UAE announces Dubai Esports & Games Festival 2024

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 19, 2024
Updated June 18, 2025
1 min

Dubai announced the Dubai Esports & Games Festival 2024 event will run from April 19 to May 5 in the city in the United Arab Emirates.

The Dubai Esports & Games Festival aims to surpass the 48,2000 attendees who came to last year’s event. It will feature over 50 games played on 200 machines, including 11 unreleased titles and four world-first showings. It’s part of the UAE’s plan to attract gaming jobs to the country. I interviewed a Dubai economic adviser and wrote about voices of gaming in Dubai as well about the gaming ambitions.

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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.