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One week on from the end of this year's Eurogamer Expo - EGX for short - and we've rolled up the blue carpet, sent back all the PS4s and Xbox Ones (sad face) and said goodbye to Earls Court for another year. All that's left is the worldwide hunt, involving 15 international agencies, for patient zero of the Expo Flu. (I'm typing this in one of those hazmat suits from that Dustin Hoffman movie with the monkey. The gloves make it quite difficult, so sorry for any typsos.)There there was another viral epidemic going round the show floor - fun. (Sorry.) It spread from the cosplayers to the tournaments to the retro collection to the developer sessions, where stars like Xbox's Phil Harrison and Beyond writer-director David Cage showed off their wares to packed audiences, and we got to witness big chunks of far-off games like the gruesome The Evil Within.
But really, we were all there for the playable games, and with EGX taking over two floors of Earls Court for the first time, there was an almost bewildering array of stuff to try. Making our Editor's Choice, we chose to highlight a total gem from the Indie Arcade called Chroma, because we're a bit pretentious like that (mark my words, though, it's the next Fez). In order to find out what normal, non-hipster gamers enjoyed the most, we also polled all visitors on their favourite playable games at the show. Below you'll find the results, counting down the top 10 games of EGX 2013 and culminating in the people's choice for Game of the Show.
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