Gamescom 2020 Digital Event Dates Announced

<p>Previously&comma; Gamescom 2020 was originally canceled&comma; like other events this year &lpar;including E3 and EVO 2020&rpar;&period; Then it was revealed that the event was planned to still occur&comma; albeit <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;gamescom-2020-digital-its-still-happening&sol;">digitally<&sol;a>&period; Now&comma; Gamescom 2020 has since gotten event dates revealed&comma; those being August 27th to the 30th&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Included with the announcement is a notice that Opening Night Live has been moved to August 27th&period; Originally planned for the 24th &lpar;three days prior&rpar;&comma; the event was to be a kickoff show for the weekend hosted by Geoff Keighley&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-158495" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;05&sol;19180324&sol;D89qq2SXUAAmVMq-scaled&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Gamescom 2020" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Breaking Down Gamescom 2020 Digital<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The weekend of the 27th will have multiple major aspects about it that are integral to the overall show&period; Let&&num;8217&semi;s break down some of those key factors&comma; such as Gamescom Now&period; Gamescom Now is a content hub introduced last year that&&num;8217&semi;s receiving a significant expansion&period; The medium will be the go-to source for all world premieres&comma; news&comma; games&comma; and more&comma; including all of the weekend&&num;8217&semi;s live shows&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another few key features would be Opening Night Live &lpar;previously described&rpar;&comma; Gamescom&&num;8217&semi;s Daily Show&comma; and Best of Show&period; The Gamescom Daily Show aims to discuss and expand on highlights from its formats as well as shows and promotions of gaming companies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Best of Show will be closing out the weekend&&num;8217&semi;s festivities&period; Its goal is to be a summary of the year&&num;8217&semi;s Gamescom highlights&comma; and will present the Gamescom award for that year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-158496" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;05&sol;19181008&sol;DZiTaQroPqQp9x6gWBeF8S-1288-80-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Gamescom 2020" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Devcom Digital Conference 2020 is also running alongside Gamescom 2020 &lpar;though&comma; between August 17th and 30th&rpar;&period; It will have a two-thirds broad program ready for trade visitors with lots of talks and plenty of matchmaking&period; In the future&comma; Devcom will also offer a varied program of talks&comma; shows or master classes for game developers all year round&period; Further details can be found on the conference website <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;devcom&period;global&sol;">here<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This year&comma; all our energies for Gamescom 2020 is going into digital&comma;” Game managing director Felix Falk remarked in a press release&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In a short amount of time and working in close tandem with some of the world’s most important gaming companies on the Gamescom advisory board&comma; we have been able to develop a powerful and focused concept for Gamescom 2020&period; We are anticipating surprising shows&comma; numerous world premieres&comma; announcements&comma; and special promotions that will set the entire games world all abuzz about Gamescom at the end of August&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Koelnmesse managing director Oliver Frese added&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Although Gamescom will unfortunately not take place in Cologne this year&comma; it will be impossible to miss it on the internet&period; Our digital concept is showing the way forward in the event landscape and many of the innovations will become an integral part of Gamescom in the years to come&period; And even if all the elements of Gamescom cannot be transferred to the digital world&comma; one thing is already certain&colon; Gamescom formats in a class of their own and official Gamescom partners with their own events allow us to offer players in the games industry a multitude of opportunities to share their games&comma; announcements&comma; and news with millions of gamers worldwide&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What do you think about the Gamescom 2020 Digital schedule announcement&quest; Are you looking forward to the new games and schedule&quest; What do you hope to hear about there&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;