 From 2002 to 2008 the main video game trade fair in Germany was the Games Convention which was held annually in Leipzig, and was highly recognized by the press.Since 2009 it was discontinued, as the Gamescom in Cologne took the place of the major video game trade fair in the world.Violence in video games is a controversial subject in Germany, and German localisations of violent games are often heavily cut by the publishers to permit a public release.