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Devcom opens with indie game awards and survey results from 300 speakers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Devcom 2024 developer conference started Sunday with the Indie Awards and a VIP dinner in Cologne, Germany for 300 speakers.

The event extends from Sunday through Tuesday this week ahead of the Gamescom event, which will draw a few hundred thousand consumers to the German city on the Rhine River. Many of the year’s big titles will be unveiled at the 1,400 exhibits, which are up 15% from a year ago. The larger Gamescom event starts on Tuesday night with Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night Live event.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.