Gamescom has been described as the event where Europe comes together to talk about games. Naturally, there's a lot of games on the show floor. I didn't get a chance to play everything, of course, but there was plenty that Australians won't have gotten a chance to get hands on with quite yet. So to save everyone time, here's a wrap-up of what I did get hands on with.

When Fe was first announced as one of EA's latest indie bets, it wasn't completely clear what exactly it was. There was a little creature making sounds at other, often bigger creatures, and a whole bunch of trees.

Behind closed doors at Gamescom this year, Fe creative director Hugo Bille explained that the idea is to recapture the spirit of being connected with nature. In practical terms, that entails a lot of exploration and discovery. But like an actual forest, you don't get much guidance along the way.

If you're being honest, do you really know exactly what every setting in the video settings does?

If you want the simplest summation of how things are coming along with the gargantuan project that is Star Citizen, here's 45 minutes from Cloud Imperium Games' presentation at Gamescom without annoying commentary or bugs.

The PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Invitational tournament kicked off today at Gamescom. The first major round of solo matches was full of badarse snipes and tense finishes. Unfortunately, viewers missed plenty of these moments thanks to some shoddy camera work.

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany and Leader of the Free World, was at Gamescom in Köln earlier today. And she spent some of her time in about the most Gamescom way imaginable.

It's understandable that most people don't finish the story campaign in games that trade more heavily on their multiplayer, like Call of Duty or Battlefield. But you'd expect singleplayer-only games to be different, right?

Sure, nicer graphics and aiming with a mouse and keyboard is all well and good. But there's one thing about Destiny that always bugged me, something I won't have to worry about with the sequel.

While it's great that Final Fantasy 15 is coming to PC, one of the things that isn't so great was the headlines warning about the game's install size.

This is a picture of a dragon from ARK: Survival Evolved. It's not normally what an ARK dragon looks like, but it's what can happen when you blend in-game screenshots with machine learning.

At the end of a livestream celebrating 20 years of Age of Empires, it was revealed that Relic Entertainment - makers of the Dawn of War and Homeworld RTS series - were developing a new sequel to Age of Empires.

Announced at NVIDIA's briefing ahead of Gamescom this week, Square Enix director Hajime Tabata announced that the company would be releasing the "Ultimate Version" of Final Fantasy XV for PC next year.

And it's being developed by the team behind Planet Coaster.

Yeah uh... sign me up please.

Xbox One X will have a limted "Project Scorpio" edition available when it launches this Spring Microsoft announced today at its pre-Gamescom briefing.