Time for another world premiere.
On Thursday morning, Geoff Keighley — photogenic host of everything games related and apparent Elon Musk stan — announced via Twitter that Gamescom 2019’s new Opening Night Live show will feature the full reveal of Disintegration, a new sci-fi IP spearheaded by Halo co-creator, Marcus Lehto.
The teaser Keighley included with his tweet was long on loving pans of spaceship parts and short on details. What we can tell you is that Disintegration is being developed by Lehto’s V1 Interactive and published by Private Division. Disintegration’s proper reveal is coming soon: Keighley will be producing and hosting Opening Night Live on August 19.
Given the flair for showmanship that Keighley has brought to The Game Awards and E3 Coliseum for years, we can safely assume that Opening Night Live will be studded with new announcements and special guests. Gamescom is the largest consumer games event with nearly 400,000 attendees expected during this year’s four-day-long show.
Many longtime E3 attendees noted that this year’s show felt emptier than in years’ past thanks to the absence of Sony, EA and Activision from the show floor, and some (like Giant Bomb’s Jeff Gerstmann) speculated that 2019’s expo might be the last. With the advent of the Nintendo Direct, PSX, State of Play and other platform- and publisher-specific streams throughout the year, the One Big Event isn’t as necessary as it once was.
If the doomsayers are correct, the future will likely bring more events like Opening Night Live that keep the announcement-fueled hype train running all year long.
