All the best bits from Gamescom Opening Night Live
Missed Geoff Keighley’s Gamescom Opening Night Live? Not to worry – here’s a rundown of all the highlights.
Tonight’s pre-show began with King of Fighters 15, which launches 17th February 2022, Bus Simulator 2021, which turns up 7th September, and Nobody Saves The World from Guacamelee developer Drinkbox Studios, coming early 2022.
We also got our best look yet at House of Ashes, the third Dark Pictures Anthology game coming on 22nd October, and its monster, which you can get as a plastic statue.
Onto the main event, which kicked off with a dramatically rebooted Saints Row. It’s coming 25th February 2022 and designed around four-player co-op. A cross-gen game coming to PC, PlayStation and Xbox, it has upgradeable vehicles, wingsuits and over the top combat. Martin recently got a glimpse and a few more details.
Firaxis revealed Marvel’s Midnight Suns, a tactical RPG which our Chris Tapsell has seen and says is actually “less XCOM than you might think”. 2K is publishing and it’s coming in March 2022. After today’s CGI trailer, gameplay will be revealed on 1st September.
Halo Infinite’s multiplayer got a snazzy CGI trailer showing the game’s first free-to-play season, and – shock – that leaked 8th December release date was made official. There’s also going to be a Master Chief Elite controller and snazzy Xbox Series X limited edition console coming 15th November, because of course.
Tonight’s biggest PlayStation news was that Horizon Forbidden West arrives for both PS4 and PS5 on 18th February 2022, a delay from its previous late 2021 date. While you wait, Horizon Zero Dawn has gained a 60fps patch on PS5 and Aloy will join Genshin Impact on 1st September.