Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night Live (ONL) once again kicked off an all-digital GamesCom this year. The show featured 40 games, including some heavy hitters like Halo Infinite, a new Saints Row and Marvel game and a big look at Death Stranding: Director’s Cut.
Here’s everything that was revealed or shown during ONL.
A cinematic trailer for Saints Row introduced a cast of characters fighting back against a biker gang. There’s a high-speed chase, big guns, and foul language.
The game is set in the American South West, with a reboot of the franchise from Volition Games seemingly taking a slightly more serious take on the franchise.
Bryce Charles then joined Geoff on the ONL stage to talk about Saints Row and her character in the game before debuting a short gameplay video of Saints Row.
Saints Row will release on February 25 for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5 and PC.
A cinematic trailer for the next Marvel Game, titled Midnight Sun, revealed developer Firaxis’s new game.
Midnight Suns is a tactical RPG, and we’ll be able to watch a world gameplay trailer of Midnight Suns when it is released on September 1.
Midnight Suns is releasing in March 2022 on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch and PC.
It’s important to remember that Call of Duty is published by Activision, which California is currently suing.
An extended gameplay video for Call of Duty: Vanguard introduced us to Laura Bailey’s character and this “new-take” on World War 2.
The gameplay shown off featured intense gun-fights, destruction, cinematic moments and some surprisingly good lighting effects.
Call of Duty: Vanguard is scheduled to release on November 5 on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5 and PC.
A cinematic trailer for Halo Infinite’s multiplayer showed a human being hunted in a city before being saved by a Spartan.
Joseph Staten then joined Geoff Keighley on stage to talk about the game before giving the official reveal date of December 8, 2021.
A limited-edition Halo Xbox Elite Controler Series 2 revealed a limited edition Halo Infinite Xbox Series X console.
The latest game from Massive Monster is titled Cult of the Lamb, and it’s all about a lamb fighting off demonic creatures, saving other animals, and becoming a saviour to its people.
Midnight Fight Express is a 2.5D brawler that looks like it plays out like a cross between just about every action movie stereotype out there. From ultra-serious to outrageous. And it certainly looks bloody.
The latest trailer for TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge introduced that April O’Neil joins the fight!
Unfortunately for those waiting to play the game, it’s been delayed to 2022.
In an entirely unguessable surprise, it was revealed that Morgana from Persona 5 would be playable in the next Super Monkey Ball game.
The reveal of Season 0 of Splitgate showcased the FPS-arena shooting/portal gun antics that players were falling in love with recently. There’s a brand new map being released as part of Season 0, and the game is free to play.
The beta for Riders Republic is now open to everyone after a very short closed beta period.
A new trailer for Century: Age of Ashes sets the release date for November 18, and it’s free on Steam.
A brand new trailer for Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga showcased the best looking Lego game yet before giving an updated release date of Autumn 2022.
We’ll get a better look at Synced: Off Planet tomorrow, but there was a teaser trailer today.
The Outlast franchise’s next entry is released in 2022, and we got a brand new trailer today during ONL.
Serotonin, the video game aka Dokev, was revealed during ONL, and it was amazing. Watch the trailer, I can’t do justice or even attempt to explain what this game is, and I’m not sure I even know what it’s about.
A brand new trailer for Jurassic World Evolution 2 showcases the gameplay and park management.
Here’s a new trailer for Far Cry 6. It’d been a while since the many we got during E3 earlier this year.
The early access period begins September 7 for the Vampire the Masquerade battle royale.
Build rollercoasters with octopus tentacles or launch off into space in this wildest theme park simulator.
Releasing on October 5, here’s the latest trailer for Jett: The Far Shore.
Mathijs De Jonge, the game director of Horizon Forbidden West, officially announced that the game had been delayed until February 18, 2022, from the initial 2021 release date.
Also, an update for Horizon Zero Dawn has just gone live, updating the game to play at 60fps on PS5.
A brand new trailer for New World was shown before announcing a public beta coming on September 28.
Here’s a mobile Marvel game that just launched on Android and iOS devices.
Lindsay Sterling performed a song from the Tales games, and it was great.
Tales of Luminaria was then revealed for mobile devices before a trailer for the demo of Tales of Arise.
A teaser for a full 7-minute trailer of Lost Judgment that will be shown after ONL on the IGN show.
Deadmau5 talks about his game that’s inside Core, Oberhasli. I think that’s what happened; I was bewildered.
A crossover with Jungle Book will see costumes from famous characters like Baloo, Mogley and more.
A teaser for Replaced, so we all remember it looks excellent.
Here’s a new trailer to pair with the one Xbox showed during their show yesterday.
Hearth & Home update is releasing on September 16.
Aloy is joining Genshin Impact on September 1.
And that’s not all! This October, there’s a Genshin Impact concert coming on October 3.
A brand new trailer for SIFU revealed that the game is releasing on February 22, 2022.
There’s a Delux Edition available for pre-order that gives you 48-hours early access.
The trailer that we’ve seen Hideo Kojima tweet about editing for over a month was revealed during ONL.
There’s a stabilizer in the game now that lets you jet-pack landed over long distances, a canon to shoot cargo out of, and an AI robot that’ll carry your cargo for you named the Buddy Bot.
A training facility lets you practice using all the weapons and gadgets in the game while also aiming to beat the high score. There’s also a new weapon, the Maser Gun.
You can replay boss battles as many times as you’d like via your private room and battle it out for the best score against these fights online.
There’s a race track now, because why not? And you’ll battle it out against other players online rankings.
Of course, the thing we’re all most interested in is the new missions being added to Death Stranding: Directors Cut. We got a glimpse of the mysterious facility that Sam will explore, which looks to be rampant with Mule and some new armoured enemy types.
Death Stranding: Directors Cut is scheduled to release on PS5 on September 24.
ONL ended with the reveal that Geoff will be in Muppet’s Haunted Mansion on Disney+.
That’s all the trailers and news from ONL this year at Gamescom 2021. If you’d like to watch the show in full, you’ll find it below.
What was your favourite moment or trailer from the show? Let me know in the comments section.
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