Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026: The biggest announcements and trailers

It’s time for another Geoff Keighley-hosted blast of gaming news. Gamescom’s two-hour Opening Night Live event is scheduled to kick off on Tuesday at 2PM ET, with a preshow starting 30 minutes before . Thanks to teases on social media, we already have some idea of what to expect, including looks at Final Fantasy VII Revelation , The Witcher 3 ’s new Songs of the Past expansion , Gears of War: E-Day , and the Game of Thrones strategy game .

The event is happening just ahead of a potentially very big fall for the games industry. Grand Theft Auto VI is scheduled to release on November 19th , and the rest of the games industry is largely steering clear of GTA VI ’s launch . That means the next several weeks are packed with major releases , and we could see some of those new games at Opening Night Live, too. (Though GTA VI probably won’t show up given that it’s set to have a reveal event of its own on Thursday ).

Here’s our coverage from Gamescom’s Opening Night Live. You can watch the livestream of the show on YouTube .

CD Projekt Red is aiming to launch The Witcher 4 sometime in 2028, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski says in a new video . CD Projekt Red has been working on its next mainline Witcher title for years and has shown videos of it, but now the studio is providing a target release window for when the game might actually come out.

There’s more new Witcher to come before The Witcher 4 , though. At this week’s Gamescom event, CD Projekt Red will be showing off its upcoming Witcher 3 expansion, Songs of the Past , which is scheduled to release sometime in 2027 . Songs of the Past is also set to be part of Gamescom’s Opening Night Live event hosted by Geoff Keighley, which kicks off at 2PM ET on Tuesday.