You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original. Check out how we test and review games here
Leipziger Messe has announced it has dropped Games Convention from its 2009 calendar.
The video games event had been scheduled to take place at the Leipziger Messe from August 20-23, 2009, but competition on the German trade fair market has resulted in the event being cancelled. That competition is most likely the gamescom trade fair set to take place in Cologne from August 19-23.
“If the industry is again in search of a platform for console and PC games and hardware with the know-how of the GC – Games Convention, we will immediately be available,” said Leipzig CEO Wolfgang Marzin.
Leipziger Messe also announced today Games Convention Online, the first independent platform in Europe for browser, client and mobile games.
Marzin commented: “This is a completely new and fully independent product for a market that is adjusting to new business models, setting off along new sales routes and appealing to new target groups. Browser, client and mobile games are on course to becoming a big success story and in that way, the Games Convention Online is like the GC – Games Convention when it first began. We are delighted that as trade fair organisers, we can again accompany this development too.”
About the Author
