The Future Games Show at gamescom will broadcast on August 20 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7pm BST / 8pm CEST, presenting viewers with world premiere trailers, deep dives and exclusive updates on the most exciting upcoming games. In the coming weeks, we’ll reveal our illustrious hosts and provide updates on what games you can expect to see during the show.
But that’s not all - for the first time ever, three shows will air as part of our gamescom event schedule. This year’s Future Games Show at gamescom is immediately followed by FGS Live from gamescom. This expansion showcase is hosted by FGS channel presenters Jules and Nathan, and will provide even more wishlist-expanding gaming news and world premiere trailers.
Then, four days later on Sunday, August 24, we’ll debut a brand new format called FGS Best of gamescom. After scouring the gamescom show floor for the most unique and creative AAA, AA and indie games, the FGS team will help viewers discover something new with exclusive gameplay demos, booth tours and insight-loaded developer interviews. You can see the 'best of' the four-day gamescom event in a little under an hour during our special broadcast.
View the Future Games Show Steam page
You can catch up with all of the games announced in the Future Games Show Summer Showcase and FGS Live From LA on our Steam page. This page will be updated with fresh games from our upcoming gamescom event nearer the Aug 20 broadcast date.
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The Future Games Show is one of the best ways to discover new games, with our 2024 shows reaching over 150 million total views. We debuted exclusive trailers from AAA blockbusters including Black Myth: Wukong and Civilisation VII, as well as giving you advance notice on some of the year's greatest indie breakouts, such as Blue Prince, Tiny Glade, Hauntii and Tenebris Somnia.
Read on to find out everything you need to know about the Future Games Show, including how to apply for the Future Games Show at gamescom and beyond.
How to watch
How to watch the Future Games Show at gamescom 2025
The Future Games Show at gamescom returns on Aug 20 to highlight the most exciting games launching in 2025 and beyond, with world premieres, demo drops and developer deep dives featuring across a 90 minute+ show.
We’ll share more details in the coming weeks about the lineup of titles we’re excited to dig into during this year’s gamescom showcase.
Here’s how to watch the event, with our exciting new hosts under wraps - for now!
You can watch the Future Games Show at gamescom on August 20 by subscribing to FGS's YouTube channel, FGS's Twitch channel, our Facebook page, Twitter / X, and the website, GamesRadar.com.
Watch:
Wednesday, Aug 20
11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 7 PM BST / 8 PM CEST
You can also watch a selection of translated (via captions) feeds in Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Portugese, Thai and English, by selecting your choice of live captions from our YouTube Live page. Simply choose the International Feed and make your choice of language.
Who will host?
Who hosted the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2025?
Laura Bailey (Abby Anderson, The Last of Us Part II) and Matthew Mercer (Vincent Valentine, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth) hosted the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2025.
Laura hosted the Future Games Show Summer Showcase back in 2021 and 2023, and returned to the virtual stage for 2025. Laura’s catalogue of memorable roles include Jaina Proudmoore in World of Warcraft and Mary Jane Watson in Marvel’s Spider-Man.
Matt made his FGS hosting debut, and is beloved by fans for his many roles in games, including Ganondorf in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil 6. Matt is also well known for being the Dungeon Master of Actual Play phenomenon Critical Role.
What games?
What games featured in Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2025?
On Saturday June 7, our hosts Matt Mercer and Laura Bailey led viewers through a blockbuster event studded with deep dives, release date reveals and world premieres, featuring over 50 games in total. Some highlights include the world premiere of The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, a new trailer for gore-gous horror shooter Crisol: Theater of Idols and a deep dive into the world of Mafia: The Old Country with Hangar 13.
This year’s summer show featured our trademark blend of imagination-stoking indies, deep dives into AA games and exclusive updates on AAA blockbusters. It was then followed by FGS Live from LA, where our hosts Jules and Amy treated viewers to even more world premieres and deep dives from the sunny climes of Los Angeles. The FGS-hosted event included even more world premieres, as well as exclusive interviews with the developers of painterly bildungsroman Mixtape and a closer look at Funcom’s spacefaring MMO Dune: Awakening.
What games appeared in the Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2025?
Back in March 2025, we debuted over 40+ exclusive new game trailers during the Future Games Show Spring Showcase. Announced games included early-GOTY contender Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Alan Wake creator Remedy Entertainment's FBC Firebreak, and Bloober Team's Cronus: The New Dawn.
The Spring Showcase was followed by our new show, FGS Live From GDC, with even more amazing game trailers, and interviews live from GDC (Game Developers Conference) in San Francisco.
Games included Xbox / PC exclusive South of Midnight, UK developer Rebellion's Fallout-inspired Atomfall and Devolver's moreish and ridiculous Baby Steps.
GOG.com and Epic Games Store join Future Games Show Partners Network
GOG.com, Epic Games Store, GINX TV, Weibo, Netease CC, WeChat, Douyou and more joined an ever-growing list of official Future Games Show partners for our Spring Showcase on March 20.
They join our biggest ever distribution network including Steam, YouTube, Twitch, X, TikTok, IGN, Gamespot and our sister brands gamesradar.com and pcgamer.com.
GOG.com (Good Old Games) is a digital storefront with a focus on game preservation, or in their own words: "A home for building and playing your curated game collection, GOG is a digital distribution platform that puts gamers first and respects their need to own games." In other words, they restore and update classic games like Diablo, Swat 4 and Dragon Age.
