Europe's major gaming event of the year, Gamescom 2025, has kicked off in Cologne, Germany, with Opening Night Live, an extensive trailer showcase giving early looks at the biggest games coming later this year and into 2026.
Last year's Gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live had a ton of reveals, including Mafia: The Old Country and trailers for then-upcoming games like Marvel Rivals, Dune Awakening and more. This year's showcase had some big reveals and some tantalizingly short teases -- like around 20 seconds of Silksong, the long-awaited sequel/spinoff to indie darling Hollow Night.
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Below are the biggest trailers for the two-hour Opening Night Live event.
Fallout: Season 2
Amazon's Fallout show was a delightful surprise, faithfully adapting a beloved gaming franchise -- and just being pretty darn good. Gamescom 2025 features the debut trailer of the second season, which arrives Dec. 17, as well as an on-stage chat with the showrunners and stars Ella Purnell and Aaron Moten.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
We got our first long look at the story, which mixes cerebral mindscapes with your typical fast-paced Call of Duty combat.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice anime
Yes, FromSoftware's cult favorite samurai game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is getting an anime adaptation called Sekiro: No Defeat. The trailer shows the game's protagonist, swordsman Wolf, both before and after he receives his prosthetic arm -- suggesting we could see things both before and during the course of the original game. The anime will debut on Crunchyroll at an unstated date.
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