Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country round out Gamescom Opening Night Live announcements

Gamescom kicked off last night with its annual Opening Night Live showcase, featuring a series of game announcements, release dates, and gameplay reveals for a number of upcoming titles.

Xbox and Take-Two dominated Geoff Keighley’s presentation, which was streamed live from Koelnmesse in Cologne. If you missed the full two-hour showcase, here are the key highlights:

Borderlands 4 has been announced multiple times over the past few months, but now it’s been officially announced with a teaser trailer that shows Take-Two and Gearbox are targeting a 2025 release.
Take-Two also closed the show with a teaser for Mafia: The Old Country, the next installment in Hangar 13 and an origin story for the popular crime series.
After announcing the title during Summer Game Fest, Take-Two and Firaxis announced that Civilization 7 will be released on February 11, 2025 for PC, Mac, Linux, and consoles.
Xbox’s big announcement was the long-awaited release date for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which is set for December 9. Microsoft also announced that the game will be coming to PlayStation 5 in spring 2025.
The upcoming expansion for Starfield, Shattered Space, releases on September 30th.
Masters of Albion is the new title from veteran designer Peter Molyneux, a fantasy god game inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Fable and Black & White. You can find out more in our full interview with Molyneux.
Techland has revealed the next installment in its popular zombie series with Dying Light: The Beast. The game originally began development as DLC for Dying Light 2, which launched in 2022.
Amazon Games showed off the title it signed with UK developer Glowmade: King of Meat, a co-op dungeon crawler with user-generated levels. We’ll have an interview with Amazon later today and with Glowmade later in the week.
As rumored earlier this week, Amazon is also working on an animated anthology series called Secret Level. The series will feature 15 stories based on God of War, Sifu, Mega Man, Warhammer 40K, Pac-Man, Honor of Kings, The Outer Worlds 2, and more.
Ustwo Games has given us our first glimpse of Monument Valley 3. The next installment in the acclaimed mobile series is exclusive to Netflix subscribers and will be released on December 10. Monument Valley 1 and 2 will be added to Netflix’s library on September 19 and October 29, respectively.
Netflix also announced Squid Game: Unleashed, a new title based on the hit South Korean TV series.
The next project from Little Nightmares developer Tarsier Studios is Reanimal, a new horror adventure. No release date has been given.
Coffee Stain is remastering its 2014 hit Goat Simulator, which is returning later this year. The remaster includes all DLC, including content that was previously exclusive to mobile.
Bandai Namco’s Unknown 9: Awakening — the game at the heart of the new transmedia franchise — is coming to PC, PlayStation and Xbox on October 18.
After the delay of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage to avoid a clash with Life Is Strange (the former IP of developer Don’t Nod), the studio has announced that the game will be released in two parts next year, on February 18 and March 18.
Four years after launching on mobile, PC, and PlayStation, Hoyoverse’s free-to-play hit Genshin Impact is coming to Xbox on November 20.
NetEase’s team-based hero shooter Marvel Rivals is coming out on December 6.