Gamescom 2023 is the new edition of the trade show that is taking place this week in Cologne, Germany. An event to watch considering that it has happened in recent years the most important of the annual calendar in terms of digital entertainment.

Of course, video games will be the big star of the fair. They continue to move huge amounts of dollars (exceeding the combined income of movies and music) and, in addition to software, are extremely relevant to the sale of personal computers, components, peripherals and accessories that are promoted under the brand Playing.

We have already seen some progress in the conferences before the start of Gamescom, especially from NVIDIA with the presentation of DLSS 3.5, the development of Half-Life 2 RTX or the agreement with Microsoft to put its titles on the game service on NVIDIA. cloud, GeForce Now. We also saw some new monitors or technologies like HDR10+ Gaming. We will have more hardware news (AMD graphics cards, notebooks from various manufacturers, motherboards and more) collected in this tag.

Gamescom 2023, the best games

Although the major game distributors (not all) will be holding private conferences this week, the trade show’s kick-off usually comes with Launch of Light Live this always leaves us with a plethora of announcements, release dates for familiar and new games, and promotional videos for all of them.

We’ll leave you with a wide selection of what we liked best as a preview of what we’ll see this week:

Star field. There’s little I can tell you (that we haven’t already) about Bethesda’s sci-fi RPG, another great triple A to hit the market after the excellent Baldurs Gate 3 that shows the ways. Available very soon on September 6th for PC and Xbox. It looks very good, but we will see how it will be optimized and if it will live up to the promises of a “great” game.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare III. A new part of the saga of first-person shooters, one of the most successful in history and the most played in multiplayer. We recently updated the latest information about the game and for Gamescom we see the campaign gameplay. It will be released on November 10 for PC (Steam and Battle.net), PS4 and PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

Diablo IV – Season of Blood. Season 1 of ‘Evil’ is still ongoing, Blizzard has announced another, ‘Season of Blood’, which will begin on October 17th, close to Halloween, to extend the life of the action RPG title. Season 2 will introduce a new story, vampire powers, 5 new bosses that will drop unique and ultra-unique items as loot to create new builds, and we expect the usual familiar bug fixes and leveling between classes.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage. Another of those expected for next autumn will be the next part of the action and adventure saga of Ubisoft. And it will be more than just a video game, as the manufacturer promises, with the history of Baghdad, bringing us closer to an exciting time like no other game: the Abbasid Caliphate. It will be available on October 12, 2023 for PC, PlayStation 5, PS4, Amazon Luna, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One and in three editions, standard, deluxe and collector’s, which can be pre-ordered now.

Lords of the Fallen. A third-person action RPG, the successor to the 2014 title of the same name, but built from the ground up using Unreal Engine 5. If you’re into Dark Souls-esque Soulsborne, this one will have plenty, but it’s anyone’s guess after a few delays. and terminating the contract with the original studio selected for the game. Available October 13, 2023 for Windows PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and Series S.

Cyberpunk 2077 – Phantom Liberty. An action, role-playing, and first-person shooter expansion that promised a lot but arrived in a pretty bad state. It has been greatly improved since launch, and along with the expansion content, CD Projekt is updating the game to version 2.0.

Mortal Kombat 1. Sequel to MK11, it will be the twelfth installment of one of the most famous fighting games. Another reboot of the series, which will include some of the iconic characters of the franchise (Li Mei, Tanya, Baraka, Reptile, Ashrah, Havik…), various cameos, story mode, offline play as well as online multiplayer. The release is scheduled for September 19.

Destiny 2 – Final Form. Bungie has announced the details and pre-order for Destiny 2’s upcoming expansion ‘The Final Form’, which will be released on February 27, 2024. The “Light and Dark” saga as well as several major features coming to the game next year.

Age of Empires 4: Anniversary Edition. Microsoft used the framework of Gamescom 2023 to announce the launch of the real-time strategy game on the Xbox Series X | S, Xbox One and its addition to the Xbox Game Pass catalog. They promise a controller design specifically optimized for the type of game that is arguably best played on PC.

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin. A new trailer for the real-time strategy game confirms that the Warhammer name continues to be a reference in the industry. And we already know the release date, November 17, 2023.

tekken 8. New trailer for the single-player fighting game’s arcade mode and release date confirmed: January 26, 2024 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.

Alan Wake 2 – A Dark Place. A new live-action trailer for Remedy’s upcoming horror game shows us what it might be like to live in a first-person nightmare. Dark and spectacular is set to arrive on October 27th for Xbox Series X, PS5 and PC.

Little Nightmares III. Namco Bandai releases a trailer for the adventure, platformer and puzzle game set in a world of terror. The biggest news is that we can play with a friend in cooperative mode. It will arrive in 2024.

Ara: The Untold History. Microsoft and developer Oxide Games have released a gameplay trailer for the new turn-based strategy game. It goes through quite a few eras of history before it gets to the current ones and it looks good. It will arrive in 2024.

Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior. A new trailer for an adventure game with hints of an action role-playing game that stands out by offering a different gameplay, with innovative details that make it a truly unique title. It will arrive in the first quarter of 2024.

All of the above is a selection, as there were (and will be more) throughout the week. If you have time and desire to see everything, we will leave you a video from Launch of Light Live full: