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Xbox’s Aaron Greenberg has confirmed a number of big titles that will be shown off at the publisher’s booth during Gamescom 2024. Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night Live is once again set to kick off Gamescom week in Cologne, Germany, which will take place from August 21 to August 25. Gamescom serves as an opportunity for some of gaming’s biggest publishers, likeXbox, to give fans a final glimpse at some of their big games before they release during the Fall.
Xbox has had a solid 2024 so far in terms of game releases and especially in terms of its showcases. Its second annual Developer Direct kicked the year off right with extended looks atSenua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, Avowed, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and even a surprise appearance from Square Enix, who showcased its upcoming fantasy RPGVisions of Mana. Later on, Xbox held what many believe was its greatest June showcase ever. Xbox fans were enthralled by the dark, gritty, andnostalgic announcement trailer ofGears of War: E-Day, the stunning gameplay reveals ofSouth of MidnightandPerfect Dark, and the literal bone-crunching reveal of Bethesda’sDoom: The Dark Ages, among many other surprises.
It seems Xbox still has a lot in store for fans come Gamescom, as VP of Xbox Games Marketing Aaron Greenberg tweeted out what fans will be able to expect beginning on August 20. In the tweet, Greenberg name-drops six of 50 games that fans can go hands on with at the massive, 240-station Xbox booth:Age of Mythology: Retold,Ara: History Untold,Towerborne,Diablo 4’s Vessel of Hatred expansion,Fallout 76’s Milepost Zero, andThe Elder Scrolls Online’s Gold Road.
Xbox Games Confirmed To Appear At Gamescom 2024
Greenberg went on to confirm that major first-party Xbox releasesAvowed,Indiana Jones and the Great Circle,andStarfield’s Shattered Space DLC will show face with new looks at Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night Live showcase. Shattered Space andIndiana Joneswill likely receive their final release dates at the show, and fans looking forward to Obsidian’s fantasy RPG may learnwhetherAvowedis officially going to be pushed into 2025, as the recent Tom Warren rumor suggests. It would be a safe bet to also expect other major Xbox titles, likeSTALKER 2andMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2024to be playable at Xbox’s booth as well, seeing that they’re both set to land this November.
Xbox fans surely have lots to look forward to later this month whenGamescom kicks off with Opening Night Live on August 20. Not only can fans expect to learn the release dates for major first-party Xbox games likeIndiana JonesandAvowed, but they can likely expect to see new gameplay footage from the 50 playable games at Xbox’s booth. What exactly the rest of these 50 games are is still a mystery, so Xbox fans will have to tune in to Gamescom from August 20 to August 25 to find out.
Xbox Series X
Microsoft’s ninth-generation console, the Xbox Series X is a powerful machine that can support 4K resolution and 60 fps, depending on the game. Released alongside the Xbox Series S, the Series X has a Custom AMD Zen 2 CPU, a Custom RDNA 2 GPU, and 16 GB of RAM.
