Gamescom will take place again in Cologne from August 24th to 28th, 2022. So that you don’t have to click through all the new announcements and trailers yourself, we’ve got them for you Game highlights of Gamescom 2022 summarized here.
Gamescom 2022: The highlights of the Opening Night Live
Gamescom 2022 started on Aug. 23 with the Opening Night Live. We present you the best trailers.
Dead Island 2
After many years of silence around Dead Island 2, the action game was presented at Opening Night Live re-announced with a trailer. As early as next February you can shred your way through hordes of zombies in Los Angeles in the tried and tested manner.
- Release: February 3, 2023
- Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Google Stadia
New Tales from the Borderlands
New Tales from the Borderlands is another Adventure offshoot of the loot shooter series. This time it’s about the story of three loveable losers who have to get by in the crazy Borderlands universe. Your decisions determine the further course of the game.
- Release: October 21, 2022
- Platforms: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch
Hogwarts legacy
The new dark trailer for the magician role-playing game presents the Companion questline around the Slytherin student Sebastian Sallow. This is where you deal with dark magic and must decide whether to take advantage of it.
- Release: February 10, 2023
- Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch
The Lords of the Fallen
2014’s soulslike Lords of the Fallen gets a with The Lords of the Fallen reboot. It should offer an even larger and better connected game world in which you meet numerous NPCs. The online co-op mode is also new, thanks to which you can fight the tough battles together with a friend.
- Release: unknown
- Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
The Callisto Protocol
Of the extensive gameplay trailer to the Dead Space successor in spirit shows the brutal battles of the horror game and the so-called mutation feature. This ensures that injured enemies suddenly mutate into even more dangerous monsters.
- Release: December 2, 2022
- Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Read of P
Action-packed souls-like combat, a pretty steampunk world and Pinocchio as a playable character: that’s Lies of P. Game Pass subscribers in particular can look forward to it, as the game will be released in Xbox Game Pass in 2023.
- Release: 2023
- Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Destiny 2: Lightfall
The Destiny 2 expansion Lightfall takes you to the planet Neptune, where you take on the mysterious Shadow Legion in a cyberpunk city. Using the Energy Climbing Hook new subclass “Strand” you move faster than ever through the game world of the MMO shooter and attack your enemies with energy rope spears and other cool abilities.
- Release: February 28, 2023
- Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Stadia
Return to Monkey Island
The games in the Monkey Island series are still among the best adventure games of all time. Series creator Ron Gilbert is finally continuing the story of series hero Guybrush Threepwood with Return to Monkey Island.
- Release: September 19, 2022
- Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch
High-end PS5 controller: DualSense Edge
In addition to numerous game announcements, the Opening Night Live also featured new hardware to see. The DualSense Edge is Sony’s answer to Microsoft’s Xbox Elite Controller (buy it now at MediaMarkt!) – a high-end controller for the PS5.
The DualSense Edge offers among other things storable user profilesthat can be accessed with extra buttons on the controller, interchangeable stick caps, stick modules and back buttons, and of course the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers of the standard DualSense controller.
- Killer Clowns From Outer Space: The Game (2023 – PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S)
- Marauders – Early Access (October 2022 – PC)
- Moonbreaker – Early Access (September 29, 2022 – PC)
- Moving Out 2 (2023 – PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch)
- Park Beyond (2023 – PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
- Phantom Hellcat (release unknown – PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S)
- Scars Above (release unknown – PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
- Sonic Frontiers (November 8, 2022 – PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch)
- Stranded: Alien Dawn – Early Access (October 2022 – PC)
- The Expanse: A Telltale Series (Summer 2023 – PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
- The Finals (release unknown – PC)
- The Outlast Trials – Closed Beta (October 28, 2022 – PC)
- Tortuga: A Pirates Tale (2023 – PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S)
- Under the Waves (2023 – PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S)
- Warhammer: Darktide (November 30, 2022 – PC, Xbox Series X/S)
- Where Winds Meet (release unknown – PC)
- Wyrdsong (release unknown – platforms unknown)
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