Gamescom 2025: how to watch Opening Night Live and all confirmed games

The biggest video games expo of the year is about to start but what exactly is Gamescom and what games will it feature?

Although E3 is long gone, its European equivalent Gamescom continues to chug along and while it may not inspire the same amount of anticipation as Summer Game Fest, it’s getting bigger every year.

Aside from offering previews and updates for upcoming video games, the Opening Night Live showcase hosted by Geoff Keighley always includes some new reveals, with last year’s show announcing Borderlands 4 and the PlayStation 5 port of Indiana Jones And The Great Circle.

Before the show kicks off, you’ll want to know exactly which games will be shown during the event, including important new releases from Microsoft and Nintendo.

How to watch Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025

Gamescom Opening Night Live (ONL) is where all the big new announcements will be held. It airs on Tuesday, August 19, with a pre-show beginning at 6:30pm BST and the main event starting at 7pm BST.

You can watch it via the official Gamescom YouTube or Twitch channel, while the official The Game Awards (which is also run by host Geoff Keighley) YouTube and Twitch channels will be hosting it too.

What games will be shown during Gamescom 2025 Opening Night Live?

So far, the following games are confirmed or expected to make an appearing during Gamescom Opening Night Live:

• Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 – Following the Xbox summer showcase reveal, Microsoft and Activision will be showing extended gameplay for Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 and probably confirm the already leaked release date.
• Ghost Of Yōtei – Sony won’t be at Gamescom, and already held a dedicated showcase for Ghost Of Yōtei not too long ago, but it’s set to get another trailer ahead of its October launch.
• Ninja Gaiden 4 – Alongside a playable demo on the show floor, Microsoft, Team Ninja, and PlatinumGames will have a new trailer for the violent, action sequel.
• The Outer Worlds 2 – As its last first party game of the year, Microsoft is naturally pulling out all the stops to promote The Outer Worlds 2 at both Opening Night Live and its own livestream.
• Resident Evil: Requiem – Capcom will have a new trailer for next year’s Resident Evil game and hopefully confirm those rumours of Resident Evil 4’s Leon making an appearance.
• Silent Hill f – Aside from a playable demo, Konami will have one more trailer before its September launch, with the first entry in the series to be set in Japan.
• World Of Warcraft: Midnight – The opening cinematic to World Of Warcraft’s next expansion will debut at Gamescom, with attendees able to try the new housing system before it launches in early 2026.
• Lords Of The Fallen 2 – A sequel to Dark Souls clone Lords Of The Fallen will debut during Gamescom, and is expected to launch in 2026.
• Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion – This sequel to the original 2019 giant mech game was announced as part of the Nintendo Switch 2 showcase, but is getting a new trailer and playable demo at Gamescom.
• Black Myth: Wukong – Aside from promoting this month’s launch of the Xbox Series X/S port of last year’s action roleplayer hit, developer Game Science will likely have a formal reveal for the promised DLC expansion.
• Honor Of Kings: World – Publisher Tencent will be sharing a new trailer for Honor Of Kings: World, an open world roleplaying game spin-off of the Honor Of Kings MOBA mobile game.
• The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin – This open world role-player based on the popular anime was first shown at Summer Games Fest, but will receive a new trailer during Gamescom.

Keighley has also said a new trailer for the second season of Amazon’s Fallout TV show will debut at Gamescom and there will be a live musical performance featuring music from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Opening Night Live will obviously have much more to show, including brand new game reveals. While it’s difficult to predict what new games could be shown, some announcements have been strongly hinted at for Gamescom, and we can make some educated guesses.

The Division 2 and other Ubisoft games

It’s not explicitly been confirmed for Opening Night Live, but Ubisoft is holding a dedicated panel for The Division 2 during Gamescom. And since it’s teasing a new Division 2 related project, an announcement trailer during Opening Night Live would make sense.

The project is likely another DLC expansion (a new one just launched in May) or a new spin-off to replace the cancelled The Division: Heartland. Ubisoft is working on a full sequel, The Division 3, but that’s probably still some way from a formal announcement.

Ubisoft has a handful of games that could also make an appearance, such as its remakes of Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time (which is supposed to launch next year) and Splinter Cell, as well as the rumoured Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag remake.

