Game Bites: Gamescom Is This Week And Original Quake Goes 4K
It’s been a little wait but we got some news for you this week. The world of video gaming has been a bit quiet recently but with certain events coming up that’s about to change.
This week starting on Wednesday is Gamescom. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a big game conference much like E3 that happens in Germany each year. This year much like E3 it will be streamed online. The streaming technically starts on Tuesday, Aug. 24, with a stream from Xbox, but the official start is on Wednesday starting at 10:30 a.m. PT and ending on Friday at 2:30 p.m. PT.
Last week we had a Pokémon Presents event that featured a few updates of current titles as well as more information of newer unreleased titles. The two biggest games they showed were the remakes of Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl, respectively called Shining Pearl and Brilliant Diamond. The iconic games will be done in a chibi art style and the gameplay seems to have been updated since the last showing of it. The other game they focused on was Pokémon Legends: Arceus. An open world Pokémon game, Legends: Arceus is the first entry of that kind into the Pokémon series. The new trailer showed off the new fighting system as well as more of the areas, new pokémon, and a closer look at the main town hub.
One of the biggest pieces of game news this week was the announcement of a remaster of Quake, which is a 4k version of the beloved shooter. The game is out on all consoles as well as Steam as a way to celebrate the game’s 25th anniversary. The remastered version has the games classic and iconic soundtrack back as well as a new expansion entitled “Dimension of the Machine.”
It’s been two weeks of video game releases and a lot of games came out in that time. Released on August 10th were Action Arcade Wrestling (PlayStation 4, Xbox One), Black Book (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, PC), Button City (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PC), Godfall (PlayStation 4), Lawn Mowing Simulator (Xbox Series X/S, PC), Library of Ruina (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC), Sam & Max Save The World Remastered (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One) and Shadowverse: Champion’s Battle (Switch). On the 11th were Axiom Verge 2 (PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch, PC), Boyfriend Dungeon (Switch), Dwarrows (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One), Garden Story (Switch, PC), Glitchpunk (PC), Icarus (PC), Necrobarista (Switch), Seed of Life (PC) and Slime Rancher (Switch). Released on August 12th were Art of Rally (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch), Blair Witch (PlayStation VR), Foreclosed (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, Stadia, PC) and Naraka: Bladepoint (PC); while the 13th had Hades (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One) and PAW Patrol: The Movie Adventure City Calls (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch). On the 16th and 17th of August released were Road 96 (Switch, PC), Greak: Memories Of Azur (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PC), Humankind (PC), Marvel’s Avengers – War for Wakanda (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Stadia, PC), and Young Souls (Stadia). The last busiest video game release dates were the 19th and 20th, with Monster Train (Switch), Quake (2021) (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, PC), Recompile (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC), RiMS Racing (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, PC), The Vale: Shadow of the Crown (Xbox One, PC) and Twelve Minutes (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC) released on the 19th while Arietta of Spirits (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, PC) Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut (PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4) and Madden NFL 22 (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Stadia, PC) released on the 20th.
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