The ever evolving Indian gaming industry has witnessed a surge in the number of events and gatherings occurring at regular intervals. Events like Nasscom Game Developers Conference or Reliance’s PocketGamer Connects were all development centric and were more focused on gave development, but nothing majorly was targeted at the gamers (players) or consumers who make the video gamer community, apart from a few game tournaments here and there.
Lately events like Video Game Fest and a few games at Comic Con have brought out the video gamer community to gather at a single place and experience the sheer joy of pixel mayhem on large screens. Well, come 14 and 15 November, India is set to witness one of the largest gatherings of such gamers under one roof at IGX or Indian games expo.
Claiming to be India’s largest video games showcase – focused purely on consumers – IGX will have a large number of games on display which have released over the last one year. Biggest Games last year like Mortal Kombat X, Mad Max, BloodBourne, WWE 2K16 and even recent releases like Fallout 4, Pro Evolution 2016, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Metal Gear Solid V, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 among others will be on display.
Gamers will get to experience all of these games at various booths at the expo and even enter some on spot competition and win merchandise and great deals on games. Apart from these games the expo will also have various hardware companies displaying the best in gaming hardware with companies like SteelSeries, Zotac and MSi all having their booths here.
One can also compete with fellow gamers on games like Mortal Kombat X and WWE 2K16 of which latter is being hosted by games distributor e-Xpress Games with the winner taking a bounty of Rs 1.5 lakh.
Another attraction at the gig will be Cosplay, which is another rising cultures in India, wherein one has to dress up as their favourite fictional character from the world of comics, movies, games, anime and more. The best cosplayer will win gift vouchers on Day 1 and a chance to win a Sony PlayStation 4 on Day 2. People who cannot participate in the competition in Mumbai can register online and showcase their cosplaying skills to win goodies.
The expo starts tomorrow and is taking place at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon from 11:00 am to 7″00 pm on both days and with the entry for the same being free, we can certainly expect a good turn out! See you there!