Plus, there’s the new Rayman game, a rumoured The Crew 3, and the eternally absent Beyond Good & Evil 2, though those are the kind of announcements Ubisoft may prefer to save for its own showcase.

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

Keighley’s trailer for Opening Night Live includes glimpses of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, so you can expect this to make an appearance too. Since it’s already slated for a September launch and will be playable at Gamescom, any new trailer will probably show off more tracks or DLC characters.

Hollow Knight: Silksong

After years of waiting, fans of Hollow Knight will finally get a proper update on the sequel, Silksong, at Gamescom. Aside from the fact that it’s said to be launching this year, playable demos will be available at both the Xbox and Nintendo booths.

As such, the odds of it getting a new gameplay trailer, perhaps one with an exact release date, during Opening Night Live are higher than they’ve ever been.

Tales Of Xillia remaster

Bandai Namco may have already let slip plans to remaster another entry in its Tales role-playing series, namely 2011’s Tales Of Xillia, which only ever released for the PlayStation 3.

This comes from a news update for the Tales series that was accidentally posted early on the Bandai Namco YouTube channel. Although it was quickly removed, fans on Reddit quickly caught a screenshot of the video’s thumbnail, which displays a scene from the game.

The video was meant to be uploaded on Monday and now it looks like the plan is to announce it tomorrow, albeit at 3pm BST which is a few hours before Gamescom.

Bandai Namco has a few other games playable at Gamescom – namely Little Nightmares 3, The Blood Of Dawnwalker, and Towa And The Guardians Of The Sacred Tree – so one of these could see a new trailer during Opening Night Live as well.

Lego Batman

Gamescom tends to only feature a few genuinely new game reveals but one that’s been heavily rumoured in the last few weeks is a new Lego Batman game from Traveler’s Tales and Warner Bros.

Intriguingly, it’s claimed to be giving the Dark Knight the Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga treatment and adapt multiple Batman movies, rather than being a new story of its own making.

The Dark Pictures

Supermassive Games has confirmed the next entry in The Dark Pictures anthology – the sci-fi themed Directive 8020 – will have a presence at Gamescom. As such, there could be a new trailer that offers a more concrete release date beyond just 2026.

Crimson Desert

Although this action role-player was recently delayed out of 2025 and into early 2026, Crimson Desert is still planned to be playable at Gamescom. So, it wouldn’t be surprising if publisher Pearl Abyss has a new trailer for Opening Night Live lined up as well.

Shenmue 3 Enhanced

An upgraded re-release of Shenmue 3 has already been announced though it came with no screenshots or gameplay footage to demonstrate the improved visuals.

Considering publisher ININ Games opened its announcement with ‘Officially Unveiling at Gamescom 2025,’ it’s reasonable to assume a trailer is being saved for Opening Night Live.

More Capcom

Resident Evil: Requiem will undoubtedly be Capcom’s biggest attraction, but the publisher has two other upcoming games playable during Gamescom: Pragmata and Onimusha: Way Of The Sword.

Although both games saw new trailers not too long ago, Capcom may have updates on them during Opening Night Live, especially since both are slated for 2026. Maybe it’ll have a tease of new DLC for Street Fighter 6 as well.

Something from Square Enix

Square Enix’s current schedule is pretty busy, with its current priorities including the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster, the Dragon Quest 1 and 2 remakes, and Octopath Traveler 0.

Any of those could see new trailers, even short ones, during Opening Night Live, as well as the Xbox and Switch 2 ports of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, since they’re still lacking release dates.

We’ve seen some people hoping for an appearance from Kingdom Hearts 4, but that seems very unlikely. Such an announcement would probably be saved for Tokyo Game Show next month or Disney’s own D23 event.

Something from Nintendo

While Nintendo does have its own booth, with a playable demo for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, maybe don’t expect a new trailer confirming a release date. Nintendo would want to announce that during one of its own showcases.

At best, it could share release dates for the Switch 2 ports of Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Elden Ring, since those will be playable at the event too.

For what it’s worth, after two showcases for third party games and indies, it’s speculated a proper Nintendo Direct will air in September, since Nintendo traditionally has them at that time of year.

Our guess is that it’ll be centred entirely around Metroid Prime 4 and offer a deep dive on its gameplay, as well as a release date since it’s still slated for 2025.

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