Press information of gamescom

More than 2 million simultaneous viewers at gamescom: Opening Night Live +++ More international than ever before - Online visitors from more than 180 countries +++ Around 300 million views of the TikTok Hashtag Challenges for gamescom +++ 370 partners presented their games and other new products +++ Over 1,000 companies participated in matchmaking activities of the devcom digital conference 2020

“Cyberpunk 2077” from CD PROJEKT RED receives Best of gamescom award +++ gamescom fans pick “Gronkh” as “Best Streamer” +++ Best Lineup of gamescom 2020: Bandai Namco Entertainment +++ HEART OF GAMING beats for virtual walk-through Indie Arena Booth

Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer announces start of major games fund +++ Dorothee Bär, Minister of State for Digitalisation, calls for greater efforts to boost digital education +++ NRW Minister-President Armin Laschet supports esports

Many long-expected games in gamescom: Opening Night Live +++ World premiere gameplay demo of Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apart for PlayStation 5 +++ Exclusive Content Debuts from Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War, Fall Guys: Season 2, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, DOOM Eternal and more

Twitch, YouTube and TikTok are partners of gamescom 2020 +++ Many offers and playable demos on Steam +++ Streaming partners producing additional content worldwide as official gamescom partners +++ gamescom 2020 takes place from 27 to 30 August 2020

Many publishers and developers are on board for gamescom 2020 +++ "Playing into the future" is the guiding theme of gamescom 2020 +++ "New console generation" and "Games at school" are this year's gamescom trends +++ gamescom 2020 takes place in purely digital form from 27 to 30 August

IGN is producing the new English show formats of gamescom 2020 +++ Webedia Germany takes over production of the German versions of gamescom: Daily Show and gamescom studio +++ Geoff Keighley is producing gamescom: Opening Night Live

gamescom 2020 will take place digitally from August 27 to 30 +++ Digital content hub of gamescom now will be greatly expanded and the first go-to source for all content and news +++ New digital formats like gamescom: Indie Show and gamescom: Best Of Show presented +++ Wide-ranging B2B program for developers at digital devcom

nationwide ban on major events until the end of August +++ gamescom will be purely digital in 2020 +++ devcom developer conference also to be held only in digital form +++ established digital formats to be expanded and new ones added +++ reimbursement of tickets and exhibitor payments made to Koelnmesse

Significant expansion of digital formats +++ gamescom will definitely take place online on the usual date +++ in mid may evaluation of gamescom format at Cologne fair grounds +++ reimbursement for visitors and exhibitors ensured

Nearly 6 percent more registrations than in the previous year +++ 8 percent more space leased than in the previous year +++ Exhibitors from 29 countries and 16 country pavilions registered +++ 10 percent more registrations for the merchandise area

+++ The new opening event‚ 'gamescom: Opening Night Live‘, becomes the games highlight worldwide +++ 373,000 visitors from more than 100 countries, including 31,300 trade visitors, are guests in Cologne +++ Millions of visitors follow gamescom online +++ Area expansion and new offerings are convincing +++