In this contribution I review the present status and discuss some prospects for indirect detection of dark matter with gamma-rays .
Thanks to the Fermi Large Area Telescope , searches in gamma-rays have reached sensitivities that allow to probe the most interesting parameter space of the weakly interacting massive particles ( WIMP ) paradigm .
This gain in sensitivity is naturally accompanied by a number of detection claims or indications , the most recent being the claim of a line feature at a dark matter particle mass of \sim 130 GeV at the Galactic Centre , a claim which requires confirmation from the Fermi-LAT collaboration and other experiments , for example HESSÂ II or the planned Gamma-400 satellite .
Predictions for the next generation air Cherenkov telescope , Cherenkov Telescope Array ( CTA ) , together with forecasts on future Fermi-LAT constraints arrive at the exciting possibility that the cosmological benchmark cross-section could be probed from masses of a few GeV to a few TeV .
Consequently , non-detection would pose a challenge to the WIMP paradigm , but the reached sensitivities also imply that –optimistically– a detection is in the cards .