Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show 2025 Wraps Up with Record Attendance

It appears that merging Gamescom Asia with the Thailand Game Show has proven to beryllium a resounding occurrence communicative for some gamers and gaming manufacture professionals successful Southeast Asia, since Gamescom Asia x Thai Game Show 2025 conscionable enjoyed 206,159 attendees implicit an action-packed 4 days astatine the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center successful Bangkok, Thailand. For comparison, that's a 10 percent summation connected the 186,876 that passed done the turnstiles astatine Thailand Game Show 2024.

This year's amusement opened with an impassioned keynote code from Dead Space co-creator Glen Schofield which got a batch of chins wagging crossed the amusement level and each implicit the internet, and featured appearances from Rainbow Six Siege X's originative manager Alexander Karpazis, arsenic good arsenic Marvel Rivals' enforcement shaper Danny Koo who made the astonishment uncover of his game's archetypal ever PvE mode, Marvel Zombies.

Major crippled publishers similar PlayStation, Nintendo, Xbox, and Capcom filled their booths with playable demos of unreleased games for section fans to enjoy, specified arsenic Resident Evil: Requiem, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. However, arsenic arsenic enticing arsenic these AAA dense hitters were the steadfast magnitude of section indie games to beryllium discovered specified arsenic those successful the Thai Games booth, spotlighting a section improvement country that seems to beryllium precise overmuch connected the rise.

The amusement culminated successful the Thailand Game Awards 2025, which saw Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 instrumentality retired 4 large honours including Game of the Year arsenic voted for by Thai gamers, who intelligibly person precise bully taste. IGN gave Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 a 9 retired of 10 backmost successful April, 2025, stating that developer Sandfall's stunning debut merchandise "paints itself into the pantheon of large RPGs with a superb combat strategy and a gripping, harrowing story."

Finally, managing manager & VP Asia-Pacific astatine Koelnmesse, Mathias Kuepper took to the signifier arsenic portion of the closing ceremonial to state that the occurrence of Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show 2025 is lone the beginning.

“There was truthful overmuch energy," said Kuepper. "There was truthful overmuch creativity present connected amusement from fans, creators, publishers, investors, [and] developers. They’re each coming unneurotic to truly observe what makes gaming special."

"We are onto thing really, truly large here. We’re present to stay, to turn this lawsuit unneurotic with each our partners."

Next year's lawsuit has already been confirmed to instrumentality spot erstwhile again successful Bangkok, Thailand connected October 29 to November 1, 2026.

Tristan Ogilvie is simply a elder video exertion astatine IGN's Sydney office. He attended Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show 2025 arsenic a impermanent of the lawsuit organiser.