The day tickets for private visitors for gamescom Saturday, August 26th, are sold out. Evening tickets for Saturday are still available. Tickets for the other days are still available online in the official gamescom ticket shop for both private visitors (Thursday, Friday and Sunday) and for trade visitors.
Around two weeks before the trade fair in Cologne, tickets for what is expected to be the busiest day are already sold out. Fans who wanted to visit Gamescom on Saturday but hesitated when buying tickets are now left empty-handed - or at least have to switch to one of the other days of the trade fair.
Gamescom is bigger again this year
The gross exhibition area will grow by 2022 square metres compared to 10.000 to a total of 230.000 square metres – a new record. The gamescom further to: The exhibitors in 2023 will come from 60 countries, in 2022 there were 53. The proportion of foreign exhibitors has increased by three percentage points to 78 percent compared to the previous year. gamescom 2022 had already taken up almost the entire Koelnmesse site - in 2023 the event will also be even larger in terms of area. The growth to a total of 230.000 square meters is due, among other things, to the addition of Hall 1, which this year houses the "social area" with creator co-working space and signing area. The entertainment area and the indie area are also growing.
The companies that have already registered for gamescom 2023 include: 9GAG, Aerosoft, Amazon Games, Amazon Prime, AMD, Assemble Entertainment, astragon Entertainment, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment, Bethesda Softworks, Crunchyroll, Devolver Digital, ESL FACEIT Group, Focus Entertainment, Frontier Developments, GIANTS Software, Headup Games, Hoyoverse, The LEGO Group, Level Infinite, MINI, Netflix, Nexon, Nintendo, Pearl Abyss, PLAION, Raw Fury, Rocket Beans TV, Samsung, SEGA, Star Wars Ahsoka (Disney+), Team17, TikTok, Ubisoft and Xbox. Numerous other companies have already been announced, but will be communicated at a later date.
The great international relevance of gamescom Their wide-reaching show formats also contribute to this. The big opening show gamescom: Opening Night Live will once again be produced with Geoff Keighley and, like previous years, is already enjoying great interest from many games companies. The gamescom studio, which runs throughout the week and follows the event daily and brings it to the world digitally, will again be produced with the media company IGN in 2023.
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