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gamescom History: Innovative, Versatile And Always on Top

Since 2009, gamescom has brought the international games industry together in Cologne every August as the numbers show, not least because it has always moved with the times and reinvented itself. The rise from a hunter to the hunted of the international games events.

Stephan Steininger
Stephan Steininger
July 13, 2026 – 7 min read

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