gamescom 2013

Sunday 25th August

18:30  – Goodbye from gamescom 2013

After five days of crazy convention madness, the entire Wargaming team is happy to celebrate yet another successful gamescom. It’s been a wonderful and exciting time and we wish to thank each and every one of you who came by our booth, watched us through the stream, or followed us here in our daily news coverage. To say Goodbye in style, we give you our entire gamescom crew posing for that last shot in memorable fashion. Enjoy, and see you next gamescom everybody!

17:45 eSports Stage - Virtus.PRO Wins the Pro League Season 2!

Virtus.PRO have once again proven that they are the unbeatable giant of the World of Tanks Pro League, although this time they stumbled more than once on their way. Evil Panda Squad finished second and Kazna Kru as third. Congratulations to all the teams and see you in the third season!

15:50 Dance Show 

The Wargaming experience at gamescom wouldn’t be complete without the now-legendary dance show. This year it was even bigger and better than ever, featuring jaw-dropping aerial acrobatics, blending historically-inspired costumes with modern dance choreography. 

If you can't see it in person, don't miss the final two shows in the livestream and prepare to be amazed!

14:50 Kazna Kru Finishes Third!

Kazna Kru, the fan-favourites managed to finish in third place for the second season of the World of Tanks Pro League! Their outstanding show of skill and determination in the last 3:0 match proved once again that the team has got a lot of tricks and are ready to face anyone!

Get ready for the final match for first place taking place in a moment on our livestream transmitting straight from gamescom!

11:30 eSports Stage – Virtus.PRO beats DeNova

DeNova really surprised us this season with their tank-skills, but this time even that was just not enough. 

Virtus.PRO scored a close victory of 3:2 with a great finishing clash in the middle of Mines. They will now be playing for first place with the winner of the next match, Kazna Kru or Evil Panda Squad! Enjoy the show live!

11: 00 ESL Stage

The second and last day of the finals of the World of Tanks Pro League are kicking off any minute now. After yesterday’s amazing matches everyone expects an even more outstanding performance from the teams who qualified for the playoffs. 

Who will win? Will we get to see yet another match as extraordinary as yesterday’s 3:0 EPS vs. mouz? Join thousands of viewers spread across the English stream and be the first to know!

Saturday, August 24, 2013

20:05 The Wargaming Crew Departs To Rest Before The Next Day

The time has come for the Wargaming crew to return to the hotel. Every day, the Wargaming Crew arrives and leaves in this amazing Wargaming-branded bus. As it drives down the streets, it attracts a lot of attention as the sides are decorated with exceptional, highly-detailed World of Tanks and World of Warplanes art. Exhausted but proud after yet another succesful day at gamescom, the crew boards and leaves.

See you tomorrow!

 19:47– eSports Stage

The results of the World of Tanks Pro League pre-playoffs are in! Thanks to the withdrawal of Team Dignitas, DeNova.WoT are through to the next stage!

15:00 Main Stage

World of Tanks Xbox 360 Edition is on the tongues of many players coming to our booth. The main question is “how is this different than the PC version?” Our Wargaming West staff rushes to the stage with a great presentation explaining the design and features of World of Tanks for the Xbox 360 console.

The King Tiger and its development blueprint.		Improved suspension mechanics.
Weather effects.		Weather effects.

14:00 Main Stage

Our players get the unique opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of the World of Tanks development process! Our 3D Designer Vladimir Pasiutin, supported by Producer Romain Mardot and our Community Product Specialist Michael Broek, demonstrates how the vehicles in World of Tanks are designed, programmed and implemented in the game.

13:15 - ESL Stage

The first match finished with Evil Panda Squad rolling over mousesports with force, forcing them down to the loser’s bracket. This slightly unexpected one-sided match was both an outstanding show and also only the beginning of the day’s surprises. We have found out that the winner of the first season, Team Dignitas, will not arrive for the final!

This means that a small change to the bracket progression needs to be introduced. The core system of the tournament will remain a double elimination system, but there will be a small tweak at the end. To summarise, Virtus Pro will play against the loser of the loser's final of the day.

Remember to check the results on our dedicated page !

