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Winning developers to have their new game announced at Gamescom, ahead of a lucrative marketing blitz

Publishers, platform holders, retailers and more have signed up to endorse this year’s MCV Industry Excellence Awards. Sega has sponsored the Pre-Event Drinks for 2011, while Codemasters will support the Awards as Gold Partner. Ubisoft dance title Michael Jackson: The Experience will end the evening on a high note as …

The organisers behind Gamescom have announced it has made some key changes to the event’s awards show and mobile space this year. In addition to the console, handheld and PC sections, the mobile gaming section is expected to be overhauled to reflect the growth of the apps business. Apps will …

Gamescom has unveiled its new visual branding for its 2011 iteration, highlighting the importance of its vast community. Europe’s biggest games trade fair will sport a new leitmotif this year that shows hundreds of gamers crowded together in the form of Gamescom’s logo. The theme depicts the event at the …

German trade show Gamescom has become an official Event Partner of this year’s Games Media Awards, as it continues to strengthen ties with the UK press. The Cologne expo has become a key date in the global gaming calendar and this year’s show was the biggest and most successful so …

This year’s Gamescom pulled in a record 254,000 visitors – 9,000 more than last year’s show. It also played host to 505 exhibitors attending the event in Cologne, up from 450 last year. A host of celebrities also appeared including Harry Potter’s Weasley twins Oliver and James Phelps, Formula One …

The number of Gamescom attendees reached an all-time high at the 2010 expo with more than a quarter of a million attending the show. A total of 254,000 people made their way to Gamescom 2010 – up from last year’s 245,000. And of the 2010 figure just 18,900 were trade …

Publisher EA is so confident about the quality of its upcoming shooter Crysis 2 that it has already declared that the game wills gain a 90 per cent plus review average with critics. It’s going to be another 90 rated game from Crytek,” EA Partners boss David DeMartini told Eurogamer. …

This year’s Gamescom has pulled in a record amount of exhibitors with 505 companies attending at the Koelnmesse in Germany. Publishers, developers, distributors, accessories firms and more travelled from 33 different countries to make the show. Of these companies 275 are based in Germany while more than 50 made the …

PlayStation CEO and Chairman Kazuo Hirai says future PlayStation consoles will not be download-only. Speaking in an interview with MCV, Hirai insists Sony’s digital-only PSPgo was a success, despite slow sales of the portable. But the firm has no intention of adopting the download-only model for future PSP consoles. We …