GC welcomed a vast throng of visitors as it went into its third day. In fact it was only about 10am when the 100,000th visitor passed through the turnstiles! Some 75,000 people visited the Leipzig Fair’s exhibition centre today (compared to 54,000 on the Saturday in 2005) - which means that since Wednesday GC has been attended by a total of 150,000 fans from all over Europe. In other words, last year’s record number of visitors (134,000) has already been broken - and there’s still one day to go before the exhibition finally closes!
“The number of visitors today is easily the highest ever since the Leipzig Fair’s exhibition centre was opened ten years ago. The mood among exhibitors and visitors alike is absolutely euphoric,” declared Josef Rahmen, CEO of the Leipzig Fair. “We anticipated huge crowds today and planned our resources accordingly, but we really didn’t expect this many to come. Next year we’ll work together with our exhibitors and partners on expanding the logistics to ensure we can cope with these extreme peaks.”
Best of GC 2006: winners announced
As usual, there was fierce competition to garner one of the coveted ‘Best of GC’ awards as the jury painstakingly sifted through 105 entries. On the jury were Christian Blendl (editor of Playstation2), Andreas Garbe (RTL), Knut Goller (Bravo Screenfun), Michail Hengstenberg (editor of GEE), Jörg Luibl (editor of 4Players GmbH), Gunnar Lott (GamePro), Sven Stillich (Stern) and Thomas Szedlak (Videogames Aktuell). They chose the winners in the following seven categories:
· Best PC Game: Spore (Electronic Arts GmbH)
· Best PS Game: BUZZ! Junior: Jungle Party (Sony Computer
Entertainment Deutschland GmbH)
· Best Mobile Game: ORCS & Elves (EA Mobile)
· Best NDS Game: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
(Nintendo of Europe GmbH)
· Best PSP Game: Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (Konami Digital
Entertainment GmbH)
· Best Xbox Game: Lost Planet Extreme Condition (CEG Interactive
Entertainment GmbH)
Logitech GmbH’s MX Revolution Mouse was declared the most innovative hardware product. “At last a mouse that makes working on the monitor easier,” praised the jury.
The total of 368 exhibitors from 25 countries will be demonstrating their 200 world, European and German premières at GC until Sunday.
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