Exhibitions, Conferences, Events - the Industry's Upcoming Dates

From local indie meet-ups to the global gamescom, the updated version of the GamesMarkt event calendar shows where you can meet the German games industry.

Whether it's a fan festival, an esports competition or a traditional trade fair, the games industry is all about making personal contacts and meeting potential business partners at events. Most B2C events therefore also offer a forum for B2B networking. Below, GamesMarkt has compiled a list (as of 13 June 2025) of interesting events in German-speaking countries and important international events that are worth visiting, depending on the target group and focus.

If you are missing an event, please send a short email to the editorial address: redaktion@gamesmarkt.de

Looking for the biggest events of past years instead? Check out our comprehensive ranking of games events in GSA from 2025.

October 2025

10.10. - 12.10.2025: Polaris (Hamburg)
A mix of gaming, anime, manga and Asian pop culture.

10.10. - 12.10.2025: Game City Vienna (Vienna). Austria's biggest gaming event.

16.10. - 19.10.2025: gamescom asia (Bangkok)
Premier for the first gamescom asia x Thailand Game Show

17.10. - 19.10.2025: TwitchCon (San Diego)
The Twitch community meetup for fans, content creators and business partners.

23.10. - 26.10.2025: Games Industry Conference 2025 (Poznan)
The Game Industry Conference takes place alongside the Poznan Game Arena, one of the most important and largest game expos in Europe.

28.10. - 29.10.2025: Paris Games Biz (Paris)
Paris Game Biz launched by Capital Games, is a new B2B event designed to reinvent meetings between video game studios and industry players.

30.10. - 02.11.2025: Paris Games Week (Paris)
The biggest gaming event in France.

November 2025

03.11. - 04.11.2025: DevGamm Madeira Games Summit (Funchal)

06.11. - 07.11.2025: DevGamm Lisbon Conference 2025 (Lisbon)

07.11.2025: DevGamm Awards (Lisbon)

11.11. - 12.11.2025: MIGS 25 – Montréal International Game Summit (Montréal)

12.11. - 15.11.2025 Play Creative Gaming Festival 2025 (Hamburg) Since 2007 the Play festival unites media art, discourse and education with the culture of digital games.

13.11. - 16.11.2025 Games Ground Berlin (Berlin)
Third edition of the Gaming Festival with Business Days and Public Days

19.11. - 20.11.2025 Unite (Barcelona)
The meeting of the Unity developer community in Europe.

22.11. - 23.11.2025 VIECC – Vienna Comic Con (Vienna)
The VIECC Vienna Comic Con together with the VCA Vienna Challengers Arena is one of the top events for pop culture and gaming in Austria.

29.11. - 30.11.2025 CCON Comic Con Stuttgart (Stuttgart)
Pop culture festival with its own and constantly growing gaming zone

29.11. - 30.11.2025 Endix Indie Showcase (Digital)
Endix will host its largest indie presence to date, with over 1,900 games submitted for a chance to be featured in a free digital booth inside the Endix Expo hall.

December 2025

02.12.2025: Deutscher Entwicklerpreis (Cologne)

11.12.2025: The Game Awards 2025 (Los Angeles)

2026

January 2026

06.01. - 09.01.2026: Consumer Electronics Show (Las Vegas)
January tba: Pocket Gamer Connects (London)
27.01. - 31.01.2026: Spielwarenmesse (Nueremberg)
31.01. - 01.02.2026: MAG-C (Erfurt)

February 2026

12.02. - 14.02.2026: Copenhagen Gaming Week (Copenhagen)

March 2026

02.03. - 05.03.2026: Mobile World Congress (Barcelona)
09.03. - 13.03.2026: Game Developers Conference (GDC) (San Francisco)
19.03. - 22.03.2026: Leipziger Buchmesse/Leipzig Book Fair (Leipzig)
26.05. - 29.03.2026: PAX East (Boston)

April 2026

17.04. - 19.04.2026: CaGGtus (Leipzig)
24.04. - 25.04.2026: Baltic Games Fest (Neumünster)
30.04. - 03.05.2026: gamescom latam (Sao Paulo)

May 2026

05.05. - 08.05.2026: FMX2026 (Stuttgart)
17.05. - 19.05.2026: Digital Dragons (Krakow)
26.05. - 29.05.2026: Nordic Game 2025 (Malmö)

Past dates

July 2024
01.07.2024 Indie Outpost (Nuremberg)
06.07. - 07.07.2024: FarmCon 24 (Marktoberdorf)
09.07. - 11.07.2024: Develop (Brighton)
12.07.2024: Gamestate Festival BW (Karlsruhe)
26.07. - 27.07.2024: China Joy (Shanghai)

August 2024
07.08. - 08-08.2024: GDD - GermanDevDays (Frankfurt am Main)
16.08. - 18.08.2024: IEM Cologne (Cologne)
18.08. - 20.08.2024: devcom developer conference (Cologne)
21.08. - 25.08.2024: gamescom (Cologne)
21.08. - 24.08.2024: Open Air Gaming Event (Cologne)
30.08. - 01.09.2024: LEC Season Finals (Munich)
30.08. - 02.09.2024: PAX West (Seattle)

September 2024
02.09.2024: Indie Outpost (Nuremberg)
06.09. - 10.09.2024: IFA (Berlin)
13.09. - 15.09.2024: Gaming Istanbul (Istanbul)
14.09. - 14.09.2024: Uniliga Offline Finals (Hamburg)
19.09. - 21.09.2024: Nerdicon (Leipzig)
20.09. - 22.09.2024: TwitchCon North America 2024 (San Diego)
26.09. - 24.09.2024: Tokyo Game Show (Tokyo)
30.09. - 05. 10. 2024: [Africacomicade Gamathon](https://africacomicade.org/gamathon/ (Lagos, Nigeria)

