It's been just over two years since gamers had their first glimpse of Toxic Commando, a FPS created by the master of horror, John Carpenter. However, a new trailer for the horror shooter debuted during Opening Night Live at Gamescom, along with an early 2026 release window.

Focus Entertainment is developing Toxic Commando, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic setting where an eldritch horror called the Sludge God has come to Earth and transformed most of the human population into zombie-like creatures. The game focuses on a team of well-armed mercs who are making their way across the country to finish their mission.

Toxic Commando is meant to invoke the over-the-top humor and horror from Carpenter's '80s films, as well as buddy action movies. Players can team up in squads of up to four players, as they choose their characters, class, vehicles, and an arsenal of weapons. The game also supports cross-play across PC and consoles.

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Blizzard revealed the opening cinematic for World of Warcraft's next expansion, Midnight, as part of Gamescom Opening Night Live, setting the stakes for the second chapter in the game's multi-expansion Worldsoul Saga and proving it ain't easy being a Blood Elf.

The cinematic depicts Xal'atath, the current big bad of the Warcraft universe, commencing a full-scale invasion of the Blood Elf homeland Quel'Thalas. Blood Elf leaders Lor'themar and Liadrin face off against Xal'atath and her shadowy Void beasts, but it soon becomes apparent that they can do little to stop this threat.

Xal'atath's objective seems to be the Sunwell, a potent font of magic power that has been the target of hostile forces multiple times in Warcraft history. First, Arthas and his Scourge army corrupted the Sunwell to create the lich Kel'thuzad back in 2002's Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, an event that led to the former High Elves changing their name to Blood Elves to begin with.

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After achieving breakout success with Black Myth: Wukong in 2024, developer Game Science is returning with a sequel, Black Myth: Zhong Kui. Game Science announced the game with a teaser trailer at Gamescom Opening Night Live.

"This single-player action role-playing game draws its primary creative inspiration from the famed Chinese folk figure Zhong Kui," reads a line from the game's description.

The game is still in "early development," so there is no in-game footage available just yet--just the cinematic trailer unveiled at Gamescom, which you can check out below. The game is coming to PC and "all mainstream console platforms."

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Today during Gamescom Opening Night Live, Capcom debuted a new trailer for Resident Evil Requiem, which gave a brief look at protagonist Grace Ashcroft's origin story--as well as a look at her mother, Alyssa Ashcroft, a journalist who appeared in Resident Evil Outbreak way back in 2003.

The trailer begins with Grace and Alyssa in a hotel room, where Grace receives a phone call; the man on the phone asks for her, then immediately hangs up. Suddenly, the lights of the entire hotel go out, and things spiral from there.

Eventually, the two women find the hotel manager, who begins to apologize for the power outage and says he'll fix it immediately. Suddenly, the man is attacked by a hooded figure--who also happens to have pale white skin resembling the undead or the zealots of Resident Evil 4--with a plastic bag, sending the Ashfords running for their lives. Grace walks ahead of her mother, and when she turns to say something, she screams ... and the trailer ends.

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As part of Gamescom Opening Night Live, Wargaming announced World of Tanks: Heat, a new 10v10 hero shooter/tank combat hybrid game that looks to mix the best of Overwatch with the best of World of Tanks.

Players will be able to choose from a selection of tanks and "agents"--Heat's version of heroes from other similar shooters--and take on other players in classic multiplayer modes, with Kill Сonfirmed, Domination, and Conquest among the confirmed formats. Players will also be able to customize their tanks with "advanced weapons systems, armor modules, visual mods, and battlefield-altering abilities," according to the official announcement.

This new take on World of Tanks will be the first game in Wargaming's history to launch simultaneously across multiple platforms. As such, it will also offer cross-play and cross-progression on each platform, which will allow players to join matches on console and PC seamlessly on one account.

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The fall release of Ghost of Yotei is quickly approaching, and Gamescom Opening Night Live included a new trailer, offering another glimpse of cinematics and gameplay from the new open-world samurai game from Sucker Punch Productions. While the footage itself didn't provide any new information, the end of the trailer confirmed that a huge feature from the game's predecessor, Ghost of Tsushima, will return.

