🍪 Special: Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025
🍺 Geoff Keighley (or “Jeff Healey” as some lovingly slip) kicked off gamescom with more than 5,000 fans in Cologne and 300,000 expected across the week. His opener set the tone: E3 didn’t die — it just moved to Germany. Classic Jeff.
🎉 Shock Moments & Mic Drops
- Silksong Finally Real 🎻 Six years. One endless meme. Last night, Team Cherry confirmed Hollow Knight: Silksong is launching this year. And not just a trailer — a playable demo at Gamescom booths. Kiki’s Take 🦊🍪: “Yes, dreams do come true. Now somebody pinch me before they announce a delay.”
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 💣 Set in 2035, co-op campaign for up to four players, a city called Avalon as narrative hub, and Menendez is back. Kiki’s Take 🦊🍪: “It looked like Halo, sounded like a Netflix political thriller, and somehow promised Zombies too. Gamer buffet or fever dream?”
- Lords of the Fallen II ⚔️ Dark, bloodier, faster, more bosses. Trailer grabbed the hall. Chip’s Take 🍪: “I’m small, squishy, and even I want to parry something in that game.”
- Fallout Season 2 (Prime Video) ☢️ Heading to New Vegas, with Robert House confirmed. Deathclaws on the big screen. Premieres December 17. Kiki’s Take 🦊🍪: “Video game TV adaptations are suddenly good? Wild timeline.”
🕹 New & Notables
- Dawn of War IV 🚀 RTS veterans, rejoice: 4 playable factions, 70+ missions, and the Blood Ravens shouting oaths in 4K.
- Monster Hunter Wilds x Final Fantasy XIV 🐉 Crossovers are the new currency. Rathalos déjà vu, chocobos inbound.
- LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight 🦇 Gotham, gadgets, and open-world LEGO chaos.
- Onimusha: Day of the Sword ⚔️ Capcom swinging again. It’s swords, demons, lightning — you know the drill.
- Silent Hill F 🌸 Creepy, floral, and ready to ruin your childhood friends forever.
- World of Warcraft: Midnight ☀️ Blood Elves, the Sunwell, Paladins looking cooler than ever.
🎶 Heartbeats & Surprises
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took the stage with a live acoustic performance. Kiki’s Take 🦊🍪: “It’s unfair that this game not only melts your thumbs but also melts your heart.”
- Black Myth: Wukong Follow-Up 🐒 Game Science announced a second title starring another Chinese mythic hero: Zhong Kui, while Wukong still simmers hot. Chip’s Take 🍪: “Bro, they’re speedrunning mythological ARPG supremacy.”
📊 Final Cookie Verdict
- Big W for Silksong and Wukong’s sibling surprise.
- Jeff Keighley once again delivered a Jeff W with pacing and “one more thing” moments.
- Score: 8/10 cookies 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪
