Our Favorite Announcements From Gamescom Opening Night Live

Geoff Keighley sparked up Gamescom 2022 with the live stream, Opening Night Live, bringing new announcements, trailers, and updates. Along with updates on previously announced games, the show hosted an array of new premieres. Here our our picks for the most exciting snippets shown at the event.

Hogwarts Legacy’s Story Trailer

With ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ shaping up to revitalize the ‘Harry Potter’ world in the gaming scene, the new trailer showcases what players can expect from a story standpoint. Although, the title has been delayed moving from a holiday 2022 release window to February 10th, 2023. The delay was announced several weeks back however, it was a pleasant surprise to see the story trailer make an appearance. The title looks to be following suit with other licensed games in the past several years, elevating the polish and forgoing the quick to release games from our childhoods.

The Expanse Release Window

Always a hot topic here at Show Boys, ‘The Expanse‘ will be the next series to get the Telltale treatment. ‘The Expanse: A Telltale Series’ is being produced by the developer in partnership with Deck Nine. With the series recently coming to a close, this will be a great way to get back into this world, while playing through Telltale’s classic point-and-click style. With Cara Gee returning to voice her character from the series, the title is to release in the summer of 2023.

Where Winds Meet

Easily the highlight of the live stream for us, ‘Where Winds Meet’ combines inspiration from ‘Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice’ and ‘Ghost of Tsushima’, while taking the adventure to ancient China. The highly stylized version of ancient China shown off in the trailer, along with its hack and slash combat makes this title one to look out for. The inspiration from classic martial arts films are peppered throughout, however no release window was given. Set in the Ten Kingdoms era of ancient China, Everstone Games looks to transport players back in time, while adding many fantasy and folklore elements to keep things exciting.

Everywhere Announced

The new trailer showcases what Leslie Benzies, former lead developer of the ‘Grand Theft Auto’ series, has been working on. The new open world game from Build a Rocket Boy Studios showed off a brief teaser. Showing various scenes from different locations, all with a Fortnite graphics style. Little is known about the title, however, the shockingly different graphics at the end of the trailer could hint at some sort of science fiction element at play. With the quote “Time for a new world” players may have the ability to jump from world to world within the game, giving off a ‘Ready Player One’ vibe.

The Callisto Protocol Gameplay Trailer

The new trailer for ‘The Callisto Protocol’ showcased its crunchy and gruesome combat, as well as other gameplay elements. With one of the co-creators of the ‘Dead Space’ series, the new title from Striking Distance Studios aims to bring players back to the claustrophobic survival horror that can only be accomplished in space. The new trailer showed off the gory combat as well as a brutal death animation. ‘The Callisto Protocol’ launches December 2nd, 2022 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Window PC.

Dune: Awakening

The upcoming open-world survival MMO, based on the ‘Dune’ franchise, received a cinematic trailer during the live stream. Taking both inspiration from the novels as well as the award-winning film, players will traverse Arrakis, which seems prime for the MMO treatment. Coming from the Norwegian developer, Funcom, with a long list of MMORPG’s under their belt, including Conan Exiles. No release window was given, however players can head over to their website to sign up for the beta.

Dead Island 2 Re-emerges

Originally announced all the way back in 2014, ‘Dead Island 2’ made an appearance as the capping point of the live stream. The new trailer showcased exactly what has been worked on in all these years, with a return to zombie action. The game has had a rough development cycle, if you couldn’t tell by its disappearance. The title has shifted developers several times since 2014, with Dambuster Studios taking over in 2019. The trailer showcases the polished look of Southern California under assault from the undead. The most shocking part of the trailer however is the release date, set to launch February 3rd, 2023. With silence from the title for so long, it’s good to see such a close release date.

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