Blog: gamescom

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Three key growth opportunities in a stagnant(ish) games market

Karol Severin

25 Sep 2024

Games

Business Strategy

gamescom

The global games industry has matured. Growth has slowed and will remain in the low single digits for the remainder of the decade. Inflation and the cost-of-living crisis, combined with a growing...

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Can Gamescom retain its appeal going forward?

Karol Severin

23 Jun 2022

gamescom

Games industry

conference

I remember attending my first Gamescom as an analyst in 2017 . The sheer excitement as gaming was eating the world whole, and before brands and just about everybody else woke up to gaming as a mainstream...

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GamesCom Takeaways – Gaming Has Become A Fully Fledged Cultural Movement

Karol Severin

25 Aug 2017

gamers

Games

As we descended upon Cologne to attend GamesCom 2017, various expectation scenarios were playing out in my head. It’s safe to say that the reality beat most of them. Having spent three days at this monster...

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