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Edition 2025 Finished Free Music Pop Hip-hop

gamescom city festival Cologne

Köln — Kreisfreie Stadt Köln (05315) • 20 Aug 2025 — 24 Aug 2025
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gamescom city festival Cologne
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2025

Edition 2025 — Finished

Edition 2025 — gamescom city festival

The gamescom city festival 2025, running parallel to the gamescom trade fair, once again attracted thousands of gaming and pop fans to Cologne's city center. Open-air concerts, gaming stations, and street food trucks were spread along the Rudolfplatz–Hohenzollernring–Friesenplatz axis, confirming the format as a central urban accompanying event for the trade fair.

The 2025 edition ran for five days parallel to the main trade fair in Cologne-Deutz. Several stages featured indie, pop, and hip-hop acts; the concept of free admission, diverse music program, and gaming stations once again proved to be a crowd-pleaser.

The mix of trade fair highlight and urban open-air format has established itself since its first edition — it plays to Cologne's dual role as Europe's gaming capital and a festival location.

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Published by Valentin Contard, festival listings writer. Reviewed, corrected and approved by Christophe Contard, editor-in-chief. .