The crowd watching Nvidia's Gamescom 2018 event.
The crowd watching Nvidia's Gamescom 2018 event.
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Gamescom will attempt to pull off in-person and online hybrid event in August

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gamescom will attempt to pull off a hybrid gaming expo this summer, with both in-person and online events at the end of August.

The fan-and-business trade show was the world’s biggest game event — with 370,000 people attending the physical event in 2019 — but it had to switch to online-only in 2020 due to the pandemic. The event organizers will try to restore some of that in-person excitement this year with a hybrid event, said Felix Falk, managing director of Game (the group that puts on the show) in an interview with GamesBeat.

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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.