gamescom: Opening Night Live 2020 features numerous deep dives and world premieres

We have compiled all the highlights presented by Geoff Keighly for you.

To the surprise of many fans, BioWare announced their first votes for the new Dragon Age. The four minute teaser about the game allowed a look behind the scenes, with concept drawings, as well as motion capture and dubbing.

Blizzard announced a release date for the next World of Warcraft expansion as part of the stream: On October 27, 2020, the new add-on will be released. Then the four realms of the Shadow Land and the new max-level area "The Pit" will be available for players. Rewards and endgame content will differ depending on the faction the player joins. The beta is already available.

'Crash Bandicoot 4: It's about Time' will be released on October 2. N. Sanity Beach is where Crash's adventure began and this is where it begins in Crash 4, but there have been many changes since players first met Crash at N. Sanity Beach many years ago - during the Opening Night Light, Activision showed more gameplay material on the platformer. Lou Studdert from developer Toys 4 Bob teased out the new flashback levels and how they will revolutionize the game.

With mask and impulse rifle into the battle: The first gameplay trailer for 'Outriders' let the audience dive into the opponent diversity of the "People can Fly" shooter for the first time. The Square Enix co-op shooter will be released in 2021 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Stadia.

It continued with WWE 2K Battlegrounds with comic-style visuals and supernatural abilities. First ingame scenes with various WWE legends were also shown. Among others: the Undertaker. The wrestling video game, developed by Sabre Interactive and published by 2K Sports, is a spin-off of WWE 2K20. Release date is September 18, 2020.

Following new material on the arcade soccer game 'Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions' (now available for PC, Play Station 4 and Nintendo Switch), publisher Bandai Namco also showed a trailer for Little Nightmares II, the successor to the dark adventure game that was launched as an indie hit in 2017, 2020 Six and Mono sends Six and Mono on another journey and confronts them with a number of new threats.

'Nekromunda: Underhive Wars' is the perfect game for fans of classic tabletop games. The video game offshoot of the world-famous "board game" takes players to the depths of Necromunda, where they fight in tactical battles with hostile gangs for power, wealth, honor and survival. The turn-based tactical game will be released by developer Rogue Factor and publisher Focus Home Interactive on September 7, 2020.

The new game 'Teardown' by Tuxedo Labs is about tearing down a world built of pixel blocks so that the way is paved for the perfect raid. The great destruction is scheduled for release in 2020 - the trailer shown at gamescom: Opening Night Live promised great fun for fans of block and puzzle games.

In the interactive thriller 'Twelve Minutes' by creator Luis Antonio, players have to make new decisions again and again to influence the plot. Acting legends such as James McAvoy and Willem Dafoe are also involved. The game is scheduled for release by Annapurna Interactive in 2020.

The 'Godfall', which the developer Counterplay calls "looter-slasher", offers action-packed close combat in third person, a co-op mode for 2-3 players and single players as well as legendary weapons and armor. Godfall will be released together with Playstation 5 and will also be available for PC. Publisher is Gearbox.

It continued with another world premiere including in-engine footage. 'Override 2: Super Mech League' is a beat-me-up with robots fighting each other with frying pans and bubbles of chewing gum. Beta registration is now open, the release is planned for Christmas 2020.

2K and Hangar 13 celebrated the premiere of a new story trailer for 'Mafia: Definitive Edition' at the official gamescom: Opening Night Live. The second detailed story trailer shows how the protagonist Tommy Angelo learns the important lesson that loyalty to the family, despite the costs involved, can give him a level of wealth and power he could only dream of as a taxi driver.

'Lemnis Gate' by developer Ratloop Games Canada extends the popular first-person shooter genre with a new strategic aspect: Past, present and future collide directly with each other. Players use the power of time to outwit and outwit their opponents in turn-based time loops. Players have 25 seconds to carry out an action, whether it is fighting an opponent, controlling a character or preparing their next move. The game will be released in early 2021 for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Next world premiere: 'Chorus' is a new space shooter from Hamburg-based developer Fishlabs. In the single player title, players slip into the role of Nara, who is on the hunt for a dark cult with her space fighter Forsaken. In doing so, she even breaks through the boundaries of reality. The game from publisher Deep Silver will be released in 2021 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Google Stadia.

The game Fall Guys has only been causing a furore in the community for a month. At gamescom: Opening Night Live, developer Mediatonic showed a trailer for Season 2 for the first time: This takes players back to the Middle Ages - with castles, dragons and knights. The new mini-games, which are available in Fall Guys in Season 2, are designed accordingly. The unlocking of the new season should take place in a few weeks.

'Wasteland 3' for Windows, Xbox One and Playstation 4 will be released on 28 August and the cult RPG was presented in a final trailer at gamescom: Opening Night Live before the start. The game from developer inXile Entertainment offers exactly what fans of the series expect: challenging fights, a crazy story, crazy characters, morally hopeless situations and lots of humour.

The developers at Respawn Entertainment have also come up with something special for the new 'Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond'. War experience completely in VR - not for the faint hearted, but technically very far ahead, as Geoff Keighley pointed out in an interview with Game Director Peter Hirschmann. In addition to the campaign, which will be fully playable in virtual reality, other modes will be included exclusively for the Oculus VR glasses. Hirschmann said that the aim is to tell a tragic anti-war story and be as close to the story as no other World War II shooter has ever been before.

And another world premiere at gamescom: Opening Night Live. The comic adventure 'Spellbreak' by developer Proletariat will be released for free on 3 September for PC, Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch. Spellbreak' is set to deliver a AAA fantasy battle royal gaming experience, peppered with magical battles and powerful spells. Players select a class in the game, unleash powerful combos and fight their way up to become the ultimate battle mage.

A German legend also returned during the opening show: On the 30th birthday of 'Turrican', the explosive Metroidvania platformer of Factor 5, the series is finally back. The classic for C64 and Amiga from 1990 attracted attention back then with its technical perfection and extraordinary graphics. A varied gaming experience, the high intelligence of the opponents, many expandable weapons as well as the very precise and well thought-out controls set new standards. One can be curious how the new edition will look like.