Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024 is officially over!
The part of Gamescom inextricably tied to presenter Geoff Keighley has concluded after a packed, hectic two-hour showcase.
It’s even coming to PS5.
Everything announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024
First things first - the links you’ll need.
Ok, so what can we expect from Opening Night Live?
So expect those, I guess.
Marvel Rivals could offer up a release date or a new hero reveal.
A release date, perhaps?
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Realistically, that’s not much to go on.
That image is so vague that it could simply mean that Kojima is practicing his photography.
But it could also be a read that he’s playing something.
Getting closer to reality, I’d be surprised if we didn’t get something chunky fromMarvel Rivals.
I’m back into guessing territory here, but I can also see Ubisoft making a minor showing today.
Also making an appearance tonight is Dragon Ball: Sparking!
Also on that list isDiablo 4and its upcomingVessel of Hatredexpansion.
This time, that’s theCivilization 7 release date.
Big news for any big Indiana Jones fans attending this year’s Gamescom in person.
No spoilers but this is the best booth Ive ever seen us bring to Gamescom!!!
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There’s an interesting array of smaller projects on Geoff’s list for later.
That’s all on top of “many new game announcements, surprises, and special guests.”
What’s different here is that Black Myth: Wukong ispopping off.
Right now, only PUBG remains standing in its way.
A bit of a gamedev ‘thanks dad’ moment, for you there.
The recipients will be one of 50 people invited to meet the Geoff-Man himself after the show.
I wish that were me.
Some fun things ahead, hmm?
The launch of Concord, Sony’s upcoming hero shooter.
No, I don’t know how that all fits together either.
And we’re off to the actual races as Gamescom Opening Night Live begins in earnest.
Keighley out here hyping up the night despite all the struggles of the industry overall.
Indiana Jones, Dune, all that jazz.
You know ‘em, you love ‘em.
He… is trying German.
Emphasis on “trying.”
2K Games first up and out.
Keighley says it hasn’t leaked!
Hello there, Borderlands 4!
Looks to be… set in space?
Just a tiny, little teaser showing off the iconic mask.
Congratulations to Randy Pitchford.
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 is up.
But of course not everything goes to plan and “Pantheon” is here to cause trouble.
Big beefy minigun-wielding enemy is taken out by achecks notesRC car bomb.
Congratulations to all the folks that contributed to that vibe.
I’m pretty sure main dude just threw a knife that he then controlled somehow.
I don’t care how it works; I just want to do it all the time.
Protagonist and the person he saved (?)
zoom out of the frying pan and into the fire on motorcycles.
There’s more Fast and the Furious DNA here than I expected.
And we’re done!
Keighley introduces Sjokz to then introduce more stuff.
(Shout outs to the EU LCS; real ones know.)
We’re seeing a trailer for… something.
There’s a prison with awkwardly glitched characters and bugs.
T-pose bugs, clipping… there are all sorts.
…is this Goat Sim?
Well, friends, it is in fact for Goat Simulator Remastered, coming 2024.
I don’t know, man.
Sjokz, kindly, no more GOAT Goat Simulator jokes, I beg of you.
Persona 3 Reload up!
Specifically, bit about the upcoming Episode Aigis DLC.
There’s a Person 5 crossover?
A challenge battle against the Phantom Thieves, it looks like.
It was too brief to really fully understand.
Speaking of brief, we are immediately onto a new game.
Techland, so says the trailer.
Whatever it is, it absolutely whooped some folks and continues to whoop new folks in the trailer here.
Our military friends keep getting picked off.
“Every man has an animal within, if you push too much you might unleash the beast.”
…is this Dying Light 2 DLC?
It sure looks like it now.
Dying Light The Beast, new adventure with 20 hours of gameplay and open world.
Seems like a new game entirely.
Black Myth: Wukong launch trailer is up now.
It’s showing off combat gameplay and some generally impressive-looking environments.
There’s nothing explicitlynewnew here, but I ain’t mad about seeing the game in action another time.
Dragon Ball Sparking Zero is up!
Anyway, this is just a new trailer showing more gameplay and cutscenes.
Looks like a Budokai game, because it is.
I donotknow what this weird trailer featuring animated Geoff is about.
King of Meat, which it finally reveals, looks like a monstrous dungeon creator?
Also animated Keighley bites it at the end of the trailer.
Co-op hack-and-slash with some town-building elements to “brawl, build, and befriend.”
