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Everything you need to know about the Gamescom 2021

The Gamescom 2021 is coming up and we summarize the important information about the event.

Next week it's time again: The doors of the Cologne exhibition center open and hundreds of thousands of gamers as well as gamers come together in the city on the Rhine to ... Oh, ne, stop! We forgot something there. There is still this virus, whose name can not be practiced anymore - and we just do not want to leave us alone. Well, then the GamesCom must take place again this year again purely digital, but that does not mean that she will not be an exciting event. What awaits you online between the 25th and 27th August, we summarize at this point.

There's something to win

Your main job for everything that has to do with Gamescom 2021 is again Gamescom Now . On that platform, you will find everything coming week everything that has to do with the digital trade fair. You can reach the LiveStreams, get access to trailers and interviews with developers and generally on all news from Gamescom.

NEW this year is Gamescom Epix . This is an action in which you are called as a community to become active in the social media. Your goal is to meet various quests together. Overall, there are 15 tasks that are gradually unlocked. A pair of them were even fulfilled. The tasks turn, for example, to make TikTOK videos with specific sounds or to use a given profile banner on Facebook. Only when enough people participate, the quests are also fulfilled and rewards in the Vault is unlocked. These include discount codes for different shops. But there are still real prizes raffled. What exactly, however, is unknown, because the profits will not be revealed and unlocked only.

The Keighley is back at the start

The main component of Gamescom 2021 are the live streams. It starts on the evening of August 25 with the Opening Night Live . For the third time, Geoff Keighley moderates a show that initiates Gamescom with numerous new trailers and hopefully the one or the other exciting new announcement. What expects us everything is still completely unclear. However, the list of publishers participating in Gamescom 2021 promises a lot. Arranging Activision, Electronic Arts, Microsoft Mitsamt Bethesda, Ubisoft, Koch Media, Bandai Namco, and a few more.

This year again the Gamescom Studio with the game produced in the German variant of Webedia (Gamestar, GamePro) and in the English of IGN. Here you can expect all important news on every day of the fair, new gameplay impressions from upcoming games, interviews and a lot more. Also the IGN format Gamescom: Awesome Indies returns, which all around - who would have thought - indie games turns.

Also, the Cosplay Village with the Cosplay Contest 2021 and the GamesCom Retro Area may not be missing, not even in times of digital trade fairs. All this is interconnected this year and is presented by the Wildmics : an ensemble, which belongs to Tommy Krappweis. The older ones am perhaps know him by RTL Saturday night, but today he is particularly prominent because he is considered the inventor of Bernd the bread. On the GamesCom, Krappweis was always austerity in recent years and so he may not be missing 2021. The Cosplay Stream is moderated by Mháire Stritter of Orkenspaltv, while Joachim Hesse (formerly PC action, today editor-in-chief of Gronkh) Host is the retro show. Krappweis and his band ensure musical support.

Much program of well-known streamers

In addition to the official live streams of Gamescom 2021, there is also a bulging framework program. On the one hand, Rocket Beans TV, INSINTC3 (the company of Handofblood) and Freaks 4U Gaming (including Maxim) for the second time the GameVasion , where the Hamburg and Spandauer compete against each other in various games, but of course the Discuss news from Gamescom.

In parallel, the Streamer Trymacs, Gronkh and Dadlatte stop the event game source . In an over 4000 square meter studio in the exhibition halls in Cologne, live game shows and concerts are produced. There is also an e-sports arena and some surprises. The game room even runs out until the 29th of August and thus beyond the end of GamesCom. Last but not least, WEBEDIA, FLOW: FWD and 2ND WAVE again the Social Gaming Days with exciting content around Gamescom 2021.

Indie fans allowed to play sample

Indie games have a special place on Gamescom 2021 as last year. Again, the online variant of the Indie Arena Booth is open: a small, virtual exhibition center with various stalls, over which you not only receive information about many games, but also access to playable demo versions. 111 developers from 32 countries make with. And not only is the offer varied, the Indie Arena Booth online comes with new features therefore: This time there is a level system and you can collect stickers. That should motivate you to explore everything exactly. The next week will be a party for video game fans. With the official Gamescom-Livestreams, the Framework Program of the Partners and the Indie Booth Arena there is plenty to see. Sure, a physical fair can not replace everything, but that is not possible in view of the external circumstances. And the replacement program can easily be seen.

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