Devcom aims for No. 2 game dev event vs GDC with new venue | The DeanBeat

Everybody in the game industry knows about the Game Developers Conference, which draws around 30,000 game developers every year to San Francisco. But who’s No. 2 in the world of game developer events?

Devcom, the business to business gaming event co-located each year with the gigantic Gamescom consumer gaming show, is making its bid to be No. 2 thanks to a larger venue. Stephan Reichart, managing director of Devcom, said in an interview with GamesBeat that his game dev event is expanding to a larger venue in hopes of being a clear No. 2 this year and future years in Cologne, Germany.

“We are in a really interesting situation right now with Devcom,” Reichart said. “We are moving into Europe’s most modern conference center. They just opened it weeks ago. And this really gives us for the first time the opportunity to become No. 2 in the world, after GDC.”