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This year's Gamescom just kicked off with another Opening Night Live showcase hosted by Geoff Keighley. We knew a few games that would be making an appearance in advance, like Final Fantasy VII Revelation and the new expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt , but those two games cannot fill a two-hour show, so there was a lot more to see. If you didn't get a chance to watch the show live, you can watch the VOD below, or keep scrolling for all the highlights.
Kicking things off is a new dark fantasy game from Genshin Impact developer Hoyoverse called Nodusfall . If you're looking for the company's typical anime-inspired gacha game, you will not find it here. Instead, you get something that looks similar to a FromSoftware game. The game will feature cooperative play in which groups of four coordinate to take down powerful monsters.
Ubisoft is up next with a new entry in the Rainbow Six series, but instead of a shooter, it's a tactical game similar to XCOM . You can make up a squad of returning Rainbow Six operators, then carefully plan and execute their infiltration into enemy territory. The game will launch next year.
The Coalition was here with Gears of War: E-Day , which host Geoff Keighley made a point of emphasizing is an "Xbox console exclusive." Almost as if that might've been part of the deal to get the game on stage as Xbox tries to rebrand as a company that cares about exclusives. Anyway, the story trailer shows what definitely looks like a Gears of War prequel. Buff people be yelling. Oh damn, aged-down Marcus Fenix is kind of uncanny. Anyway, the game's coming to PC and Xbox Series X/S on October 6.
NetEase showed off a new look at its anime-expired sci-fi/ GTA -like game Ananta . It's got a lot going on. It's launching on January 15 on PC and PS5, and will be free-to-play.
Konami shared a new trailer for Silent Hill: Townfall highlighting some of the acting talent in the game, as well as the spooky shit fans will have to face when it launches on September 24.
Next up is a new look at Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy , which is coming out in two days on August 27.
Sea of Remnants is a pirate game that combines elements of Tomb Raider with a turn-based RPG. It'll be free-to-play and is taking preregistration requests on its official website .
An updated version of Crimson Desert called Enhanced is out now, featuring new story moments and all post-launch updates thus far.
Next up is a new look at fantasy action game Tides of Annihilation , which now features Resident Evil Requiem star Angela Sant'Albano as the lead after Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Jennifer English stepped down from the role earlier this year.
Unrelated Studio showed off Lofsong , which looks like a slightly darker take on Journey .
Now we have a new look at Mega Man: Dual Override , the long-awaited new entry in Capcom's platformer series, which gave us a few glimpses of new boss Twinkle Girl. The game is coming out next year. Also, Pragmata is getting Mega Man skins later this year.
Ubisoft is back with another look at the upcoming Rayman Legends Retold remake coming on October 1.
Next is a violent trailer for PUBG: Ded.Net , which will have a closed beta soon.
Free-to-play survival game Once Human is available now on consoles.
Remedy brought a new trailer for Control Resonant that is mostly just vibes, distorted environments, hack-and-slash combat, and some live-action cutscenes. The sequel is coming out on September 24.
Dark fantasy action RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker is up next and these guys just be tearing each other apart, and then there's some fucking in there somewhere. The game is out on September 3.
Next is new footage of the upcoming Game of Thrones strategy game War For Westeros , which features several characters and factions from the show and book series. It's coming in early 2027.
Airship Syndicate, the developer of Darksiders Genesis , showed Dust: Origins , a new isometric shooter.
After a bit of on-stage theatrics promoting Gamescom, we got a new look at Exodus , the Wizards of the Coast-published sci-fi RPG that is giving Mass Effect . It's coming out in April.
Speaking of Wizards of the Coast, Resident Evil Village star Maggie Robertson took the stage to talk about Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons . As the title implies, it will follow a warlock named Kaatri (played by Tricia Helfer) and her patron, Tasha (played by Robertson), with the player using magical powers throughout. No doubt the two will be navigating a complicated relationship while taking advantage of one another. The powers the player has seem pretty sick; there's a moment where Kaatri swaps places with an enemy as a monster lashes out at them, allowing her to escape damage and put a foe in her place. That's only one of several abilities we see in the extended demo. Game looks neat and is coming in 2027.
MBC Game Studio is debuting 1001 Threads of Mizan , a three-player co-op game based on One Thousand and One Nights . It's coming in 2027.
Dark fantasy really seems to be a theme of the night, with Silver Palace 's House of Greed multiplayer mode giving the RPG an almost horror vibe.
Capcom is up once more with Monster Hunter: Outlanders , an upcoming mobile game that showed off a brief cinematic and not much else.
4A Games revealed a new gameplay trailer for Metro 2039 , and talked about the game's central themes of the the effects of war while gesturing at the Ukrainian studio's struggles creating the game amidst the Russian invasion.
Snoop Dogg is playing the next Elusive Target in Hitman: World of Assassination. The new content is available for free from August 27 to September 26.
Fantasy MMO Aion 2 is coming to PC on October 5.
Post-apocalyptic sci-fi game Afterworld was next with a lengthy cinematic trailer.
Hoyoverse returns with something a little more recognizably its style in city builder Petit Planet , coming to mobile devices later this year.
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