Mike Shinoda to Write the Theme Song for Gamescom: Opening Night Live 2020

Gamescom will be exclusively digital this year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still get a fun show out of it. For the Opening Night Live event this year, it’s just been announced that Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and Fort Minor fame will be writing the theme song, and you can watch his writing process on Twitch tomorrow.

Announced via the Summer Games Fest Twitter account, Shinoda will be streaming on Twitch at 10 a.m. Pacific Time and write the song with the help of chat and viewers.

You can check out his Twitch channel here. Mike Shinoda is a hip hop musician and producer, and also an artist and graphic designer outside of the music industry.

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Zhiqing Wan

Zhiqing is the Reviews Editor for Twinfinite, and a History graduate from Singapore. She's been in the games media industry for nine years, trawling through showfloors, conferences, and spending a ridiculous amount of time making in-depth spreadsheets for min-max-y RPGs. When she's not singing the praises of Amazon's Kindle as the greatest technological invention of the past two decades, you can probably find her in a FromSoft rabbit hole.

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