Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 livestream: watch all today’s announcements here

Gamescom 2025 begins today, Tuesday August 19th, with Opening Night Live – the annual livestream showcase of trailers, teasers and release date announcements, in which helpless videogames are dragged on-stage and hacked into 90-second gobbets by Geoff Keighley.

You can watch Gamescom Opening Night Live on this very page, care of the below video embed. The show starts at 2pm EDT, 11 am PDT, 7pm BST and 8pm CEST, and should last around two hours, because that’s approximately as long as the summoning magic can keep Geoff bound to our mortal plane. There’s also a pre-show at 1.30pm EDT, 10.30am PDT, 6.30pm BST, and 7.30pm CEST, but nothing noteworthy ever happens in those. Prove me wrong, host Kyle Boseman!

Games on show this year will include 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 can also expect a wave of quirkier smaller productions, a lot of free-to-play guff, and at least one Hollywood celebrity looking all scared and confused. Crossing my fingers for a surprise Soul Reaver reboot, as ever.

It’s going to be an absolute festival of indignities, and what better way to add insult to injury than in the form of a dedicated RPS liveblog. I’ll be writing up the announcements as they come, with input from Mark, Ollie and James. We welcome your speculations, exhilaration, outrage and consternation in the comments section. Feed the Maw!