The German Games Industry Association (GGIA) had announced a while back that Gamescom 2020 will kick-off on August 27th, 2020, with Sega, Bethesda, EA, and more to show up. Additionally, this year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live will feature 38 games along with new “announcements” and “world premieres.”
Both Gamescom and Opening Night Live will kick-off at 11:00 A.M. PT / 2:00 P.M. ET / 8:00 P.M. CEST on August 27th, 2020. Additionally, both the pre-show and the main show will run for two hours and a half on said date and time.
Furthermore, the Dorito Pope himself, Geoff Keighley, took to Twitter to detail how the show known as Opening Night Live will play host to showcasing 38 games along with new “announcements” and “world premieres.”
Anyway, below you can check out the newly published tweets that Keighley posted regarding the event’s number of games that will appear later this week:
A few things on #OpeningNightLive for Thursday:
– Show is LIVE from a studio in Los Angeles. We’re being very careful, no live audience.
– Currently 38 games in the show from 18 different publishers.
– Expected run time: 2 hours.
More to share in coming days!
— Geoff Keighley Opening Night Live (@geoffkeighley) August 23, 2020
Something worth highlighting is that this year’s event will primarily focus on games and updates already announced. So expect games announced last year or this year to pop up during the forthcoming event.
In addition to the above, Keighley elaborates on what will be shown on August 27th:
There will be some new game announcements, but like #OpeningNightLive last year, the show is primarily focused on updates from announced titles. So no, we aren’t “announcing” 38 new games.
— Geoff Keighley Opening Night Live (@geoffkeighley) August 23, 2020
And yes, world premieres and other “special” announcements will be made regarding next-gen titles:
Yes
— Geoff Keighley Opening Night Live (@geoffkeighley) August 23, 2020
Last but not least, Gamescom 2020 is slated to go live digitally at 11:00 A.M. PT / 2:00 P.M. ET / 8:00 P.M. CEST on August 27th and will end three days later. The Opening Night Live event, like last year, will start before the actual show goes live.
