We may have glanced a glimpse at an initial list of exhibitors set to showcase their games and wares at this year’s gamescom event, but now a larger and more extensive round-up of developers, publishers and technology companies has emerged.

While this list is but a quarter of the full line-up of exhibitors that will appear at the world’s largest games convention (once again taking place in Cologne, Germany), we can still pick through it and see which of our favourite companies have signed up so far.

Valve Software has once again made the list, which will be fantastic for gamescom 2011 attendees (especially after the studio was a no-show at E3 2011), while Bethesda Softworks and EA are also present and accounted for.

There are new (and big) additions to the list, too:

gamescom 2011 Exhibitor List (So Far):

• Alternate
• Asus
• Avanquest
• Bethesda
• BigBen Interactive
• Capcom
• CD Project Red
• City Interactive
• dtp Entertainment
• Electronic Arts
• Frogster
• Gameforge
• GamersFirst
• Hama
• Koch Media
• Konami
• Microsoft
• Namco Bandai
• NCSoft
• Nexon
• Nintendo
• Parrot
• Razer
• Rondo Media
• Sony
• SEGA
• Take-Two
• THQ
• Trion Worlds
• Valve
• Vidis
• Ubisoft
• Wargaming.net
• Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

gamescom 2011 takes place in Cologne, Germany starting Wednesday (August 17th) through to the end of Sunday (August 19th) – here are the times:

Exhibitor and Press Day

• Wednesday: August 17th, 2011

Public Days

• Thursday: August 18, 2011 - 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
• Friday: August 19, 2011 - 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
• Saturday: August 20, 2011 - 9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
• Sunday: August 21, 2011 - 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

The new gamescom logo was recently made out of volunteers who showed up at the convention centre to pose for a photo – watch how that logo was made in a video below:

gamescom 2011 – Making of the Logo