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	gamescom 2011 - Welcome to our tradional annual German gaming convention review, which took place from 17. to 21. August 2011 in Cologne (Köln), Germany.
	gamescom 2011 - 127 photos ahead!
	gamescom 2011 - A lot of people there, really a very big lot.

	Bastion - First things first: our biggest surprise this year was Bastion, a single-player *sniff* hack-and-slay game in a comic style look.
	Bastion - The two things which impressed us: 1. the innovative appearing-and-disappearing world map and 2. the totally awesome narrator

	Guild Wars 2 - Generation of a human ranger.
	Guild Wars 2 - Combat clothes.
	Guild Wars 2 - Town clothes.
	Guild Wars 2 - A ranger's Blunderbuss.
	Guild Wars 2 - Ranger skill "Camouflage".
	Guild Wars 2 - Ranger skill "Heal As One".
	Guild Wars 2 - Ranger skill "Troll Unguent".
	Guild Wars 2 - Ranger skill "Flame Trap".
	Guild Wars 2 - Ranger skill "Spike Trap".
	Guild Wars 2 - Ranger skill "Nature's Renewal".
	Guild Wars 2 - Ranger skill "Nature's Renewal" in action.
	Guild Wars 2 - Generation of a sylvarian ranger...
	Guild Wars 2 - ...and his pet.
	Guild Wars 2 - Shooting stationary cannons at, well, something big over there.
	Guild Wars 2 - Generation of an asuran engineer.
	Guild Wars 2 - Ear length variations possible.
	Guild Wars 2 - Super coat.
	Guild Wars 2 - Rabbit's Foot.
	Guild Wars 2 - Rifle.
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer skill "Adrenaline Shot".
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer skill "Blunderbuss".
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer skill "Elixir H".
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer skill "Overcharged Shot".
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer skill "Rocket Boots".
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer skill "Smelling Salts".
	Guild Wars 2 - Flamethrower.
	Guild Wars 2 - WHOOOSH!
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer Flamethrower skill "Flamejet".
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer Flamethrower skill "Flameblast".
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer Flamethrower skill "Airblast" (TF2 pyro FTW!).
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer Flamethrower skill "Napalm".
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer Flamethrower skill "Napalm" being aimed on the ground.
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer Flamethrower skill "Backdraft".
	Guild Wars 2 - Grenade Kit
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer skill "Flash Grenade".
	Guild Wars 2 - Using the Mine Kit one can place mines which have to be detonated manually and individually.
	Guild Wars 2 - Med Kit.
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer skill "Healing Turret".
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer skill "Healing Turret" in action.
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer skill "Bandage Self".
	Guild Wars 2 - Using the Med Kit one can place med kits which are auto-used by injured allies when walking through them (I guess).
	Guild Wars 2 - Up to 5 Med Kits can be placed.
	Guild Wars 2 - Interestingly enough those Med Kits seem to feature an anti-gravitional floating mechanism.
	Guild Wars 2 - Engineer skill "Rifle Turret" which can be built on the ground.
	Guild Wars 2 - Turnable crank included.
	Guild Wars 2 - Broken / bugged.
	Guild Wars 2 - Fighting a dragon.
	Guild Wars 2 - Skills while being down.
	Guild Wars 2 - Option to return to waypoint while being dead.
	Guild Wars 2 - Otherwise wait for revival (as far as I noticed one can be revived while being "down" and even while being "defeated").
	Guild Wars 2 - Loot.
	Guild Wars 2 - Better loot.
	Guild Wars 2 - Experience providing loot.
	Guild Wars 2 - Super mega epic green set item loot.
	Guild Wars 2 - Achievements.
	Guild Wars 2 - A lot of them.
	Guild Wars 2 - Like really many lot of them.
	Guild Wars 2 - Inventory.
	Guild Wars 2 - Level up!
	Guild Wars 2 - Spending a handful of attribute points on the hundreds ypu already have.
	Guild Wars 2 - Having 80% of a skill - WTF?!
	Guild Wars 2 - Merchant.
	Guild Wars 2 - Salvage Kits are back.
	Guild Wars 2 - Even in different versions.
	Guild Wars 2 - Karma guy.
	Guild Wars 2 - Seems to be used in upgrade slots of equipment.
	Guild Wars 2 - Commerce.
	Guild Wars 2 - Mail.
	Guild Wars 2 - Chat.
	Guild Wars 2 - Party invitation.
	Guild Wars 2 - Party list.
	Guild Wars 2 - Blue frog.
	Guild Wars 2 - Green frog.

	Wildstar - The other game from NCsoft.
	Wildstar - Developed by Carbine Studios.
	Wildstar - Made by game making veterans.
	Wildstar - Pretty much all of them had been in Cologne.
	Wildstar - Did party hard.
	Wildstar - Nevertheless looked a bit lost at the same booth as the "OMG GUILD WARS 2 WHAAA MUST PLAY" hordes.
	Wildstar - Still I took a couple of photos.
	Wildstar - Maybe somebody finds them interesting.
	Wildstar - Especially this un-annotated world map thingie.
	Wildstar - But they have guns. A lot of guns. Barrage!

	Battlefield 3 - Longest line of the show.
	Battlefield 3 - Biggest jet of the show. Well, only jet of the show actually.
	Ace Combat: Assault Horizon - Big Badaboom...
	Ace Combat: Assault Horizon - ...and a very shaky camera.
	Dota2 - Not playable at gamescom, hmpfh.
	League of Legends - New game mode "Dominion" and new T-shirts.
	League of Legends - Nice Collector's Edition Box.
	Lord of the Rings Online - Holy epic crammed skill bar!
	Blizzard - Big. As usual.
	Risen 2 - Yarr!
	Demonicon - A game rumored to be based on the famous German roleplaying game The Dark Eye.
	Demonicon - Only a very basic combat demo was playable which had nothing (obvious) to do with The Dark Eye.
	Star Wars: The Old Republic - The line to wait too long it was.
	Rift - The new kid on the block of MMORPGs.
	End of Nations - Massively Multiplayer Real Time Strategy.
	End of Nations - With mechs...
	End of Nations - ...and tanks and helicopters.
	Warhammer 40.000: Space Marine - Drop pod.
	Warhammer 40.000: Space Marine - Awesome.
	Warhammer 40.000: Space Marine - Big guy...
	Warhammer 40.000: Space Marine - ...with big chainsword.
	Warhammer 40.000: Space Marine - Orkze!!!
	Rambo - He'll be back, in a game.
	Torchlight 2 - Multiplayaaaaaaaaaahhhh!
	Deponia - Wicked.
	Chains of Satinav - Another game based on The Dark Eye, but this time a point-and-click adventure.

	Blue friends - Friendship on first sight.
	Tera - Chicks. 'Nuff said.
	Gargoyle - Very impressive outfit.
	Gargoyle - Like really very impressive.
	Klingons - Guarding.
	Imperials - Patrolling.
	RC Tanks - Battling.

	Loot - Stuff.
	Loot - More stuff.
	Loot - Got nice T-shirts.
	Loot - Unfortunately some have a "politically not correct" text on the backside.
	Loot - A lot to read.
	Loot - Chains of Satinav poster.
	Loot - Witcher 2 poster, yeah!

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