COLOGNE, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 18, 2026--
The Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) announced that 13 Korean game companies will gather under one roof at Gamescom 2026, Europe’s largest game show, held in Cologne, Germany, from August 26 to 28 (B2B, 09:00~20:00). Located in Booth Hall 3.2 C-050g–D051g, the Korea Joint Pavilion offers visitors hands-on experiences with an expansive lineup of titles, ranging from PC and mobile games to VR-powered titles across diverse genres.
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The standout feature of this year’s joint pavilion is its overwhelming genre diversity. The lineup includes roguelike deckbuilders, visual novels, 2D shooters, rhythm action, and cooperative horror survival—catering to a broad spectrum of gamers—alongside immersive content that integrates AI and XR technology.
Introducing the Participating Titles
1. Didim |Twohands Interactive| VR / Kiosk
A LiDAR-based AR exercise solution that recognizes the user’s movements to deliver an immersive indoor workout experience.
2. Forest Island |Nanali Inc.| Casual / Idle Simulation / Mobile
A casual idle simulation game in which players decorate a living, breathing island and bond with over 200 species of animal friends for a healing experience.
3. Guns & Dragons |ABUTTON Inc.| FPS·Roguelite / PC·Online
An FPS roguelite in which the power of science confronts a world ruled by magic. Players strengthen their character with a variety of weapons, skills, and artifacts while enjoying combat set in a fantasy universe.
4. COPYIT |NW Corp| Social Network Game (SNG) / Mobile
A social network game that uses AI technology to turn real-world objects into your own custom items and content from just a single photo.
5. Backroom Cleaners |Hypercent Inc.| Cooperative Horror·Survival / PC
A 4-player cooperative roguelike shooter in which players eliminate unidentified entities spreading through the mysterious Backrooms and try to survive.
6. Late-Night Self-Study |Geniesoft Inc.| Roguelike Deckbuilder / PC·Mobile
A slingshot-style roguelike deckbuilding game in which players bounce projectiles off walls to strike cards. Features a unique blend of strategic card combinations and physics-based shooting.
7. Larva Survival: Evolution |MYTURN Inc.| Action·Survival / Mobile
A casual survival RPG based on the globally popular animated IP ‘LARVA.’ Depicts an adventure with the Larva characters through an easy-to-learn evolution and survival system.
8. Mu Drum |Emotionwave Inc.| Rhythm Action·Education / PC
Game-based rhythm education content that combines AI technology with an electronic drum, making it easy and fun for anyone to learn. AI coaching helps players naturally pick up drumming.
9. Live Affection |NboxGames.Inc| Visual Novel / PC·Mobile
A visual novel depicting the process of earning money by day and watching internet broadcasts by night to win a streamer’s heart. Offers an immersive story experience through varied CG and direction.
10. SEMO |Hard Coders| Cooperative Platformer / PC
A chaotic cooperative platformer packed with nonstop fun moments. Players can enjoy uproarious cooperative play as they stumble over obstacles together with friends.
11. Project Revenant |MAYFLY Co., Ltd.| 2D Shooter / PC·Console
A 2D shooter where death is one shot away and a comeback lies within a single precise shot. Delivers a new kind of action thrill through uncompromising precision shooting and tense combat.
12. Pandoor |LUDENS| 3D Engine·B2B SaaS / Online (Proprietary Platform)
An ultra-fast, AI-powered 3D creation engine that runs instantly in a web browser. It lets anyone easily design their own worlds while creating and experiencing XR content on the fly.
13. ChoomChoom |DEVUNLIMIT| Arcade·Entertainment / Kiosk
An AI real-time K-POP dance coaching kiosk that you can enjoy with just a single camera. Combines AI coaching, four-cut photo booth shots, and automatic TikTok video generation all in one, helping users master K-POP dance moves.
Interpreters will be stationed at each participating company’s booth, allowing visitors to try out the games firsthand and communicate directly with the development teams. A stamp tour event and souvenirs will also be available for visitors.
This year’s Korea Joint Pavilion is an opportunity to see, all in one place, the diverse works of 13 game companies equipped with fresh ideas and highly polished technology. Visitors and industry professionals attending Gamescom are encouraged to visit the Korea Joint Pavilion.
KOCCA will bring 13 Korean game companies to Gamescom 2026 in Cologne, Germany (Image: KOCCA)
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Nov. 3 election is fast approaching at a moment when some Republican voters, frustrated by ever-rising prices, could turn on their party.
Cindy Banda, a Texan and three-time supporter of President Donald Trump, is one of them.
For Banda, 46, her political shift began after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
For more than a year, through a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation treatment, the single mother with six children in her care had to stop working even as her medical debt rose beyond $25,000.
The experience forced her into a grueling day-to-day financial scramble.
Her goal? “Keep the house. Keep the cars. And just keep the kids stable.”
To do that costs roughly $7,000 a month, exacerbated the rising tide of other costs, chief among them gas and groceries.
Banda tries not to dwell on death and debt because, she says, “it’ll consume you.”
