By Chat Corner: How Will You Spend Gamescom 2025?
Stream squad, anyone?
- by Ben Kerry
In seven days, the continent’s largest games expo—Gamescom 2025—touches down, and the organizers promise its most sprawling edition yet. Scores of publishers have locked in their attendance, mixing hands-on demos on the show floor with a torrent of online streams. Translation: the calendar is once again stuffed. So, how do you intend to ride that wave?
One path, naturally, is to walk the halls yourself. The Cologne extravaganza is open to everyone, with thousands of passes available across its run of days. If you’re jetting or training over, we’re wishing you nothing but legendary moments.
Our crew will be glued to screens far away from Germany, yet it’ll still be chaos central at PX HQ. Geoff Keighley’s curtain-raiser, Opening Night Live, hits August 19th, while Microsoft has stacked presentations on the 20th and 21st—expect deep dives into ROG Xbox Ally plus a trove of Xbox Game Studios reveals and other nibbles. We’ll hunt down every headline and stream, including the Future Games Show on the 20th.
So what’s your schedule next week? Squeezing streams in when real life gives you a moment? Inviting friends over for a watch-along? Or are you actually touching down in Cologne yourself?
Sound off in the comment feed with your biggest Gamescom intentions!
Ben moonlights as a news scribe at Pure Xbox and can usually be spotted chasing action, racers, and the loudest shooters the green platform offers. When a pad isn’t grafted to his hands, he’s spinning vintage tracks, catching footy on the box, and most likely hunting snacks somewhere.