Opening Night Live 2023: every announcement

Check out everything announced at gamescom 2023’s ONL
Opening Night Live 2023: every announcement
Opening Night Live 2023: every announcement /

Opening Night Live at gamescom 2023 is done and if you couldn’t watch it live, then you missed a whole lot of video game information – as well as a stage invasion by a notorious heckler. Fear not, though, we’ve got everything announced and shown during ONL 2023 right here in one list.

The highlights include a new trailer for Alan Wake 2, which shows off the surreal nature of the dark place Alan Wake finds himself in – Remedy used a blend of game visuals and real film to make it look extra weird.

Director Zack Snyder dropped by to promote his upcoming series Rebel Moon, which is going to get a Netflix-exclusive tie-in game made by Super Evil Megacorp teased earlier this year.

Fans of RTS games ate well during the show, too, with Homeworld 3 revealing a new story trailer and the Infernal Host faction of Stormgate being shown off. Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin rounds off the RTS trio at Opening Night Live, unveiling its Nighthaunt faction as well as the new Conquest Mode. Wait, I lied: Age of Empires 4 is now available on Xbox Series X|S! There we go, not bad for a dead genre, huh?

Warhammer Age of Sigmar Realms of Ruin Nighthaunt creatures on a snowy field.
The Nighthaunt have been revealed as Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin's third faction / Frontier

Speaking of surprise releases, collectible card game Marvel Snap is now out on PC via Steam, which was also announced at the show.

We got release dates for several titles as well with January and February 2024 already looking busy thanks to the likes of Tekken 8, Nightingale, and Granblue Fantasy: Relink.

HoYoverse showed off all of its three big-budget titles headed by the upcoming Zenless Zone Zero. We didn’t get a launch date for it, but finally saw some fresh footage.

Here are all games that were included in Opening Night Live 2023 in order of their appearance:

  • Streets of Rogue 2 – 2024
  • Mandragora – 2024
  • Lysfanga – Early 2024
  • Endzone 2 – Spring 2024
  • Bulletstorm VR – TBA
  • Faefarm – September 8, 2023
  • The 7th Guest VR – October 19, 2023
  • Post Trauma – Spring 2024
  • Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin – November 17, 2023
  • Delta Force – TBA
  • Homeworld 3 – February 2024
  • Little Nightmares 3 – 2024
  • Black Myth Wukong – TBA
  • Killing Floor 3 – TBA
  • Age of Empires 4 – out now on Xbox
  • Rebel Moon – TBA (Show launches on December 22, 2023)
  • Crimson Desert – TBA
  • Payday 3 – September 21, 2023
  • Assassin’s Creed: Mirage – October 5, 2023
  • Tekken 8 – January 26, 2024
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – November 10, 2023
  • Nightingale – February 22, 2024
  • Granblue Fantasy: Relink – February 1, 2024
  • Immortals of Aveum – out now
  • Zenless Zone Zero – TBA
  • Honkai: Star Rail – out now
  • Genshin Impact – out now
  • Lords of the Fallen – October 13, 2023
  • Sonic Superstars – October 17, 2023
  • Sonic Frontiers: The Final Horizon Update – September 28, 2023
  • The First Descendent – TBA (Beta from September 19 to 25, 2023)
  • Under the Waves – August 29, 2023
  • Fort Solis – out now
  • Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game – 2024
  • The Crew: Motorfest – September 14, 2023
  • Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty – September 26, 2023
  • Stormgate – TBA
  • Last Epoch: new Runemaster class – September 7, 2023
  • Marvel Snap – out now on PC
  • Armored Core 6 – August 25, 2023
  • Warhaven – September 21, 2023
  • Mortal Kombat 1 – September 19, 2023
  • Ara: History Untold – 2024
  • Diablo 4: Season of Blood – October 17, 2023
  • Dustborn – TBA
  • Thank Goodness You’re Here – 2024
  • Alan Wake 2 – October 27, 2023

Finally, Geoff Keighley announced that The Game Awards 2023 will take place on December 7, 2023.


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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg