All Gamescom 2019 news

International Exhibition gamescom 2019, Europe's largest gaming event, will take place in Cologne from 2019 to 20 August 24. As before, we will visit the exhibition to be among the first to get acquainted with the latest announcements, see and feel the most promising games of the near future and tell you about all the details.

In the meantime, in the updated news, we talk about everything that can and cannot be shown at gamescom 2019.

In particular, the company Blizzard gamescom will miss this year. All its forces are thrown into development, however, the creators Overwatch и World of Warcraft will not leave visitors without a stand with souvenirs. Gameplay will not be shown at gamescom 2019 Marvel's Avengers, it will be presented only after the exhibition.

gamescom opening ceremony named Opening Night Live. Its start is scheduled for August 19, at 21:00 Moscow time. By tradition, the loudest announcements, as well as the premieres of new trailers, will coincide with the opening ceremony.

This year in preparation for Opening Night Live Full constructionwas Jeff Keighley, founder and permanent host of the awards The Game Awards, with his team.

The Japanese company plans to show the press Elden Ring, a game on which the studio From Software works with George Martin. We will be present at this screening and, of course, we will tell you all the details.

And for the public, nine playable games will be presented at the publisher's booth. Among them:

Company Kalypso promises to present in Cologne two world premieres and the largest line of games in the history of the publishing house.

The console version will be available in playable form Tropico 6, announced at E3 2019 strategy Immortal: Vampire Wars and remasters Commandos 2 и praetorians.

The legendary publishing house, unfortunately, will not make its creative presentation. It will celebrate its tenth anniversary by showing three games from independent developers.

Heave Ho is a physics platform puzzle game in which we control a head without a body, but with two long arms. Particularly promising is the co-op mode for the company.

Carrion - "inverted" horror movie, in which we will be assigned the role of a nightmarish monster imprisoned in a secret laboratory. Breaking free, we take revenge on those who conducted cruel experiments on the "hero".

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout - a kind of royal battle on an obstacle course. Strange creatures must overcome all trials until only one winner remains on his feet.

Company SEGA promises to present new games at gamescom. Some high-budget game is announced during the opening ceremony of the Opening Night Live exhibition. And the new part is unlikely to become a new AAA project Yakuza: its official announcement is scheduled for August 29th.

Another upcoming SEGA game should be a welcome surprise for fans of the Dreamcast era. The company is also preparing a gift for PC owners.

At the SEGA booth at gamescom 2019, visitors will see Catherine: Full Body and console version Two Point Hospital. In addition, they will be able to experience the SEGA Mega Drive Mini.

Xbox is going to open a huge gaming hall in the gamescom pavilions with two hundred gaming PCs and consoles. For the first time, visitors will be allowed to experience Minecraft Dungeons, Horde's regime Gears 5 and new game streaming technology Project xCloud.

Also at the Xbox booth will be presented:

Codemasters will present its new racing simulator to the public for the first time GRID. The game releases on October 11, 2019.

Publishing house THQ Nordic will present four completely new games at the exhibition. Moreover, one of them will be allowed to be tested by gamescom guests. We will attend presentations of all four projects, so you will get to know everything first hand. For the time being, it is assumed that among them will be Red Faction: Evolution и Saints Row V.

In addition, the company will bring to the exhibition:

The indie division of the publishing house, HandyGames, will also take part in the exhibition. It will bring six games to gamescom, one of which has yet to be announced.

The Polish studio intends to show the gameplay of its future, we hope, masterpiece at gamescom Cyberpunk 2077. However, the event will not be given into the hands of its guests: everyone will have to watch how the studio employee plays.

In addition to showing the game CD Projekt RED will hold the first selection for a large-scale international cosplay competition. The participant who created the most convincing cyberpunk image will receive two thousand dollars and a ticket to the final.

 

2K Games will bring with him Borderlands 3: the game is being prepared for release, it will be presented at the booth Microsoftlike a basketball simulator NBA 2K20. Perhaps the publisher will introduce new parts NBA 2K и WWE 2K.

Square Enix will present in Cologne a whole program dedicated to Final Fantasy XIV. It will coincide with the recent release of the Shadowbringers expansion. Visitors are waiting for the performances of developers and gaming activities. There will even be a cosplay contest dedicated to an online role-playing game.

Final Fantasy VII Remake will be shown to the general public in Europe for the first time, a demo version of the game will be available in the company zone. The game is set to release on March 3, 2020. And before the end of 2019, Square Enix plans to release Final Fantasy VIII Remastered, so we can expect it to appear at gamescom.

On the panel, companies will also present Marvel's Avengers. At E3 2019, the gameplay show didn't really impress the press. But the developers are just working on improving the demo version and a week after the end of the exhibition they will show it to the public.

The Japanese company has confirmed its participation in the gamescom 2019 exhibition. However, it has not yet announced what it will consist of. Maybe, Sony will bring with him Dreams or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

So far, one of the future projects that will be shown at the exhibition is directly related to Sony. This is a cooperative arcade based on a series of films Sony Pictures Entertainment "Welcome to Zombieland." The game Zombieland: Double Tap - Road Trip Releases October 15, 2019 for Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

During the opening ceremony, they will also tell and show something new about Death Stranding.

The French company at E3 2019 presented Watch Dogs Legion. A demo version of the game will be shown at gamescom, but it will not be given to the public yet.

In addition, the company will bring to the exhibition Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, the next part Just Dance and other games.

