Gamescom 2023 is underway, and it’s already proving to be one other action-packed week for players who’ve arrived in Cologne. With over 1200 exhibitors right here, there are an enormous variety of video games to take a look at.

NME is at the moment on the bottom at Gamescom, which implies we’re speeding to see as a lot of this yr’s conference as attainable. Whether or not you’re watching the occasion from residence or making an attempt to get your arms on as many video games as attainable within the occasion corridor, you should utilize this text to ensure you’re caught up on all the things taking place within the Koelnmesse.

From every Opening Evening Reside trailer to all the things we get our arms on on the present flooring, we’ll be updating this text with all the things occurring at Gamescom this yr – test it out under.

August 22: Gamescom 2023 kicks off with Opening Evening Reside

Geoff Keighley welcomed Gamescom attendees to Opening Evening Reside, which was full of new trailers and bulletins for upcoming video games. This consists of the reveal that Supermassive Video games is creating Little Nightmares 3, whereas Tripwire Interactive revealed that gory shooter Killing Ground 3 is within the works.

We additionally obtained to see Ice-T forged in Payday 3, the world premiere for Tekken 8, and a reveal trailer for gritty sci-fi fantasy The First Descendants.

We may spend the remainder of the weblog speaking about Opening Evening Reside, however as an alternative right here’s a roundup of each trailer and announcement from Gamescom Opening Evening Reside 2023.

Dustborn is a Marvel-tinged street journey

Our day kicked off with a hands-off demo for Dustborn, a street journey set throughout the stays of the US after a “disinformation apocalypse” destroyed the nation. It picks up with 4 super-powered misfits dashing away from a heist gone flawed, and shortly sends them on a drive throughout North America’s remnants posing as a punk-rock band referred to as the Dustborn.

Inside half an hour, we’d fallen in love with these foul-mouthed crooks. We’ll have to attend till 2024 to spend longer with this, however the reveal trailer could be seen under.

Cosy practice puzzle recreation Station To Station is popping out this yr

Tucked away within the bustle of Gamescom’s hallways, it was a delight to sit down down for a calming half-hour with Station To Station. A comfortable puzzle recreation with attractive voxel artwork, Station To Station duties you with bringing environments to life by constructing practice stations internationally.

Cheeseries must be related to dairy farms to get working, whereas cities would require varied assets to “clear up” every puzzle. However the journey beats the vacation spot, and we may have spent hours creating the sport’s small slices of paradise.

Test Station To Station out on Steam, forward of its full launch on October 3.

Persona 5 Tactica is a classy shot of technique 

We’ve spent the final yr caught into the final three mainline Persona video games since Atlus launched a slew of ports, so testing technique spin-off Persona 5 Tactica felt important.

Tactica takes the characters, allure and elegance of Persona 5, and drops it right into a Mario + Rabbids-style turn-based blast. Fight is straightforward to understand, but an emphasis on cowl and positioning suggests it could be deceptively intricate. We’re going to have a full article on our Persona 5 Tactica hands-on quickly, so keep tuned.

Stalker 2: Coronary heart Of Chornobyl is brutal 

The award for “most deaths at Gamescom 2023” goes to Stalker 2: Coronary heart Of Chornobyl, which wasted no time in killing us repeatedly. We guessed this post-apocalyptic shooter could be powerful when its hands-on began with a mutated canine making lunch of our leg, however have been nonetheless taken without warning by its problem.

Although our preview was pretty quick, Stalker 2 has the identical unforgiving gunplay as Shadow Of Chornobyl, GSC Sport World‘s first foray into the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Weapons are awkward to pay, however you solely must be correct (or fortunate) as soon as to depart an enemy down and out. Like Persona, we’ll be visiting Stalker 2 in additional depth quickly, so keep watch over NME Gaming for extra.

We’ll be updating this web page with all of our highlights from Gamescom 2023 – verify again right here every day for extra!