Ghost of Yotei is getting its own multiplayer Legends mode, which will take the game's mechanics and combat into a supernatural setting for co-op multiplayer missions. Legends will be free DLC for anyone who purchases the base game, which releases October 2--but Legends won't launch until sometime in 2026.

According to the PlayStation Blog, Ghost of Yotei Legends includes both two-player story missions and four-player survival matches. Like in Ghost of Tsushima Legends, players in Yotei Legends can choose between four classes. Tsushima Legends featured the classes of Samurai, Hunter, Ronin, and Assassin, though the PlayStation Blog post doesn't confirm if those same classes will return in Yotei Legends.

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World of Warcraft's Midnight expansion is coming early next year, and it's reimagining an often forgotten part of old Azeroth to look and feel brand new--the Blood Elf lands of Quel'thalas.

Blizzard threw back the veil on WoW's 11th expansion, the second in its three-expansion-long Worldsoul Saga trilogy, at Gamescom 2025. It revealed that two of the expansion's four new zones are actually old ones rebuilt from the ground up, with a reimagined Silvermoon City serving as the expansion's main hub. Blizzard also detailed other new features coming with Midnight, like a new opt-in open-world system called Prey, another playable Allied Race, a third Demon Hunter specialization, and the full arrival of player housing.

GameSpot spoke with a few different developers at Blizzard, including WoW senior game director Ion Hazzikostas, associate design director Maria Hamilton, and associate game director Paul Kubit, to learn more about Midnight, including how Blizzard approached revisiting older zones, what players can expect from Midnight's story, how the new Demon Hunter spec plays, and much more.

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Those who preorder World of Warcraft's upcoming Midnight expansion will get to start decorating their in-game homes early, but the entirety of the MMORPG's highly-anticipated housing system won't be arriving in full until Midnight launches next year.

In an interview with GameSpot prior to Midnight's full reveal as part of Gamescom Opening Night Live, WoW senior game director Ion Hazzikostas offered more details on when players can expect to get their hands on player housing, what the feature's early-access period will look like, and how things will work for those who don't preorder.

Thanks to a leak, we already knew those who preorder any version of Midnight will get early access to housing. As for when, a significant chunk of the player-housing system will be available as part of The War Within's 11.2.7 patch, the expansion's final update that will come before the pre-patch for Midnight. Hazzikostas didn't give an exact release date for the patch, but said it's expected to arrive toward the tail end of this year, with Midnight set to launch in early 2026.

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World of Warcraft's transmogrification system is finally getting a major facelift with its 2026 Midnight expansion, with one-time gold costs for outfits and the ability to automatically swap between looks based on certain situations.

As it is now, players in Blizzard's MMORPG use transmog to transform the appearance of individual items into different ones, allowing them to create and save different outfits. It costs varying amounts of gold each time an appearance is changed.

However, because the transmog is tied to the items themselves and not the item slot it goes in, getting a new piece of gear means having to frequently re-transmog gear. It's particularly noticeable at the beginning of an expansion or the start of a new season, when players are constantly getting new gear upgrades. Rather than spending the gold to transmog each item immediately, many players just wait, knowing they'll receive yet another item upgrade in a few hours or days that will require more gold to transmog. In the meantime, they are wearing an eclectic combination of different visual styles that do not go together at all, instead of the finely customized outfits whose appearances required spending hours grinding old raids and dungeons.

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Cult of the Lamb is getting a large, paid expansion in 2026, with the debut trailer revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live. Titled Woolhaven, this latest update to the Devolver-published hit looks to be adding an entirely new biome for you to cultivate more followers in.

The trailer captures what makes Cult of the Lamb so captivating, with a distinct mixture of gore and humor that translates over to its eye-catching 2D gameplay. The roguelite/management game looks to be introducing various new elements into the mix, with some new mounts, snowy environments, and gruesome bosses all showcased in the brief gameplay snippet.

