GamesRadar+ is at Gamescom 2025. The world's largest celebration of video games has returned to Cologne, Germany, and the GR+ team is here on the ground to bring you the latest news on the most-anticipated new games of 2025 – as well as hands-on impressions with the titles we know you can't stop thinking about, and meet with the developers working to bring them all of them to life.
Gamescom 2025 is expected to welcome well over 300,000 video game enthusiasts through the doors of the Koelnmesse between August 20–24, as trade visitors and the general public alike assemble to sample the hottest upcoming video games. The action kicks off on Tuesday, August 19, as Summer Game Fest mastermind Geoff Keighley returns to present gamescom Opening Night Live – a two-hour live event where we're expecting to get fresh looks at World of Warcraft: Midnight, Black Ops 7, Ghost of Yotei, Resident Evil Requiem, Fallout: Season 2, and plenty more.
And if that weren't enough, the Future Games Show is back in action for Gamescom 2025 with three showcases set to go live throughout the week. You can learn how to watch the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2025 events by clicking on that link. You should also keep this page that you're on right now bookmarked, as it's where you'll find all of our reporting – delivered to you straight from the Gamescom show floor.
With GTA 6 delayed until May 2026, we are expecting Gamescom 2025 to be where developers and publishers from around the globe come together to define the rest of the release schedule for the next 12 months. Will there be a congested winter 2025 and spring 2026 as studios swerve out of the way of what will certainly be the biggest entertainment release in modern history? That's what we're anticipating, and GamesRadar+ will be at Gamescom to find out for sure.
Below you'll find all of our Gamescom 2025 coverage. You can also follow GamesRadar+ on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube for the latest news, previews, interviews, and live reports directly from Gamescom.
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Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail left the MMO's community fatigued and fed up, so Yoshi-P says devs are "planning to upgrade" new content that "can be enjoyed by a wide variety of different players"
News Square Enix hopes to "provide more interesting experiences"
Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight's combat was inspired by the Arkham series: "We also wanted to bring our own Lego approach to that foundation"
News "When we think about embodying Batman as a video game character today, of course we're inspired"
Capcom says that Resident Evil 9 will be "so-called 'old school Resident Evil'" in style, but its director teases a "new system" that creates a "complete roller coaster ride between the different aspects of the series"
Interview Gamescom 2025 | We speak to Resident Evil Requiem's director and producer to learn how its horror was shaped by Biohazard, Village, and the Remakes
I button-mashed my way through 30 minutes of Scott Pilgrim EX, but I'm already longing to dive back in and learn each character's "very complex combos"
Hands-on Gamescom 2025 | Scott Pilgrim EX's beat-em-up action is easy to pick up, but I want to be a pro
The Outer Worlds 2 leads say RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3 helped prove "people really, actually want these kinds of games" at a time where even Obsidian "had to prove ourselves all over again"
News "It's good to kind of bring that stuff to the forefront again"
Obsidian is not screwing around with The Outer Worlds 2's Fallout New Vegas comparisons: "The critical path is maybe 10 or 15% of the total content"
News With the first game, Obsidian was quick to stress "this isn't New Vegas in space"
I played Kirby Air Riders and it's the perfect racer for players who've had enough of Mario Kart
Hands-on Gamescom 2025 | Masuhiro Sakurai has brought the chaos of Smash Bros to vehicular combat
New Pokemon Legends: Z-A gameplay shows off how the RPG's trainer stealth attacks work, and they look so brutal that we're going to feel like we're part of Team Rocket
news Watch your back
Silent Hill f director says, alright, you got your Silent Hill 2 remake, which was "basically for the classic fans," but moving forward things are going to look different: "Future titles will probably carry their own flavour"
News "Instead of being too adverse to new experiences in Silent Hill games, it seems like a reality that players should come to terms with"
World of Warcraft has always asked us to call Azeroth home, but Midnight's new player housing is the first time you'll have one to call your own – and it's the best feature to come to the MMO in years
Preview Gamescom 2025 | World of Warcraft: Midnight's player housing is the sort of thing my guild would have killed for back in 2004
