Gamescom Opening Night Live live coverage - All the news as it happens

I'm back into guessing territory here, but I can also see Ubisoft making a minor showing today. With both Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed Shadows really very close at this point, this is another chance for Ubisoft to get a whole heap of eyeballs on two of what promise to be some of the biggest games of the rest of the year. Outlaws is now only days away, and Shadows is stepping up the marketing, so ONL seems a natural beat.

Oh, and in case you missed the recent Shadows trailer, you really should check out heavy-set protagonist Yasuke's freshly-dubbed 'Yeet of Faith'.

Getting closer to reality, I'd be surprised if we didn't get something chunky from Marvel Rivals. This will be the Marvel-backed hero shooter's first major outing since its pretty successful beta, and given how busy the genre threatens to be right now, I'd be hoping to make a pretty big splash if I was the team behind the leading contender. A release date or a new hero do seem like the most obvious picks - a 2024 or early 2025 launch seem within reach, and the devs have been steadily rolling out some new faces over recent weeks.

Realistically, that's not much to go on. That image is so vague that it could simply mean that Kojima is practicing his photography. But it could also be a read that he's playing something. Given that he's also been back on his Death Stranding 2 teasers this week, could this be a tease of a new build, or perhaps a new trailer? That's a reach, but it's unlike Kojima simply offer up a contextless photo with nothing deeper behind it.

I'm expecting plenty of surprises, of course - Opening Night Live runs for two hours, and even with lengthy reveals from Call of Duty and Civilization, there'll be plenty of space for other announcements. As for what those might be, I couldn't say for sure, but I can make some educated guesses (read: rampant speculation).

Geoff Keighley and Hideo Kojima's long friendship is well-documented, and the latter has shown up at the former's showcases