EA, Take Two, Bethesda among first publishers locked for gamescom 2012

Koelnmesse's announced this morning the first list of publishers confirmed for this year's gamescom in Cologne, incuding EA, Bethesda, Take Two, Deep Silver and Konami.

Also confirmed are NCSoft, Ubisoft, Red5 Studios, Riot Studios, Trion and more, with companies from 21 countries signed up for the German house party.

No word yet on companies like Valve or Capcom, the latter who only returned to the show last year after pulling out the year before due to a lack of big name titles in its lineup.

gamescom takes place in Cologne from August 15-18.