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December 15, 2020.

There is no special festival on this day, but in the eyes of countless players all over the world, this day is a grand festival and a day worth carnival, because this day is the opening day of G3.

According to local television reports, half a month before the opening of G3, all hotels in Santa Monica had been booked in advance, and many people had to book hotel rooms in cities around Santa Monica.

Even some avid gamers, in order to be able to try their favorite games earlier, simply queue up early all night.

At 9:30 in the morning, after the G3 Organizing Committee Chairman Robert gave a speech, the G3 exhibition officially opened.

The huge venue was soon filled with enthusiastic players. These players were looking for the booths of their favorite game manufacturers, wanting to learn about the latest masterpieces of the manufacturers, and see if any new games were exposed.

Long queues have long been lined up outside the booth of a major game manufacturer like ZERO Studios, ready to try the masterpiece "Epistar Century 7", which has skipped tickets several times. This is the first time that this game has offered players a trial version.

The "Epistar Century" series is a very popular first-person IP under the ZERO studio. This series is about the near-exhaustion of global energy in the future. At this time, a mineral resource that can extract a large amount of energy was discovered on the moon. Named Epistar, "Epistar Century" is a story that revolves around the battle for epigenesis.

The previous six generations of "Epistar Century" Li Yuanhang have played. This game is a typical FPS game, somewhat similar to the previous "Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare".The background is all in the future. The advanced level of weapons and equipment is far surreal, and there is also a very good plot. Generally speaking, it is a very good game. No wonder there are so many players waiting in a long queue to try it out for a while.

Li Yuanhang actually wants to play the latest "Epistar Century" in person, but her brother-in-law is from the ZERO studio. If you want to try it out, you should be able to play enough at any time. Besides, she still brings two beauties. So I gave up.

After the opening of G3, the booths of other well-known game companies were crowded, and there was no one at the small booths in remote locations such as Kaixia.com.

A few people came and left after a while, only a few people were trying out the game, and almost all of them were playing Plague Company.

"Plague Company" has been on the shelves abroad for two or three months. According to the data obtained by publishers in various countries, the sales are very gratifying. After all, you can buy a high-quality strategy game for $0.99, and the price is very high. Up.

For this G3, Liu Yong also specifically asked Li Yuanhang to add a new pathogen to the "Plague Company", and this new pathogen was only made public on G3, and the posters he produced had the brand new pathogen "Plague Inc." with a significant slogan. .

However, there is no use. Most players come to G3 for the 3A masterpiece or the sequel of the well-known IP. The booths are all mobile games and cannot attract too many people's attention.

When approaching middle age, the booth of Kaixia.com is still the door.

Liu Yong has long been used to it. Kaixia Network spends a lot of money to get a booth on G3. In fact, the most important purpose is to attract distribution agents from various countries. As long as there is a game that can be represented, they will not lose money this time.

After hastily eating lunch, Li Yuanhang talked to Liu Yong and took two beautiful women, Li Yamei and Zhao Qiaoyi, to see the games selected by this year’s G3. By the way, I went everywhere to see what, but Lin Qiang had to continue. Stayed as a representative of Shinhwa Studio.

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Tom is a very ordinary young man in the United States, but also an avid gamer. In addition to work, he spends most of his time on games. He has a good grasp of every major game.

For this year's G3, Tom even used his annual leave ahead of time. Although he had already set off as early as possible, it was already half an hour late by the time he arrived at the venue.

At this time, there were already countless players like him on the booths of major game companies at the party. Tom looked at the length of the queue and felt that there would be no more than a few hours to try the game, so he simply left. Up.

Tom gradually moved away from the booths of the big game companies in the center of the venue, and the number of people at the edge of the booths was much scarce, and there were even some booths with no people.

Tom knows that these booths with no people are basically impossible to have any attractive and good games, so he just casually strolled around. He has made up his mind that he will not sleep tonight, so he will try to play " Epistar Century 7".

At this moment, Tom suddenly saw a few posters hanging above a small booth, there was a game he had played and thought it was good.

This is called "PlagueInc.". The content of the game is very interesting. It allows players to manipulate bacteria and viruses to exterminate humans. Tom doesn't usually play mobile games too much. "PlagueInc." is considered to be a very good one, and it is still fresh in his memory.

Is this booth owned by the developer of "Plague Inc."?

Tom walked into the booth with a bit of doubt. There were only a dozen people playing games by the wall, and a few others seemed to use it as a resting place, sitting on the sofa on one side and talking in low voices.

Tom quickly saw the "PlagueInc." poster. Next to this poster, there were several pretty pictures of posters, which read "The latest masterpiece from the developers of "PlagueInc.", the beautiful "MonumentValley" is coming soon". Typeface.

"It seems to look good, let me play with it first." Tom consulted with the studio staff, picked up the phone on the wall and started playing this "Monument Valley".

When the teaching level of the first level passed, Tom was completely attracted by the extremely beautiful painting style and the ingenious visual dislocation level, so when he finished the six levels of the demo version in one go, he couldn't bear it. She regretfully patted her thigh: "How come there are no more levels behind?"

Tom felt that he asked the staff and learned that the demo version of "Monument Valley" only has six levels, but the game should be officially released soon after the end of G3.

After leaving the booth, Tom excitedly took out his cell phone and dialed a number: "Hey, Duncan, where are you now?"

There was an excited male voice on the phone: "Tom, do you know, I just tried XG's latest "Extreme Racing". The driving feel is better than the previous generation, and several new scenes have been added. I feel that I am the latest The materials for several issues are already available."

"Duncan, I also found a pretty good game. Would you like to come and take a look?"

Duncan asked, "Which company's game is it?"

Tom said mysteriously: "It's the latest work from the developer of "PlagueInc.", I think you need to come and see it."

"Well, where is this company's booth?"

"Booth 106 in the West End, Duncan, come here quickly..."