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It’s Day 2 of Gamescom; you don’t want to miss today’s lineup. The event will be streamed live on IGN, and the live stream will start at 16:00 South African Standard Time (SAST).
If the Opening Night event has set the bar for the rest of the event, then we have an exciting time ahead, from game trailers and gameplay reveals to shocking new announcements, if the rumour mill is to be believed.
What is Gamescom
Gamescom is the world’s largest gaming event in terms of exhibition space and number of visitors. More than 373 000 visitors from over 100 countries visited the Cologne-based games event in 2019.
Of those, 31 300 were trade visitors and 1 153 were companies, which was an increase of 10% from 2018, when 370 000 people and 1 037 exhibitors from 56 countries attended the event.
We’ve had a decade of Gamescom, first held in August 2009; 245 000 people attended the event and notable press conferences included EA, Sony, Namco and Konami. The latter was Hideo Kojima’s previous affiliation.
Gamescom 2020: Time and Place
GamesCom will begin from 16:30 South African Standard Time (SAST) on Friday 28 August 2020. We will include a live stream of the event below so you can watch it from here.
The lineup also includes 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.
Watch Gamescom Daily Show: Day 2 trailer
Gamescom schedule: Friday, 28 August 2020
Starting at 16:30:
- Goldilock One – Trailer Reveal
- Dark Pictures Little Hope – Gameplay Reveal ad Developer Interview
Starting at 17:00:
- Game Scoop! LIVE with Troy Baker
Starting at 18:00:
- 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
Starting at 18:30:
- Age of Empires III – Developer Interview
- Little Nightmares II – Gameplay Preview
- Stronghold: Warlords – New Gameplay Reveal
- Morbid: The Seven Acolytes – New Gameplay Reveal
Starting at 19:00:
- Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions – Launch Trailer and New Gameplay
- Transient – Trailer Reveal
- HAAK – Trailer Reveal
- Zelter – Trailer Reveal
- Overloop – Trailer Reveal
Starting at 19:30:
- 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
Starting at 20:00:
- Street Power Soccer – Trailer Reveal
- Drake Hollow – Trailer Reveal
- Raji: An Ancient Epic – Trailer Reveal
- Dirt5 – Trailer Reveal
- Drone Swarm – New Gameplay Reveal
Starting at 20:30:
- 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
Starting at 21:00:
- The Medium – Developer Interview
- Up at Noon with Max and Brian (featuring Troy Baker)
- Tony Hawk Pro Skater Remaster – Developer Interview
Starting at 22:00:
- 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
Starting at 22:30:
- 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
Starting at 23:00:
- Gamescom Daily Show
- Just Die Already – Trailer Reveal