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Gamescom

Trade fair for video games industry

Placetrade fair recurring eventQ265567

Country: Germany
Located in: Cologne
Founded: August 19, 2009

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Gamescom is a trade fair for video games held annually at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany. Gamescom is the world's largest gaming event, with 370,000 visitors and 1,037 exhibitors from 56 countries attending the event in 2018. The event is used by many video game developers to exhibit upcoming games and game-related hardware. The "gamescom - Opening Night Live" (ONL) show takes place every year on the evening before the opening. The show presents the latest trailers and announcements from the international games industry and is hosted by Geoff Keighley.

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Website: gamescom-cologne.com language: English
Location: Koelnmesse
Members / parts: Gamescom 2009
Gamescom 2010
Gamescom 2011
Gamescom 2012
Gamescom 2013
Gamescom 2014
Gamescom 2015
Gamescom 2016
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Gamescom 2018
Gamescom 2019
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Gamescom 2022
Gamescom 2023
Gamescom 2024
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Gamescom 2026
Different from: Gamercom
Game.com
Games Gathering
Social media followers: 279,813(February 9, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 57046942
263,797(January 8, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 57046942
256,984(January 5, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 57046942
235,362(April 15, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 57046942
Industry: video game industry
Organizer: Bundesverband Interaktive Unterhaltungssoftware(2008–2017)
game – The German Games Industry Association(since 2018)

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