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Every game announcement from Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021Release dates for Halo Infinite, Horizon Forbidden West, and the Saints Row reboot
Release dates for Halo Infinite, Horizon Forbidden West, and the Saints Row reboot
Some of the announcements were already teased ahead of time, of course, but we did get some surprises in our Gamescom stockings. There were a decent amount of confirmed release dates on the table, and some open betas, which are always a welcome treat. Here’s what you missed:
Saints Row - Reveal and release date
As Volition not at all subtlyteased earlierin the week, they came out and introduced the nextSaints Rowgame. The series reboot will feature new characters in a new city called Santo Ileso and yeah, it’s just called Saints Row. Yup, you still have a custom character too. The reboot is backing off the superpowers but seems like it’ll stay wacky in other ways. It’ll launch on February 25, 2022. You can read a lot more about it in Alice B’sSaints Row preview.
Saints Row | Announce TrailerWatch on YouTube
Saints Row | Announce Trailer
Marvel’s Midnight Suns - Announcement trailer
Firaxis making a Marvel game? They sure are, because Midnight Suns is a tactical RPG with heroes like Ghost Rider, Blade, and Magik. You’ll play as your own hero, a new one calledThe Hunterthat Firaxis designed with Marvel.Marvel’s Midnight Sunslaunches in March 2022, with an additional gameplay reveal planned for September 1.
Marvel’s Midnight Suns - ‘The Awakening’ | Official Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube
Marvel’s Midnight Suns - ‘The Awakening’ | Official Announcement Trailer
Call Of Duty: Vanguard - Campaign gameplay
Stalingrad Demo Play-through | Call of Duty: VanguardWatch on YouTube
Stalingrad Demo Play-through | Call of Duty: Vanguard
Halo Infinite - Release date
As we know,Halo Infiniteis picking up the seasonal structure for its free-to-play multiplayer. 343 showed off a story trailer for the first season of multiplayer, introducing commander Agryna. 343 also officially announced Halo Infinite’s release date for December 8th. Looks like Microsoft are also making a special Halo annniversary Xbox X/S controller (and a limited edition Infinite Xbox) if that’s the kind of thing you’re into.
Halo Infinite | Multiplayer Season 1 Cinematic IntroWatch on YouTube
Halo Infinite | Multiplayer Season 1 Cinematic Intro
Cult Of The Lamb - Announcement trailer
Cult of the Lamb | Sacrifice Yourself in 2022Watch on YouTube
Cult of the Lamb | Sacrifice Yourself in 2022
Midnight Fight Express - New Trailer
Midnight Fight Express World Premiere Trailer | Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021Watch on YouTube
Midnight Fight Express World Premiere Trailer | Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021
TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge - Character reveal
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat ‘em up Shreder’s Revenge dropped in to Gamescom to reveal April O’Neil as a playable character. Catch her in action down here in the new trailer.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge World Premiere Trailer | Gamescom Opening Night LivWatch on YouTube
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge World Premiere Trailer | Gamescom Opening Night Liv
Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania - Morgana
Sega rolled into Gamescom to show off another character coming to Super Monkey Ball Mania. Morgana from the Persona series is dropping in as a post-launch DLC on November 2nd.
Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania | Morgana Joins the GangWatch on YouTube
Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania | Morgana Joins the Gang
Splitgate - Season 0
The suddenly popular portaling FPS wound up deciding tostay in open betaafter struggling to handle the number of players all jumping into its servers last month. That hasn’t stopped the developers from carrying on while they work to scale up their infrastructure. They showed off a trailer for Season 0 of Splitgate. Season 0 kicks off today with a new map, new Infection game mode, and more. They get into the details in theirpatch notes.
Splitgate World Premiere Trailer | Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021Watch on YouTube
Splitgate World Premiere Trailer | Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021
Riders Republic - Open beta right now
Riders Republic recently got its release date bumped back just a bit to October 28th. You can still get your hands on the throttle next month though. After a closed beta period, Ubisoft have opened Riders Republic up to an open beta from now until August 28th. Even if you don’t have time to catch it yourself, you can check out Colm’sRiders Republic preivewfrom the beta.
