Here are the notes that I took while watching the Opening Night Live from Gamescom 2024

Gamescom – Opening Night Live Notes

• Trailer for 2K game from Gearbox for Borderlands 4 – Coming 2025 for Xbox, Playstation and PC – Trailer
• Extended campaign gameplay trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – Trailer
• Trailer for Goat Simulator Remastered coming to consoles and PC – Trailer
• Trailer for Persona 3 – Episode Aigis including Joker from Persona 5 DLC – Trailer
• Trailer for Dying Light: The Beast coming to PC, Xbox and Playstation – ” a self contained zombie survival adventure offering a new setting, new set of gameplay features and new story, culminating in a standalone, 18+ hours adventure” – Trailer
• Launch trailer for Black Myth: Wukong – Trailer
• Ad for Dragon Ball Z: Sparking Zero – Releasing October 11th 2024 – Ad
• Trailer for King of Meat from Amazon Games – Coming to consoles and PC – Trailer
• 1st game from FuzzyBot – Lynked: Banner of the Spark – Action Hack’n’Slash roguelite – Trailer
• Trailer from Lost Records: Bloom & Rage – Releasing: February 18th 2025 – Trailer
• Ad for No More Room in Hell 2 – Trailer
• Trailer for ARC Raiders – Action Survival Shooter – Coming 2025 – Trailer
• Ad for Infinity Nikki – Closed beta sign up available now – Trailer
• Ad for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II – Releasing September 9th – Trailer
• Launch trailer for Predecessor – Trailer
• Trailer for Path of Exile 2 – Early Access Date: November 15th for consoles and PC – Trailer
• First gameplay trailer for MMO Dune: Awakening – Release date: Coming to PC early 2025 – Trailer
• New game from the studio that made Little Nightmares – Reanimal coming to console and PC – Trailer
• Trailer Genshin Impact – Natlan Gameplay – August 28th – Coming to Xbox on November 20th – Trailer
• Trailer for Monster Hunter: Wilds – Releasing 2025 for console and PC – Trailer
• Lara Croft is coming to NARAKA: Bladepoint – Available August 28th – Trailer
• Trailer for Fatal Fury City of the Wolves – Releasing: 24th April 2025 – Trailer
• New ad for Mecha Break – Trailer
• First look trailer for Monument Valley 3 releasing later this year – Releasing 10th December – Trailer
• Gameplay trailer for Civilization VII – Releasing February 11th 2025 – Trailer
• Trailer for Starfield DLC – Rev-8 buggy – Free update available tonight. Shattered Space DLC releasing September 30th – Trailer
• Trailer for Marvel Rivals – Winter Soldier and Captain America revealed – Release date: December 6th 2024 – Trailer
• Tim Miller (Love, Death & Robots) on stage for Secret Level – Coming to Prime on December 10th – Trailer
• Trailer for Age of Mythology Retold – Releasing September 4th – Day 1 on Game Pass – Trailer
• Gameplay trailer for Towerborne – Releasing September 10th – Trailer
• Trailer for Delta Force: Hawk Ops – Trailer
• Trailer for Kingdom Come Deliverance II – Releasing 11th February 2025 – Trailer
• Trailer for Zenless Zone Zero – New characters revealed – Trailer
• Trailer for Honkai: Star Rail x Fate Stay Night event – Coming Q3 2025 – Trailer
• Trailer for Batman: Arkham Shadow [VR] – Releasing October 2024 – Trailer
• World premiere trailer for Little Nightmare III – Trailer
• Trailer for Herdling from Panic – Coming 2025 – Trailer
• New game from Peter Molyneux (Dungeon Keeper, Black & White, Fable) – Masters of Albion – Trailer
• Trailer for official Squid Game: Unleashed game from Netflix for mobile – Trailer
• Live Action Trailer for Unknown9 Awakening – Trailer
• Trailer for Arena Breakout: Infinite – Full release coming at the end of the year – Trailer
• New collab between Overwatch 2 x World Of Warcraft – Slyvannas skin for Widowmaker
• Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred expansion releasing October 8th – Trailer
• Trailer for The First Berserker Khazan from Nexon in Early 2025 – Trailer
• Launch Trailer for Ara History Untold – Releasing September 24 2024 – Trailer
• Trailer Dark and Darker Mobile – Trailer
• Trailer from Netease Games – Floatopia – Coming 2025 – Trailer
• Trailer for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle – Releasing December 9th 2024 for Xbox and Steam. Coming to PS5 in Spring 2025 – Trailer
• Reveal for Mafia: The Old Country for PS5, Xbox and PC – More coming later this year – Trailer
• The Game Awards – December 12th 2024.

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• Gamestop owned Game Informer magazine is set to close after 33 years.
• Bungie has laid off 220 employees and cancelled the development of the upcoming Destiny 3 codenamed ‘Payback’
• There is going to be a Civilization VII gameplay deep dive on August 20th at 9pm GMT
• The release date for Dragon Age: The Veilguard is going to be announced next month.
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team (GBA) is coming to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack on August 9th.
• GAME has ended their reward system as of July 31st.
• Paris 2024 is the first Olympics in 30 years with no console video game. There is a Web3 mobile game though.
• The trailer for the Like a Dragon: Yakuza TV show on Prime has been released. Trailer
• THQ has a games showcase:
  • Wreckfest 2 – Trailer
  • Titan Quest II – Trailer
  • Gothic 1 Remake – Trailer
  • Unannounced Tarsier Studios Project Teaser – Trailer
  • Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed – Trailer
  • Space for Sale – Trailer
  • The Eternal Life of Goldman – Trailer
  • Darksiders teaser – Trailer

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• SAG-AFTRA is on strike again, but the time, it is video game companies surrounding the Interactive Media Agreement. There are apparently not enough protections for voice actors when it comes to AI.
  • Companies involved are: Activision Productions Inc, Blindlight LLC, Disney Character Voices Inc, Electronic Arts Productions Inc, Epic Games Inc, Formosa Interactive LLC, Insomniac Games Inc, Take 2 Productions Inc, VoiceWorks Productions Inc and WB Games Inc.
• PlayStation VR2 users will be able to use their headset on PC via a free Steam app on August 6th – Steam Page
• Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered has been spotted at San Diego Comic-Con.
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 has been delayed from September 5th until November 20th.
• Blizzard’s World of Warcraft development team has voted to unionise and becomes the largest union within Microsoft.
• Apex Legends is reversing is 2 x $10 Season Passes after an outcry from the community. They initially had planned to remove the ability to get the new Battle Pass via Apex Coins, forcing the players to pony up more money for overall less rewards.
• Concord will not have a Battle Pass.
• Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is reportedly releasing on August 8 on Game Pass.
• Multiversus has been data mined and references to Harry Potter, Barbie, and Adventure Time has been found.
• A follow-up to a previous story, Humble Games is not closing but is being restructured.
• Paradox CEO has admitted that they made several wrong calls following the cancellation of Life By You, their The Sims clone.
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard will be released directly on Steam, doesn’t require the EA App, and will be Steam Deck compatible.

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