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Gamescom 2025 Attracts 357,000 Attendees With Record 72 Million Tuning Into Opening Night Live

  • August 26, 2025
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Gamescom 2025 closed with record-breaking numbers, firmly establishing its status as the largest global gaming event of the year. According to GamesIndustry.biz, the Cologne-based festival attracted 357,000 visitors, representing a 6.5% increase compared to the 335,000 attendees recorded in 2024. Gaming fans from 128 different countries joined the event, demonstrating its growing international appeal. The show’s Opening Night Live, hosted by Geoff Keighley, reached a record global audience of 72 million, while Gamescom’s broader weekend programming saw an astonishing 630 million viewers tune in on Saturday alone.

This year’s event marked unprecedented participation from the gaming industry. Gamescom hosted 1,568 exhibitors and studios from 72 countries, setting a new benchmark for global representation. The show floor stretched across 233,000 square meters of exhibition space, including 40 dedicated pavilions showcasing regional gaming talent and businesses. Such scale not only highlighted the commercial power of Gamescom but also reinforced its dual identity as a hub for industry professionals and a celebration of gaming culture for fans worldwide. Both numbers and scale surpassed expectations, underlining the importance of the event in shaping global gaming conversations.

Industry leaders praised Gamescom 2025 for its unmatched scope and influence. Felix Falk, managing director of the German Games Industry Association, remarked that this year’s edition underscored the positive role games play as a cultural and economic force. He emphasized how the festival had grown larger, more diverse, and more international than ever before, solidifying its place as a unifying platform for the gaming community. Gerald Böse, president and chief executive officer of Koelnmesse, echoed similar sentiments, highlighting the event’s ability to combine business opportunities with entertainment at an unparalleled scale. He noted that record-breaking participation across nearly every metric reaffirmed Gamescom’s standing as the most significant gathering for the global gaming community.

Among the 357,000 attendees were journalists, developers, and content creators from around the world, including Wccftech writers Alessio Palumbo and Francesco De Meo, who covered the event on-site. They reported from the show floor, providing first-hand impressions from game demonstrations, industry meetings, and exclusive previews. Their coverage reflected the vibrancy and variety that Gamescom 2025 delivered, with attendees given access to both the latest blockbuster titles and promising indie projects. This wide-ranging experience, coupled with record global viewership, demonstrates how Gamescom has become not just a convention but a defining annual moment in the gaming calendar.

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