Microsoft has totally revealed its plans for gamescom 2024, they usually embrace three days of dwell broadcasts.
In a publish on (*3*), Microsoft mentioned it is going to host a sequence of each day streams from its Xbox sales space on the present, operating from Wednesday August 21 to Friday August 23. These will provide a deeper dive into varied video games Xbox is ready to launch over the approaching months, with first-look gameplay, developer chats, and new trailers. Microsoft-owned Bethesda may also host each day content material streams from the sales space.
Video games set to look throughout these streams embrace Stalker 2, Atomfall, Age of Mythology, Star Wars Outlaws, World of Warcraft growth The Struggle Inside, Towerborne, Avowed, and Ara: Historical past Untold.
The Xbox gamescom 2024 dwell broadcast schedule in full:
Wednesday August 21
- Xbox @ gamescom 2024
- Begin: 6am PDT / 9am EDT / 2pm BST / 3pm CEST
- That includes S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl, Atomfall, Age of Mythology, plus others
- Bethesda MainStream
- Begin: 5am PDT / 8am EST / 1pm BST / 2pm CEST
Thursday August 22
- Xbox @ gamescom 2024
- Begin: 6am PDT / 9am EDT / 2pm BST / 3pm CEST
- That includes Star Wars Outlaws, World of Warcraft: The Struggle Inside, Towerborne plus others
- Bethesda MainStream
- Begin: 5am PDT / 8am EST / 1pm BST / 2pm CEST
Friday August 23
- Xbox @ gamescom 2024
- Begin: 6am PDT / 9am EDT / 2pm BST / 3pm CEST
- That includes Avowed, Ara: Historical past Untold, plus others
- Bethesda MainStream
- Begin: 5am PDT / 8am EST / 1pm BST / 2pm CEST
Microsoft is closely rumored to be set to launch an Xbox handheld, nevertheless it appears like gamescom 2024 received’t be the platform for an announcement. As an alternative, the main target right here is on already introduced video games, akin to Obsidian’s Avowed, Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws, and GSC Sport World’s Stalker 2.
Bethesda is of course operating MMOs Fallout 76 and The Elder Scrolls On-line, and is ready to launch Starfield growth Shattered Area later this yr. No video games from Microsoft-owned Activision have been talked about within the Xbox publish, however Blizzard is attending to point out off World of Warcraft and Diablo 4 expansions.
Sony and Nintendo, in the meantime, have confirmed they’re skipping gamescom 2024. Sony instructed Eurogamer it has no plans for the present, and Nintendo confirmed the same again in April.
Whereas Sony’s choice was anticipated (it hasn’t attended gamescom in years), Nintendo’s choice got here as one thing of a shock given it has turned up at gamescom in recent times. However with the Nintendo Swap successor console not due out till 2025, a quieter 2024 is smart.
Microsoft’s huge gamescom 2024 effort comes amid devastating cuts which have seen 1,900 workers exit its gaming enterprise and the closure of a quantity of Bethesda studios, together with Hello-Fi Rush maker Tango Gameworks and Redfall developer Arkane Austin. In June, Xbox boss Phil Spencer addressed these closures, insisting he needed to make “arduous choices” to run a sustainable enterprise.
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