Gamescom will return as biggest in-person game expo in August
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Gamescom 2022 will return as an in-person game expo in Cologne, Germany from August 24 to August 28.
Felix Falk, managing director of German trade association Game and co-organizer of Gamescom, said in an interview with Gamescom that the event will not sell as many tickets as it did in 2019 — a record-setting 370,000 for the last time the show was held in person — but it would still be the “world’s largest game expo.”
The event will also be more environmentally sustainable, as it will work to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and purchase carbon offsets in order to be climate-neutral, Falk said. Falk hopes that gamers and game industry professionals alike will be hungry for the return of Gamescom, where players can see premiers of top games as well as try out the big games coming out this year.
“So the event is basically the best of two worlds from 2019,” Falk said. “It has all the digital parts we developed in the last two years. We have COVID measures already in mind, and because we have six months to go we are looking to the measures that we will have at the end of August. There is still time, but we will decide some things. We are very confident that, together with some measures we already have in place, we can get a really nice Gamescom atmosphere and feeling back.”
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The event will also be accompanied by the Devcom event for game developers on August 22 to August 23, held on site just ahead of the larger event. The day for press will be on August 24, while general admission ticket holders will be able to visit booths of game companies from August 25 to August 28.
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