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The guest of honor

 

Keiji INAFUNE, video game guest of honor of the 13^th Impact, gave two conferences during the festival: on Thursday on the Japan Expo stage and on Sunday on the video game stage. He shared some anecdotes about his career with the audience and gave his opinion about the evolution of the video game industry. There were also teasers of his coming releases, Kaio: King of Pirates and Soul Sacrifice.

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Exclusivities

 

Square Enix prepared a mad afternoon for the attendees on Saturday! Prestigious guests had come to present their productions. Nintendo joined the event to celebrate the 10^th anniversary of Kingdom Hearts with Shinji HASHIMOTO, producer, and Yoko SHIMOMURA, music composer. Naoki YOSHIDA, Final Fantasy director, introduced the second version of the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV. Still on the booth of Nintendo, the attendees could spot Satoru IWATA himself, president of Nintendo, accompanied by Stéphane BOLE, president of Nintendo France.

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At Namco Bandai Games, new releases were pouring on the video game stage! One Piece Pirate Warriors, Dragon Ball Z Kinect, Dragon Ball Z Budokai Collection, Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, Ni no Kuni: all are arriving into your consoles in the following months. There’s more! Tales of Graces was announced by Hideo BABA and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 by Katsuhiro HARADA, who both had come to the festival.

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CAPCOM was expecting Resident Evil fans with the demo of Resident Evil 6, and TECMO KOEI GAMES allowed the attendees to try Dead or Alive 5 on their booth.

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Fierce tournaments

 

Video games a true high level discipline. Big screens, fans, official competition, and of course rewards were there!

The European Tougeki finals on the video game stage were organized by VERSUS DOJO. The biggest and most prestigious international fighting game tournament brings together the best gamers every year. To win: a trip to Japan to take part in the world finals of the Tougeki 2012. The winners? “Gunfight” for Street Fighter III: 3^rd Strike on Saturday; “Kusanagi” for Super Street Fighter IV. The most surprising? “Kusanagi” is 12: he started playing at 9, trained by his father “Genki”, a professional gamer.

A true electronic sport reference, Starcraft® II brought together 16 of the best French players and a crowd of gaming fans. Organized by the Electronic Sports League (ESL) and Blizzard Entertainment, the StarCraft II World Championship Series had the gamers fight for a chance to represent France during the European finals taking place at the end of the year.

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Meetings, shows, and freeplay

 

Chara-designer, developer, and producer, Yoshihisa KISHIMOTO made beat’em all a very popular genre at the end of the 80s. Among the 350 games in which he took part, Double Dragon has become a must. You could meet him on the Editions Pix'n Love booth for the release of his biography by Florent GORGES. Another guest, Hello Kitty was on stage for her new game!

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On stage too, video game music had pride of honor thanks to the Geek Music Show, a video game dedicated show by associations DoReMi Game & Cie and ORGames. Professor Sakamoto used his absolute pitch to plays on his keyboard the melodies of the console he’s wearing on his head. A great moment of music for video game fans and a surprising moment for everyone!!

Associations were waiting for you with freeplay to have fun with your family and friends! Come and game proposed dozens of games, and if you wanted to dance to the best rhythm games, ORGames and DDR Belgium were there.

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Nostalgics didn’t miss APOIL and their memorable retro games. You could also discover video game history with MO5.com, to learn everything about your passion!

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