Organisers have dubbed this 12 months’s Gamescom Asia x Thailand Recreation Present because the “most worldwide version within the present’s historical past,” with an estimated 219,546 attendees from 113 nations descending on the occasion final week in Bangkok.
The four-day present was headlined by a keynote handle from legendary gamemaker and Doom co-creator John Romero, who offered a panel known as ‘Why We Nonetheless Make Video games’, recounting the achievements, failures, and classes learnt throughout his 5 a long time within the trade. Different notable panels have been hosted by members of Adhoc Studio, the makers of the breakout 2025 narrative recreation Dispatch, and Bloober Workforce CEO Piotr Babieno, who delved into the slowburn success story of his studio’s horror hit, Cronos: The New Daybreak.
Out on the showfloor followers have been in a position to take pleasure in 470 titles from indies and main gaming manufacturers like Capcom, Bandai Namco Leisure, SEGA, and Ubisoft. Quite a few these included hotly anticipated titles like Last Fantasy VII Revelation, Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance, Stranger Than Heaven, and Complete Conflict: Warhammer 40,000.
Debuting at this 12 months’s occasion was the popular culture pageant, ACE (Anima Asia Comics Content material Leisure Expo), and America’s Obtained Expertise 2026 winner, Nene Royal, carried out the occasion’s theme music throughout the opening ceremony. The Thailand Recreation Awards, which additionally ran throughout the present, named Capcom’s Pragmata as its Recreation of the Yr.
“This was essentially the most worldwide present we’ve ever staged,” mentioned Mathias Kuepper, managing director and regional president, APAC, Koelnmesse.
“Exhibitors from 29 nations and areas got here to Bangkok to signal offers, not solely to indicate video games. That tells the worldwide trade that Southeast Asia is now not a market to look at. It’s a market to be in, and that is the place offers get accomplished.”
It has been confirmed by the organisers that Gamescom Asia x Thailand Recreation Present will return to Bangkok from 21 to 24 October 2027.
Tristan Ogilvie is a senior video editor at IGN primarily based in Sydney, Australia. He has 25 years of expertise protecting video video games, having served as Deputy Editor on Official PlayStation 2 Journal Australia and as Editor of Official Xbox 360 Journal Australia, earlier than becoming a member of IGN in 2009. Yow will discover him on Bluesky @tristanogilvie.bsky.social