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Gamescom, the biggest gaming event in the world, is about to kick off, and it all starts with Opening Night Live, a livestream presented by The Game Awards’ Geoff Keighley.
Opening Night Live is a fairly sizable livestream that’s typically packed with announcements for new games, updates for already released games, and lots of release dates. It usually lasts for a few hours and is a pretty good watch — like The Game Awards but with fewer Doritos ads.
We’ve put together this handy guide, so you know how and when to watch Gamescom Opening Night Live, including all of the stream links for the show, and what to expect from Opening Night Live.
Gamescom Opening Night Live will take place at 2pm EDT today.
The official stream will kick off half an hour beforehand, with a preshow set to lead into the show. Here’s when the main show will begin in each region:
August 19, 2025
- PDT – 11:00am
- EDT – 2:00pm
- BRT – 3:00pm
- BST – 7:00pm
- CEST – 8:00pm
- IST – 11:30pm
August 20, 2025
- CST – 2:00am
- KST/JST – 3:00am
- AEST – 4:00am
- NZST – 6:00am
Gamescom Opening Night Live – Stream Links
Gamescom Opening Night Live will be available to watch live on YouTube and Twitch.
The official YouTube livestream embed is available above, and the full links for both YouTube and Twitch are below:
Gamescom Opening Night Live – What to Expect
The Gamescom Opening Night Live presentation is expected to last for a little over two hours. The entire lineup of the show is not yet known, but Geoff Keighley has revealed a number of titles set to be featured:
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
- Resident Evil: Requiem
- Fallout
- Ghost of Yotei
- Ninja Gaiden 4
- Silent Hill f
- World of Warcraft: Midnight
- The Outer Worlds 2
Keighley has also hinted at other announcements, including one X (formerly Twitter) post that might be hinting at something related to Hollow Knight Silksong. We’ll have to wait and see, but it seems like gamers are in for quite the show.
