Gamescom is a bit of a favourite here at Push Square Towers. The German convention may lack the exorbitant hype of E3, but it feels a little less corporate as a consequence. Part of that’s probably down to the fact that the general public is invited to attend the show, but even the press conferences have a more grounded feel to them, where it’s alright to get excited about a title like RIME without needing a billion dollar blockbuster to back it up.
Since its inception, Sony has always taken the show very seriously, but this year it has competition from a refocused Microsoft, looking to steal back some of the PlayStation 4’s mindshare. That puts a little more pressure on the platform holder to perform, as in previous years it’s emerged from the event on top by default, owing to the fact that no other manufacturers have even bothered to turn up. Fortunately, Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida says that the organisation’s saved some announcements.
You’ll be eager to tune into the show live, then, eh? Good, because we’ll have a live stream, live blog, live comments, and more directly from the media briefing itself. The only thing left for you to do is to check your diary and cancel your plans, so here are the all-important times that you'll need to know.
Sony’s Gamescom 2014 Press Conference
Below is the start time for Sony's Gamescom 2014 press conference in several major cities around the world. Use Time and Date.com if your location is not shown here.
Tuesday, 12th August 2014
10:00AM PDT (Los Angeles, USA)
13:00PM EDT (New York, USA)
18:00PM BST (London, UK)
19:00PM CEST (Berlin, Germany)
Wednesday, 13th August 2014
03:00AM EST (Sydney, Australia)
Will you be watching Sony’s Gamescom 2014 press conference live on Push Square? What are you most hoping to see announced? Share your excitement in the comments section below.
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i'm so happy about this. It happens the day before I go back to school! Thank you, Sony! Last year I had to be sick to see it. Go hard.
I'm super excited for gamescom. I think this year is actually going to be bigger than people realize. To be honest though I'm a little more excited for xboxs conference than Sonys.. mainly because of quantum break having their big reveal during it and also because I'm hoping to see at least a teaser trailer for the new gears of war game that will give us at least some clue as to what direction they're taking the franchise in. I've absolutely loved gears over the years aside from the most recent game, judgement. I'm sure Sony is going to have a great show as well, hopefully we see some uncharted and possibly some new exclusive that hasn't been announced yet.
With Bloodborne, Uncharted 4, DriveClub Sony's have already won GC, cannot wait to see what else Sony announces.
Gears Of War is a long way off yet, but I'm looking forwards to playing Sunset Overdrive next month.
Don't show off Powers, Wonderbook or do boring speeches and it will kill this years E3. Um show the development hell titles, I'll let TLG slide. Do something for Vita, doesn't have to be new titles, bundles. If Minecraft isn't bundled not only will I laugh, it will be another nail in the coffin.
I'm looking forward to finally having some info about littlebigplanet 3's create mode.
Announce some thing new for vita and ps4 and not a port or indie platform/puzzler. You'll blow the frickin' roof off. Or just get the Hoff to announce Shenmue.
All the games coming out that I know of is what I really care about. I don't expect anything that will blow my socks off for this year. All that stuff is going to happen next year for Sony. Just remember, this is the consoles first year.
@banacheck I don't really see it that way, as xbox has forza horizon 2 which looks incredible, quantum break, halo (both halo 5 and the master chief collection) sunset overdrive, Project spark, phantom dust, crackdown...and well I'd say gears of war and uncharted 4 are both a ways off. I think both platforms have some really great exclusive IP for the future and to just say Sony wins is just not very objective.
Ill have to watch it later on but its all good I can press skip if a guy keeps talking too long. Not too much bothered in fan wars as to which wins etc as its subjective opinion on what type of game you like and what type of games leave you cold
I can't wait. I really hope Sony shows some PSVITA love. I'm selling my Xbox 1 soon because I have no use for it anymore with most it's exclusives coming to PC and I want to buy a PSVITA. Hopefully their is a lot shown for both PS4/PSVITA.
As long as they announce a PS TV release date and a new vita game, I'll be good.
I'll be there. Interested to see anything new that they announce.
Microsoft's attendance is an irrelevance as far as I'm concerned, since they have nothing of interest to me.
Welll, looks like Microsoft's attendance was kind of relevant, now they have announced Rise of the Tomb Raider is exclusive to Xbox One.
@Kidfried absolutely ridiculous. A franchise born on ps gets exclusive to Xbox. That would be like kingdom hearts being Xbox only. Also, wasn't temple of Osiris supposed to be ps only? I think I read that it's being ported to the other consoles, too.
The most important thing they can announce today is anything related to Vita memory cards.
Interested to see how this turns out, I found Microsoft's conference a bit boring with the exception of the Tomb Raider 2 exclusivity bombshell. I also thought Sony's conference last Gamescom was more interesting than their E3 that year.
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