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Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026: every announcement as it happens
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Gamescom Opening Night Live is here! The showcase heralds the changing of gaming seasons with one last deluge of WORLD PREMIEREs before autumn blows in the bracing winds of Game of the Year debates. Follow along right here as the two hour show airs to keep up with every announcement as it happens.
I'll be your live world premieres tracker for Gamescom ONL this year! While my PCG colleagues go deeper on the biggest announcements from the show I'll be right here making sure you don't miss anything. I promise I won't abandon my post to go frame-by-frame through that Witcher 3 DLC trailer when it drops, no matter how it calls to me.
This is the Hoyoverse game I knew to expect: it's Animal Crossing-like cozy life sim game coming this winter. There's going to be cooking, farming, and cute animal neighbors to meet. Yup, that's Crossing-like!
Well we already knew Snoop is going to star in upcomning Stranger Than Heaven, so why not turn up in Hitman too?
Metro's Ukranian developers 4A Games got on stage to talk about creating a game about the consequences of war rather than preventing it as Metro had been about in the past. It's about "the cost of silence and the horror of tyranny," they say. It's coming in February.
This is a gameplay reveal for an action adventure full of folklore and giant enemy djinn. Hey, and is that more sand surfing I see?
This upcoming D&D game is all about warlock lore. There's a few minutes of gameplay to check out here with some platformy puzzling, magical traversal, and a flying, talking sidekick. You've gotta have one of those.
Here'sa new trailer for the sci-fi action game Exodus that, yup, still looks very Mass Effect-y! Our Andrea Shearon has more thoughts on Exodus that you can check out for more details. It's coming April 7, 2027.
Next up is the reveal for a quiet, pretty looking adventure called Lofsong. Which its creative director says is "Where sound is the only language left." Okay, sand-surfing is always a win.