How gamescom Grew Into the World’s Biggest Gaming Event
From Leipzig’s Games Convention to 368,000 visitors and 1,743 exhibitors in Cologne, here is how gamescom grew into a global gaming giant.
Indie Game News, Reviews and Developer Interviews
From Leipzig’s Games Convention to 368,000 visitors and 1,743 exhibitors in Cologne, here is how gamescom grew into a global gaming giant.
Gamescom 2026 delivered a strong wave of new indie reveals. Here are our ten standouts, including PixelJunk Monsters 3, Greak 2, Alkimya, Prospera and more.
Valor Mortis, the next game from Ghostrunner studio One More Level, brings first-person Soulslike combat to a dark alternate version of 19th-century Europe, where Napoleon’s war has given way to plague, monsters, parkour, and supernatural powers.
MKstudio’s Shin Min-gi discusses Space Revolver, a Sokoban-inspired puzzle game built around rotating maps, gravity changes, and environmental logic.
A first look at Unawake from Gamescom 2024, covering its dark-fantasy combat, visual style, trailer, and release outlook.
Xbox headed to gamescom 2024 with first-party games, Blizzard content, indie titles, hands-on demos, and daily streams from Cologne.
Chibig brought Mika and the Witch’s Mountain to Gamescom ahead of its August 21, 2024 launch on Nintendo Switch and Steam Early Access.
Starship Troopers: Extermination headed to Gamescom 2024 with Casper Van Dien, hands-on multiplayer action, and new event coverage.
gamescom 2024 was already showing record early bookings and strong international participation months before the event opened in Cologne.