For the 2024 edition, the video game trade show is expecting around 200,000 people to try out the latest releases, preview unreleased titles and take part in a variety of activities organized on the different stands. If you decide to drop in this weekend, here's what you can do during the day.

The main attraction of "Paris Games Week" is the opportunity to form an opinion on games, which, at €80 each in some cases, can represent a real budget. The biggest contingent is to be found on the stands of the major publishers and manufacturers: Impossible to miss, they are often the most imposing and colorful.

If you are prepared to brave the sometimes long queues that will stand between you and these stands, you will be able to try your hand at recently released top titles such as Astro Bot (Sony stand), Star Wars Outlaws (Ubisoft stand, we liked it), The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo stand, also liked by Le Monde) or the latest Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Xbox stand) which, while no longer drawing the crowds it did a few years ago, remains one of the show's most popular points of interest.

Pavilion 1

Unlike "Gamescom," the older, larger German trade show that arrives earlier in the year, "Paris Games Week" offers fewer previews of games. But that does not mean they are completely absent.

Pavilion 1

On the "Games Made in France" pavilion, the spotlight is on home-grown games. Far from the blockbusters that take up the lion's share of the media agenda, these more modestly-scaled titles are sometimes developed by very small teams. But when it comes to video games, size does not always matter!

You will be able to try your hand at more experimental, more intimate works: another facet of video games. This is also the pavilion where you will have the best chance of meeting the designers of these titles. It is an opportunity for interesting discussions on the reality of video game creation today.

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