Gamescom is an annual video game convention typically held at the Koelnmesse exhibition center in Cologne, Germany. It’s the largest gaming convention in the world, rivaling the likes of E3 and Tokyo Game Show. This year, Gamescom 2020 will be fully virtual and in an effort to bring this digital event to life, it has partnered with IGN to bring you never-before-seen game trailers, live gameplay demos, exclusive developer interviews, and more. Here’s everything you need to know to join us.
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Gamescom 2020 Date and Start Time
Gamescom 2020 is a four-day long event, taking place between August 27-30. The event will kick off with Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night Live which starts promptly at 10:30am PT, 1:30pm ET, and 6:30pm BST on Thursday, August 27. If you’re tuning in from Australia, that’s 3:30am AEST on Friday, August 28.
Where to Watch Gamescom 2020
Since IGN has partnered with Gamescom to bring you this year’s virtual event, we’ll be streaming on our homepage and across all of our platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, and YouTube. Here’s the full list of places to watch Gamescom 2020:
- IGN.com (homepage)
- IGN’s Facebook Channel
- IGN’s Twitter
- IGN’s Twitch Channel
- IGN’s Youtube Channel
- IGN’s iOS App
- IGN’s Android App
- IGN’s PlayStation 4 App
- IGN’s Xbox One App
- Roku
- IGN App for Android TV
- IGN for Amazon Fire TV
- Apple TV
- IGN 1 on Samsung TV Plus
- Pluto TV
- Plex Live TV
What to Expect at Gamescom 2020
While we can’t reveal anything too specific, we can tell you about a few of the exciting things planned for Gamescom 2020. Our host Michael Swaim will discuss the daily highlights and more with the Gamescom Daily Show. We also have a very special Awesome Indies showcase planned where we’ll spotlight games from smaller studios and speak with the developers behind them. Last but certainly not least, there’s the Cosplay contest and Gamescom Best of Show, where awards will be handed to the brightest stars of the show.
Gamescom 2020 Schedule
Thursday, August 27
Opening Night Live kicks off Day 1 of IGN Live X Gamescom and leads us into a day filled with exclusive game trailers and gameplay reveals debuting exclusively with IGN. The show will run from 10:30am-4pm PT. Check out the full Day 1 schedule below:
10:30am PT
- Opening Night Live with Geoff Keighley
1:00pm PT
- Unannounced Game – Trailer Reveal
- Unannounced Game – Trailer Reveal
- Project Cars 3 – Trailer Reveal
- Observer: System Redux – Trailer Reveal
- Unannounced Game – Trailer and Gameplay Reveal
- Retro Machina – New Gameplay Reveal
1:30pm PT
- Godfall – New Gameplay Reveal
- Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions – Trailer Reveal
- Unannounced Game – Trailer Reveal
- Solasta: Crown of the Magister – Trailer Reveal
- EVERSPACE 2 – Trailer and New Gameplay Reveal
2:00pm PT
- Next-Gen Console Watch LIVE
- Pumpkin Jack – New Gameplay Reveal
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood Trailer Reveal
- Dual Universe – Trailer Reveal
- Blood Bowl 3 – Trailer Reveal
- Jump Force Deluxe Edition – Trailer Reveal
2:30pm PT
- Humble Games – 2020 Lineup Trailer
- Dual Universe – New Gameplay Reveal
- Monster Truck Championship – Trailer Reveal
- Speed Limit – Trailer Reveal
- X4: Foundations – Trailer Reveal
- Giants Uprising – Trailer Reveal
3:00pm PT
- Tinkertown – New Gameplay Reveal
- Giants Uprising – New Gameplay Reveal
