The morning rush at Gamescom 2022 on Thursday.
The morning rush at Gamescom 2022 on Thursday.
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Germany’s Gamescom and Devcom are stepping out of E3’s shadow

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 4 min

Gamescom has always been one of the biggest trade shows on the planet, drawing more than 265,000 people to Cologne, Germany in August 2022. But in a way, the big fan expo was in the shadow of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles.

E3 was where the biggest companies in the world held their press conference as the entire world awaited their announcements. But that’s not true anymore. E3 failed to make its comeback in the post-pandemic return to business and was canceled this year instead. Gamescom and its sister event Devcom are coming out of the shadows and enjoying considerable growth.

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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.