Gamescom begins today, Tuesday August 19th 2025, with Opening Night Live - the yearly livestream showcase of trailers, teasers and merchandise day announcements, successful which helpless videogames are dragged on-stage and hacked into 90-second gobbets by Geoff Keighley.
You tin ticker Gamescom Opening Night Live connected this precise page, attraction of the beneath video embed. The amusement begins astatine 2pm EDT, 11 americium PDT, 7pm BST and 8pm CEST, and should past astir 2 hours, due to the fact that that's astir arsenic agelong arsenic the summoning magic tin support Geoff bound to our mortal plane. There's besides a pre-show astatine 1.30pm EDT, 10.30am PDT, 6.30pm BST, and 7.30pm CEST, but thing noteworthy ever happens successful those. Prove maine wrong, big Kyle Boseman!
Games connected amusement this twelvemonth volition see Silent Hill f, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Resident Evil: Requiem, The Outer Worlds 2, Ghost of Yotei, Ninja Gaiden 4, and World of Warcraft's Midnight expansion. Going by past Keighley events, you tin besides expect a question of quirkier smaller productions, a batch of free-to-play guff, and astatine slightest 1 Hollywood personage looking each frightened and confused. Crossing my fingers for a astonishment Soul Reaver reboot, arsenic ever.
It's going to beryllium an implicit festival of indignities, and what amended mode to adhd insult to wounded than successful the signifier of a dedicated RPS liveblog. I'll beryllium penning up the announcements arsenic they come, with input from Mark, Ollie and James. We invited your speculations, exhilaration, outrage and consternation successful the comments section. Feed the Maw!