Gamescom officially kicks off with a Streaming of the Opening Night Live 2020. The event will feature a variety of high profile announcements, games ranging from Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart, to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, to Doom Eternal. If you want to see the opening keynote hosted by Geoff Keighley, all you have to do is tune in to YouTube or Twitch.
Opening Night Live 2020 stream
Gamescom Opening Night Live 2020 begins at 11.00 PT / 14.00 ET / 20.00 CEST on YouTube and Twitch.
Tuning into Gamescom: Streaming Opening Night Live is very simple. The keynote starts at 8pm CEST, which translates to 2pm ET or 11am PT.
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The keynote will last two hours and – strangely – stream from Los Angeles, not Cologne, Germany. There will also be a 30-minute pre-show. As such, if you want to see absolutely everything the keynote has to offer, you need to tune in to ET at 1:30 pm and tune in to 4 o’clock ET.
While we do not know everything developers will show during Gamescom’s keynote, we do know some of the games that will mark the occasion. The biggest revelation (that we at least know about) is a full gameplay demo of Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart for the PS5. Otherwise, Gamescom has promised “exclusive content debuts from Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War, Fall Guys: Season 2, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands [and] Doom Ivich. ”
However, those games alone will not take up two hours, and Gamescom has a whole slew of other publishers on the keynote dossier. These companies include 2K, Activision, Bandai Namco, Bethesda, Blizzard, Bungie, Deep Silver, Devolver, Electronic Arts, Frontier, Focus Home, Gearbox, Headup, Sony, Square Enix, Warner Bros. and Xbox Game Studios.
You can watch a short promo here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhlez1Y4HVk
While it would take too long to count every major franchise from those publishers, it would suffice to say that we will be seeing a lot of new PS5, Xbox Series X and PC games from first and third party studios.
Prospective viewers should be aware that although the livestream will be a German event, the audio will be in English. There will be subtitles in a variety of languages, so European gamers planning to attend Gamescom in real life should have no trouble keeping up with the digitized event.
After the keynote, Gamescom will continue online until August 30, and you can follow all the news on the Gamescom official website. Tom’s Guide will cover the biggest stories from the event, so check back all week for more.
