Doom and Quake co-creator and id Software program co-founder John Romero has been introduced because the keynote speaker at this yr’s Gamescom Asia x Thailand Recreation Present occasion.
Gamescom Asia and the Thailand Recreation Present merged final yr to create a mixed occasion, and the partnership is continuous once more for this yr’s present, which takes place on the Queen Sirikit Nationwide Conference Heart in Bangkok from October 29 to November 1.
Romeo will headline the enterprise space convention at this yr’s present, with a keynote speech titled Why We Nonetheless Make Video games, the place he’ll “mirror on a lifetime of constructing video games, overcoming setbacks and navigating many years of business change”.
Greater than 70 different business audio system from greater than 20 nations may even give talks throughout 4 levels on the occasion, together with leaders from Roblox, Tencent, Rovio and Gameloft.
This yr’s Gamescom Asia x Thailand Recreation Present may even characteristic new sport and product showcases from such firms as Synnex-Nintendo, The Pokémon Firm, Sega, Capcom, Bandai Namco, AMD and Sandisk.
ACE Bangkok, the Thai popular culture platform for anime, manga, comics, movie and fandom, may even combine with the present for the primary time.
The present’s leisure space may even develop to 4 halls for the primary time, bringing the full occasion house to greater than 35,000 sq. metres, making it 20% bigger than final yr’s present.
Final yr’s Gamescom Asia x Thailand Recreation Present attracted a report 206,149 attendees, in line with its organisers.
Greater than 70 business audio system attended final yr’s occasion, together with sport designer Glen Schofield (Useless Area), Marvel Video games’ Danny Koo (Marvel Rivals), Ubisoft’s Alex Karpazis (Rainbow Six: Siege X, Far Cry 5), Gearbox’s Fleur Marty (Far Cry), and Wargaming’s Eric Shin (World of Warships and World of Tanks).