Yeah, see, the trailer here makes a much more compelling case for the game.
Show me what the thing is andthentell me about what I saw.
Brief note about Gamescom Cares before a new look at Lost Records: Bloom & Rage.
Some kind of I Know What You Did Last Summer problem with a package dredging up the past.
And we immediately move right on to yet another zombies game.
No More Room in Hell 2 is coming soon.
8-player co-op is a tempting premise, even if I’ve played dozens of zombie games before.
And Geoff segues quickly to Arc Raiders.
You might recall it having beenannounced at December 2021’s The Game Awards.
It looked good then, and it looks good now!
But not much meat on the bones of this teaser trailer, really.
Thank the Maker; Infinity Nikki trailer is here to seriously shift the energy of Gamescom Opening Night Live.
I have absolutely no idea what is going on here (I thought Nikki was a dress-up game?)
but it is bright and colorful and strange.
That’ll do me just fine.
Never mind we’re back to dour; Warhammer Space Marine 2 is what Infinity Nikki bookends into.
“Heed the call of war,” it says.
I can do that.
Where you want me?
Sure looks like a MOBA shooter.
Good luck with that and I wish you well.
Path of Exile 2!
Looks like Path of Exile, but more.
Which, I mean, yeah.
November 15, 2024 is the Early Access date.
“Gamescom is known for its cosplay,” says Sjokz.
I’ll take your word for it.
I have awoken to awake to wakefulness as we see a bit discussing how the game begins.
Arrakis is dangerous, it turns out.
Dune Awakening walks through some combat and building.
We’ve seen a good bit of this before, at least behind closed doors, earlier this year.
But it does mark the first time the public is seeing how all of this works.
Do like Dune, do like being awake.
New game from the Little Nightmares folks is up now.
Small folks running around in the dark.
But it sure seems like it’ll be for a lot of people!
Again, the lighting was very good.
Good job, lighting folks.
Bright, colorful, with lots of pop.
Also apparently one of these new characters right a shark and the other is a gamer.
So, there’s that.
Genshin Impact is officially coming to Xbox Series X/S on November 20!
Monster Hunter Wilds is here!
Hands-on demos happening at Gamescom, but we specifically are being treated to a new trailer.
What in the name of everything holy is this wild flower spider-lookin’ monstrosity?
I do not want any of that.
(But itwasvery pretty.)
And the footage of the camp here is nice and brown, just like I like to see.
More combat with the lightning-blasting wyvern thing.
Looks deadly and cool.
The trailer ends with a black screen then a stinger of cooking.
“So tasty!”
Good, yes, exactly what I want.
Lara Croft is coming to Naraka Bladepoint on August 28.
That’s it; that’s the news.
It ain’t Fatal Fury without her.
And right into the next thing!
Mecha Break, I believe, is showing off a whole mess of fast-paced gameplay.
I’ll take “multiplayer mech game” any day of the week.
Monument Valley 3 is on the way!
First look here at ONL; coming to Netflix (from Netflix Games).
Lots of perspective puzzling in classic Monument Valley style.
Lovely minimalist art and swapping around.
Also apparently sailing about on lil boats?
And there’s a fish.
Exclusive to Netflix Games and releasing December 10, 2024.
Civilization 7 gameplay on the way, sounds like.
Ed Beach, creative director on the game at Firaxis, is here to talk about.
There’s apparently a new in-game narrator, but we’re not going to see that now.
What wearegoing to see is the first real look!
But first, a history lesson about Civilization.
Dustin Bailey, eat your heart out.
Yeah, that’s Civ all right.
History come alive, innit.
Showcase after ONL tonight.
And now, immediately, Starfield.
And more important, its new vehicle, the Rev-8!
Mako this is not.
Free update with that available tonight!
Shattered Space DLC on September 30.
Captain America, Winter Soldier, and Black Panther all seen.
This ain’t beating the Marvel Overwatch allegations.
Cap says “I can do this all day,” because of course he does.
Marvel Rivals launches December 6, 2024.
Gamescom Opening Night Live now turns to climate action.
They recommend setting up energy-saving mode.
I looked away for a moment and Tencent Games got an award?
Shout outs to Level Infinite.
Deadpool’s Tim Miller is here dropping f-bombs to talk about how he and his love video games.
15 episodes, created in collaboration with Amazon Studios and publishers and developers of some of the greatest games.
He is really getting choked up on stage here.
