Gamescom Show: Opening Night Live with Return to Monkey Island and Hogwarts Legacy

Gamescom starts on Tuesday in Cologne, this year again in attendance. The official beginning will be heralded by the Gamescom Opening Night Live, which starts at 8 p.m., should last a good two hours and has over 30 games in hand luggage. The first information about the games is now known – and Asus is also involved with live streams at Gamescom.

Gamescom Opening Live: The Games

It was already confirmed that they would like to show news about over 30 games during the opening show. As usual, presenter Geoff Keighley will host the show, which is on youtube and Twitter broadcast, but also has a local audience. At least 11 games are now known by name, including well-known titles such as The Callisto Protocol, Hogwarts Legacy, Return to Monkey Island, Gotham Knights or Sonic Frontiers.

One can particularly look forward to Return to Monkey Island, because the adventure by developer legend Ron Gilbert is scheduled to be released in 2022 and anything other than a release date would be a surprise. Publisher Devolver says so: “Our man Stan flexes his arms to deliver some big Return to Monkey Island news during Gamescom Opening Night Live”. With his usual sense of humour replies Gilbert: “Let’s go! Don’t make it so exciting! What will Stan tell us? I’m always the last to know”.

Other games officially confirmed include The Outlast Trials, Unknown Worlds (new brand from Subantica developers), Honkai Star Rail, Goat Simulator 3, High on Life and The Expanse: Telltale Series. The exact streaming embedding is not yet available, but the news will be updated accordingly as soon as it is available.

Asus with ROG Show

Asus is even starting “its” Gamescom a little earlier. The first part of the show starts at 4 p.m. on Tuesday also in the live stream will be seen. According to Asus, the speakers on the stage “present innovations and provide an exclusive look into the future”. X670E mainboards for Ryzen 7000 are explicitly mentioned. Interested parties can look forward to “numerous innovations from a wide variety of product groups”. It continues with a live stream on August 24th, 2022 from 7:30 p.m., in which “personalities from the tech and gaming scene” like Der8auer will offer a competition. At the same time, there is a competition in which, among other things, an Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme is being awarded together with a Ryzen 7000 processor – unfortunately no price is mentioned here.