Gamescom-2017

Gamescom-2017 headlines

• Nvidia is giving away 1080 Ti graphics cards for sweet PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds highlights

  A great Battlegrounds highlight could score you a mega-sweet GPU.

• Mark your calendars: gamescom 2018 has been dated

  Gamescom 2017 was once again a success with over 350,000 visitors. The annual event has also been dated for 2018.

• Announcing Crackdown 3 too early was a mistake, Xbox exec says

  We’ve been talking about Crackdown 3 for years now, which is strange because the game has yet to actually come out.

• Final Fantasy 15 will have Steam Workshop support, but nude mods are left "to the moral sense of players"

  Square Enix wants PC players to know that it’s serious about Final Fantasy 15 on the platform.

• After an "overwhelming" response to Xbox One X, Microsoft will be making as many of them as possible

  Microsoft is happy with the response to the Xbox One X so far, and the company plans to keep up with the “overwhelming” demand.

• We spoke to Shenmue 3's Yu Suzuki about inventing the open world genre, dead-eyed characters and Shenmue 4

  Yu Suzuki has seen it all, game development wise – but he’s never quite made a game like Shenmue 3.

• Microsoft may use the cloud to reduce file sizes for Xbox One games

  As more and more games target 4K resolutions, we’re going to see larger file sizes, but Microsoft may have a solution.

• Star Wars: Battlefront 2 - watch gameplay from all 10 ships available in Starfighter Assault

  EA brought a new build of Star Wars: Battlefront 2 to gamescom, and everyone can’t stop talking about the Starfighter Assault mode.

• Korean Battlegrounds player Evermore wins gamescom solo invitational by trolling his way to the top

  Kyo-min “Evermore” Koo, a Korean PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds player, managed to win the first solo third-person gamescom invitational by sheer points.

• Watch a full race in Need for Speed Payback at 4K 60fps

  We finally have a Need for Speed Payback gameplay video that isn’t showing the same E3 mission, or one that’s less than a minute long.

• The Xbox One X Scorpio Edition stock was sold out in less than a day, says Microsoft

  The Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition has been a success, selling out in hours.

• These 11 minutes of Biomutant gameplay show a much deeper game than we thought

  Watching this Biomutant gameplay trailer will give you a much better idea about the game than any of the previous videos.

• Attack on Titan 2 arrives in early 2018 - watch the first teaser here

  Attack on Titan 2 was announced at gamescom 2017 while we were very busy eating sausages.

• World of Warcraft Legion patch 7.3 Shadows of Argus takes us to another planet on a spaceship

  What in the hell is happening in World of Warcraft?

• Hearthstone animated short is the Pixar knock-off musical you never knew you needed

  And maybe still don’t. We don’t know what you like.

• "No reason why we shouldn't come back to Mass Effect", says EA boss

  Mass Effect isn’t dead just because it had a bit of an off year.

• Monster Hunter World: see the glider mantle in action, hear Capcom answer veteran questions

  Monster Hunter World fans are in for a bit of a treat today with a double whammy of fresh videos out of gamescom 2017.

• Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus includes not only new characters but returning favorites

  The latest video for Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus introduces us to the cast of supporting characters.

• Overwatch's latest short Rise and Shine stars Mei and her robotic friend Snowball

  As promised, the latest Overwatch short has been released, and it stars climatologist Mei.