Opening Night Live kicks off the Gamescom festivities tomorrow, and there are five games I want to see above all else. The Gamescom 2026 schedule is already packed with goodies – Konami confirmed in a news bulletin that Silent Hill Townfall will be getting a new trailer during ONL, as will upcoming Xbox games like Gears of War: E-Day. But there are plenty of other new games on the horizon, including many upcoming PS5 games, that still have question marks over them.
I've put my sleuthing cap on and searched high and low to suss out what other new games might show face at the event. Some of the predictions below are based on deduction – be it the attendance of a high-profile developer, a publisher's presence at the convention itself, or being a 2026 release with no fixed launch date – while others are more of a hunch. I've been right before, so who's saying it can't happen again? Here are my top five predictions for Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026!
I was already sour about Fable being delayed to 2027, so I already assume we will getan eyeful of it at Gamescom 2026 to sweeten the pot a little bit. But after reading our Editor-In-Chief's argument for why Playground should delay Fable again, I'm having second thoughts. Fable's new release date places it in one of the busiest months of the 2027 gaming calendar year, alongside dozens of other games that got shunted back to create a bit of breathing space around GTA 6's impending launch this November.
It really would be a shame to lose such a gorgeous RPG reboot amid all the other goodies primed to release around it, and I can see Xbox deciding to nudge Fable back just a few months by appeasing us with a juicy new release date trailer at Opening Night Live. We've waited this long to return to Albion. What's a few weeks more?
It's well known by now that developer CD Projekt Red will be giving us a first look at Songs of the Past, an upcoming Witcher 3 expansion, at Opening Night Live this year. But what of the series' next chapter?
Ciri's adventure will continue in The Witcher 4 in a few short years, with some lengthy trailers and State of Unreal tech demo revealing some incredible artistic tools being experimented with by the devs. We've seen precious little of CDPR's latest since the June 2025 tech demo and trailer reveal at The Game Awards 2024, and I, for one, am hankering for more. I don't expect we'll see too much of it before Songs of the Past launches in 2027 – the fact that CD Projekt and Fool's Theory are giving us an expansion for a 15 year-old game tells me we're in for a long wait for Witcher 4 in general – but I would love to see even a tasty teaser following up the expansion's confirmed reveal at Gamescom 2026.
I know, I know – I'm a broken record when it comes to this series. Not only am I pining to see more of the Resident Evil Requiem story DLC we've been promised for months now, I'm patiently awaiting a firmer release date for my top upcoming horror game of 2027.
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