For a few years now, gaming has dominated the entertainment sector. With video games and a community of more than 3 billion players, the industry continues to perform and host popular events. Now, it’s the Cannes Gaming Festival, a new gaming event, which is announced for soon. It will bring together the actors of the gaming universe for various celebrations and satisfaction with the program. What is the purpose of this new ceremony of the 10th art? What to expect with the Cannes Gaming Festival in the coming days? It is a pleasure to discuss it together in the lines to follow.
Glamor Awards: Video games follow in the footsteps of online casinos
Although the rise of the online casino sector is more recent than that of video games, the former has proven to be more entrepreneurial in certain areas. Glamorous ceremonies are an example of this. With the emergence of several talented developers, the online casino industry has quickly taken the lead in organizing classy events. These bring together industry players, reward elected officials and promote the sector.
The SBC Awards is a typical ceremony that brings together class and pride. Between the best innovative suppliers and the games of the year, several awards parade during the event. It must be said that the productions offered for a few years in the field of online casinos have nothing to envy to physical casinos. For roulette lovers in land-based establishments, free online roulette is another excellent alternative that they have become accustomed to playing and so are several other categories of online games.
Events like the SBC Awards highlight the successes of the casino as it should. The world of video games meanwhile is no stranger to awards ceremonies. However, none has yet clearly sported a glamorous vibe. The next games festival in Cannes is therefore more than expected given the reputation of the Palais de Cannes, which will host the event in a few months.
Cannes Gaming Festival – By whom?
The idea for the Cannes Gaming Festival comes from Antoine de Tavernost and Robin Leproux: an unlikely duo made up of an event veteran and the former president of Paris Saint-Germain. The first name is surely not unknown to you if you are interested in the media world. Antoine de Tavernost is none other than the son of Nicolas de Tavernost, illustrious Chairman of the Management Board of the M6 channel.
However, we would be mistaken in defining the son solely by his father. Indeed, even if he is modeled on the success of his father, A. de Tavernost built his small reputation on his own, which continues to grow in the world of the media. Since his plunge into the depths of entrepreneurship at just 23 years old, the very resourceful son launched his first start-up, was part of the internet management of Lagardère Active, then created several event companies; just that.
His latest project is the Cannes Gaming Festival with Robin Leproux, who needs no introduction. The businessman and ex-leader of PSG converted to the world of gaming by co-founding Espot, the first ESport center based in Paris. For the occasion, Leproux reveals that he has been passionate about the gaming world for 30 years. A craze that seems more and more legitimate with the Cannes Video Games Festival preparing..
Why this Award?
The question seems obvious but since we are there, we might as well make a point (lol). To begin with, profit is necessarily a major reason for such a major project, but a good dose of passion is undoubtedly involved. The gaming industry is worth over $300 billion and new gamers are joining the ranks every day.
There is therefore still a great deal of room to be made and the two men who are A. de Tavernost and R. Leproux have not failed to exploit a dormant opportunity so far: “We don’t have an international festival for the 10th art that is the video game, equivalent of the 7th art for the cinema in Cannes” affirms R. Leproux. The latter is not wrong when we think of the cinema sector which produces awards such as the Oscars, the Césars or the Palmes d’Or.
In the gaming industry, the Game Awards and Pegases of video games already exist, but a purely classy event offering a festival-style ceremony in Cannes has never been undertaken. Publishers and game designers respond tit for tat to the enthusiasm of the community and they fully deserve gold palms. The promoters have therefore decided to bring together the cream of gaming and schedule the first edition of the Cannes Gaming Festival from October 2023.
For whom? – the audience targeted by the ceremony
The Game Awards have just released their list of nominees with a whole list of big names that have marked the year. Unlike this event dedicated solely to professionals in the field of video games, the Cannes Gaming Festival is intended to be a ceremony that is both B2B and B2C. This simply means that all the activities that take place during the event concern professionals but also the gaming community.
However, initially for the 2023 edition, the promoters will focus on awarding prizes to the deserving winners of the previous year. A show whose goal will therefore somewhat join that of the Game Awards, but where the form will be totally different with the rise of the Cannes red carpet and all that goes with it.
For the second edition, however, the real ambitions of Antoine de Tavernost and Robin Leproux will take shape with a 5-day ceremony and several events organized for the general public who will be able to meet the professionals and stars of the field.
How?– Cannes Gaming Festival program
The Cannes Gaming Festival will take place on October 26, 2023 at the Palais des Festivals. Several entertaining activities will be on the agenda and the guideline of the course is as follows:
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Opening ceremony: we know all the opening ceremonies of the Cannes festivals. The Cannes Gaming Festival should look like this, but instead with parades of nearly 300 cosplays of fictional characters. Geek effects guaranteed for those who doubted it.
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Rise of the steps: The traditional rise of the steps of the Cannes Film Festival will also take place with personalities from the world of video games and a lot of celebrity photographers all around (lol). For the gaming touch, there will be a mixture of Augmented Reality on the program!
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Nominations and award ceremonies: The participants of the year in the various award categories will first know the nominees. Subsequently, the long-awaited presentation of the Palmes d’Or will be made. Composed of influential and legitimate iGaming people, the jury will eventually debate their choices in the award ceremony.
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Festivities: The festivities will naturally follow with a large gathering of personalities present and a classy gala as the Cannes Film Festival knows how to organize.
Throughout the ceremony, the commentators will be popular and influential gamer streamers around the world. The event will be broadcast live on several platforms.
What competition is there?
Even if it is a different event from those already present on the market, the Cannes Gaming Festival will still face a comparison with these well-established ceremonies and for the most part popular with gamers. A brief overview of these ceremonies bringing the world of video games to life.
The Pegasus of video games
To summarize everything you should know about video game pegasus, we could say first that it is an award ceremony organized in France by the Academy of Video Game Arts and Techniques . It has existed since 2020 to reward the best video games of the year and the trophies are awarded by the Syndicat National du Jeu Vidéo. Nearly 1500 members vote in two rounds in complete anonymity to designate the winners of each category.
PARIS GAME WEEK
Very popular with the French public, Paris Game Week took place again face-to-face from November 2 to 6, 2022. It is not an award ceremony but rather a fair that brings together an entire community of gamers. and pop culture geeks. Paris Game Week is also about surprise announcements from publishers and gamers who sometimes have the chance to experience new games in preview.
GAME AWARDS
The Game Awards will take place on December 8. They have the same goal as pegasus, that of rewarding video games but with somewhat different selection criteria. This year, more than 50 games will be present at these video game Oscars. It is currently the most anticipated ceremony and the one that awards the most valuable trophy for video game publishers and developers: the Game Of The Year (GOTY) trophy.
TOKYO GAME SHOW
The Tokyo Game Show turns out to be the Asian Paris Game Week (or rather the opposite?). The event brings together a crazy world between September 15 and 18 of each year and has been taking place since 1996! This is an opportunity for publishers to make announcements like that of Capcom on its Street Fighter 6 unveiled in early 2022. This event is therefore a great tradition between professionals and the gaming community, organized by the company Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA ).
E3 AND GAMESCOM
E3 is considered to be the biggest video game show in the world. It usually takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center but no longer took place face-to-face this year. The show announces a strong comeback from 2023. Gamescom for its part is a kind of large video game conference based in Cologne, Germany. The event is entirely reserved for professionals for the presentation of many games and many other events.