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Gamescom 2024: How to Watch Opening Night Live and Beyond

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A logo for gamescom and Opening Night Live, the trailer showcase event kicking off the show.

Gamescom, Europe’s largest online game occasion, is nearly right here. Players, studios, business professionals and journalists are descending on Cologne, Germany from Aug. 20 to 24 to discover upcoming video games.

Whereas E3 reigned within the US for many years, it by no means fairly topped Gamescom, which has historically been certainly one of, if not the most important, video games present on the planet — particularly now that E3 isn’t any extra. Now that we’re previous June’s Summer season Recreation Fest, Gamescom is without doubt one of the final occasions in 2024 to supply early appears to be like on the subsequent large video games coming later this yr and in 2025.

Gamescom is a big occasion, which drew 320,000 folks final yr to Cologne the place the occasion is held. Many attendees are the general public, who got here to get their fingers on video games being previewed by video games business creators from one-person indie studios to huge publishers. 

CNET is on the bottom for Gamescom to see loads of these new video games, however followers can even get early appears to be like by way of showcases like Opening Evening Stay. Video games business occasions ringleader Geoff Keighley hosts ONL, a trailer showcase that is already confirmed to point out a number of upcoming video games like Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6, Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle, Dune: Awakening and extra.

How do I watch Opening Evening Stay?

Opening Evening Stay on Aug. 20 is the trailer-packed showcase that serves as a beginning gun for Gamescom, which runs from Aug. 21 by way of 24. ONL kicks off at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. CEST stay on the Koelnmasse, the conference heart in Cologne, Germany. The preshow for the occasion begins half an hour earlier than.

Viewers at house can watch Opening Evening Stay on Gamescom’s web site, by way of YouTube livestream (which begins an hour earlier than the present) or on the present host Geoff Keighley’s Twitch account for The Recreation Awards. If you cannot watch the video, we now have a written liveblog with all the brand new trailers as they’re being proven. 

Which new video games will probably be proven at Opening Evening Stay?

We all know some — however not all — of what’s going to be proven through the 2-hour marathon of trailers and options: Verify the YouTube video above for sneak peeks at what’s to return. The occasion is placed on and hosted by Geoff Keighley, who based and runs Summer season Recreation Fest within the US. Keighley tweeted an early record of video games that will probably be featured within the present. This probably means the entire following will get trailers, although they may additionally embrace distant or on-stage developer chats.  

  • Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6
  • Monster Hunter Wilds
  • Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle
  • Little Nightmares 3
  • Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
  • Batman: Arkham Shadow
  • Dune Awakening
  • Marvel Rivals
  • Squid Recreation: Unleashed
  • A brand new sport from Tarsier Studios
  • Sid Meier’s Civilization 7
  • Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
  • Misplaced Information: Bloom & Rage
  • Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred

Given the occasion’s size, there’ll certainly be many different video games proven off, and studios have been hinting — for instance, on this tweet from devs of the upcoming sport Towerborne — that they will have one thing to announce on the occasion.

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