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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