Global Game Show

2026 Global Game Show, Riyadh, a city that brings together game players and developers from around the world to write an entirely new chapter of the play industry in the Middle East. The event is scheduled to take place on 29-30 June 2026, creating interactive platforms for game practitioners to develop a collection of game technology displays, immersion experiences, and outreach to people.

The event, hosted by VAP Group and supported by Times of Games, will feature a dynamic demonstration of the latest games, an insinuation of reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), as well as thematic discussions around trends in game development, distribution and electronic competition. Participants will be ahead of the cutting edge of technological achievements, commercial realization programs, and players.

The Global Game Fair also focuses on industry collaboration, with special human-studies outreach areas and precision twinning links that help developers, investors and distributors to interact efficiently. This is a platform for start-ups to demonstrate innovative game solutions, while mature firms can show outside the world how technology can upgrade their play narratives, visual senses, and play experiences.

The past global game fairs brought together leading players in the promotion of games, electric competitions and Web3 ecological development. Guests for the heavy-pound presentation included John Yeh, founder and CEO of ROEHL/Ambrus Studio, Yat Siu, Uplandme, Inc. co-founder and Co-CEO Dr. Dirk Lueth, and Paul Dawalibi, Chief Executive Officer of Holodeck Ventures. In addition, the founders of Farcana, Ilman Shazhaev, YaLla Espers, Klaus Kajetski, Chief Executive Officer, Jonathan Bouzanquet, Chief Strategic Officer and Founder of PLAYA3ULL Gomes, and the co-founder and Chief Vision Officer of Médieval Empires, Assad Dar, have also been pioneers of innovation in industry and have shared their insights. The leaders of the industry expressed their opinions around the convergence of games, block chains, electric competitions and a immersed digital economy, which brought about an intellectual feast on the ground.

The Global Games Fair works to create a cross-cutting environment for communication that helps generate creativity, cooperative landings and knowledge sharing.

2026 The Global Game Fair, which lasts two days, focuses on innovation, creativity and collaboration in the game industry. The first day focused on the theme “The next frontier of game technology” and focused on the path to development in Saudi Arabia as an electric Power, breakthroughs in game engine technology, and future concepts such as brain interfaces, artificially intelligent game design. The next day, we look at the “play economy” and we're looking at business changes in the game industry -- from crowdsource models, opportunities for mobile games, to players’ community empowerment, to developers’ partnership with investors’ win-win patterns. During the two-day fair, participants will listen to visionary keynote addresses, participate in excellent industry seminars, experience high-impact and active human outreach activities and interact with global creative talent, developers and game lovers about the future of the entertainment industry.

2026 The Riyadh Global Game Fair is an important step forward in the city’s move to a digital entertainment and interactive technology hub. One of the highlights of the event was that two other high-end events – the Global Artificial Intelligence Exhibition and the Global blockchain Show – were accessible with one ticket.

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