gamescom 2013

Music festival tycoon: Big Fest, a new game in which players become a virtual music promoter, will be coming to PlayStation Vita, Sony announced. Sony said the game's soundtrack will feature unsigned real-life bands, giving players a chance to help a new act get discovered.

Good news, Fez fans. Today during their Gamescom press conference, Sony announced that the brilliant indie platformer Fez is coming to Vita. Team that game up with Spelunky, and it looks like my Vita's gonna gradually transform from a JRPG machine into an indie platformer machine.

Gran Turismo 6 will launch on Dec. 6 for PlayStation 3.

The Battlefield 4 beta will kick off in early October, EA announced today. Platform details to come.

EA Sports UFC in May? Brian Hayes of EA Canada, developer of EA Sports UFC just said the game is "about nine months away from release." That would mean the mixed-martial arts title would be due for a May 2014 launch. So far, EA Sports has said only Spring 2014. A first look at gameplay was shown at Gamescom 2013.

The first expansion to Plants Vs. Zombies 2 will be set in the future, the game's creators at PopCap just announced at a Gamescom EA kick-off event. The free-to-play game has already been downloaded some 16 million times since its release last week.

Command & Conquer: Episodic, story driven missions will be coming to Command and Conquer next year, Victory Games said on stage today at Gamescom. The missions may be played alone or cooperatively.