The crowd at Gamescom.
The crowd at Gamescom.
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Gamescom 2024 breaks records with 335,000 visitors

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gamescom drew more than 335,000 visitors to Cologne, Germany, last week for a gaming expo extravaganza.

The visitors were up from 320,000 last year annd theycame from around 120 countries to Cologne. The show hit a record 310 million digital engagements, including over 40 million for Geoff Keighley’s Gamescom Opening Night Live.

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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.