The view of Kolnmesse, where Gamescom is held for a crowd of 370,000 people.
The view of Kolnmesse, where Gamescom is held. The picture is from 2019.
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Gamescom will return as biggest in-person game expo in August

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gamescom 2022 will return as an in-person game expo in Cologne, Germany from August 24 to August 28.

Felix Falk, managing director of German trade association Game and co-organizer of Gamescom, said in an interview with Gamescom that the event will not sell as many tickets as it did in 2019 — a record-setting 370,000 for the last time the show was held in person — but it would still be the “world’s largest game expo.”

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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.