version of London and loved it. Can't wait to see it
properly produced.

Carl.