The world's largest trade fair for computer and video games will once again take place digitally this year, after a hybrid of an online and offline event for August 25th to 27th Gamescom was planned to take place. But the COVID-19 pandemic resulting from the coronavirus provides the framework once again.
Gamescom 2021 only digital
< p class = "p text-width">With this decision, the organizer is taking into account the current situation “in which too many companies cannot take part in physical events this year due to the still difficult development”.
Together with the game association, we have given everything to enable the fans and the industry to have a hybrid Gamescom in 2021. But even if the concept was very well received by the partners, we had to recognize that Gamescom is still too early for many companies in the industry due to the necessary planning security.
Oliver Freese, Managing Director of Koelnmesse
< h2 class = "text-width text-h2" id = "section_unternehmen_wollen_planungssicherheit"> Companies want planning security
As the organizer shows in the press release (PDF), is behind the Last but not least, the decision was made by the publishers and game developers' desire for planning security.
Above all, you also meet the partners' strong need for planning security. As in the previous year, Gamescom 2021 will take place exclusively digitally and free of charge for all Gamescom fans.
Oliver Freese, Managing Director of Koelnmesse
Gamescom 2020 with its 370 partners from 44 countries, which also took place as a purely digital event, was followed by around 50 million people from 180 countries over the Internet, according to the organizers.
These successes should be remembered tie in Gamescom 2021 as well as the Devcom developer conference this year with the following program.
More information is available from the official Gamescom 2021 website >