Gamescom is making a comeback this year! The most European of video game fairs offers us a hellish program, with many announcements to be expected. We will explain everything to you.
[Mis à jour le 22 août 2021 à 13h18] Gamescom 2022 is coming at full speed and offers us a return to beauty for the world of video games. For the first time after two years of health crisis, the 2022 edition of the convention will take place in physics at the Koelnmesse in Cologne (Germany). The event will bring together major players in the video game world, including Bandai Namco, Xbox, Warner Bros Games and Ubisoft. On the Gamescom 2022 menu, there will be many announcements, more than 1100 exhibitors from 53 countries, an opening night presented by Geoff Keighley, and of course many announcements and new projects. We summarize everything you need to know about the event.
Gamescom 2022 will take place face-to-face at the Koelnmesse in Cologne. It will be held from August 23 to August 28. This event will be officially launched by the Gamescom Opening Night Livepresented by Geoff Keighley on August 23 at 8 p.m. (French time). This evening is likely to be the keystone of the event since it will bring together more than thirty announcements of all kinds, among which we will find various projects still unpublished and unknown, but also crucial information on the next releases. from 2K Games, Ubisoft, Xbox and many other gaming giants. Big absent this year, Playstation, Activision-Blizzard, Take-Two Interactive and Nintendo, which reserve their announcements for their own events.
Tuesday, August 23:
- 7:30 p.m.: Opening night live
- 20h : Gamescom Opening Night Live
- 9:30 p.m.: Gamescom Opening Night Aftershow (a recap of the announcements)
Wednesday, August 24:
- 15h : Gamescom Studio Day 1
Thursday, August 25:
- 15h : Gamescom Studio Day 2
Friday August 26:
- 15h : Gamescom Studio Day 3
- 17h30 : Awesome Indies
Saturday August 27:
- 15h : Gamescom Award Show
Sunday August 28:
- 15h : Concours de Cosplay
Among the exhibitors at Gamescom 2022, there are very, very beautiful people. Indeed, we can see Xbox, Ubisoft, Bandai Namco but also 2K Games, enough to give us some clues about the few crucial announcements to expect this week. Among the various big upcoming releases that we can expect to hear about at Gamescom, there are some that are almost guaranteed to offer us new information, such as Gotham Knights, Street Fighter 6, The Callisto Protocol or A Plague Tale : Requiem et Warhammer 40 000 : Darktide. To hope for news of the next Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, on the other hand, we will have to wait until September 15 and the conference Call of Duty Next.