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's next expansion, Legacy of the Forge, now has a release date--and it's soon. The second story DLC for the popular RPG will launch on September 9.

This was announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live in Cologne, Germany alongside a trailer showing it off. "Put your blacksmithing skills to the test as you rebuild a burnt-down forge in the heart of Kuttenberg. Design and customise the workshop, its surroundings, and your private quarters--with upgrades that do more than just look good," reads a line from the expansion's description. Here's the trailer:

Kingdom Come 2 launched in early 2025 and got free updates that added things like horse racing and a hardcore mode. The first paid expansion, Brushes with Death, launched in May. After Legacy of the Forge will come Mysteria Ecclesia later in 2025. People can buy the expansion's individually or in a $30 bundle.

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Obsidian Entertainment has revealed details about the companions that can join you in The Outer Worlds 2, making sure to clarify that there won't be any romance, just like in the first game.

Revealed during Gamescom Opening Night Live, there are six total companions in The Outer Worlds 2, each coming from a different faction and sporting a different set of skills. Niles comes from the Earth Directorate, excels in engineering, and appears to have stealth abilities like invisibility. Valerie is a robot companion also from the Earth Directorate, armed with two turrets. Aza is from The Glorious Dawn, and takes the role of the bloodthirsty assassin.

Inez comes from Auntie's Choice and serves as your field medic, in addition to using her biomedical enhancements to take out enemies. Marisol is part of the Order of the Ascendent faction, and she appears to absorb an enemy's essence in the trailer. Last is Tristan from the Protectorate, who wields a giant hammer and looks like he loves to punish rule-breakers.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will officially launch on October 21, co-publishers Paradox Interactive and White Wolf revealed during Gamescom Opening Night Live. In a new trailer, players also got a closer look at the game and how parts of the storyline will see them step into the shoes of Fabien--a mysterious Malkvian detective and the voice inside of the protagonist Phyre's mind--who'll help them unravel a murder mystery that threatens to alter Seattle's secret vampire society.

Alongside the standard release, there'll be two special editions that can be preordered. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Deluxe Edition comes bundled with Santa Monica Memories--a cosmetic pack featuring decor items inspired by the original Bloodlines game--to adorn Phyre's in-game apartment, and the Premium Edition includes that DLC and the DLC Shadows and Silk.

This add-on allows enables players to choose the Lasombra or Toreador clans for Phyre to join, and each one offers unique abilities, playstyles, and distinct outfits. This DLC will be available as standalone purchases for the standard edition of Bloodlines 2. Preorders will also include the Bloodlines Nostalgia Jukebox, a decor item for Phyre's haven that features a curated playlist of in-game music by the composer of the first Bloodlines game, Rik Schaffer.

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During Gamescom Opening Night Live, 11 Bit Studios and Digital Sun confirmed that Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault--the half-roguelike, half-shop-running-sim follow-up to the 2018 action-RPG Moonlighter--will enter early access on October 23.

A new trailer for the game debuted during ONL, which gave an updated look into both halves of Moonlighter 2's main adventure. We see the hero merchant Will setting up relics in his shop to sell to the local townspeople, followed by him setting out into a mysterious Vault in search of more relics to fill his shelves.

The early-access version of Moonlighter 2 launching in October will offer three different biomes, with each featuring unique obstacles and enemies. Over 120 relics will be available to find and sell in Will's shop--which you can customize to your liking, including display areas, prices of relics, and more.

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Today, during Gamescom Opening Night Live, Jyamma Games announced its next souls-like action-RPG adventure: La Divina Commedia, a new take on Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy. Despite how the early portion of the trailer may look, it's not to be confused with the Dante's Inferno game published by EA in 2010.

The debut trailer shows a warrior take on a skeletal beast in fast-paced combat, with multiple dodges and parries as the beast swings wildly at the swordsman. After defeating the ghoul, the warrior moves on to a massive lake, where a spectral gate looms on the horizon.