Viewers saw an exclusive announcement of some very exciting new (well, old, but classic) games coming to GOG.com in the Spring Showcase on March 20.
How to co-stream
How to co-stream the Future Games Show
We're thrilled to welcome new streamers and creators to our FGS Co-Streamer program and all you need to do is sign up via this short form. We give all partners an exclusive asset pack, and the occasional bonus, including game codes subject to the titles in each show.
Take Part
How to take part in the Future Games Show
Working on an exciting new game? Join a roster of exciting titles that debuted in the Future Games Show, including The ExpanseL Osiris Reborn, Painkiller, Immortality, En Garde,, The Case of The Golden Idol, LEGO Bricktales and many more.
If you're interested in being part of the show, you can fill out our updated FGS Game Nomination form or contact the FGS team directly via email:
Nominations are now open for our Gamescom event in August including our FGS Live From and FGS Best Of shows.
For editorial inquiries:
James Jarvis, Executive Producer (james.jarvis@futurenet.com)
Ben Malley, Producer (ben.malley@futurenet.com)
For sponsorship Inquiries:
Melissa Makhmaltchi, Commercial Lead (US), melissa.makhmaltchi@futurenet.com
Kevin Stoddart, Commercial Lead (UK) kevin.stoddart@futurenet.com
No title is too big – or too small – to take part: we're looking for cool, interesting games that will delight our audience.
Simply get in touch via our nomination form or through the email contacts above to be in consideration for our upcoming roster of digital showcase events.
Steam Page
Future Games Show Steam page
You can check out all the games from each Future Games Show broadcast by visiting our Future Games Show Steam sale page which is updated after each event.
Developers and partners can get in touch via the contact addresses above to discuss how you can appear in the Future Games Show and on the event's Steam page.
What is the Future Games Show?
A brief history of the Future Games Show
The Future Games Show has reached over 400 million viewers since its debut in June 2020 with a mission to celebrate the most exciting, unusual and innovative upcoming games across all formats.
With previous show partners including Warner Bros. Entertainment, Team17, Koch Media, Konami, Sega and many, many more, you can expect diverse game genres - from puzzlers, to shooters, and beaver-led post-apocalyptic strategy games - with a focus on new gameplay footage and fresh developer insight.
The Future Games Show runs three shows a year, the Spring Showcase in March, a summer showcase event in June, and a Gamescom show in August.
We can't wait to partner with even more publishers and developers to share their exciting new games with the Future Games Show audience.
Here's everything you need to know about the Future Games Show so far, including previous hosts, contact details for how to pitch and appear in the show, plus more on how how to wishlist and play games from our event, via the Future Games Show Steam page.
Future Games Show: Game Announcements Recap
If you want to dig into all of the reveals across the history of the Future Games Show, you can check out a list of our ‘everything announced’ articles below:
- Everything announced at the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2023
- Everything Announced at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2023
- Everything Announced at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2023
- Everything Announced at the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2022
- Everything Announced at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2022
- Everything Announced at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2022
- Everything Announced at the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2021
- Everything Announced at the Future Game Show Summer Showcase 2021
- Everything Announced at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2021
- Everything Announced at the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2020
- Everything Announced a the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2020
What is the Future Games Show?
GamesRadar Presents: Future Games Show (FGS) is our premier digital showcase event, which debuted in June 2020 at E3, originally hosted by Nolan North and Emily Rose from the Uncharted series. Our truly multiformat showcase has now debuted its ninth event - spanning PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC and mobile platforms - focusing on the most exciting, quirky and original games of 2022 and beyond.
The Future Games Show's mission is to help fans discover something new with our carefully curated selection of games. We focus on bringing you gameplay clips, developer walkthroughs, and world premieres. The Future Games Spring Showcase 2022 featured a Virtual Show Floor exhibition, containing games that will have playable Steam demos available right after the event. Also returning was the 'Ones to Watch' montage of exciting upcoming games and quirky indies.
Future Games Show previous hosts
The God of War stars Christopher Judge and Danielle Bisutti, aka Kratos and Freya, hosted the Future Games Show Powered by Mana on Wednesday, Aug 24.
The Future Games Show in June 2022 was hosted by Denise Gough and Doug Cockle from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Our Spring Showcase event was broadcast in March 2022 and hosted by Ashly Burch (Aloy, Horizon Zero Dawn and Tina, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands) and John MacMillan (Varl, Horizon Zero Dawn).
In our Gamescom 2020 event, the hosts were the iconic pairing David Hayter and Debi Mae West, who voiced Solid Snake and Meryl Silverburgh respectively.
Hayter told GamesRadar: "Games… have changed. They’re no longer 8-bit side-scrollers, played under synthesized, electric-piano theme songs, but massive worlds of fantasy into which players can escape and explore for months at a time. In this era of the Foxdie Virus, we need these games more than ever. Which is why I’m teaming with my favourite former rookie, Meryl Silverburgh, to host the next episode of the Future Games Show. So grab your cardboard box, put on your stealth camo, and make sure that safety’s off… It’s showtime."
GamesRadar will bring you all the news and videos from the Future Games Show as the next-generation consoles enter their second wave of exciting new titles.
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