Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown Was Worth Braving Gamescom’s Public Halls For

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This year, I ticked off one of my biggest bucket list goals and finally got to go to Gamescom, something you’ll already know if you’ve been keeping up with our coverage on the site or seen my handsome mug on our YouTube channel. Now that the hard part of walking thousands of miles through the Koelnmesse and finding something to eat that cost less than €20 is behind me and I can sarcastically write about it all, it’s easy to forget that I was a big ball of nerves about going to such a big event.

I've been to numerous events before like EGX, but never something that was on the scale of Gamescom. Thankfully, I was given a ton of great advice from more experienced journalists before making my way over to Cologne such as wearing comfy shoes, drinking lots of water, bringing a spare notebook, having after-work pints at the Corkonian, and making sure to never feed the gamers their G-Fuel after midnight.

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Everyone I talked to had their own helpful tidbit or anecdote, but there was one bit of advice I heard repeated so much that it seemed to have become an unwritten law of Gamescom for journalists, press, developers, and content creators - whenever you can help it, don’t go in the public halls.

That originally seemed harsh to me, but I quickly found out why everyone was telling me the same thing. Gamescom 2023 was attended by a record-breaking 320,000 gamers, all squished into one sun-baked location in the middle of August. That's going to be a bit of a sweatbox already, but then add all the people in complex cosplay outfits and it's a wonder anyone can get around, let alone stressed-out games journalists trying to travel between