The company has announced the list of games it will show at the show. From August 22 to August 29, the European branch of the company will present games for Nintendo Switch:

In addition, Nintendo will bring playable versions of a number of new titles, including Pokémon Sword, Pokémon Shield, Daemon X Machina. And the company's booth will host traditional tournaments Super Smash Bros. Ultimate и Splatoon 2.

On Monday, August 19 at 16:00 pm, the company will host a special Indie World broadcast. It will present independent games that will soon be released on the Nintendo Switch.

The Japanese company will present at the exhibition its new part of the line of football simulators eFootball PES 2020. The series has changed its name in honor of being more esports oriented. At E3 2019, the updated PES was recognized as the best sports game of the exhibition.

In addition, the company will present a third-person action movie Contra: Rogue Corps and version of the card game Yu Gi Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Edition for Nintendo Switch.

Publishing house Private Division will bring a number of his games, including Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, The Outer Worlds, Disintegration other. The exhibition will show new fragments of the gameplay.

Sci-fi first-person shooter Disintegration will be presented for the first time at the opening of the exhibition. An independent studio is working on it. V1 Interactive, founded by Markus Lehto, former creative director Bungie and one of the creators of the series Halo.

The British independent publishing house promises to present three "mysterious" games at the exhibition. This is a new mystical horror of the Italian studio LKA (The Town of Lights), the studio's psychological thriller camel101 and a kind of third-person game with classic combat mechanics, but with an unusual protagonist: a bird.

French publishing house Microids will present to the press and the public demo versions of three projects.

Publisher Marvelous Europe is preparing to release a number of Japanese games on PC, PS4 and Nintendo Switch.

Publishing house Sumo Digital will bring three new projects to the exhibition.

For the first time, the gameplay of a spy thriller will be shown Spyder starring Robo-Spider. Studio Creative Director The Chinese Room will present an adventure Little orpheus. Both of these games are made for Apple Arcade.

Gamescom will also announce a new game coming to PC and consoles. So far, this is all that is known about her.

The Polish gaming industry is experiencing an unprecedented rise, and in addition to giants like CD Projekt и Playway Dozens of independent studios and publishers enter the market. Some of them will bring their projects to gamescom.

Dutch company Vertigo games builds its own arcade rooms for virtual reality games. And at gamescom, the publisher will bring games that are most suitable for stationary virtual devices. Basically, these are games with a cooperative mode.

Studio 4A Games will introduce the first addition to Metro Exodus, story DLC "Two colonels».

Publishing house Frontier Developments will show a zoo simulator at the exhibition Planet Zoo. Unlike Planet Coaster и Zoo Tycoon in the new game, the animals will be real, and the conditions for their maintenance will be close to real ones.

People Can Fly will bring a recently announced thriller Outriders, which is created with the support of Square Enix. It's a dark, story-driven co-op shooter where up to three party members can join and leave the game at any time.

Outriders will be released in the summer of 2020 on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Independent Malaysian studio Streamline will bring his funny cooperative thriller Bake 'n Switch. In it, groups of bakers pelt their enemies with dough: the larger the lump of dough, the higher the damage. And then the resulting mass must also have time to bake. The game also provides a PvP mode in which teams can interfere with each other.

Bake 'n Switch is coming to Steam Early Access this fall, and will eventually make its way to consoles as well.

Yoozoo promises to talk not only about its well-known strategy Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming. Together with the legendary Japanese artist and mangaka Masami Kurumada, the developers are preparing a mobile thriller Saint Seiya: The Awakening in the spirit of classic comics.

Danish studio BetaDwarf will show Minion Masters, a co-op card game for PC and consoles.

hamburg studio mooneye will bring his "wolf" exploration adventure Lost Ember. Work on the game has been going on for five years, and in 2016 the project was successfully completed Kickstarter, collecting 326 thousand euros instead of the requested one hundred.

Lost Ember is a third person adventure. Our main character is a wolf who studies what happened to the world and why his civilization died. Along the way, players will be able to inhabit almost any oncoming animals and control them, looking for answers.

Independent developer and publisher Yacht Club Games releases the game in Europe Cyber ​​Shadow and addition Shovel Knight: King of Cards. They will be released on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. In addition, the exhibition will show the addon Shovel Knight Showdown: local co-op for four players.

Independent French studio Iumtec develops and publishes a sci-fi arcade first-person shooter Protocore. They describe the game as a cross between DOOM with machine learning. Players will be able to team up in groups of four to fight robots in a huge spaceship. The goal is to restore your memory and get out alive.

Newly founded studio Bad Yolkin which the creators work Wolfenstein New Order, Doom and New Colossus, preparing to announce the game Main assembly. It will be possible to build robots with the help of some new tools for creating forms and control them using built-in programming tools.

Post-apocalyptic online game Last oasis announced on E3 2019, and will now be presented at gamescom 2019.

Company Yoozoo Games released a special trailer in which she introduced new games for her platform gtarcade.

Publishing house Alliance Games will present a stylish online turn-based fighting game Bravery Network Online studio Gloam Collective and announces another secret project.

Digital Curve and independent studio Denki bring the "colonial" game Autonauts. In it, we explore new planets, creating and programming an army of bots. Harry Penn, former creative director of the studio, is working on the game. D.M.A. Designs (Grand Theft Auto, Lemmings).

The exhibition will also show:

Manufacturers of gaming hardware, peripherals and accessories will not stay away from the exhibition. They have already told us about their new products, which will be presented at the exhibition. Mad Catz, My arcade, Taito, bionics, 4Gamers и snakebyte distribution.