


Sony also made its press conference available for download on the PlayStation Store. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe also showcased its press conference on its online community-based service PlayStation Home shortly afterwards. While most press conferences were not available for live streaming, Electronic Arts streamed its press conference on EA.com. Also, Microsoft announced their intention to release Fable II on the Xbox Live Marketplace in five episodes, the first of which would be free to download. Microsoft Game Studios announced Fable III, along with a release date of 2010. A "free game" registration promotion was announced for the PSP Go. Sony also announced that the PlayStation Portable would get smaller games (under 100mb) in the form of 'minis' and that comics would also be available to download in December 2009. Sony announced that the European Video Store would launch in November 2009. Firmware 3.0 for the PlayStation 3 was also announced, adding new features to the PlayStation Network. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced the PlayStation 3 Slim, a smaller and lighter model of the console and a release date of 1 September 2009.

Gamescom is used by many video game developers to exhibit upcoming games and game-related hardware. It supersedes Games Convention, held in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Since 2018, it has been organised by game – Verband der deutschen Games-Branche (English: Association of the German video game industry) and before that, by the Bundesverband Interaktive Unterhaltungssoftware (BIU). Gamescom (stylized as gamescom) is a trade fair for video games held annually at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Game – Verband der deutschen Games-Branche
