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Gamescom Is Sold Out. The Games Industry Is Still Laying People Off

My first Gamescom begins on Monday, 24 August, at gamescom dev, where a keynote asks what the industry’s ‘reset’ has done to the people inside it. The public arrives on Thursday to halls full of people who still love what it makes.

A packed Gamescom exhibition hall beneath enormous Kirby Air Riders and Nintendo Switch 2 displays