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Those planning on attending this year’s Gamescom have until Thursday, March 31st to secure their tickets at the early bird rate. Until then, attendees will be able to purchase tickets to the show at a ‘more than ten per cent’ discount. Show organiser Koelnmesse says that ticket purchases are limited …
Read More »Gamescom registrations up 60% for 2016 show
The organiser of Gamescom has reported an impressive start to its 2016 show. Koelnmesse say that it has had 60 per cent more registrations during its Early Bird period than it did in 2015. Businesses from 33 countries have already registered for the event, while Turkey will be this year’s …
Read More »Ruffian breaks ties with Paradox, departs Hollowpoint
Crackdown 2 studio’s next game was originally revealed as part of Sony’s 2014 Gamescom lineup
Read More »‘PlayStation has put Paris Games Week on the international radar’
Next week’s PlayStation conference has made Paris Games Week part of the global calendar, but don’t expect it to become a Gamescom rival, organiser SELL has told MCV. Speaking ahead of next week’s show, SELL president Jean-Claude Ghinozzi said that the main focus of the event remains on French gamers. …
Read More »Gunning for gold: How Robo Pixel won Gamescom’s UK Game of the Show award
'It’s great to have people who will tell us straight what’s good and what’s crap'
Read More »Opinion: Biggest Gamescom ever was what you made of it
The Gamescom numbers defied the experience somewhat. There were 345,000 visitors to the show, which is 10,000 up on last year’s figure. There were 806 companies, a rise of 14 per cent, and 33,200 trade visitors, a more modest increase of five per cent. But try telling that to the …
Read More »‘Giving dinosaurs feathers is stressful,’ says Ark: Survival Evolved studio
Studio Wildcard discusses the difficulties of creating scientifically accurate dinos
Read More »Find out what we learnt from Gamescom 2015 in this week’s issue of MCV
MCV is back from Gamescom – but what did we find out at this year’s show? Quantum Break is shaping up to be huge, publishers are spending big on making their games the next eSports hits and Creative Assembly is making a Halo game – and more. Meanwhile, we speak …
Read More »Gamescom attracts record 345,000 visitors
Event hosted 806 companies from 45 countries
Read More »345,000 people went to Gamescom last week
The number of visitors at this year’s Gamescom rose year-on-year. 345,000 people attended the Cologne-based trade show, an increase of 10,000 on last year’s attendance figures. These visitors came from 96 countries. Of that figure, 33,200 were trade visitors – an increase of five per cent year-on-year. 806 companies from …
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