Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024: biggest announcements and trailers

ONL ended with a very brief tease for the Mafia: the Old Country, which is set in 1900s Sicily and will “uncover the origins of organized crime.” It launches some time in 2025.

After some, let’s say, detours, the veteran designer and his 22cans studio have revealed a more traditional strategy game called Masters of Albion, which at the very least has some cool interface ideas. Here’s the first trailer.

At Opening Night Live 2024, Netflix showed off a trailer of Squid Game: Unleashed, the upcoming Squid Game mobile title. The trailer makes the game look kind of silly, which feels at odds with the themes of the actual show.

The game is set to release later this year. The show’s second season is coming soon, too, on December 26th.

Batman: Arkham Shadow is the next entry in the Batman: Arkham series but with a twist...it’s in VR. Camouflaj, the studio known for another superhero VR experience, Iron Man VR, debuted the first gameplay trailer during Opening Night Live 2024. Arkham Shadow will be a full-length, VR game launching exclusively on the Meta Quest 3 sometime in October.

Herdling is a beautiful new game about herding from developer Okomotive (Far: Changing Tides and Far: Lone Sails) and publisher Panic (Untitled Goose Game, Thank Goodness You’re Here). It’s launching on PC and consoles in 2025.

Secret Level is a new animated anthology series featuring a bunch of video game franchises that’s coming to Prime Video on December 10th. Featured franchises include Armored Core, Mega Man, Sifu, Spelunky, and “various PlayStation Studios games” — I’m pretty sure I saw Kratos in the trailer.

I reported earlier this year that Microsoft was considering launching Towerborne into early access. After a promise of a “special surprise” during gamescom opening night live, Microsoft has just confirmed that Towerborne will be available in early access on Steam on September 10th, and on Xbox in early 2025. A full free-to-play launch is planned for 2025.

And by that, I mean, of course, that the Overwatch-like multiplayer game Marvel Rivals finally has a release date. It’ll be hitting PC, Xbox, and PlayStation on December 6th.

It’s been years since the game was first revealed, and now we not only have a first look, but also news that MV3 will be launching on December 10th — exclusively on Netflix. The first two games in the series, meanwhile, will hit Netflix in September and October.

While it doesn’t come out until next year, Capcom continues to show off the next big Monster Hunter game, with a new trailer featuring a very creepy giant spider that players will need to take down.

We finally have a release window for the survival game Dune: Awakening, which is going to make me do terrible, terrible things when it launches. In the meantime, check out this new gameplay trailer.

Xbox fans will soon finally be able to join in the anime-style open-world environment of Genshin Impact. The game is arriving on Xbox Series X / S on November 20th, and preorder bonuses are available right now.

The new trailer for Lost Records — the next release from Life is Strange studio Don’t Nod — looks all heartwarming and cozy, until it becomes very clear there’s a dark secret at its core. The game’s first episode launches on February 18th, with another a month later.

The new game from Glowmade and Amazon Games will let you battle through dungeons with up to four players, or, if you want to, you can create your own. King of Meat will have crossplay and cross-progression, and it’s coming to PC and consoles.

Persona 3 Reload’s expansion pass adds Joker from Persona 5 to the game... but apparently as a boss fight. I’m conflicted: I love Persona 5, but I don’t want to do anything to hurt my good friend Joker!

One of the strangest games of the past decade is getting remastered. The updated version of Goat Simulator, which first launched back in 2014, will include all of the game’s DLCs, along with new visuals and some quality-of-life tweaks. It’s launching later this year.

Ahead of the next Call of Duty’s debut in October, Activision has provided yet another trailer for the game, this time walking viewers through a campaign mission full of trademark Call of Duty action set pieces. For those who haven’t been keeping track: the shooter will be coming to Game Pass and might even have a reasonable download size.

Opening Night Live host Geoff Keighley shared a handy list of what’s going to be shown at the event. He promises there will be “many” new game announcements and surprises, too.