Gamescom is on!!

Gamescom, the world's biggest video games event, welcomes manufacturers, publishers, and consumers like you to Germany's Cologne Exhibition Center every year. Here's something of what to expect from its 2012 edition, which runs August 15-19. The four biggest press conferences belong to Electronic Arts, Sony, Capcom and Ubisoft, partly because Microsoft and Nintendo won't be present this year.
Surprise! It's the Wii U
However, Nintendo is tipped to finally, finally announce launch dates and prices for the Wii U on August 13, so look out for that.
Press conference actionGame publisher Electronic Arts opens the show with an August 14 media briefing starting 4pm local time, and can count FIFA 13, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Crysis 3 and SimCity among its wares.
Sony goes next at 7pm and has a number of options: the good value PlayStation Plus subscription scheme, the PlayStation Vita portable system, and a general preview of its late 2012 and 2013 line up.

Source : Hindustan Times