Gamescom 2026: Highlights and developer insights from gaming's biggest showcase - BBC News BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home Climate World UK Business Tech Science Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures More BBC Verify Newsbeat Tech I've been to Gamescom six times - here's what excited me this year To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Watch: BBC's Laura Cress on the floor at Gamescom in Cologne By Laura Cress Technology reporter Published 30 August 2026 Gamescom is the largest in-person gaming event in the world, and this year it lived up to expectations with big games on show from The Witcher 3's new expansion, to Alien: Isolation 2. Last year over 350,000 people flocked to the halls of the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany to get a chance to see and play the most hotly anticipated games. This year that number of attendees is expected to have been even bigger, with the likes of Xbox and Sega showcasing games to the public alongside indie studios with only one or two developers. This was my sixth time attending Gamescom, which never fails to make me excited about the games industry. Here are a few of the big things I got to check out this week. The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past Image source, CD Projekt Red/Fool's Theory Image caption, Gamers will once again play as the gruff-voiced Geralt of Rivia in the new The Witcher 3 expansion When CD Projekt Red announced it was making a new expansion for the hugely popular action-role playing game The Witcher 3, it came as a shock. The original, after all, came out 11 years ago. Yet it was clear sitting in the crowd for Opening Night Live on Tuesday that there's still a lot of love for the older game. There w