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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Gearbox's Randy Pitchford says Borderlands "ushered in a whole new genre" of looter shooters, and imitators get it wrong when they "twist it too far," unlike Gearbox: "We tend to commit to the bit"
News "Borderlands is the borderland between a role-playing game and a shooter"
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says the game industry once expected a genre experiment like Borderlands to "die," but it actually became "one of the leading video game franchises in the world": "It's kind of humbling"
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"RTS will not be the big genre again," Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 lead predicts, but it can still be a big niche: "RTS won't kick shooters from the top of the food chain anytime soon, but that's fine, right?"
News RTS and Warhammer still have big followings, so "let's make a great game for both of these communities"
Dune: Awakening devs announce Chapter 2 update and Lost Harvest DLC, promise "no significant advantage" over people who don't buy as players worry goofy skin sickness has already started: "Dune doesn't need stupid skins like this"
News "Arrakis is full of secrets"
High on Life 2 release date set for February, but you can watch 42 minutes of gameplay right now
news Squanch Games' sequel is due out on Friday the 13th
"You have a dodge, people are like, 'Ah, that's a Soulslike'": Silent Hill f leads "disagree" melee combat makes it a Soulslike, say "the most authentic" way to play is story mode
News Chill, bro, it's just action-horror
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has "been through a lot," Paradox says as fans revolt against day one DLC, which is "a way to get additional players in that have been asking for that content"
News "It's not uncommon for games to come out with additional content"
If you're wondering how Call of Duty's Black Ops 7 trailer is going down, the top comment on YouTube by some way is "this actually made me pre-order Battlefield 6"
news People are not impressed
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says "I think they could charge $200" for Borderlands 4, "you can't find a better value in the world for any type of entertainment," then adds: "I wish they'd give it away, because then everyone would play it"
News You might worry about pricing, but Randy Pitchford won't