- X4: Foundations – New Gameplay Reveal
- News, Games, Plus More LIVE
Friday, August 28
The exclusive game trailer and gameplay reveals continue on Day 2 of IGN Live x Gamescom, running from 7:30am – 3:30pm PT. Sprinkled in between the reveals is Game Scoop! Live and Up at Noon with Troy Baker, as well as the Gamescom Daily Show which wraps up the day’s events. See the full Day 2 schedule below:
7:30am PT
- Goldilock One – Trailer Reveal
- Dark Pictures Little Hope – Gameplay Reveal ad Developer Interview
8:00am PT
- Game Scoop! LIVE
9:00am PT
- Genshin Impact – Trailer Reveal
- Scarlet Nexus – Gameplay Preview
- EuroPlay Games Lineup Sizzle
- Ponpu – New Gameplay Reveal
- Unannounced Game – Trailer Reveal
- Conarium – Trailer Reveal
- Naser: Son of Man – Trailer Reveal
- Unannounced DLC – Trailer Reveal
- Humankind – New Gameplay Reveal
9:30am PT
- Age of Empires III – Developer Interview
- Little Nightmares II – Gameplay Preview
- Stronghold: Warlords – New Gameplay Reveal
- Morbid: The Seven Acolytes – New Gameplay Reveal
10:00am PT
- Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions – Launch Trailer and New Gameplay
- Transient – Trailer Reveal
- HAAK – Trailer Reveal
- Zelter – Trailer Reveal
- Overloop – Trailer Reveal
10:30am PT
- Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin – New Gameplay Reveal
- The Waylanders – New Game Footage Reveal
- Sea of Thieves – Developer Gameplay Update
- Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond – New Gameplay Reveal
- Unexplored 2 – New Gameplay Reveal
- Crash Bandicoot – Developer Interview
11:00am PT
- Street Power Soccer – Trailer Reveal
- Drake Hollow – Trailer Reveal
- Raji: An Ancient Epic – Trailer Reveal
- Dirt5 – Trailer Reveal
- Drone Swarm – New Gameplay Reveal
11:30am PT
- Ikenfell – New Gameplay Reveal
- WRC 9 – New Gameplay Reveal
- The Medium – New Gameplay Reveal
- Alaloth – Champions of the Four Kingdoms – New Gameplay Reveal
- ANNO: Mutationem – New Gameplay Reveal
- Project Haven – New Gameplay Reveal
12:00pm PT
- The Medium – Developer Interview
- Up at Noon with Max and Brian (featuring Troy Baker)
- Tony Hawk Pro Skater Remaster – Developer Interview
1:00pm PT
- Per Aspera – Trailer Reveal
- Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One – Trailer Reveal
- Wonhon: A Vengeful Spirit – Trailer Reveal
- In Sound Mind – New Gameplay Reveal
- Weaving Tides – New Gameplay Reveal
- Spacebase Startopia – New Gameplay Reveal
- KeyWe – New Gameplay Reveal
1:30pm PT
- Gatewalkers – New Gameplay Reveal
- Humble Games – 2021 Lineup Trailer
- The Wild at Heart – New Gameplay Reveal
- Project Wingman – Trailer Reveal
- Unannounced Game – Trailer Reveal
- Unannounced Game – Trailer Reveal
- Prodeus – New Gameplay Reveal
2:00pm PT
- Gamescom Daily Show
- Just Die Already – Trailer Reveal
Saturday, August 29
The Awesome Indies Show along with more trailers and reveals debuting exclusively on IGN fill up Day 3 of IGN Live X Gamescom. The show runs from 8am-3:30pm PT and ends with the Daily Show which looks back on everything we revealed. Check out the full Day 3 schedule below:
7:30am PT
- Gestalt: Steam & Cinder – New Gameplay Reveal
- Hello Neighbor 2 – New Gameplay Reveal
- Haven – New Gameplay Reveal
8:00am PT
- Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown – Trailer and New Gameplay Reveal
- Medieval Dynasty – Trailer Reveal
- Scourgebringer – Trailer Reveal
- Blazing Sails – Trailer Reveal
- Potion Party – Trailer Reveal
