You’ll have to deal with a brick-built Bruce Wayne not voiced by Will Arnett, but TT Games’ new Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight will launch sometime in 2026 and weave together decades of Batlore including Christopher Nolan’s films, Matt Reeves’ The Batman, and Tim Burton’s Batman Returns.
A day after announcing that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to the PS5 next year, Xbox boss Phil Spencer spoke a bit more during a Gamescom livestream about the company’s ongoing multiplatform experiment.
ONL ended with a very brief tease for the Mafia: the Old Country, which is set in 1900s Sicily and will “uncover the origins of organized crime.” It launches some time in 2025.
After some, let’s say, detours, the veteran designer and his 22cans studio have revealed a more traditional strategy game called Masters of Albion, which at the very least has some cool interface ideas. Here’s the first trailer.
Batman: Arkham Shadow is the next entry in the Batman: Arkham series but with a twist...it’s in VR. Camouflaj, the studio known for another superhero VR experience, Iron Man VR, debuted the first gameplay trailer during Opening Night Live 2024. Arkham Shadow will be a full-length, VR game launching exclusively on the Meta Quest 3 sometime in October.
And by that, I mean, of course, that the Overwatch-like multiplayer game Marvel Rivals finally has a release date. It’ll be hitting PC, Xbox, and PlayStation on December 6th.
It’s been years since the game was first revealed, and now we not only have a first look, but also news that MV3 will be launching on December 10th — exclusively on Netflix. The first two games in the series, meanwhile, will hit Netflix in September and October.
While it doesn’t come out until next year, Capcom continues to show off the next big Monster Hunter game, with a new trailer featuring a very creepy giant spider that players will need to take down.
We finally have a release window for the survival game Dune: Awakening, which is going to make me do terrible, terrible things when it launches. In the meantime, check out this new gameplay trailer.
The new trailer for Lost Records — the next release from Life is Strange studio Don’t Nod — looks all heartwarming and cozy, until it becomes very clear there’s a dark secret at its core. The game’s first episode launches on February 18th, with another a month later.
One of the strangest games of the past decade is getting remastered. The updated version of Goat Simulator, which first launched back in 2014, will include all of the game’s DLCs, along with new visuals and some quality-of-life tweaks. It’s launching later this year.
Ahead of the next Call of Duty’s debut in October, Activision has provided yet another trailer for the game, this time walking viewers through a campaign mission full of trademark Call of Duty action set pieces. For those who haven’t been keeping track: the shooter will be coming to Game Pass and might even have a reasonable download size.
E3 may be dying, but Gamescom is moving in the opposite direction. The convention just announced that it’s adding a third event to its slate: it’ll take place in São Paulo from June 26th to the 30th, joining existing conventions in Germany and Singapore. The team aren’t starting from scratch, however, and will be partnering with the existing Big Festival.
CD Projekt Red showed off a new trailer of the major Cyberpunk 2077 expansion at Opening Night Live. The footage shows off things like a redesigned perks system and new vehicles coming alongside the expansion. Some of the improvements will also be coming to the base game on current-gen consoles and PC as part of update 2.0.
Phantom Liberty is scheduled to be released on September 26th.
The recently-launched game from the developers of Genshin Impact is set to launch on PS5 in the fourth quarter of 2023, and this “technical test recruitment” opens tomorrow, August 23rd. Honkai: Star Rail is currently available on PC and mobile.
Bandai Namco premiered a trailer for the new game at Opening Night Live. It’s set to release in 2024.
The first game in the series came out in 2017. The second launched in 2021.
A Japanese YouTuber created a custom setup to allow his pet fish to play Pokémon on his Nintendo Switch, but a malfunction led to the fish spending money at the eShop and revealing its owner’s credit card information on live stream.
We are truly beyond parody.