13:10 CEST Backstage

Our very own Ola dropped by the stand today, much to the delight of many fans who recognised her immediately from the many WargamingTV videos. She is here on a mission to report all the activity from the trade show, and wasted no time getting right to it by interviewing players and Wargaming staff members alike about their gamescom experience.

After the main duty was done, we turned the tables around to get an exclusive interview in return. She told us more about herself and what she thinks about the latest Wargaming developments. Watch out for Ola’s always fun video reporting as well as our own interview with her in the coming days, here in our news coverage!

Ola is interviewing a player who just had his first session playing World of Warplanes.		Ola gets to know Julie, the self-proclaimed Queen of Goodie Bags!

13:00 – Exclusive World of Warplanes Info Revealed!

Some interesting news for all of our World of Warplanes fans! Our resident gamescom developers Oleg & Miroslav just gave away two little teasers for upcoming features in the game. Expect to see the arrival of a third mouse-control option as well as a new line of German bombers in the game soon™.

Now that’s a good way to start off the day! Will there be even more scoops? Come to gamescom and find out!

Oleg is always a welcome sight at our World of Warplanes Q&As	Miroslav says: “Yes, there will be new German bombers in the game. Which ones? Follow the news from gamescom to find out!”

10:30 The World of Tanks Pro League Games Have Begun

The Finals of the World of Tanks Pro League Season Two are starting right now. The players have taken their seats, and the members of Evil Panda Squad and Mousesports have shaken hands to open the first match of the two-day long finals. The audience space is already full and many are excited to see the professionals play for the right to challenge the Russian champions from last season!

Watch the games played live on our eSports stage on gamescom in hall 8 or via our livestream!

Find all the latest results on the Pro League Page

Dissection of a Goodie Bag

Many of you are probably wondering about the contents of our legendary goodie bags. We are always happy when we can satisfy the curiosity of our players, so we charmed the beautiful yet deadly Guardians of the Goodie Bag Vault to let their guard down. 

Risking our lives (and probably a couple of lawsuits), we managed to snatch one goodie bag and have dissected it in the safety of the staff room. Here are the treasures kept within:

A great treat this year is the limited edition T-shirt, which can only be obtained through playing one of our games at the booth, thus earning the mythical goodie Bag.

There are also some stylish accessories to go with the T-shirt: there is a classy Wargaming key ring, a one-of-a-kind World of Warplanes Gamescom 2013 dog tag and a neat Word of Warplanes mousepad! 

In addition, you will also get a special collectible tank and a plane you can assemble within seconds to send on the wind to conquer the skies!

Last but not least, you can also enjoy some great discount codes on computer equipment and of course bonus codes for both World of Tanks and World of Warplanes! Please note that these codes are one of a kind and will not be available outside of Gamescom!

Come and visit us to get your goodie bag!

09:30 Wargaming Booth

Another day at gamescom has just begun, and already our booth is under siege!
Many players woke up early to be the first on the gamescom battlefields!	The queue is growing as more players come to visit us, but Filip “Piporaz” and Jiri “MrKatana” are making sure everybody gets the chance to play!
Our Master of Ceremonies, Muhsin “muhso” is always happy to meet the players in person…	… and Martin “HolzbeinJack” is not letting anyone leave empty-handed!

Saturday is the busiest day of the whole of gamescom, and so we are prepared to meet and welcome even more visitors! There will be more contests, events and opportunities to meet our developers so don’t hesitate to come and visit us!

Friday, 23rd August

19:45 - World Cyber Games German National Finals

The games have just ended and the World of Tanks World Cyber Games German National Final has concluded. WUSA is going to be representing Germany in Kunshan, China during the Grand Final at the end of the year!

The battles were amazing to watch. Even though the stream was only available in German due to the nature of the national qualifier, every World of Tanks player can learn a lot from it by watching the replays available on our twitch.tv channel, WG_eSports_EU.

Thanks for watching and hope to see you in the stream chat during the Grand Final in China!

14:30 - Main Stage

At this year`s Gamescom, we presented one of our newest products, the Xbox 360 Edition of World of Tanks ! To satisfy the curiosity of our players, we invited General Manager of Wargaming West, Denny Thorley and Senior Game Designer, Matt Monforte to come to Cologne and provide first-hand information about this highly anticipated game. 

