Exhibitor area for this 12 months’s Gamescom has fully bought out for the primary time within the present’s historical past.
Final 12 months’s Gamescom broke attendance information with round 357,000 guests visiting the present in Cologne, Germany.
A complete of 1,568 exhibitors from 72 nations additionally took half within the occasion final 12 months, a rise from 1,462 exhibitors in 2024. This was partly because of the choice to increase the present by including an additional 3,000 sq. metres of exhibition area.
Now the present’s organisers have introduced that each one obtainable exhibition area has fully bought out for the primary time attributable to “growing demand”.
Gamescom co-organiser the German Video games Trade Affiliation and Koelnmesse (Gamescom’s venue) are actually engaged on methods to increase the occasion additional as quickly as subsequent 12 months, to satisfy this demand “and to enhance the customer expertise within the course of”.
The occasion has additionally confirmed that extra main exhibitors have confirmed their attendance this 12 months, with the likes of Konami, Tencent Video games, Embark Studios, Degree Infinite, Giants and Aerosoft becoming a member of beforehand confirmed exhibitors corresponding to Nintendo, Xbox, EA, Ubisoft and Capcom.
“Might be larger than ever”
“That Gamescom is totally booked up is a robust sign for the whole trade,” Gamescom director Tim Endres mentioned in a press release.
“We solely simply expanded the realm final 12 months, so are all of the extra happy with the growing demand. On the identical time, we’re regularly creating Gamescom additional and investing in new codecs for followers and communities. It’s exactly this connection of enterprise and community-experience that distinguishes Gamescom.”
Felix Falk, managing director of the German Video games Trade Affiliation, added: “It’s already clear now that Gamescom 2026 shall be larger than ever. Exhibitor demand is larger than it has ever been.
“Followers can look ahead to a full program – on location in Cologne and in livestream in every single place on the earth. Gamescom Opening Evening Reside, the expanded Gamescom superior indies present, or Gamescom GDQ, which is celebrating its premiere this 12 months – these are just a few of the highlights that elevate anticipation for the world’s largest video games occasion many weeks previous to the beginning.”
This 12 months’s Gamescom Opening Evening Reside takes place on August 25 at 8pm CEST (11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm BST), providing one other choice of new recreation reveals and trailers.
As ever, VGC shall be masking Gamescom with hands-on studies from the present flooring.
