Gamescom crowds from past years.
Gamescom crowds from past years.
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Germany’s Gamescom draws 345K visitors to one of world’s largest video game trade shows

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gamescom keeps getting bigger. The massive game fan trade show drew more than 345,000 visitors to Cologne, Germany, this year. That’s a good indication that the game industry is in a healthy state, as the event is one of the largest industry shows in the world.

The trade show attracted 806 exhibitors. By comparison, last year’s event drew 335,000 visitors and 703 exhibitors. The number of professional visitors was 33,200, up 5 percent from a year ago. The event took place from August 5 to August 9, earlier than previous Gamescoms that occurred in mid-August.

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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.