Matt Monforte and Denny Thorley getting ready to meet the audience and answer questions about the World of Tanks Xbox 360 Edition.
So many questions!	Let’s get things in order!
Mo getting focused on translating.	Each question is rewarded – come grab your goodie!

The Life of a Wargaming Goodie Bag

1) The life of a goodie bag begins in very humble conditions, with thousands of them being shipped to us at gamescom in one of these containers.		2) Next up is the assembly line! Every bag is being hand-packed to make sure it contains all the items that Wargaming fans are waiting for.
3) The big trek from backstage to the main trade show area begins. It’s a long way but well worth it!		4) Before they can be handed out, all goodie bags arrive at “Julie’s Counter”. She is in charge of distribution and makes sure nobody goes away empty-handed.
5) The last step! A happy fan just received his goodie bag.

11: 20 - Central Stage

When developers Oleg Gotnyan and Miroslav Baranenko step on stage, World of Warplanes fans all around the world can expect the hottest scoops! This time Miroslav takes place behind his desk to walk us through a live 3D-modelling process of a plane for the game, and not just any plane – a  Supermarine Spitfire! It is the world premiere of British planes at gamescom! 

As he shows the crowd how he puts the finishing touches on the engine part of the aircraft, Oleg answers more questions from fans in the audience. In just 20 minutes, the deed is done and the Spitfire model is complete. Ready for take-off, Pilots!

11:00 The Semifinal of the World Cyber Games German Qualifier has started! 

The second day of Wargaming at gamescom kicks off with the WCG Qualifier, and RAGE confronting Odem Mortis.  The teams of seven were already at our booth a long time before the match even started, preparing their stations and warming up their engines to reach most efficient performance during their gameplay. The teams are remaining cool, despite a trip to China to represent Germany at the WCG being up for grabs.

Watch the stream, live on the eSports twitch channel!

Thursday, August 22^nd

18:45 CEST - Central Stage

For the big finale of the day, Moneo joins the crew of World of Warplanes developers again on stage. He’s got just one thing on his mind: to give away as many goodies to the excited fans as possible. T-Shirts, bonus codes, free planes, fashionable pilot’s glasses… one lucky fan even took home a Geforce GTX 650! What a great finish for the first day of gamescom!

16:30 - Main Stage

It’s Contest Time at gamescom! Michael “Obirian” Broek, accompanied by Richard “The_Challenger” Cutland get some brave volunteers for the first-ever Wargaming Pushup contest, to find who could perform the most pushups in thirty seconds! Our winner claims the record with 46 pushups and walks away with an exclusive World of Warplanes trolley and press kit. Next is a “Put on as many Wargaming T-Shirts as you can”-contest that goes to someone who managed to wear 9 shirts (and still look good wearing them). He too is rewarded with a trolley plus press kit goodies. Congratulations!

15:00 Main Stage

 Development Director Oleg Gotnyan and Art Project Manager Miroslav Bavanenko drop by to have a short Q&A session about World of Warplanes. The players are very interested in learning about the future of the game and our developers try to leave no question unanswered. Watch the Live Stream next time they take to the stage, participate in the chat, and maybe then your question will be the answered as well! 

13:45 Main Stage

 The first World of Warplanes presentation of the day sees Marcus “Kabazabak” Blaesche and Alberto “Bertiux” Delgado take to the stage for a fun random battle in front of a live audience, playing with computers on the main stage. The crowd love seeing the action happening in front of their eyes, and cheer whenever a ground target or enemy is destroyed. Drop by for more live gaming sessions through the week.

13:00 Main Stage

It’s time for a presentation of one of our latest and highly anticipated projects, the World of Tanks Xbox 360 Edition. Denny Thorley, the General Manager of Wargaming West and Matt Monforte, the Senior Game Designer, show off the gameplay of the new console version and dish out plenty of information about the game itself. There are also on-stage activities and events with great prizes, including keyboards, headsets, special edition T-shirts and game codes!

11:00 Main Stage

After a relatively peaceful press Wednesday, we are hitting gamescom with full force! There is plenty going on at the Wargaming booth, and we now have Piotr Bitiukov, the World of Tanks Historical Consultant and Game Designer, and Slava Makarov, Vice-President of Product Vision sharing some background on World of Tanks and giving answers to questions asked by the players.

Don’t forget to check in regularly for all the latest updates from the trade show floor!