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Gamescom held its Opening Night Live earlier this week and, barring a stage jumper, confirmed off a variety of trailers for upcoming video games. We didn’t get very many new bulletins, however what we did see affirmed one in every of my beliefs: 2023 is only a actually darned enjoyable yr for video games. It’s nearly September, and by rights I really feel that I ought to have solely a few video games to look ahead to within the remaining few months of the yr — in any case, I’m figuratively stuffed from what I’ve already eaten. But no, there’s much more on the best way. It’s like all of the delays have lastly paid off and we’re getting all of the video games directly.
Among the trailers for the video games popping out this yr at Gamescom’s ONL, we noticed (in no explicit order): Alan Wake 2 (Oct 27), Assassin’s Creed Mirage (Oct 5), Payday 3 (Sep 21), Modern Warfare 3 (Nov 10), Armored Core VI (Aug 25), Immortals of Aveum (Aug 22), Lords of the Fallen (Oct 13), Sonic Superstars (Oct 17), The Crew Motorfest (Sep 11), Starfield (Sep 1) and Mortal Kombat 1 (Sep 19). And that’s simply what was on the present. That’s not taking into consideration Super Mario Bros Wonder, Spider-Man 2 (each Oct 20), Lies of P (Sep 19), Detective Pikachu Returns (Oct 6), Super Mario RPG (Nov 17), Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (Nov 9), Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (Dec 7) and a number of different video games I don’t have house to checklist.
In non-Gamescom information, the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard acquisition nonetheless gives recent grist for the mill. Earlier this week, Microsoft introduced that it’s promoting cloud gaming rights for Activision Blizzard video games to Ubisoft. This is an try to deal with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority’s objections to their potential monopoly within the cloud gaming house. If the involvement of one other main gaming firm on this pile makes it sound much more complicated — that’s as a result of it’s. It seems that Ubisoft will provide Activision Blizzard video games to different firms, however I can’t start to image the way it’ll work in observe.
In private information, I’ve mentioned this on social media, however to ensure everybody is aware of: I’m presently engaged on GamesBeat’s overview of Starfield. I can’t say anything in regards to the sport aside from that, however simply comprehend it’s within the works. I’ve additionally been amusing myself in my downtime by recreating my TTRPG characters within the Baldur’s Gate 3 character creator — it’s definitely come a good distance since I recreated Nancy Drew as a rogue within the early entry construct. RPG lovers are actually consuming effectively this yr!
What to play this week
What’s new:
New on subscription providers:
- In Sound Mind (Prime Gaming)
- Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (GeForce Now)
- Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition (GeForce Now)
- Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition (GeForce Now)
- Crusader Kings III (GeForce Now)
- Dead Cells (GeForce Now)
- Deathloop (GeForce Now)
- Doom 2016 (GeForce Now)
- Gears 5 (GeForce Now)
- Grounded (GeForce Now)
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (GeForce Now)
- No Man’s Sky (GeForce Now)
- Pentiment (GeForce Now)
- Quake (GeForce Now)
- Shadowrun: Dragonfall – Director’s Cut (GeForce Now)
- Stellaris (GeForce Now)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (GeForce Now)
- Trackmania (GeForce Now)
- Valheim (GeForce Now)
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (GeForce Now)
- Wolfenstein: Youngblood (GeForce Now)
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (GeForce Now)
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