Potsdamer Platz, one of the most central quarters in Berlin, will become an arcade game haven this summer. Gamestate is poised to open an entertainment centre inside the Arkaden mall, which will open as an all-new high-street venue after a two-year period of restructuring and modernising. On around 1,200m², Gamestate will offer classics and new games at more than 60 arcade stations – anything your gaming heart fancies! Potsdamer Platz will be the second Gamestate location in Germany, after the one in Oberhausen, and the largest one in Europe.
“Potsdamer Platz is a cultural and tourist hotspot in Berlin – and therefore the perfect place for us: centrally located, surrounded by cinemas, theatres and museums, and soon with a new trendsetting shopping and entertainment concept,” commented Roel Veltmeijer, CEO of Veltmeijer Group, a Dutch family business that owns the Gamestate brand, among other things.
Karl L. Wambach, Executive Vice President Europe of Brookfield Properties and the manager of Quartier Potsdamer Platz, added: “With Gamestate, we are introducing an innovative and unique offer to Potsdamer Platz which in this form is without parallel anywhere else in Berlin. Our objective is to create a diversified and exciting leisure attraction for different age groups. Especially young people and families with children used to have few options to choose from here. But with Gamestate and Mattel aboard now, this is about to change.”
