Hundreds of thousands of visitors, hundreds of games and numerous innovations: we look back on gamescom 2026 and its biggest gaming highlights from Cologne.
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Five days of gaming, full exhibition halls, hundreds of games and quite a few people who voluntarily spend several hours in a queue to try a game for maybe 20 minutes.
gamescom 2026 is over.
From 26 to 30 August 2026, Cologne once again became the centre of the international gaming world.
368,000 people from 131 countries attended the fair.
A total of 1,743 exhibitors were represented.
Anyone who walked through the halls of Koelnmesse during gamescom should probably not doubt this number.
It was full.
Very full.
In doing so, gamescom is once again underlining its claim to be one of the world's largest gaming events.
From huge AAA productions to small indie projects, practically everything was represented.
Action
RPG
Simulation.
Racing Toyota.
Strategy.
four eyes.
Indie games.
Simulations are no longer a small niche.
Agriculture
Fines
gen.
fire brigade.
Construction Sites.
At VoltFM, we are actually only waiting for:
Web Radio Simulator 2027.
Features:
Realism: 10/10
⚡ Easter Egg found.
Gamescom is no longer just taking place in Cologne.
New trailers, announcements and world premieres will be broadcast worldwide.
As a result, gamescom is both a physical trade fair and an international online event.
Gaming is one of the largest entertainment industries in the world.
Games tell stories, connect millions of people and are a significant economic factor.
There is a particularly interesting area between huge publishers:
the Indie Arena Booth.
There, smaller studios present their games.
Unusual game mechanics, new graphic styles and experimental stories are often created there.
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ReadPCs, monitors, controllers, gaming handhelds, sim racing hardware, headsets and keyboards are just as much part of gamescom.
And probably enough RGB lighting to make Cologne visible from space at night.
Unfortunately not at gamescom this year.
Maybe one day VoltFM will even stand there itself.
Okay.
Now we're going megalomaniac.
Let's delete the sentence instead.
...
Too late.
It's already in the article. 👀⚡
Jannikjbi originally came from the field of gaming and content creation.
Streaming, simulations and community projects were an issue long before VoltFM.
Later, web radio projects were added.
One of them was jannikjbifm.
In 2026, the decision was finally made:
Start over.
This is how VoltFM developed.
Radio
says that.
community.
Shows
News
And now we're sitting here writing a much too long article about gamescom.
Somehow the circle closes. 🎮⚡
Gamescom 2026 impressively shows how big gaming has become in the meantime.
368,000 visitors.
131 countries.
1,743 exhibitors.
Plus hundreds of games, hardware, cosplay, eSports and indie projects.
For five days, Cologne once again became the gaming capital.
Now
Watch the trailer again.
Update Wishlist
Free up the hard drive.
und Geld sparen.
Because the real problem after a gamescom usually only begins after:
You suddenly want to have way too many games. 🎮
Jannikjbi