While it didn’t feature much of Silksong outside of a brief tease — though there’s plenty more coming very soon — the main event for Gamescom, Opening Night Live, did have plenty to show off during its two hour runtime.
Much of it was expected and teased ahead of time, including fresh looks at Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Ghost of Yōtei, and the second season of the Fallout TV series. There was also a solid dose of horror with games like Resident Evil Requiem, Silent Hill F, and Cronos: The New Dawn.
These were joined by a handful of fun surprises like a roguelike about doomscrolling from Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert and a hand-drawn anime based on Sekiro.
If you couldn’t watch the whole thing live, here are the highlights. (And be warned, another Geoff Keighley-hosted event isn’t too far off: this year’s edition of The Game Awards is happening on December 11th.)
- Requiem for a scream.
The horror hits keep coming. This time it was another look at Resident Evil Requiem, which launches on February 27th. The trailer sets up the new protagonist, Grace Ashcroft, and, well, it’s not long before there’s a brutal murder. (You can check out our hands on with the game from June right here.)
- More Legends.
Ghost of Yōtei will be getting a free, co-op Legends mode next year, and it sounds like the one added to Ghost of Tsushima after its launch. Yōtei will be released on October 2nd, and Sony shared a new trailer at Opening Night Live.
- Remember the Sunwell.
Blizzard released the new cinematic for World of Warcraft: Midnight, the MMORPG’s eleventh expansion and the second in its World Soul expansion trilogy. In the trailer, the blood elves are besieged by Xal’atath, the villain who’s been kicking around since The War Within. Twenty years on and still nobody can make cinematics like Blizzard does.
- Some more horrors.
If Silent Hill F wasn’t enough for you, here’s the latest trailer for Cronos: The New Dawn from Bloober Team (the studio behind the Silent Hill 2 remake) which also looks pretty darn creepy. It’s also out pretty soon, dropping on September 5th.
- What the (Silent Hill) F.
This game continues to look the part, by which I mean it looks scary as hell. I still haven’t fully recovered from last year’s Silent Hill 2 remake, but hopefully I will be ready in time for Silent Hill F’s launch on September 25th.
- Ron Gilbert is making a roguelike.
Death by Scrolling isn’t about doomscrolling. Instead, the game keeps scrolling vertically, and you have to survive while that’s happening. Looks great.
- Dispense some Wasteland Justice this December.
Geoff brought out members of the cast and crew of Prime Video’s Fallout TV show to debut the teaser for season 2. (Although, the Ghoul’s Walton Goggins apparently couldn’t make it.) New Vegas looks slick both in its pre-war days and after the bombs fell and we’ll see more of the city and the show when season two premiers December 17th.
- Want to get nuts? Let’s get nuts.
You’ll have to deal with a brick-built Bruce Wayne not voiced by Will Arnett, but TT Games’ new Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight will launch sometime in 2026 and weave together decades of Batlore including Christopher Nolan’s films, Matt Reeves’ The Batman, and Tim Burton’s Batman Returns.
- Monster Hunter rides (a chocobo).
Capcom and Square Enix are collaborating for a crossover event that will span both Monster Hunter Wilds and Final Fantasy XIV. It’s happening in September, and you can get a tease in the clip below.
- Sekiro comes to the small screen.
Sony’s finally ready to show off the fruits of its investment in FromSoftware’s parent company Kadokawa with a new anime project. Announced at Opening Night Live, Sekiro: No Defeat is an anime show that will cover the events of the game and debuts exclusively on Crunchyroll in 2026.
- It’s going to be a busy fall for shooters.
First there’s Battlefield 6 launching on October 10th, and now we have news that the next Call of Duty is launching on November 14th. Here’s your first brief look at Black Ops 7 gameplay, which has something of an Inception vibe for the campaign mode.
- “Silksong is real.”
The game is “100 percent” launching in 2025, according to Geoff Keighley at Opening Night Live. Onstage, he showed off some brief footage of the game. More news about the game is coming on Thursday.
- Routine is still alive.
The long-in-development sci-fi horror game is now slated to launch later this year, and the new trailer looks very promising — and scary.
- Dotemu’s new fantasy beat ’em launches on October 9th.
Absolum is coming to PC, Nintendo Switch, PS5, and PS4. I’m looking forward to this one.
- Skate on a train.
Or as a train, rather. That’s the premise of the slick-looking Denshattack! which combines the beauty of the Japanese rail system with, uh, skateboarding? I’m not really sure what’s going on but it looks fun, and launches next year.
- Dotemu is making a Battlestar Galactica game.
In partnership with indie studio Alt Shift, Dotemu is working on Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, a “story-rich tactical roguelite” set in the universe of the cult classic sci-fi series. It’s launching on Steam in early 2026.
- Gamescom’s Opening Night Live pre-show is about to start.
It kicks off at 1:30PM ET ahead of the main show at 2PM. You can watch everything on YouTube and Twitch. And you can follow all of our coverage right here.
Get ready for Silksong’s ‘special announcement’ on Thursday
Image: Team CherryPrepare your best clown makeup: Team Cherry, the developers of Hollow Knight: Silksong, will be making a “special announcement” about the game on Thursday at 10:30AM ET. The announcement will be shown on Team Cherry’s YouTube channel, and the premiere link is already live.
It’s been a very long wait for solid Silksong news, so much so that the waiting spawned a clown meme. A release window announcement and subsequent delay didn’t help things. But Nintendo shared proof-of-life for Silksong earlier this year when it snuck a vague “2025” release date into its big Switch 2 Direct presentation.
Read Article >How to watch Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025
It’s almost time for Geoff Keighley’s next major gaming show. The 2025 edition of Gamescom’s Opening Night Live event kicks off at 2PM ET today, and you can watch everything on the official livestream on The Game Awards’ YouTube channel. Ahead of the main event, there will also be a preshow at 1:30PM ET featuring “multiple new game announcements.”
Keighley has already teased a bunch of the games that will be featured, including Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Resident Evil Requiem, Ghost of Yōtei, and Ninja Gaiden 4. It seems like there’s even going to be an announcement about the highly anticipated Hollow Knight: Silksong, which has been in development for years and is set to launch sometime in 2025. Expect some kind of announcement about the second season of Prime Video’s Fallout TV show, which premieres in December. There will even be a live performance of the excellent music from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
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