My1sttoday Gaming — Sony Interactive Entertainment joined the companies that won’t be attending Gamescom according to the statement issued to German publication Games Wirtschaft.
A spokesperson for the PlayStation firm confirmed it would not attend this year’s event, which is due to take place in August and will be its first in-person show since the pandemic.
Other companies including Nintendo, Activision Blizzard and Take-Two Interactive have said they will not attend Gamescom’s return.
Gamescom’s organisers said that over 250 companies will attend this year’s event, but at the moment, few of major publishers have officially announced they will attend including Bandai Namco, THQ Nordic and Koch Media.
Gamescom 2022 event is set to start from August 24-28 and will be a hybrid event held on-site in Cologne and simultaneously online.
Source: Games Wirtschaft
