12 games already confirmed warm up to present news.
The next Tuesday, August 23 at 8:00 p.m. (Peninsular Spanish time) the Opening Night Live of Gamescom 2022 will take place, an event commanded by Geoff Keighley where the participation of more than 30 games is expected Stores coming soon. Although we won’t have to wait that long to meet them all, because we already know part of the list of confirmed games who will be present at the event.
Whether by Geoff Keighley or by the various game managers, in recent days the participation of a good number of highly anticipated games that will hit stores throughout the remainder of 2022 and the next has been confirmed. 2023, including games like Hogwarts Legacy or The Callisto Protocolamong many others.
If there are really around 30 games that will be present at this inaugural event of Gamescom 2022, as Geoff Keighley pointed out, they would already know each other about half. There are currently 12 games confirmed for the event, whether they are full games, expansions, or projects with names to be announced:
- Gotham Knights
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- High on Life
- The Outlast Trials
- Return to Monkey Island
- Hogwarts Legacy
- sonic frontiers
- The Callisto Protocol
- New game from D-Pad Studio
- The Expanse: A Telltale Series
- Dying Light 2: Bloody Ties
- Goat Simulator 3
It is unknown if any new last-minute participation will be confirmed this weekend, but it is to be hoped that the rest of the games to know be those “great surprises and unexpected announcements” that Geoff Keighley was talking about a few days ago. As long as they remain surprises and don’t leak ahead of time, of course.
Possible announcements of the Opening Night Live of Gamescom 2022
Now that we know the official list of confirmed games for the event, it’s time to talk about other titles that could also make an appearance on stage, but do not appear in the official communications. Namely, games that have been leaked in recent daysLike the return of Dead Island 2, which points directly to the Geoff Keighley event according to insiders, or a new Dune game that was leaked by The Snitch. The popular leaker did not specify that it was going to be presented at Gamescom 2022, but previously it also announced announcements of the Summer Game Fest, so it is practically taken for granted.