Gamescom made its Asian debut in Singapore last year, but in 2025 it’s heading further east to Thailand, in a collaboration with the Thailand Game Show. Running October 16-19 in Bangkok, and with distinct business and consumer areas, the show will feature heavy-hitters like Bandai Namco, Capcom, Ubisoft, Xbox and Razer, as well as a keynote by Dead Space creator Glen Schofield.
Schofield, who left Striking Distance Studios in 2023 after the release of Callisto Protocol, will present a talk that will “delve into 10 ways he finds inspiration and comes up with [ideas]”. It should be an interesting chat: Schofield has some of the biggest games in the world on his CV, but last week revealed he couldn’t raise funding for an unnamed project, adding that “maybe I’ve directed my last game”.
Times are difficult in the west, but Asian development appears to be thriving. Outside Japan, studios in China and South Korea are having an impact on western blockbuster audiences with games like Black Myth: Wukong and Stellar Blade, but so do smaller operations like Indonesian indie publisher Toge Productions (Coffee Talk), and Malaysian studio Super Evil Megacorp (responsible for last year’s TMNT: Splintered Fate). The latter two will appear at Gamescom Asia, as will Genshin Impact studio HoYoverse.
The public component—for which tickets won’t go on sale until September 1—will also feature live tournaments, meet-and-greets with developers and voice actors, the Thailand Game Award proceedings, a lucrative cosplay competition, and “nonstop content and fan-favourite segments over all three days, with live performances, gaming challenges and surprise appearances”, per the official spiel. There will also be a big indie area.
Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show takes place October 16-19 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok.