Gamescom Thieves Stole Unfinished Game Builds — Were Indie Booths Secure Enough?

Visitors walk through the Gamescom exhibition halls at Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany. Photo: Eidetic Marketing. (Credit: Eidetic Marketing)

The entire point of a Gamescom booth is to put an unfinished game in front of strangers. Several developers left Cologne this year without the computers those unfinished games were running on.

At least three exhibitors have publicly reported hardware stolen from their booths, in some cases from locked cabinets. Gamescom says the cases have been reported to police and that investigations are underway.