You found out that the beginning of the year was busy in video games with The Legends of Zelda: Tears of the Realm, Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy and others final fantasy 16 EITHER Diablo IV. You are not ready for the end of 2023. Gamescom, which is being held this week in Cologne (Germany), kicks off four intense months, with a schedule that will make players dizzy.
The Opening Night Live conference kicks off the video game fair on Tuesday, August 22, and will be an opportunity to get a closer look at the games to come. But it is also possible that the agenda becomes heavier with surprise titles. Available this Tuesday, the game of shooting and magic from Electronic Arts Immortals of Aveum opens the dance of novelties before a wave that will go from star field (September 6) until the arrival ofAvatar: Borders of Pandora (December 7), culminating in a bottled October.
August: smooth recovery
To end the summer, the big studios played quietly, giving way to more familiar and independent games. Except Immortals of Aveum which was pushed back from late July to August 22, presumably to fall in the Gamescom expo window, and Baldur’s Gate 3 which enlivened the beginning of August, the rest of the month is quite calm. The opportunity to discover some more discreet games, but not without interest.
It is the case of under the waves, French game signed by Parallel Studio and published by Quantic Dream and its Spotlight imprint. A narrative game in which we play Stan, a professional diver who works for an oil company. Alone in his submarine base for a mission that sends him exploring the depths of the ocean, he will face strange events in the silence of the depths and his tortured mind.
September: Starfield and the others
Are we going to hear more than star field in September? Xbox exclusivity is finally here, after years of waiting. The mammoth action RPG has taken its time to polish up. It must be said that Bethesda promises hours and hours of gaming and space exploration (more than 1000 planets to visit). Create your hero, choose your ship, refine it and set out to conquer space. Will there be time and space for others? Hard to say. However, he runs towards the door.
If the usual sports games are outside (NBA 2K24 The 8 – EA Sports FC 24the successor of fifa23, day 24), other titles already show the density of the coming months. Also announced a long time ago, but much more discreet since a few months except for a demo available, P’s lies, Drawn from the myth of Pinocchio, he advances his lofty bouts and graceful style on September 19. the same day as mortal kombat 1a historic fighting game license that has been given a facelift with a very high class, its emblematic heroes (Johnny Cage -played by Jean-Claude Van Damme- and Li Mei among others).
For a trip outdoors, The crew motor festival arrives to rev the engines from September 11 with some exciting news and races around the world. I forgot the calamitous beginning, cyberpunk 2077 he has finally recovered the letters of nobility that were predicted for him. To the point that its extension ghost freedom (the 26th) is especially expected. It is also worth noting the presence of Idris Elba in the role of Solomon Reed.
October: The Spider Ogre
Who will survive, who will leave feathers? One thing is certain. Gamers won’t have enough time to get through the orgy of high-flying games coming in October. Assassin’s Creed Mirage you have perhaps the wisest choice. Once the game was ready, Ubisoft warned that it would finally be released a week early (on the 5th).
What to get away from the outlet spider man 2 (the 20). It is true that the game is exclusive to PS5, but it will monopolize all the attention of the players and leave only crumbs (and little storage space) to the competition. If the dark fantasy RPG the lords of the fallen keeps its release just before Spider-Man 2 (on the 13th), Alan Wake II he chose to postpone his return for 10 days (27), only to let the storm pass and the double attack of the Spider-Men, Peter Parker and Miles Morales.
Two other games are expected in the same window, but they are aimed more at defined objectives that have nothing to do with the queen console. Forza Motorsport returns on October 10 on Xbox Series and PC to the delight of fans of cars and millimeter configurations. Wonder of Super Mario Bros. it will make the Nintendo Switch happy.
This month of October is also the month of releases that risk being left seriously in the shadows when they deserve a little light: the revisit of Alone in the dark (on 25)a remake of the hit horror game released in 1992 that takes players to 1920s Louisiana, starring David Harbor (Strange things) in the title role. But it should also be the month of arrival of Total War: Pharaoha turn-based strategy game set in ancient Egypt.
November: Call of Duty
While we wait for the new work of obligationsAlways a huge bestseller, it is perhaps the calmest and most balanced month of the year, if October releases do not also take over that month. Except for the modernized version of Obligations: Modern Warfare 3 (the 10th), we’ll see it happen Banishers: Ghosts of the New Eden, the new Don’t Nod game published by Focus Entertainment. The story of Antea Duarte and Red MacRaith, a couple of ghost hunters from the end of an esoteric 17th century. Antea dies and in turn becomes a ghost that stays by her lover’s side to help him in his missions to eliminate supernatural creatures.
Two very different role-playing games are also coming in November to satisfy all tastes: Super Mario RPG Remake (on the 17th) and Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (on the 9th), a new version of the Yakuza franchise. It will also be an opportunity to sign another return, that of the emblematic French video game Retrospective scene which signs its official sequel more than 30 years later (Flashback 2 the 16th), or even Tintin Reporter: The Pharaoh’s Cigars.
December: Avatar alone on his planet.
At the end of the year, many games can still be delayed and finish at the gates of Christmas, just in time to land under the tree. But then they will have to deal with Avatar: Borders of Pandora (on 7). The ambitious Ubisoft game, designed in collaboration with James Cameron himself, is the only great programming title, without insulting Dragon Quest Monsters scheduled for the beginning of the month.
Avatar It promises to be a game capable of attracting all kinds of players, young and old, newbies and experts, with its vast universe full of ideas inspired by the film saga. Unless Ubisoft has the idea to bring forward the release of its Star Wars: Outlaws At the end of the year, the horizon seems quite clear for the game designed by the Massive studio, also at the controls of Ubisoft’s Star Wars.
Source: BFM TV
