Something for the Weekend – 26/08/23

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It’s been a frantic, non-stop week of bouncing between games and preview sessions at Gamescom. Dom and I have both seen dozens of games in the space of a few days, and now have the tough task of trying to remember everything as we write up all the previews through the next couple weeks.

We’ve got plenty of catch up to do in that sense, but there’s also catch up to do on all of the Gamescom news that came with Europe’s biggest video game event. Let’s see what happened!

Let’s start with the handful of previews and features we have from Gamescom. The very first thing I saw was the week’s theatre presentation for Starfield, with Bethesda’s final pre-release promotional beat being to show off the opening few hours of the game in an abridged form. So, what happens in the Starfield’s first few hours?

In contrast, I had hands on previews for both Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin’s cinematic single player campaign, as well as trying the intriguing Roguelite War Games mode that is coming to Homeworld 3.

Separately, I also had a preview of Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles, the musical RPG remaster you didn’t know you needed.

For the reviews, we had a clutch of games, one of EA’s biggest yearly games.

And a couple of gamepad reviews to go alongside:

To round out the features, we checked in on What We Played, featuring Mortal Kombat 1, Immortals of Aveum and The Expanse

Destiny 2’s The Final Shape and Season of the Witch revealed

Warhammer Age of Sigmar – Realms of Ruin launches in November, Conquest mode revealed

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty gets a new features trailer

Expeditions is an exploratory MudRunner spin-off coming in 2024

Tekken 8 release date set for January 2024

Let’s check in on what you’ve been