GAMESCOM GUIDE HALL 7
City Interactive, Deep Silver, Konami,
Namco Bandai, SCE,
Ubisoft, Valve
HALL 8
Avanquest, Bigpoint, Crytek, Frogster, Gameforge, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sega, Warner Bros
GETTING THERE
HALL 6 2K,
Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, CD Prokect RED, Electronic Arts, Kalypso Media, SouthPeak Games, THQ, Take-Two
HALL 9
Fishlabs, NCsoft, Red 5,
Riot Games, Trion
Ubisoft
There are many ways to get to Cologne and Gamescom, with everything you need to know about travel arrangements available at
www.koelnmesse.com.
HALLS 4 AND 5 The Business Centre
BY AIR Cologne is around an hour or so from almost all of Europe’s major cities, and Koelnmesse is about 15 minutes away by car or train from Cologne-Bonn Airport. There are direct flights to hundreds of countries, while high-speed trains run from Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Brussels straight to the exhibition centre.
BY RAIL MCV
BUYERS LOUNGE
A special area for UK visitors will be free to use within the Business Hall (4.2) from Wednesday, August 17th, to Friday, August 19th. Called The UK Buyers Lounge: Powered by MCV, this 48 square metre space will be manned by MCV staff and will welcome trade in for meetings and networking. There will also be copies of this Gamescom edition of MCVavailable. The UK Buyers Lounge will be situated in gangway J-043 near the UK Pavillion.
Visitors can take the train directly to the event, with trains stopping at the Koelnmesse/Deutz station opposite the exhibition centre. Trains must be booked three days before the event. Koelnmesse and German rail company Deutsche Bahn offer special prices for visitors. You can book tickets online.
BY ROAD Cologne has an excellent network of motorway and access roads. There is traffic guidance for access to Koelnmesse in the city without traffic lights or intersections – just follow the green signs for Koelnmesse. The motorway exit leads you straight to the exhibition centre car park. There is parking space for some 14,500 vehicles, and there are shuttle busses around the exhibition ground.
HOTELS
If you need to book a hotel for Gamescom at the last minute, there are plenty of partner hotels which can be booked as part of a travel package at
www.koelnmesse-service.com.
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