La Divina Commedia's official website confirms multiple details about the game, including craftable armor and weapons, unique weapon classes, and procedural dungeons. One notable feature is the idea of "sin alignment"--or, as the website describes, the player's choices "will bind the main character to the seven deadly sins, shaping abilities, story events, and the very world around [them]."

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A new Silent Hill F trailer debuted as a part of Gamescom Opening Night Live and features the game's English cast for the first time. While exact narrative details remain cryptic, the trailer did give a concrete look at the game's combat and showed a mysterious figure wearing a fox mask.

This young man seems to be a central in the game. The trailer opens with him declaring that protagonist Hinako "saved my life and laid claim to my soul. In turn, I shall save your soul by claiming the life of your old self." What this means is up to interpretation. But the trailer does depict Hinako confronting what appears to be another version of herself.

Otherwise, although it shows new locations and details, this new look is similar to prior trailers, with Hinako wandering an abandoned village beset by horrific creatures. New tidbits include the man in the fox mask guiding Hinako with a blue lantern and Hinako returning home to find that it has changed, too.

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Famed developer Ron Gilbert's new game, Death by Scrolling, was showcased in video form at the Gamescom 2025 Opening Night. It is a pixel-art, vertically-scrolling roguelike game with action-RPG elements and a morbid sense of humor.

Death by Scrolling takes you to Purgatory™, a seemingly bright and colorful world of retro-styled pixel-art that's constantly being consumed by an encroaching wall of flames. Because of this, the gameplay is constantly auto-scrolling upwards, forcing you to keep moving forward--hence the title.

The trailer shows five selectable heroes, each with unique perks. The gameplay showcased in the trailer has the heroes fighting against various threats while the environment scrolls upward, all the meanwhile collecting power-ups (in the form of cards) and gold. Eventually, the hero is pursued by a reaper, who seems to be haunting them with all manner of debilitating stat debuffs. The goal is to collect a certain amount of money and pay the ferryman in order to escape Purgatory™--which is likely much easier said than done.

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Hot on the heels of its success in late 2024, Indiana Jones and the Order of Giants, a story expansion for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, sees the titular archeologist return to uncover the secrets buried deep below the surface of Rome. Publisher Bethesda also revealed that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will launch on Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026.

A new gameplay trailer at Gamescom ONL showed off new puzzles and cults for Indy to contend with, along with a new serpentine friend for him to be introduced to. The Order of Giants pairs Indy with the young priest Father Ricci, who leads him to secrets hidden in Rome that pertain to Emperor Nero, the Cult of Mithras, and the promise of treasures hidden amongst a dark secret.

The gameplay looks like some of the best moments from The Great Circle, with the first-person perspective offering an intimate view of the dusty catacombs and dimly lit tombs that you'll explore, as well as a sample of some of the dangerous puzzles Indy will have to solve to uncover the truth at the center of this generational mystery.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Standard Edition

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 launches November 14 on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. Preorders are available now, and grabbing an early copy gets you bonus content for Black Ops 6 and Call of Duty: Warzone, plus early access to the upcoming Black Ops 7 open beta. And if you want even more content, there's a digital-only Vault Edition packed with exclusive DLC and early unlocks. You can secure a physical copy at multiple online retailers including Amazon, Best Buy, and GameStop. The game will also be available day one on Game Pass.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Preorder BonusesCall of Duty: Black Ops 7 preorders include early access to the open beta.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 preorders are now live, and there are some bonuses you can score, including operator skins. This includes Reznov, a classic character from the Black Ops series' past, who can be unlocked as a playable operator in Black Ops 6 and Warzone. You can also complete newly released in-game challenges to unlock additional skin options, and we explain how to most easily earn those below.

How to Unlock Reznov in Black Ops 6 and WarzoneReznov operator skins

Call of Duty's Viktor Reznov is a preorder bonus operator similar to how Frank Woods was the operator bonus for Black Ops 6 last year. This means preordering any digital edition of Black Ops 7 or subscribing to select Game Pass plans will grant you access to a host of preorder content, including Reznov.

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