Source: www.ttrweekly.com --- Wednesday, May 29, 2019
SINGAPORE, 30 May 2019: GamesCom, the world’s largest computer and video games festival, will make its Asian debut in Singapore 15 to 18 October 2020. This marks a major win for the video games and esports industry in Singapore. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between STB and Koelnmesse, Wednesday, to mark a new partnership for the upcoming festival. Organised by Koelnmesse and sponsored by game, the Association for the German Games Industry, GamesCom has been held in Cologne, Germany annually since 2009. Over the past decade, it has grown to be the largest international games festival and Europe’s leading business platform for the games industry, with over 300,000 attendees every year. The staging of an Asian edition in Singapore is in line with Koelnmesse’s key strategy of growing its global competence in digital media and entertainment. “GamesCom is a brand with a worldwide reputation that stands for both games as the largest entertainment medium of our time, and for outstanding business opportunities. With GamesCom asia, we are creating a new event in 2020 for the local games industry and gamers in one of the fastest-growing regions of the world. We are happy and excited about the first Asian edition in Singapore next year and thankful for our partners,” added game managing director Felix Falk. “STB started discussions with Koelnmesse two years ago to develop an Asian edition of GamesCom in Singapore,” said Singapor ...
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