October 2024
05.10. - 06.10.2024: Zurich Pop Con (Zurich)
11.10. - 13.10.2024: Game City Wien 2024 (Vienna)
11.10. - 13.10.2024: HeroFest (Bern)
11.10. - 13.10.2024: Polaris (Hamburg)
17.10. - 20.10.2024: gamescom asia (Singapur)
18.10. - 20.10.2024: ADAC SimRacing Expo (Dortmund)
24.10. - 27.10.2024: Games Industry Conference (Poznan)
25.10. - 27.10.2024: Poznan Game Arena (PGA) (Poznan)
29.10. - 30.10.2024: AWE EU 2024 (Augmented World Expo) (Vienna)

November 2024
04.11.2024 Indie Outpost (Nuremberg)
11.11. - 16.11.2024: Play - Creative Gaming Festival 24 (Hamburg)
14.11. - 15.11.2024: DevGamm Lisbon (Lisbon)
14.11. - 16.11.2024 Games Ground Berlin (Berlin)
22.11. - 24.11.2024: Milan Games Week(Milan)
30.11. - 01.12.2024: CCON | Comic Con Stuttgart (Stuttgart)

December 2024
02.12. - 04.12.2024: Africa Games Week (Cape Town)
03.12.2024: Deutscher Entwicklerpreis (Cologne)
05.12. - 08.12.2024: Gamevasion powered by DreamHack (Hannover)
13.12.2024: The Game Awards 2024 (Los Angeles)

January 2025
07.01. - 11.01.2025: Consumer Electronics Show (Las Vegas)
20.01. - 21.01.2025: Pocket Gamer Connects (London)
28.01. - 01.02.2025: Spielwarenmesse (Nueremberg)

February 2025
07.02. - 09.02.2025: IEM Katowice 2025 (Katowice)
08.02. - 09.02.2025: MAG-C (Erfurt)
11.02. - 13.02.2025: D.I.C.E. Summit (Las Vegas)
13.02.2025: D.I.C.E. Awards (Las Vegas)
13.02. - 15.02.2025: Copenhagen Gaming Week (Copenhagen)
19.02. - 21.02.2025: devcom Leadership Summit (Lisbon)
21.02. - 23.02.2025: gamescomLAN (Cologne)
27.02. - 28.02.2025: [DevGamm Gdansk 2025]

March 2025
03.03. - 06.03.2025: Mobile World Congress (Barcelona)
06.03.2025: Hit Games Conference (Istanbul)
17.03. - 18.03.2025: Pocket Gamer Connects (San Francisco)
17.03. - 21.03.2025: Game Developers Conference (GDC) (San Francisco)
27.03. - 30.03.2025: Leipziger Buchmesse/Leipzig Book Fair (Leipzig)

April 2025
02.04. - 13.04.: London Games Festival (London)
03.04. - 04.04.: new game plus (London)
08.04.: BAFTA Games Awards (London)
08.04. - 09.04.: Games Finance Market (London)
11.04. - 12.04.2025: Baltic Games Fest (Neumünster)
11.04. - 12.04.2025: Hit Games Conference (Berlin)
11.04. - 14.04.2025: CaGGtus (Leipzig)
14.04. - 16.04.2025: Reboot Blue 2025 (Dubrovnik)
30.04. - 04.05.2025: gamescom latam (Sao Paulo)

May 2025
06.05. - 09.05.2025: FMX2025 (Stuttgart)
08.05. - 11.05.2025: PAX East (Boston)
14.05.: DCP - Deutscher Computerspielpreis (Berlin)
14.05. - 17.05.2025: A Maze. (Berlin)
18.05. - 20.05.2025: Digital Dragons (Krakow)
20.05. - 24.05.2025: Nordic Game 2025 (Malmö)
27.05. - 28.05.2025: Indigo (Rotterdam)
30.05. - 01.06.2025: Bavaria-wide GamesFestival25 (Munich)
31.05. - 01.06.2025: TwitchCon Europe (Rotterdam)

June 2025
04.06.2025: Womenize! (Berlin)
06.06.2025: Summer Games Fest 2025 (Los Angeles)
06.06. - 08.06.2025: DoKomi 2025 (Dusseldorf)
11.06. - 13.06.2025: First Playable (Florence)
14.06. - 15.06.2025: Gamers Heaven (Telfs)
19.06. - 20.06.2025: Hit Games Conference (Barcelona)
20.06.2025: Pixels'n'Profit (Frankfurt)
25.06. - 26.06.2025: Brandmate (Essen)
28.06. - 29.06.2025: Level Up (Salzburg)

July 2025

08.07. - 10.07.2025: Develop (Brighton)
08.07. - 11.07.2025: Soundtrack Cologne 2025 (Cologne)
09.07. - 10.07.2025: GDD - GermanDevDays (Frankfurt)
11.07. - 13.07.2025: Nexus Nerd Rock Festival (Leipzig)

August 2025

01.08. - 04.08.2025: ChinaJoy 2025 (Shanghai)
01.08. - 03.08.2025: IEM Cologne 2025 (Cologne)
17.08. - 19.08.2025: devcom develover conference (Cologne)
19.08.2025: gamescom opening night live (Cologne)
20.08. - 24.08.2025: gamescom (Cologne)
21.08.2025: gamescom congress - to be confirmed (Cologne)
29.08. - 01.09.2025: PAX West (Seattle)