TactiCon 2024: start times and where to watch

A digital convention focusing on strategy games
Hooded Horse / Firesquid

It is once again time to raise the banners, mobilize the troops, start your war economy, and take a seat on your comfy throne, fellow armchair generals – for summer is the season of TactiCon.

Publishers Hooded Horse and Firesquid have once again banded together to organize and host one of the biggest strategy game-focused events of the year in the form of TactiCon 2024 from July 18 to 22.

In case this is your first rodeo, here’s a short briefing: TactiCon is a digital convention with lots of interesting panels and developer discussions from some of your favorite strategy game studios and is accompanied by lots of demos as well as discounts. What’s more, TactiCon will include an opening showcase filled with trailers, updates, and even some reveals from the likes of Hooded Horse, Firesquid, Paradox Interactive, Shiro Games, and Owlcat Games.

Find out everything about the TactiCon 2024 start times and where to watch the showcase below.

TactiCon 2024: start times

TactiCon 2024 kicks off on July 18, 2024, at 10:30am PT. Check the list below to find out what that means for your timezone:

  • July 18, 10:30am PT
  • July 18, 12:30pm CT
  • July 18, 1:30pm ET
  • July 18, 6:30pm BST
  • July 18, 7:30pm CEST
  • July 18, 11pm IST
  • July 19, 1:30am CST
  • July 19, 2:30am KST/JST
  • July 19, 3:30am AEST
  • July 19, 5:30am NZST

TactiCon 2024: where to watch

You can catch the TactiCon 2024 showcase and panels on the event’s Steam page, Twitch, and YouTube channels.

100 strategy and tactics games are participating in this year’s edition of TactiCon according to the official website – and that doesn’t count any potential surprises and reveals.


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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg