Gamescom Opening Night Live: The Witcher 3 Remaster, Guitar Hero Successor Stage Tour Unveiled
Gamescom's Opening Night Live aired on the evening of August 25, local time, packing in a run of game reveals and updates. The headline news was a major free remaster of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, rolling out September 29. On the music side, the show also brought a Guitar Hero-style successor called Stage Tour, built around a soundtrack of more than 90 songs, and Legends Retold, a Rayman 30th-anniversary title with four music-based levels. Here's what was announced, compiled from NME's coverage of the show.
The music-related reveals
Stage Tour is pitched as a spiritual successor to Guitar Hero, due later this year with a soundtrack of over 90 tracks.
Legends Retold, part of Rayman's 30th-anniversary lineup, launches in October with four music levels — one inspired by 'Macarena' and another drawing on MC Hammer's 'U Can't Touch This'.
The Witcher 3 remaster and Songs Of The Past
The free upgrade launches September 29, bringing improvements to visuals, performance and gameplay. Ahead of the expansion's release, players can get the Hearts Of Stone and Blood And Wine DLCs for free; the expansion itself, Songs Of The Past, is expected next year.
The showcase also brought a new expansion trailer, giving the first full look at the new region Letten. The official press release describes Letten as pastoral, rich in tradition and folklore, with residents living amid harvests and grand festivals — but with dark secrets lurking beneath the surface that Geralt must confront, alongside enemies unlike any he's faced before.
Full list of reveals
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: free remaster upgrade launches September 29; Hearts Of Stone and Blood And Wine free for existing owners; expansion Songs Of The Past launches next year with new region Letten unveiled in trailer
- Mewgenics: one of 2026's best-reviewed titles, arrives on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch 2 on September 8
- Crimson Desert: an 'enhanced' free update launches August 26, adding new cutscenes and story sequences to the main campaign, plus German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese voiceovers
- Gears Of War: E-Day: new trailer reveals the campaign, depicting the Locust's first appearance on Sera as an origin story for Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago, out October 6
- Tides of Annihilation: a fantasy action game set in a dystopian London, starring Angela Sant'Albano, who plays Grace Ashcroft in Resident Evil: Requiem
- Silent Hill: Townfall: new trailer released, launching September 24, 2026
- Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy: new trailer released, out August 27
- Control Resonant: new trailer released, launching September 24
- Sea Of Remnants: new trailer released, arriving early 2027
- Nodus Fall: the first reveal of a mature fantasy RPG from Genshin Impact developer HoYoverse, styled after Elden Ring, with two-player co-op; release date not yet announced
- Legends Retold: Rayman's 30th-anniversary title, launching in October with four music levels
- Lego Skylines: a city-builder from the Cities: Skylines team, described officially as offering 'no manual, unlimited space'; release date not yet announced
- Stage Tour: a Guitar Hero spiritual successor, due later this year with a soundtrack of more than 90 songs