- Dark Fracture – New Gameplay Reveal
8:30am PT
- Remothered: Broken Porcelain – Trailer Reveal
- Iron Harvest – Trailer Reveal
- Minute of Islands – Trailer Reveal
- Core – Trailer Reveal
- Demon Turf – New Gameplay Reveal
- Kings Bounty II – New Gameplay Reveal
9:00am PT
- Toodee and Topdee – New Gameplay Reveal
- Blankos Block Party – New Gameplay Reveal
- Gonner2 – New Gameplay Reveal
- Proto Corgi – New Gameplay Reveal
- Cyber Hook – New Gameplay Reveal
9:30am PT
- Grindstone – Nintendo Switch Gameplay Reveal
- Chained Echoes – New Gameplay Reveal
- Indie Arena Booth – Lineup Trailer
- Minecraft Dungeons – New Gameplay Reveal
10:00am PT
- Awesome Indies Show
- Unannounced Game – Trailer Reveal
- The Last Spell – New Gameplay Reveal
- Skul: The Hero Slayer – Version 1.0 Gameplay Reveal
- Spinch – Trailer Reveal
- Gone Viral – Trailer Reveal
- Paradise Lost – Trailer Reveal
- Ariel_Knight’s Never Yield – Trailer Reveal
- Terror Squid – Trailer Reveal
10:30am PT
- Adventures of Chris – New Gameplay Reveal
- Out of Place – New Gameplay Reveal
- Blade Assault – Trailer Reveal
- Exo One – Trailer Reveal
- Space Crew – Trailer Reveal
- Tamarin – Trailer Reveal
- Unannounced Game – Gameplay Reveal
- Endling – Gameplay Reveal
11:00am PT
- Riftbreaker – Trailer and New Gameplay Reveal
- Gamedec – Trailer Reveal
- Unannounced Game – Trailer Reveal
- GRIME – Trailer Reveal
- Ghostrunner – Trailer and New Gameplay Reveal
11:30am PT
- Wonder Boy – Asha in Monster World – Trailer and Gameplay Reveal
- Necronator: Dead Wrong – Trailer Reveal
- Kosmokrats – Trailer Reveal
- Aeon Drive – Trailer Reveal
- A Juggler’s Tale – New Gameplay Reveal
- ID@Xbox – Lineup Trailer
- Skeleton Crew – Trailer Reveal
- Ostranauts – Trailer Reveal
- Away: The Survival Series – Gameplay Reveal
12:00pm PT
- Mafia: Definitive Edition – Gameplay Preview
- Ary and the Secret of Seasons – New Gameplay Reveal
- F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch – New Gameplay Reveal
12:30pm PT
- GigaBash – New Gameplay Reveal
- The Signifier – New Gameplay Reveal
- Roboquest – New Gameplay Reveal
- Wargaming – Developer Interview
- Vigor – Trailer Reveal
1:00pm PT
- Rune II – Trailer Reveal
- As Far As The Eye – Trailer Reveal
- Hundred Days – Winemaking Simulator – Trailer Reveal
- Death of Rose – New Gameplay Reveal
- DARQ – New Gameplay Reveal
- Hotshot Racing – New Gameplay Reveal
1:30pm PT
- Borderlands 3: Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck – New Gameplay Reveal
- Speed Limit – New Gameplay Reveal
- Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods – Developer Commentary
2:00pm PT
- Gamescom Daily Show
- Warriors: Rise to Glory – Trailer Reveal
- Hypercharge: Unboxed – New Gameplay Reveal
- DustoffZ – New Gameplay Reveal
Sunday, August 30
We have our last few gameplay reveals and an impressive showing of Cosplay planned for Day 4 of IGN Live X Gamescom, running from 7:30am – 1:00pm PT. Our main event: the Best of Awards Show completes the day. See the full Day 4 schedule below:
7:30am PT
- Unto the End – New Gameplay Reveal
- 8-Bit Adventures 2 – New Gameplay Reveal
- Konrad’s Kittens – New Gameplay Reveal
8:00am PT – 1:00pm PT
- The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon – New Gameplay Reveal
- Cosplay Contest at the gamescom: Best of Show
- Gamescom Best Of Awards Show
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Source: IGN.com Gamescom: Everything You Need to Know to Watch