Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024: all the news, trailers, and announcements

Much similar backpacks and lunchboxes showing up successful the seasonal aisle of your section Target, thing heralds the extremity of summertime similar Opening Night Live. Hosted by Geoff Keighley, ONL is simply a video crippled showcase overmuch similar Summer Game Fest. It’s the lawsuit that kicks disconnected Gamescom 2024 — a video crippled expo held chiefly successful Germany — and is traditionally the last video crippled lawsuit of the summer. This year, Xbox volition amusement up successful a large mode with Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

Here are each the trailers, news, and info coming retired of Opening Night Live 2024.

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• Thanks, Geoff.

  Opening Night Live big Geoff Keighley shared a useful list of what’s going to beryllium shown astatine the event. He promises determination volition beryllium “many” caller crippled announcements and surprises, too.

  
  

• Here travel the Pokémon microSD cards.

  SanDisk is launching caller Pokémon-branded microSD cards astatine Gamescom today. Designed for the Nintendo Switch, determination are 3 options disposable for purchase: a 1TB Snorlax microSD paper for $129.99, a 512GB Gengar 1 for $54.99, oregon the smallest 256GB Pikachu exemplary for $32.99. These caller Pokémon microSD cards enactment up to 100MB/s work speeds and up to 90MB/s constitute speeds and are disposable done Western Digital’s online store.

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  No Nintendo Switch 2 astatine Gamescom.

  Nintendo has confirmed to some Eurogamer and German site Games Wirtschaft that it won’t beryllium attending this summer’s Gamescom event. The Nintendo Switch 2 was reportedly demonstrated to developers astatine Gamescom past year, truthful it’s very unlikely we’re going to get a repetition of that leak again. Recent reports suggest Nintendo is now targeting March 2025 for the Switch 2 launch.