Global Exclusive
Last year was a great year for Gamania TGS. Gamania demonstrated its status as a major international game company in terms of “quality”, “quantity”, international media exposure, popularity at Chiba and sheer force of presence. This year Gamania is not going to TGS, not going to E3 and not going to Gamescon. Instead, Gamania decided to stay home in Taipei and host its own independent digital entertainment exhibition – the Gamania Game Show (GGS). What led to this decision? Let’s find out!
Hosting an independent digital entertainment exhibition is a break from Gamania’s tradition of taking part in trade shows. For many of the big companies however this has already become an annual fixture. For Apple fans around the world, there’s the WWDC (Apple Worldwide Developers Conference), for gamers there is the annual pilgrimage to BlizzCon, and then there’s Sony’s SonyFair. All of these are independent product (technology) exhibitions that have caught the eye of the international media and rival general exhibitions in terms of exposure.
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The “Apple Worldwide Developers Conference” (WWDC) is held regularly in California each year by Apple. The purpose of the conference is to showcase the latest software and technologies developed by Apple’s researchers.
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BlizzCon is a gaming festival that Blizzard hosts for Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft and gamers.
Since attending the Tokyo Game Show (TGS) for the first time in 2002, Gamania has always chosen a major game show each year for showcasing Gamania products for that year. Gamania CEO Albert said that though they had planned to attend the TGS again this year, the Japan Earthquake and power restrictions all meant a great deal of uncertainty. As a result, Gamania decided not to attend the TGS and decided to attract international media attention by hosting an independent exhibition.
Gamania’s Past Exhibitions:
2002 Tokyo Game Show
2003 Taipei Game Show
2004 China Joy
2005 Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong
2006 Tokyo Game Show
2010 Tokyo Game Show
2011 Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong