
Gamescom 2017
The Cosplay Village at Gamescom features dozens of people dressed up like their favorite video game or pop culture characters.
Gamescom 2017
World of Warcraft fans battle in front of computer screens.
Gamescom 2017
The Fortnite booth at Gamescom features a mechanical llama.
Gamescom 2017
Miriam, a woman from Hamburg (who didn't provide her last name), spent 300 hours making a costume for the World of Warcraft character Mila Phylales. "The character doesn't have an official humanoid form," Miriam says, so she created her own version of what Mila could look like.
Gamescom 2017
The Nintendo Switch has been difficult to buy since it was released earlier this year.
Gamescom 2017
Fans can wait in line for hours to play the latest video games, so many brought their own chairs and decks of cards.
Gamescom 2017
It's not just male teenagers at Gamescom. Plenty of families and children also attend to play new games.
Gamescom 2017
This is the line for the first day of Gamescom, which was a Wednesday. Imagine how busy it gets on the weekend.
Gamescom 2017
About 350,000 people attend Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, each year. And you sure can tell when you're trying to walk around the convention center.
Gamescom 2017
Samsung's booth at Gamescom is the smallest Samsung booth that CNET's Shara Tibken has ever seen, and she's seen a lot of 'em.
Gamescom 2017
The PlayStation area at Gamescom has bleachers for fans to watch presentations and gaming on big screens.
Gamescom 2017
A German government agency hands out stickers, balloons and pins as part of a digital antihate campaign.
Gamescom 2017
Player Unknown's Battlegrounds has a booth in the Microsoft Xbox area of Gamescom.
Gamescom 2017
Gamescom attendees can pose for photos at the booths of their favorite games, like Crossout.
Gamescom 2017
Companies set up elaborate booths at Gamescom with lifelike and life-size characters such as this one from Overwatch.