Gamescom: Opening Night Live will feature 38 games, but mostly announced titles

This week’s Gamescom: Opening Night Live stream will feature 38 games but focus on titles that have already been announced.

That’s according to organiser Geoff Keighley, who wrote on Sunday that the event would be broadcast live from Los Angeles and run for around 2 hours.

“There will be some new game announcements, but like Opening Night Live last year, the show is primarily focused on updates from announced titles. So no, we aren’t ‘announcing’ 38 new games,” he wrote.

“So far we have announced the reveal of the Doom Eternal Campaign Expansion, and the reveal Season 2 of Fall Guys for Thursday. There will be much more to share in coming days on other titles!”

The show is set to start at 11am PT / 2pm ET /7pm BST on Thursday, August 27.

UPDATE: You can watch it live here:

ORIGINAL STORY CONTINUES:

Gamescom 2020 will take place digitally from August 27-30, with a number of digital events featuring partners companies such as Xbox, Sega, Bethesda, EA, Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard.

For the second year running the show will kick off with Gamescom: Opening Night Live, which attracted an audience of over 500,000 simultaneous viewers in 2019.

There’ll be a new Awesome Indies show focused on announcements and news about indie games, plus a Gamescom: Daily Show expanding on the highlights of each day.

Gamescom 2020 will close with a Best of Show on August 30, which will include this year’s awards ceremony.

Gamescom‘s organisers officially confirmed the cancellation of 2020’s physical event in April , due to the coronavirus pandemic.