She smothers those thoughts beneath her bubbly demeanor and avoids being alone. But that truce, between her insistence on positivity and the fears that it covers, is brittle.
Certain thoughts still arrive uninvited. Banda’s late sister, Melissa, didn’t have life insurance when she was killed. Banda, who cares for Melissa’s three children in addition to three of her own, makes sure it’s a payment she never misses.
“Sometimes I think, and I shouldn’t think like this, but I’m worth more gone than here,” she said one day, her eyes red and welling beneath her blue eyeliner.
“Obviously, the goal is not that, the goal is to beat it,” she continued, “to keep the house and keep the cars.”
And so far she has, the generosity of others helping keep her just beyond the reach of each month’s tide of bills.
That’s included financial help from the father of her 9-year-old, as well as Banda’s own father. Her high school classmates fundraised by selling food from a roadside tent. Two GoFundMe fundraisers raised near $30,000.
Still, the months of uncertainty took their own sleepless toll, and she recently returned to work selling internet services to businesses door to door, just before the midterms.
A lifelong Christian, Banda had voted her anti-abortion stance in past elections.
She voted for Trump in each of his campaigns, but two years into his second term, she has found no respite from high prices.
So when James Talarico, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, visited one of Banda’s fundraisers — speaking about his diabetes and his work in the Statehouse to lower the price of insulin — it moved her.
Talarico supports a law guaranteeing abortion access nationwide, which Banda has voted against for years. But after she slid into debt to stay alive, Banda’s anti-abortion concerns have been superseded by costs.
“Because it’s what I’m living,” she said. “I’m living it.”
Banda cast an early ballot for Talarico.
“Never voted Democrat before today!!” she wrote in a text with blue heart emoji.
This is a documentary photo story curated by AP photo editors.
Cindy Banda leaves a flyer advertising Spectrum services near the door of Emporia Academy and Spa, Sept. 14, 2026, in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Cindy Banda, who is battling cancer, visits the tomb of her sister, Melissa Banda, at Funeraria del Angel Highland Funeral Home and Memorial Park, Sept. 15, 2026, in Weslaco, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Richard "Trey" Ford III, left and his sister, Kimberly, seated at right, gather at the tomb of their mother, Melissa Banda, with fellow family members, Victoria, from seated left, Alejandra and Aaliyah Banda at Funeraria del Angel Highland Funeral Home and Memorial Park, Sept. 15, 2026, in Weslaco, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Cindy Banda, left, helps her father, Fidel Banda, put in new flowers by his daughter's tomb plate at Funeraria del Angel Highland Funeral Home and Memorial Park, Sept. 15, 2026, in Weslaco, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Richard "Trey" Ford III touches his mother's tomb plate at Funeraria del Angel Highland Funeral Home and Memorial Park, Sept. 15, 2026, in Weslaco, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
American flags fly over graves at Funeraria del Angel Highland Funeral Home and Memorial Park, where Melissa Banda is entombed, Sept. 17, 2026, in Weslaco, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Siblings Kimberly Ford and Richard "Trey" Ford III shop for flowers at Floreria Lee for their mother's tomb plate, Sept. 14, 2026, in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Fidel Banda, right, is greeted by his grandchildren, Kimberly Ford, from right, Kathryn Shergold, center, Joey Leal III, rear, and daughter Cindy Banda, at Floreria Lee as they shop for flowers before visiting the tomb of his daughter, Melissa Banda, Sept. 14, 2026, in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Cindy Banda walks back to her car after leaving flyers advertising Spectrum internet services at local businesses, Sept. 14, 2026, in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Kathryn Shergold, right, solves a Rubik's Cube in the car as her cousin Kimberly Ford, left, looks on, Sept. 14, 2026, in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Kathryn Shergold low-fives her mother Cindy Banda before returning to soccer practice, Sept. 16, 2026, in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Cindy Banda waves to her niece Kimberly Ford, right, after dropping her off with a friend for an after school program, Sept. 14, 2026, in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Cindy Banda, rear, watches as her daughter Kathryn Shergold jumps on the trampoline at dusk, Sept. 14, 2026, at their home in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Cindy Banda drinks a home remedy after experiencing side effects from the targeted therapy pill Kisqali, Sept. 16, 2026, at her house in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Cindy Banda, staying home from work after experiencing side effects from the targeted therapy pill Kisqali, watches the movie, "Toy Story," on Sept. 16, 2026, at her house in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
EDS NOTE: NUDITY - Cindy Banda shows her mastectomy scar, Sept. 16, 2026, at her home in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Cindy Banda massages her arm near her mastectomy scar to stretch the skin ahead of reconstruction surgery, Sept. 15, 2026, at her house in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Cindy Banda shows her Kisqali targeted therapy pills, Sept. 15, 2026, at her home in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Cindy Banda participates in a work meeting from home, Sept. 15, 2026, in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Cindy Banda, who is battling cancer while caring for her sister's kids in addition to her own, holds her necklace as she drives past the house from where her sister, Melissa Banda, was abducted by her ex-husband before he killed her, in McAllen, Texas, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
