The Gamescom Opening Night Live will kick off on August 23. At the event there is expected to be a slew of announcements of new titles and fresh gameplays of those already revealed. To heat up the atmosphere around the event is Xbox, which has some big plans.
Xbox booth at Gamescom 2022
The Xbox has announced that it will appear in Hall 8 at Gamescom and will prepare 36 booths for its players with the opportunity to get acquainted with released, and those still in development, titles. People attending the show will be able to play in person:
- Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios)
- Time of Empires IV (Relic Entertainment & World’s Edge / Xbox Game Studios)
- Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio / Xbox Game Studios Publishing)
- Sea of Thieves (Rare Games / Xbox Game Studios)
- Grounded (Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios)
- A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio / Focus Entertainment)
- Disney Dreamlight Valley (Gameloft)
- Gunfire Reborn (Duoyi Games / 505 Games)
- Inkulinati (Yaza Games / Daedalic Entertainment)
- Last Case of Benedict Fox (Plot Twist Games / Rogue Games)
- Lies of P (Neowiz)
- Lightyear Frontier (Frame Break)
- Planet of Lana (Wishfully / Thunderful)
- You Suck at Parking (Happy Volcano)
Besides the stands around the Xbox booth we will find many attractions: for example, we’ll be able to “wrestle” with Minecraft opponents or take a photo with the first boss in Grounded – Broodmother. Also, Redmond giant is planning something like “storming the battlefield in Age of Empires IV”.
Xbox Booth presentation
The Xbox also announced that on August 25 (Thursday) between 2 and 8 p.m. ET, it will organize its own presentation, which can be viewed via, for instance, Youtube.
Company representatives will talk to developers working at Xbox Game Studios or working with Microsoft’s console developers. Besides the interviews, we’ll also get new trailers or gameplays from such titles as:
- Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio / Xbox Game Studios Publishing)
- Gunfire Reborn (Duoyi Games / 505 Games)
- Sea of Thieves (Rare Games / Xbox Game Studios).
- Lies of P (Neowiz)
- High On Life (Squanch Games)
- Grounded (Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios)
- Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios)
- A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio / Focus Entertainment)
- Minecraft Legends (Mojang Studios & Blackbird Interactive / Xbox Game Studios)
- Planet of Lana (Wishfully / Thunderful)
- Age of Empires IV (Relic Entertainment & World’s Edge / Xbox Game Studios)
And those are certainly not all the surprises that Xbox has prepared for the upcoming Gamescom. In the following days, we will certainly learn more about what Xbox has in store for us during the Gamescom 2022.
