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| Alyse ,Gamestart official Mascot cosplay by Sharlene |
The 2017 Edition of
GameStart (GameStart 2017) happened last weekend on the 14th and 15th of October 2017 at
Suntec Convention Halls 401,402 and 403. With this year's bigger floor space and new additions, let's take a look back at the captured memories!
- Sony PlayStation/SEA Major
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| PlayStaion VR |
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Final Fantasy Dissidia NT
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| Grand Turismo Sports |
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SEA Major Stage,Tekken World Tour
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| SEA Major booth,Blazblue Preliminaries |
If there is any exhibitors that took advantage of
GameStart 2017 expanded floor space this year.
We have to mention
Sony PlayStation, Besides the returning
SEA Major booth and Stage areas where fighting games competition takes place. Located Right at the entrance was
Sony PlayStation booth where visitors get to experience latest launched games like
Grand Turismo Sports and yet to be launched
Final Fantasy Dissidia NT. Playsation VR also made a cameback this year.
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| Shadowverse Finals |
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| Vain Glory Finals |
This year,
GameStart 2017 saw the addition of
SEA Mobile Major . With all kinds of mobile games fast gaining popularity, its about time we see Mobile games in the E-sports arena. The inaugural
SEA Mobile Major saw competitors battle for the top spot in
Cygame's Card based game
Shadowverse and
Vain Glory a MOBA optimized for touch screen devices
by
Super Evil Megacorp
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| IDGA SG booth showcasing games developed by local studios |
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| Founder's base Allows local and overseas studios to showcase their works. |
Another new addition to
GameStart 2017 was
IGDA(Singapore) booth. Visitors had their chance to play the games developed by local indie games game studios. They also can vote for their favourite game. While over at Founder's base, both local and overseas indie game studios which are startups get to showcase their work to the massive crowds.
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| Warhammer |
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| Magic The Gathering |
For people who prefer the slower pace of table top gaming, you were not left out this year! with the addition of
GameStart 2017 tabletop gaming section. From tabletop wargames like Warhammer to card games like Magic The Gathering the tabletop gaming section has you covered. Other table top game spotted were Force of Will, the Final Fantasy TCG,Exploding Kittens, Dungeons & Dragons and many others.
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| Taiko no Tatsujin Session de Dodon ga Don! |
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A rare treat for the fans: Tekken 7 Exhibition match , Yoshinori Ono-san(BTW he was pick from the audience, its not planned) from Capcom VS Ying Tze who is cosplaying as Eliza.
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Yivon as Eva Roux from Code Vein an upcoming RPG published by
Bandai Namco |
Game publisher
Bandai Namco Entertainment Asia returned this with several unreleased games like
Dragon Ball FighterZ,
Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker,
Taiko no Tatsujin Session de Dodon ga Don! and the recently released
Project cars 2. Fans of
Ying Tze was delighted
Bandai Namco Entertainment Asia. invited her as guest cosplayer. Not only did they get a chance to fight her in a friendly Tekken 7, her photo book was on sale and fans get to meet her at meet and greet sessions.
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| Hado Booth |
Hado Singapore is bringing the concept of AR Techno Sports locally. After hearing it at the press conference, i was pretty hype up about the concept. For the uninitiated AR is actually Augmented Reality take it a step further from Virtual Reality, AR overlays Graphics over a real world environment. A insanely popular example would be Pokemon GO. I did get my chance to play 1 round, it was great fun and it's sure a workout dodging those bullets.
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A Visitor playing the Sega Dream Cast
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| How many classical Portable consoles can you name here? Remember the days of blowing cartridges & relying on the street lamps for illumination? |
With the launch of NES Mini,SNES Mini,Famicom mini in the recent years, one can tell that classic
game consoles still retain their charm till this very age. Modern Game consoles may have amazing life like graphics. But that doesn't mean 8-bit or 16-bit pixels loses its relevance. At Retro DNA one can experience the game consoles of yesteryear and even grab some back home!
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| Race in Progress |
"Déjà Vu! I've just been in this time before! (Higher on the beat!) And I know it's a place to come home! Calling you! And the subject's a mystery! (Standing on my feet!) It's so hard when I try to believe! Yeeeaaaaaah!!" Nani? Multi Chair Drifto?????
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| Doujima |
Another fan favourite that returned this year was the
Doujima x Gamestart collab visitors browsed thru the alleys to find fan arts and illustration of their fandom. This year there were a total of 40 artist that participated. Doujima is held in collaboration with Neo Tokyo Project
- Game on! Cosplay Runway Competition
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| Junkrat from Overwatch |
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Snow White from SinoAlice
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Game on! Cosplay Runway Contestant and Judges
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Game on! Cosplay Runway competition has always been a staple at
GameStart.
Continuing its tradition a
slight twist to the judging criteria & prizes category is what sets this competition apart from others . Level Up prize is presented to a cosplayer which is relatively new to the Competitive cosplay scene. While Best in show ( Craftsmanship) and Best in show (Characterization) should be self-explanatory . The top prize of judges (Guest ccsplayers:
Carry,
Vera Chimera,
AstroKerrie) choice award was eventually given to Fiddlesticks(Surprise Party Skin).
No conventions of such nature would be completed without Cosplay.
GameStart this year has continued the tradition of free entry for Cosplayers. Here are just some of the many who turn up
at the event grounds!
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Nier:Automata Q&A(Pre-picked) Session
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