Riders Republic World Premiere Trailer | Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021Watch on YouTube
Riders Republic World Premiere Trailer | Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021
Century: Age Of Ashes - Release date
Free-to-play dragon flying PvP game Century: Age Of Ashes was expected sometime this year. It’s now landed a November 18, 2021 release date and another look at some of that high-flying combat.
Century: Age of Ashes | Gamescom TrailerWatch on YouTube
Century: Age of Ashes | Gamescom Trailer
UFL - Announcement trailer
Move over, footie games. Another contender is hitting the pitch. Strikers Inc don’t have a ton to say about it yet, aside from it being a free to play and also “fair to play” online football simulation “where only your skills matter”. UFL’s current announcement says it’s coming to “all major gaming consoles” which, doesn’t include PC, perhaps. Well, keep an eye on that one, I suppose.
UFL World Premiere Trailer | Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021Watch on YouTube
UFL World Premiere Trailer | Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga - New trailer
The Skywalker Saga Lego game gets itself a comedic new story trailer. It appears to have gotten a delay as well. Originally marked for 2021, the end of the new trailer says it’ll be launching in spring 2022. Ah well, a sky wizard’s never late, right?
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Synced: Off-Planet - Story trailer
The story trailer for Synced: Off-Planet lets on that this is a post-apocalyptic future where robots have turned on humans. Not regular robots though, the nanobots, which seems even worse. The developers call it a PvPvE game where you’ll “fight together against enemy teams and synchronize with Nano companion classes to deploy in combat”.
SYNCED: Off-Planet World Premiere Trailer | Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021Watch on YouTube
SYNCED: Off-Planet World Premiere Trailer | Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021
Outlast Trials - Gameplay trailer
The Outlast Trials Gameplay Reveal | Gamescom 2021Watch on YouTube
The Outlast Trials Gameplay Reveal | Gamescom 2021
Dokev - New trailer
The folks behind Black Desert showed up with a rather lengthy look at a very different online game. It takes place in a world where humans and creatures called Dokebi live alongside each other. It appears to be a creature collecting and action battler at its core but also has skating and gliding and mini cars and boats to get around with. Oh, and that song is pretty catchy.
Watch on YouTube
Jurassic World Evolution 2 - Release date
Jurassic World Evolution 2 has snapped up a release date for itself on November 9, 2021. Today’s new trailer has a bit of park building and a lot of close-ups on your dino pals.
Jurassic World Evolution 2 | Pre-Order TrailerWatch on YouTube
Jurassic World Evolution 2 | Pre-Order Trailer
Far Cry 6 - New story trailer
We’ve already got a release date in sight for Far Cry 6 on October 7th, but Ubisoft have turned up with another story trailer because they sure do like showing off Giancarlo Esposito. Not that I mind. They gave us another look at antagonist Anton Castillo and a bit more on his backstory.
Official Story Trailer - Far Cry 6Watch on YouTube
Official Story Trailer - Far Cry 6
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt - early access
World Of Darkness battle royale ‘em up Bloodhunt is landing quite soon. Sharkmod have shown up with a new trailer to announce that it’ll be heading to early access on September 7th. You can catch more about what the unlikely mashup actually feels like in Alice Bee’sBloodhunt preview.
The Clans of Bloodhunt – Toreador Trailer | gamescom 2021Watch on YouTube
The Clans of Bloodhunt – Toreador Trailer | gamescom 2021
Park Beyond - Announcement trailer
This park simulation is from the folks behind the Tropico games. The announcement trailer is mostly a bit of story stuff, but you can spot some of its rather fantastical theme park rides partway through. This one is coming sometime in 2022.
