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The good news, here’s a new trailer for Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. The bad news, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has slipped from a 2020 release to spring 2021. At least we know what gameplay looks like now, so we can hurt about the delay more. Yay!

The latest World of Warcraft expansion finally has a release date. Announced during today’s Gamescom event, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands will arrive October 27th. Check out the release date trailer below:

Today, during the Gamescom “Opening Night Live” event, Bethesda announced the release date for Doom Eternal’s first expansion. It’s called The Ancient Gods and is split into two parts. The first comes out October 20. Rip and tear!

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Star Renegades’ art style looks even hotter in this new trailer. The role-playing roguelike always had lush pixel graphics, but the developers over at Massive Damage have added a bunch of depth that almost gives the game a Mode 7 look. The game is due out on PC and console next spring.

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In this video released for Gamescom, Japanese Keanu and Pokémon Sword and Shield game director Shigeru Ohmori takes us on a tour of one of the game’s quaint little villages. It’s got a Pokémon Center, a clothing shop, and it’s conveniently located along the Galar region railway. Take your seat, the train will be

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Disintegration, the new game from V1 Interactive, the studio headed by Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto, just got its first trailer. There’s only a bit of gameplay, but it looks fun—and will reportedly come with both a story campaign and multiplayer.

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Kerbal Space Program is getting a sequel. Announced during today’s Gamescom opening presentation, Kerbal Space Program 2 will be coming to PC, PS4, and Xbox One next year.

This year’s Gamescom may be more of an event to watch. Friend of the site Geoff Keighley is creating “Gamescom: Opening Night Live” which he describes to Kotaku as “sort of like an all-in-one press conference” full of game announcements and news. It will stream from Cologne, Germany at 2pm ET on Monday, August 19, to Read more

After briefly getting the world excited over the prospect of a new hardware announcement at Gamescom next month, Microsoft has changed a line in its blog post from promising “all-new Xbox hardware and accessories” to “new Xbox One bundles and accessories.” Whoops!

Normally you’d expect a video game event to be ceremonially opened by, say, a video game executive, but Europe’s big 2017 show—GamesCom, in Köln—will be kicked off on August 22 by none other than the Leader Of The Free World herself, German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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