gamescom 2026 is set to run August 26 to 30 in Cologne, Germany, with the exhibition space fully booked for the first time and exhibitor registrations up 15% year-on-year. Opening Night Live returns August 25, and the event features the first European Games Done Quick stage alongside a slate of world premieres and first playable demos.
gamescom 2026 is the largest edition of the event to date. The exhibition area sold out entirely through reservations for the first time, even after last year's expansion, and exhibitor registrations rose 15% year-on-year at the end of the early-bird period, setting a record for the third consecutive year. Organizers are already planning venue expansions for 2027 and beyond, signaling that physical capacity, not demand, is the limiting factor.
The show runs August 26 to 30 in Cologne, Germany, with Opening Night Live on August 25. Hosts Geoff Keighley and Eefje "sjokz" Depoortere will present new trailers, gameplay reveals, and information on Metro 2039 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansion "Melody of Memories." Exhibitors span Japanese companies Nintendo, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Sega, and Konami, plus EA, Ubisoft, Xbox, CD PROJEKT RED, Deep Silver, Focus Entertainment, KRAFTON, NC, HoYoverse, NetEase, and Tencent Games.
Multiple publishers are using the show for reveals and first public playable demos. Capcom's Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, Konami's Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, and Sega's Stranger Than Heaven offer their first public demos. KRAFTON will hold a world premiere for an unannounced PUBG IP action FPS from PUBG STUDIOS, one of five titles it brings to the event. 2P Games makes its first gamescom appearance with a booth in Hall 10.1, showing playable versions of released hits and upcoming titles. The event also adds a dedicated Games Done Quick speedrun stage with live programs running about ten hours daily from Friday to Sunday, part of the first European Games Done Quick event.
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gamescom 2026 exhibitor registrations rose 15% year-on-year at the end of the early-bird period, setting a record for the third consecutive year. Organizers say the exhibition area will be completely full for the first time in 2026, and they are already planning venue expansions for 2027 and beyond.
Publisher 2P Games announced it will exhibit for the first time at gamescom 2026, running August 26 to 30 in Cologne, Germany. The booth, Hall 10.1 | B078 C079, will feature playable versions of released hits including Sultan's Game and Girls and Academy Castle, plus a lineup of upcoming titles like the daughter-raising sim How to Raise a Beloved Daughter in Immortal Village.
Gamescom 2026 will run from August 26 to 30 in Cologne, Germany, with the opening night event scheduled for August 25 at 3:00 AM Japan time (August 26 local). The German Games Industry Association (game) and Koelnmesse report that this year's exhibition space sold out entirely through reservations for the first time, despite last year's expansion, making it the largest gamescom to date. Exhibitors include Japanese companies Nintendo, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Sega, and Konami, alongside EA, Ubisoft, Xbox, CD PROJEKT RED, Deep Silver, Focus Entertainment, KRAFTON, NC, HoYoverse, NetEase, and Tencent Games. Several titles will offer their first public playable demos, including Capcom's Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, Konami's Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, and Sega's Stranger Than Heaven. The event will also feature a dedicated Games Done Quick speedrun stage, with live programs running about ten hours daily from Friday to Sunday. Opening Night Live, hosted by Geoff Keighley and Eefje "sjokz" Depoortere, will include new trailers, gameplay reveals, and information on Metro 2039 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansion "Melody of Memories."
KRAFTON announced on August 5, 2026 that it will exhibit five titles at gamescom 2026, including an unannounced new project from PUBG STUDIOS based on the PUBG IP. The new title is an action FPS set in the deep forests and small towns of the American Pacific Northwest, against what the company calls an important era in American cultural history. KRAFTON positions the game as inheriting the DNA of the PUBG series and aims to provide a game experience where new stories are born each time the player plays. The company's special page for gamescom 2026 states that a world premiere will take place at the event. The other four titles in the lineup are NO LAW, an immersive open-world FPS RPG set in the cyber-noir port city Port Desire; Project ZETA, a multi-team tactical arena where three-person teams of four compete; Age Twisters, a two-player cooperative narrative adventure about a grandfather and granddaughter in near-future Barcelona; and TARAE: The Unbound, an original Eastern dark fantasy action RPG inspired by the worldview of the Six Paths of Reincarnation. gamescom 2026 will be held in Cologne, Germany, from August 26 to August 30 local time.