Gamescom — All Editions

Gamescom is the world's largest trade fair for video games, held every August at Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany and run jointly by game - the German Games Industry Association - and Koelnmesse. It combines a mass consumer expo with a B2B business area, the gamescom congress and the co-located gamescom dev developer conference. The 2026 edition drew 368,000 visitors from 131 countries and 1,743 exhibitors from 66 countries, selling out its full 233,000 sqm of exhibition space for the first time in the show's history.