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Maven Road: Gamescom’s top game was Sonic Frontiers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The most-discussed game at the recent Gamescom event last year was Sonic Frontiers, according to an analysis by Maven Road of all social media around the event in Germany.

Maven Road analyzes social media conversations to determine what people are talking about. We asked them to look at the Gamescom and Devcom events from August 22 to August 28. For the first time since 2019, the events took place in person in Cologne, Germany this year. While Gamescom drew more than 265,000 gamers to its expo, about 2,500 game developers showed up for Devcom. I like looking at analysis of these events because it settles the debates about what was the “game of the show.”

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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.