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It was a abundant aboriginal airing for the Electronics and Gaming Bazaar (EGE, arresting "Edge"), Cape Town's aboriginal above gaming expo.

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The event, captivated at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), saw bags of bodies casting up on all three days.

According to EGE agent (and iafrica.com reviewer) Zaid Kriel, Saturday was the busiest day of the lot.

In fact, Kriel said that they ran out of the 5000 access bands that were allocated for Saturday (bands are colour-coded by day), banishment them to dip into Sunday's wrist bands.

I visited the bazaar on Sunday and it was able-bodied abounding again too, but some exhibitors said they had about no amplitude to move on Saturday.

So already you got in to the expo, what was on offer?

Gaming booths

Well, abominably there weren't any unreleased blockbuster amateur accessible to play, but in all fairness, I accepted this for EGE's aboriginal outing.

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However, Kriel said the plan for abutting year's accident was to authority the bazaar at the end of June or in July. This way, they could advantage of examination cipher for E3, captivated in the average of June in Los Angeles.

Nevertheless, there was affluence to see and do.

Most notably, Ster-Kinekor Entertainment had the better (or was it only?) attendance of any above benefactor by far, with several Gran Turismo 6 sit-down cabinets and dozens of PlayStation Vita, PS4 and PS3 audience units. Few AAA amateur were showcased admitting - meh.

Make Amateur South Africa was additionally addition above presence, with absurd titles such as Broforce, Desktop Dungeons, Cadence and Phase Edge all on show.

The berth additionally hosted my favourite appellation of the show, in the anatomy of the bonkers Mergerzerds, a bounded multiplayer appellation that sees two mecha robots action anniversary other. The article comes with the ascendancy scheme, as there are four controls for anniversary apprentice (one for anniversary limb), so up to eight players can attempt - although two on two is apparently the ideal mix.

Other gaming setups included the TGN antagonism actor guys on Xbox One (using Project CARS) and one on one Mortal Kombat X.

But calmly the best accepted berth was the Oculus Rift audience setup, featuring a rollercoaster demo. The band for this was about an hour continued on Sunday - I don't like cat-and-mouse so I didn't bother to chain up. However, a acquaintance didn't apperception the chain and said the delay was absolutely account it.

Those on the coursing for amateur to acquirement weren't aghast either as the Pwned Amateur abundance had a abounding berth for all the above platforms. They akin had some hard-to-find aliment on offer, such as Wii U amiibos, a Super Nintendo, a Nintendo 64 and some appropriate copy videogames.

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There were additionally a few PC accouterments booths on show, for those who'd adopt to break abroad from consoles, such as aliment and brands like MSI and Logitech.

eSports titles were additionally well-presented, with ZombieGamer, Orena, Corsair and added guys facilitating tournaments and exhibitions in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, FIFA 15, Dota 2 and more.

The eSports games, which took abode on the capital stage, admiring hordes of bodies throughout the weekend. And with bags of rands in award-winning money for clash winners, I got the consequence that it absolutely aloft the contour of eSports in the country.

Other accompanying booths included The Animation School and Friends of Design, so if you were attractive for a career in the industry, these guys can point you in the appropriate direction.

Non-gaming stuff?

As for added booths on offer, there were abundant stalls and setups, affairs aggregate from pop ability figurines and costly toys to pillows and more.

There were additionally affluence of board/tabletop bold setups around, acceptance newbies and veterans akin to dip their toes in the water. And if you came abroad impressed, there was a lath bold abundance present as well.

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Comic book admirers were catered for in the anatomy of Readers Den - in fact, a adumbrative said that they had to abutting up boutique aboriginal on Saturday afterwards active out of stock.

There were absolutely a few options for aliment and drinks too, with several trucks/stalls around, affairs hotdogs, burritos, tacos, hot chips, schwarmas and more.

Room for advance (of course)

Obviously, actuality the event's aboriginal showing, there's consistently activity to be allowance for improvement, with the distributors not assuming off examination cipher or accepting no berth at all.

While Ster-Kinekor Entertainment/Sony had a massive presence, companies like Megarom, Apex Interactive and Xbox South Africa didn't assume to accept official booths.

Even admitting there were Xbox One consoles and banners around, the booths featured third-party games, giving the consequence that, at best, Microsoft was actual hands-off (although they did sponsor an Xbox One as a prize). But as Kriel said, abutting year's acting affairs could see some abundant agreeable if it works out.

We would've additionally admired to see added Oculus Rift audience booths set up, with the curve actuality rather continued for the sole audience unit. Kinect-enabled amateur and added indie titles would've spiced up affairs too, while bushing out the attic as well.

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Nevertheless, it was the aboriginal above gaming bazaar in Cape Town and I had low expectations as a result. But I was abundantly afraid with it all - calculation me in for 2016 then.

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