five things to do at the Parisian video game show

For this 2024 edition, the video game show expects nearly 200,000 people curious to try the latest new products, preview unreleased titles and participate in various activities organized on the stands. If you decide to stop by this weekend, here's what you can do during your day.

Prepare the list for Santa with the children (or for yourself)

The main interest of Paris Games Week remains being able to form an opinion on games which, at 80 euros each in certain cases, can represent a real budget. The biggest contingent is on the stands of the major publishers and manufacturers: impossible to miss, they are often the most imposing and colorful.

If you are ready to face the sometimes long queues that will stand between you and these stands, you can try your hand at top titles recently released like Astrobot (stand Sony), Star Wars Outlaws (Ubisoft stand, we really liked it), The Legend of Zelda : Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo stand, also appreciated by The World) or the last Call of Duty : Black Ops 6 (Xbox stand) which, although it no longer attracts the crowds it did a few years ago, remains one of the most popular points of interest at the show.

Try games first

Unlike Gamescom, the German show, which is older, more imposing and which arrives earlier in the year, Paris Games Week offers fewer preview games. But that doesn't mean they're completely absent.

• On the Plaion stand. In the middle of the hay, you can discover the joys of managing a farm with Farming Simulator 25 (scheduled for November 12).
• Still at Plaion, if knights in the Middle Ages are your thing, follow (really) the sounds of swords: there, medieval fencing practitioners regularly give demonstrations. Take the opportunity to spot the pillory installed for the occasion in order to try your hand at Kingdom Come : Deliverance IIplanned for February 11, 2025.
• Japan is also well represented with, from SEGA, a playable version of Like a Dragon : Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii which arrives on February 21.
• At Capcom, Monster Hunter Wildsthe new opus of the very popular monster hunting license scheduled for February 28.

Discover the French scene

On the pavilion Games Made in Francethese are local games that are in the spotlight. Far from the blockbusters which take up the lion's share of the media agenda, these more modest titles in their scale are sometimes developed by very small teams. But in the field of video games, size doesn't always matter!

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