Microsoft on Thursday revealed its full plans for three livestreams from next week’s Gamescom 2024, including all of the games that will be mentioned over three broadcasts from Aug. 21 to Aug 23.
Gamescom’s late summer timing, right before the publishing calendar ramps up its fall-to-holiday push of the year’s biggest releases, means new game announcements coming out of Cologne, Germany are rare. Xbox’s schedule is no different, leaning heavy on announced games, games that have a confirmed release date, or updates to live-service blockbusters.
However, fans will want to circle Friday, Aug. 23 at 9 a.m. EDT, as MachineGames and Bethesda Softworks’ Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — which does not have a release date but is still expected sometime this year — headlines the stream.
All that said, here are the games Xbox will be showing Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday next week:
Wednesday, Aug. 21 – 9 a.m. EDT
- Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred
- Diablo Immortal
- Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
- Atomfall
- Starfield: Shattered Space
- Age of Mythology: Retold
- Overwatch 2
- Forza Horizon 5
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
- Dustborn
Atomfall was announced at Summer Game Fest. Made by Rebellion, the folks behind the cult-hit Sniper Elite series, it’s a post-apocalyptic first-person shooter set in the British countryside. Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl has a Nov. 20, 2023 launch date for Windows PC and Xbox Series X, after repeated delays. Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred, a major expansion, launches Oct. 8. Overwatch 2 is here because a) Microsoft owns Blizzard Entertainment and b) season 12 kicks off Aug. 20.
Thursday, Aug. 22 – 9 a.m. EDT
- Star Wars Outlaws
- World of Warcraft: The War Within
- Fallout 76: Milepost Zero
- Towerborne
- The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road
- Fragpunk
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Two Point Museum
- “Project Birdseye”
- Kill Knight
- The First Berserker: Khazan
- Eternal Strands
- Planet Coaster 2
- Life is Strange: Double Exposure
- The Casting of Frank Stone
- Mecha Break
- Little Nightmares 3
- Date Everything!
Star Wars Outlaws launches Aug. 30 after more than a year of buildup and anticipation. Its last big reveal was a 10-minute gameplay slice that left many wondering if they were looking at an early build of the game. Fans will be expecting a big recovery. World of Warcraft: The War Within is the venerable MMO’s next expansion, launching the same day. Fallout 76: Milepost Zero will be the 20th major update for Fallout’s live-service entry, which launched back in 2018. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launches Nov. 19. Project Birdseye is the codename for the next game from Striking Distance, makers of The Callisto Protocol. This could be the only true new-game announcement we see from these broadcasts.
Friday Aug. 23 – 9 a.m. EDT
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Avowed
- Ara: History Untold
- Sea of Thieves
- 33 Immortals
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
- Metaphor: Refantazio
- Tails of Iron 2
- Squirrel With a Gun
- Path of Exile 2
- The First Descendant
- Commandos Origins
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has no launch date (or window) yet, and time is running out if this really is launching in 2024. Assuming it’s coming for the holiday season, it would be an unusually short period between release date announcement and release date for a game of that scope, but Bethesda did announce Fallout 4’s launch date in June 2015, and had it in people’s hands five months later. Avowed, a role-playing game from Microsoft-owned Obsidian Entertainment, has already been confirmed delayed to 2025. Sea of Thieves is in the middle of its 13th season, which began July 25 and runs to Oct. 31; no idea what it’s doing here.
Gamescom Opening Night Live with Geoff Keighley set for Aug. 20
Additionally, some of the games mentioned above will also be shown during Tuesday, Aug. 20’s Gamescom Opening Night Live, hosted by The Game Awards’ Geoff Keighley. It airs at 2 p.m. EDT. via Twitch, YouTube, and the Gamescom website.
Games that Keighley has confirmed (via X) will appear include:
- Squid Game: Unleashed
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
- Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- Monster Hunter Wilds
- Marvel Rivals
- Dune Awakening
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Sid Meier’s Civilization VII
- Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
And “Yes, there will be new game announcements,” Keighley promised on Tuesday.
Featured image via Xbox on X
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