Park Beyond - Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube
Park Beyond - Announcement Trailer
Jett: The Far Shore - Release date
JETT: The Far Shore - Release Date Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube
JETT: The Far Shore - Release Date Announcement Trailer
Horizon Forbidden West - Release date
Horizon Forbidden West announced its release date for February 18, 2022. That’s the PS4 and PS5 launch date, mind. Since the original Horizon eventually came to PC, it seems likely that the sequel will too. Almost certainly not on the same date though.
Horizon: Forbidden West - Release Date Announcement Trailer | gamescom 2021Watch on YouTube
Horizon: Forbidden West - Release Date Announcement Trailer | gamescom 2021
New World - Open beta dates
New World is expected to launch at last, for real this time, in September. It’s been running closed betas up until now but announced an open beta with today’s story trailer. You’ll be able to get into the open beta from September 9-12 before its full launch on September 28.
New World: Chart Your Fate TrailerWatch on YouTube
New World: Chart Your Fate Trailer
Jumanji: The Curse Returns - Trailer
JUMANJI: The Curse Returns - Coming Soon on Steam and Nintendo SwitchWatch on YouTube
JUMANJI: The Curse Returns - Coming Soon on Steam and Nintendo Switch
Ob3rhasl1 - Announcement trailer
Somehow, Deadmau5: the game - the concert venue is going to be a real thing. Electronic music artist Deadmou5 is pretty well known for also being a gamer. He’s announced Ob3rhasl1, a “persistent fan hub and concert space” that’s made inside of custom game sharing platform Core.
deadmau5 Gamescom Oberhasli announcementWatch on YouTube
deadmau5 Gamescom Oberhasli announcement
Fall Guys - Jungle Book crossover
Fall Guys is teaming up with Disney now, bringing Jungle Book skins to their jungle-themed season 5.
The Jungle Book swings into Fall Guys!Watch on YouTube
The Jungle Book swings into Fall Guys!
Replaced - New trailer
Action platformer Replaced got a pretty short new teaser trailer, but it did also release the rather thumping track from its trailer called “Void”, which you can listen to in full overon its website.
Replaced - gamescom 2021 Trailer [HD 1080P]Watch on YouTube
Replaced - gamescom 2021 Trailer [HD 1080P]
Age Of Empires IV - New trailer
Age Of Empires IV showed up for the second day in a row. Less trebuchet talk today, fortunately. This time we get a look at all the in game action of different unit types and some reinforced buildings.
Age of Empires IV - Official Gamescom Gameplay TrailerWatch on YouTube
Age of Empires IV - Official Gamescom Gameplay Trailer
Valheim - Hearth & Home release date
Valheim’s upcoming Hearth & Home update is officially arriving on September 16th. They announced the date with this animated trialer. Nothing in game to look at today, but we know so far that Hearth & Home willadd new treasuresandoverhaul the food systemand more.
Valheim: Hearth & Home Gamescom 2021 Cinematic TrailerWatch on YouTube
Valheim: Hearth & Home Gamescom 2021 Cinematic Trailer
Genshin Impact - Aloy trailer
As we knew, Aloy is joining the Genshin Impact cast. Mihoyo brought another look at Aloy’s moveset in a new trailer. You can catch a breakdown on those moves from Genshin’supdate 2.1 special program.
Genshin Impact - Aloy Teaser | PS5 | PS4Watch on YouTube
Genshin Impact - Aloy Teaser | PS5 | PS4
Sifu - Release date
Action brawler Sifu looks stylish as all getout and we now know when we’ll be going hand to hand, er hands on, with it. That’ll be on February 22, 2022.
Sifu | Sloclap | Release Date Trailer | PS4, PS5 & PCWatch on YouTube
Sifu | Sloclap | Release Date Trailer | PS4, PS5 & PC
Death Stranding: Director’s Cut - Preview video
Death Stranding gave a breakdown on some of the new bits coming in the Director’s Cut on September 24th. Delivery man Sam will have a new cargo catapult, boot stabilizers for when you fall long distances, and motorcycle jump ramps. Sam can also get a piggyback ride from his Buddy Bot. Oh, and you can also do time attack races on a new race track. Why not?
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