Gaming’s greatest conference is again. This week, Gamescom 2026 kicks off in Cologne, Germany with an Opening Night time Dwell showcase adopted by per week of show-floor demos and occasions. Polygon might be in attendance at Gamescom this 12 months, however gaming followers far and vast will have the ability to take pleasure in this 12 months’s present from house, because of a number of streams and showcases.
Gamescom formally begins on Wednesday, however the present actually kicks off on Tuesday with Gamescom Opening Night time Dwell, a showcase hosted by The Game Awards emcee Geoff Keighley. Among the greatest publishers and builders in gaming, together with Bandai Namco, Capcom, CD Projekt Pink, Nintendo, Sega, Ubisoft, and Xbox, might be at Gamescom 2026, might be available to indicate off what’s new and what’s subsequent.
As all the time, The Recreation Awards, Summer time Recreation Fest, and Gamescom ONL favourite Hideo Kojima might additionally present up. It has been some time since we have heard something new about Kojima Productions’ new horror game OD.
This is what it’s essential find out about this 12 months’s Gamescom.
Gamescom 2026 formally begins on Wednesday, Aug. 26 and runs by Sunday, Aug. 30. The occasion itself is held on the Koelnmesse in Cologne and attracts an enormous crowd. Organizers say that 357,000 guests from 128 international locations attended final 12 months’s Gamescom.
This 12 months’s Gamescom will function the next featured exhibitors:
- 4Divinity
- Astrogon
- Asus
- Bandai Namco
- Bohemia Interactive
- Capcom
- Crytek
- Digital Arts
- Embark Studios
- Everstone Studio
- Focus Leisure
- Funcom
- Gryphline
- Hoyoverse
- Konami
- Krafton
- Degree Infinite
- NetEase Video games
- Nintendo
- Paradox Interactive
- Treatment
- Samsung
- Sega
- Group 17
- Tencent Video games
- Ubisoft
- Xbox
This 12 months’s Gamescom Opening Night time Dwell will stream on Tuesday, Aug. 25, beginning at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT. Gamescom ONL will be watched on YouTube and Twitch, through the next channels:
Among the video games confirmed to seem throughout Gamescom Opening Night time Dwell embody Remaining Fantasy 7 Revelation, Recreation of Thrones: Warfare for Westeros, Gears of Warfare: E-Day, Metro 2039, Monster Hunter Outlanders, Silent: Hill Downfall, The Witcher 3: Songs of the Previous, Valor Mortis, and Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons.
Gamescom Opening Night time Dwell is predicted to run two hours.
Amid a troublesome 12 months for the Xbox model, Microsoft is going all in on Gamescom 2026. At this 12 months’s occasion, Xbox will function video games like Sega and Artistic Meeting’s Alien Isolation 2, Playground Video games’ Fable, and RGG Studio’s Stranger Than Heaven, plus Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 4, Gears of Warfare: E-Day, Minecraft Dungeons 2, Metro 2039, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse, and Valor Mortis. There’s even a rumor that we’d get a new Ori game at Gamescom.
Xbox might be streaming its personal broadcasts from the Gamescom present flooring, with two days of programming deliberate for Wednesday and Thursday. You’ll be able to watch them under.