One of the yearly calendar’s biggest gaming events is again underway. Gamescom 2025 has concluded its Opening Night Live stream and already given gamers plenty to look forward to.
Many announcements were teased or leaked ahead of time, but a couple of surprises sneaked in. In terms of major announcements we expected, “Call of Duty: Black Ops 7” revealed campaign gameplay and a release date of November 14, and the first teaser trailer for ‘Fallout’ Season Two showed Lucy and The Ghoul tearing up New Vegas — but the real fun came from surprise reveals.
Chief among those is the next game from Warner Bros and Telltale Games: “LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight.” Telling the entire story of the caped crusader, and packed with homages to his many on-screen appearances, the game stars many Batman villains and their accompanying squads of goons, but the trailer spotlights Matt Berry (“IT Crowd,” “What We Do in the Shadows”) as Bane. Is he the most devious bastard in Gotham City? We’ll find out sometime in 2026.
Soulslike fans have plenty of announcements to chew on, too. For starters, a surprise sequel to “Black Myth: Wukong” — “Black Myth: Zhong Kui” — was announced to be in early development via a teaser trailer, plus first-person medieval Soulslike “Valor Mortis” from the team behind “Ghostrunner,” an anime adaptation of “Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice” coming to Crunchyroll in 2026 and a sequel to 2023’s so-so “Lords of the Fallen,” also coming next year.
In terms of other reveals and new glimpses, there was RTS far future warfare in the reveal of “Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4,” open-world action in MMO shooter “Cinder City,” a new ‘companions’ trailer for “Outer Worlds 2” (no, you can’t sleep with them) and an in-depth look at “Resident Evil: Requiem” protagonist Grace Ashcroft.
You can feast your eyes (and warm up your wallets) for spiny, many-handed eldritch horrors in a new trailer for “Cronos: The New Dawn”, the latest of many free FPS games hitting consoles with a launch trailer for “Delta Force” — and the next title from the same developers, “Project Spectrum” — the next multiplayer title from “World of Tanks” developer Wargaming, the next update coming to “World of Warcraft” and a an early-access teaser for dungeon crawler “Moonlight 2: The Endless vault.”
On the updates and DLC news front, there was a trailer for a smithing-centric DLC for “Kingdom Come: Deliverance II,” a co-op DLC announced for the upcoming PlayStation headliner “Ghosts of Yotei” and a wintry DLC for “Cult of the Lamb” that will get you putting clothes back on after the infamous ‘sex update.’
There was also a trailer for “The Order of the Giants” DLC coming to “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle,” a “Final Fantasy 14” crossover for “Monster Hunter: Wilds” and a 2.0 update for vehicular MILSIM “World of Tanks.”
On a more disappointing note, there was “Hollow Knight” news with a 30-second snippet of “Hollow Knight: Silksong” gameplay and confirmation of news we already knew: the hotly anticipated sequel will release in 2025, but we’ll get more details in the days to come.
This is just night one of Gamescom. Tomorrow will be the Xbox livestream, which is already confirmed to feature many of the studio’s upcoming and active titles. You can watch the full Opening Live recording on YouTube here.