Opening Night Live 2026: All the Announcements, Trailers and News Direct From gamescom - IGN

The Witcher, Final Fantasy, and plenty more.

Opening Night Live 2026 is over for another year, and it brought plenty of announcements, new trailers, and news on upcoming games. We've got all the reveals that matter right here, rounded up below.

Highlights include The Witcher 3 Remastered, The Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past, the new trailer for Final Fantasy VII Revelation, and the surprise drop of Crimson Desert Enhanced.

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ONL is over for another year! The Witcher 3 remaster is the definite standout moment, but I'm also looking forward to No Law and Crazy Tazi. What was your favorite reveal?

The Witcher 3 - Songs of the Past

And finally, we got a look at The Witcher 3 expansion, Songs of the Past, which is due out in 2027. Geralt is back! CD Projekt also announced that the previous two expansions are now free. Like, right now! Much more on The Witcher 3 - Songs of the Past right here.

Wow! This is perhaps the biggest reveal of ONL: a remaster of CD Projekt's The Witcher 3! It's a free upgrade for all The Witcher 3 owners, and is out September 29, 2026. Much more on The Witcher 3 Remastered here.

Final Fantasy VII Revelation

And here's a big one! At ONL we got a new look at Final Fantasy VII Revelation, the final entry in the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy. Director Naoki Hamaguchi took to the stage to confirm a spring 2027 release window and intro a new trailer, below.

In the trailer, enormous guardians called Weapons emerge to defend a world in crisis. Making no distinction between friend and foe, the Weapons wreak catastrophic destruction upon the planet and its people. Upon desert sands, in mid-air dogfights and at the bottom of the sea, Cloud and his fellow heroes must stand against the colossal Weapons even as they toil to save the world from Sephiroth. A late-game element of the original Final Fantasy VII, the Weapons return in reimagined glory as standout battles in Final Fantasy VII Revelation, some of which appear in ultra-challenging endgame battles as an homage to their original forms.

The new trailer also showcases the powerful new Summon Typhon and open-world exploration via parachute, grappling hook and Chocobo mounts, plus Cloud and Tifa in their Warrior and Black Mage FITS. New to Final Fantasy VII Revelation, the FITS system introduces unique outfits that bestow new abilities and greater heights of power, with specialized roles evoking classic Final Fantasy jobs.

Much more on Final Fantasy VII Revelation right here.

Tarae: The Unbound made its first public appearance at ONL, introducing its world and gameplay. The game is set in an Eastern dark fantasy world, with Eastern-inspired cinematic visuals and narration from Agasa introducing the game’s world and story before transitioning into a hero confronting a great calamity. The trailer then moves into gameplay, featuring powerful abilities and high-pressure boss encounters.

The Defiant is a story-driven shooter set in the rarely explored Asian theatre of World War II, built in Unreal Engine 5 and featuring cinematic visuals alongside replayable tactical combat. It's described as the first major war game centred on China's War of Resistance against Japan. Expect a launch on PC, Xbox Series X and S, and PlayStation 5.

Developer and publisher Morefun Studios announced that Roco Kingdom — the multiplayer open-world creature-collector and newest entry in the massively popular Chinese franchise — will now launch globally. Roco Kingdom is coming to Windows PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and mobile devices (iOS and Android) globally, with a release date to be announced at a later date.

There Are No Ghosts at the Grand

Friday Sundae's musical mystery sees players inherit a crumbling English hotel and restore it by day, while battling ghosts by night alongside a sardonic cat and a talking power tool. Expect a release later this year.

More animal games! And more rats, I think. Action rabbit here we go! Zoopunk is the Metroidvania action game by TiGames, a Tencent Games-backed studio.

Pony Island 2 Panda Circus

I'm not sure what this trailer is, but it's certainly... something! Pony Island 2 Panda Circus is out April 27, 2027.