Amazon’s Prime Video release date is December 10!
…is that Mega Man?
That looked like Mega Man.
Age of Mythology Retold trailer follows Secret Level.
Sure looks like Age of Mythology Retold!
And now on to Towerborne.
…and now we’re off of Towerborne and onto a brown-colored shooter from Timi Studio Group.
Ah, Delta Force.
Coming to Steam Next Fest in October ahead of Early Access later this year.
And we’ve on to Kingdom Come Deliverance 2!
Lots of wielding power and influence, trying to recruit folks.
Sure looks like Kingdom Come Deliverance, but a sequel.
A surprising amount of riding horses in this footage, I must say.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 gameplay premiere tomorrow, August 21.
Release date on February 11, 2025.
Zenless Zone Zero showing off a new area and characters.
The game continues tolookincredible.
And now, more Hoyoverse!
Honkai Star Rail showing some stuff and apparently there’s a Fate Stay Night crossover coming in Q3 2025?
(I do like and play this one, so I’ve been attacked.)
Batman Arkham Shadow, the VR game in the Arkhamverse, is here!
First look at gameplay from developer Camouflaj.
It does genuinely look like first-person Batman Arkham, so at least there’s that.
(RIP Kevin Conroy.)
Oh hey, it’s Ratcatcher.
Everything but the actual HUD looks pretty solid.
I’ve been burned by VR before, however.
And now, a new look at Little Nightmares 3 from Bandai Namco.
Sure looks like a horror puzzler to me.
It Takes Two, but make it terrifying.
Developers of Far and publishers of Firewatch are up now with… something.
I don’t know.
It looks a bit like Where the Wild Things Are but as a shepherd.
Herdling is coming 2025.
Oh no no no.
Peter Molyneux has just been welcomed to the stage.
“He’s back,” shouts Keighley.
World premiere of his next thing, Masters of Albion.
Team of 20 working on this.
“I can even feed them rats,” the in-game footage trailer says.
At night, the monsters of Albion attack.
Back during the day, Pete makes a bread sword because why not.
But you don’thaveto be that silly.
you’re able to wishlist now on Steam.
And now, a Squid Game game that looks a lot like murder Fall Guys.
The art style is pretty neat, at least.
Squid Game Unleashed is coming soon.
I will play that.
Blizzard is here to talk about things!
Johanna Faries, president, is talking about Warcraft milestones and such.
World of Warcraft: The War Within global launch is August 26.
In-game events for Warcraft 30 with cool rewards and “creative ways” to celebrate Azeroth together.
Newly announced Warcraft Direct on the way.
“Nice surprises” coming to other Blizzard games.
Faries shouts out the Overwatch 2 team with a collab in September.
Sylvanas skin for Widowmaker coming to Overwatch 2.
OK.
Now we’re talking Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred.
Looking at new mercenary companions.
That’s more like it.
…one of them can turn into a demon of sorts?
Why bother showing me any of the others, Blizzard.
We both know where my loyalties lie.
The Pale Hand is apparently the name of the group of four, though.
Brent Gibson, game director of Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred, takes the stage.
The team is also adding a new multilayered dungeon in addition to a co-op PvE dungeon.
That… just sounds like an MMO raid?
Isn’t that an MMO raid?
The First Berserker: Khazan is up now.
It is a third-person action RPG, seems like.
Some stylized art goes a long way here, though the trailer makes combat look a little stiff.
Code Vein but with a berserker?
I blinked, argued about Keanu Reeves, and missed Ara, I think.
And now we’re already onto Dark and Darker Mobile.
The trailer here makes it out to be a lot more goofy than I understood that game to be.
Animal Crossing-like on a floating rock?
Where do I sign up, Floatopia?
All this really needs is a Sanrio collab and my entirely family will play absolutely nothing else.
How dare you, NetEase.
It’s finally time: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is up Troy Baker talks about playing Indy.
He says it’s humbling to take on the role and that it’s a dream come true.
“A dream that I cannot wait for you to live yourself,” says Baker.
Baker walks us through puzzles, whipping things, punching Nazis.
You know, Indiana Jones stuff.
The Great Circle covers the globe, it sounds like.
One final reveal here at ONL.
Mafia: The Old Country.
More coming this December.
It’s a story set in 1900s Sicily during the origins of Mafia.
Not much actually revealed about what to expect there.
And that’s it!
What are you all still doing here?
