It appears that merging Gamescom Asia with the Thailand Game Show has proven to be a resounding success story for both gamers and gaming industry professionals in Southeast Asia, since Gamescom Asia x Thai Game Show 2025 just enjoyed 206,159 attendees over an action-packed four days at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand. For comparison, that’s a 10 percent increase on the 186,876 that passed through the turnstiles at Thailand Game Show 2024.
This year’s show opened with an impassioned keynote address from Dead Space co-creator Glen Schofield which got a lot of chins wagging across the show floor and all over the internet, and featured appearances from Rainbow Six Siege X’s creative director Alexander Karpazis, as well as Marvel Rivals’ executive producer Danny Koo who made the surprise reveal of his game’s first ever PvE mode, Marvel Zombies.
Major game publishers like PlayStation, Nintendo, Xbox, and Capcom filled their booths with playable demos of unreleased games for local fans to enjoy, such as Resident Evil: Requiem, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. However, equally as enticing as these AAA heavy hitters were the healthy amount of local indie games to be discovered such as those in the Thai Games booth, spotlighting a local development scene that seems to be very much on the rise.
