Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 - All the news as it happens

Keeper releases October 17! That's it! Bosman once again hypes up the pre-show, which... I guess.

Lee Petty, creative director on Keeper at Double Fine, is here to talk about the game. Discussing how the bird and lighthouse in game work together and what sort of relationship they have. "The bird becomes, I think, the emotional heart of the game," Petty says. Cites The Dark Crystal as inspiration.

Moving right along! Colorful... Tony Hawk on-rails skater but with a train? Some real Katamari meets Crazy Taxi meets Hi-Fi Rush style going on here. And probably more Subway Surfers than I'd like to admit.

Denshattack! Coming Spring 2026.

Ah, trailer for a LucasArts classic remastered by Nightdive! This has to be Outlaws, which was rumored this week after a Steam update to the original. Bit of Doom in the West with some LucasArts flavor and animation. "Pre-order now," no date associated.

As with all Keighley-produced shows, no waiting around. Immediately into something that kind of looks a bit like a Telltale-style Battlestar Galactica game? Stylized art, lots of shots of ships. Gameplay now! Looks less Telltale and more tactical like Stellaris or something. Battlestar Galactica: Shattered Hopes coming early 2026.

...immediately leading into something about Bubsy. Kyle, you just said the pre-show was good.

Bubsy 4D! 3D platformer, orange cat(?) character. No pants. Coming to basically all consoles and PC. Up for wishlisting now.

Kyle Bosman is back once again. Reminding us this is not the main show. This is the waiting room. "It's good itself," Bosman says. OK.

All right, here we go for the pre-show...

With just 15 minutes left (give or take) before the Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 pre-show begins in earnest, this is one of your absolute last chances for a called shot. What do you think will make a surprise appearance tonight that isn't already expected to some degree?

An absolutely massive audio jump scare there from a tab buried deep in my browser indicates that the placeholder video has actually begun! It's really real, folks. (And also, a handy little bug in the upper right informs that the pre-show really will start in about 28 minutes as expected.)

Just an hour to go until Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 proper and around 30 minutes for the pre-show! Still plenty of time to get some snacks, a drink, and settle in for a lengthy series of reveals and announcements.

And if you're already up anyway, I wouldn't mind a Topo Chico. Cheers.

In more likely news, there has to be a Fallout season 2 trailer of some kind during Gamescom Opening Night Live, right? After all the teasing with the Fallout season 2 poster last week and the first look images just yesterday? The timing just screams a full-on trailer. We know it's coming in December already, so maybe... an actual release date as well? Not long now until we all collectively find out.

OK, well, assuming there's some kind of Hollow Knight: Silksong news today, what's the one thing you hope to see that isn't that? The absolute longshot that would have you jumping out of your seat?

As always, for me, it's a Valkyria Chronicles remake or massive remaster. Or even just bringing Valkyria Chronicles 2 and 3 out of PSP jail and an actual English localization for the latter. Sega, are you out there? It's me, Rollin.

...I was about to say that Hollow Knight: Silksong's appearance during Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 seemed like it was up in the air after a noncommittal Keighley tease, but it's just been announced that there's going to be a "special announcement" early on Thursday, August 21.

I just can't decide whether that means we'll definitely see some kind of teaser for the announcement today or we definitely won't. There's still plenty of time to apply clown makeup.

Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement - YouTube

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So, what do we actually know is going to make an appearance? Quite a bit, actually! While specifics are hard to come by, Geoff Keighley regularly teases what sort of appearances to expect ahead of Gamescom Opening Night Live – and has done so for years at this point.

Case in point: we already know to expect something from Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Resident Evil Requiem, and Amazon's Prime Video's Fallout Season 2.

Most importantly, here's everything you'll need to actually watch Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 when it kicks off proper:

YouTube and Twitch are your best bets for actually watching, and be sure to tune in at 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm BST/8pm CEST – and 30 minutes prior to that if you want the pre-show and everything.