[지스타] 20th Anniversary Game Festival Finale... “More than 210,000 people visited over four days”

G-Star, a game festival that turns 20

(Busan = Yonhap News) Reporter Hyeong-ju Son = Visitors are enjoying games at G-Star 2024, Korea’s largest game show, which opened at BEXCO in Busan on the 14th. G-Star, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, will introduce a variety of new games and information technology (IT) to domestic and foreign game consumers and industry officials at the B2C (business-to-consumer transaction) and B2B (business-to-business) booth for four days until the 17th. . 2024.11.14 [email protected]

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Joo-hwan = G-STAR 2024, Korea’s largest game exhibition celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, ended successfully with the largest number of on-site visitors since COVID-19.

The G-Star Organizing Committee announced on the 17th that a total of 215,000 people visited G-Star, which was held at BEXCO in Busan from the 14th to the 17th of this month, over four days.

A total of 3,359 booths were set up at this year’s G-STAR, making it the largest ever event since last year.

Accordingly, the number of visitors to the event venue also increased significantly from 184,000 in 2022 and 197,000 last year.

Main sponsors Nexon, Google Korea, and Netmarble[251270]Lionheart Studio, Webzen[069080]Krafton[259960]Hive IM, etc. set up a large B2C (business-to-consumer transaction) booth at G-Star and introduced new products one after another.

Korea’s largest game show opens

(Busan = Yonhap News) Reporter Son Hyeong-ju = Visitors are standing in a long line to enter G-Star 2024, Korea’s largest game show, which opened at BEXCO in Busan on the 14th. G-Star, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, will introduce a variety of new games and information technology (IT) to domestic and foreign game consumers and industry officials at the B2C (business-to-consumer transaction) and B2B (business-to-business) booth for four days until the 17th. . 2024.11.14 [email protected]

A total of 2,211 paying buyers visited the B2B (business-to-business) booth for three days from the 14th to the 16th for business consultation.

The conference ‘G-CON’, a key side event of G-STAR, also attracted the attention of the audience by showing the highest-level speaker lineup ever over a total of 42 sessions.

The keynote lecture included Koei Tecmo founder and general producer Kou Shibusawa, who developed ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’ and ‘Age of Exploration’, and Yoshinori Kitase, who oversaw the legendary ‘Final Fantasy’ series of Japanese role-playing games (RPGs), as well as Myeong-jin Yoon. Neople CEO, famous animator and illustrator Mai Yoneyama, etc. attended.

Global game platform Steam also participated in G-Star for the first time with ‘G-Star Indie Showcase 2.0: Galaxy’.

At the ‘G-Star Indie Awards’, an indie game awards ceremony held on this day, six works, including Snake Eagle’s ‘Kill the Witch’ and Enspec’s ‘World On’, received excellent reviews and received awards.

G-Star, a game festival that turns 20

(Busan = Yonhap News) Reporter Son Hyeong-ju = G-Star 2024, Korea’s largest game show, which opened at BEXCO in Busan on the 14th, is crowded with visitors. G-Star, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, will introduce a variety of new games and information technology (IT) to domestic and foreign game consumers and industry officials at the B2C (business-to-consumer transaction) and B2B (business-to-business) booth for four days until the 17th. . 2024.11.14 [email protected]

Kang Shin-cheol, Chairman of the G-Star Organizing Committee, said, “As we have been able to grow like this thanks to the love and care for G-Star over the past 20 years, we will do our best to create a G-Star that can steadily develop little by little in the future to repay that support.”

[email protected]

Report via KakaoTalk okjebo

Unauthorized reproduction/redistribution, AI learning and use prohibited>
2024/11/17 18:56 Sent