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Events and Showcases
August 7, 2026 at 09:20 AM
Initial version (2026-08-07): collected the game's confirmed showcase and convention appearances, including the announced Gamescom 2026 booth, hall and dates
Aniimo has been shown at a run of industry showcases and consumer conventions since its reveal, and several of those appearances were the first chance the public had to play it. This page collects the confirmed ones. For the closed beta history, see Development.
Date | Event | What was shown |
|---|---|---|
June 2025 | Xbox Games Showcase | The reveal, with the first trailer and the announcement of a free-to-play, cross-platform creature-catching RPG. |
August 2025 | Gamescom, Cologne | The studio's first offline event. Aniimo appeared with Xbox and was playable in beta form at the Xbox booth. |
September 2025 | Tokyo Game Show | A dedicated trailer, released alongside the pre-registration campaign. |
December 2025 | The Game Awards | A special trailer that opened sign-ups for the second closed beta. |
April 2026 | PAX East, Boston | A playable demo on the show floor, with hardware supplied by Xbox. |
July 2026 | Games convention, Shanghai | A booth built around a playable demo, with an RV-themed stage, merchandise, and a graphics-card giveaway run with a hardware partner. It ran during the Global Closed Beta. |
26 to 30 August 2026 | Gamescom, Cologne | Confirmed. Hands-on gameplay, daily special-guest appearances, and prize giveaways. |
The studio confirmed its Gamescom 2026 attendance at the end of July 2026, days after the Global Closed Beta closed, making it the game's first public appearance since that test. The show runs from 26 to 30 August 2026 at the exhibition grounds in Cologne, and Aniimo has a stand in Hall 6 at booth 1C041.
The announced booth programme covers hands-on gameplay, on-stand activities, daily appearances by special guests, and prize draws. The prizes named so far include an Alienware Aurora 16 gaming laptop and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card. This is the second Gamescom the game has attended, after its 2025 appearance at the Xbox stand, and the first at which it has its own booth.
Away from the show floor, the studio has run its own broadcasts and community programmes. A livestream in January 2026 previewed the second closed beta over roughly forty minutes, and a second stream ran during the Global Closed Beta. A global creator recruitment programme opened in June 2026, offering accepted applicants beta access, official assets, and rewards for participating in content events, and the studio has since run a creative video contest with published winners.
The pre-registration campaign that runs alongside these events passed 10 million sign-ups by mid-2026; see Development for its milestone rewards.
