Author: Sarah Connor
We love summer music festivals, so here at Wargaming, our team at World of Tanks Modern Armor has made it a mission to bring you a hard-rockin’ annual music event that truly shakes the battlefield: Metal Fest.New tanks, new 3D Commanders, new Challenges and events: they’re all part of what Metal Fest offers each summer. But this is our third year of the event, coming to you on PS4 and PS5 starting August 26. We knew we had to go bigger and louder than ever.To borrow some lyrics you might know, we wanted the best—and we got the best.This year,…
Category: gamescomAugust 21, 2025 Onimusha: Way of the Sword Is a Modern, Graceful Action Classic-in-Waiting Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief It’s such a simple decision – in Onimusha: Way of the Sword, pressing the block button lets you deflect or parry attacks from any direction. Your character, Musashi Miyamoto, will seamlessly pull his katana into just the right position, sometimes readjusting for multiple strikes on the fly. It’s a single gameplay choice that says so much about this game, and offers so much to the player – built to dominate more than struggle. Plus, performing a no-look block just feels…
Category: gamescomAugust 21, 2025 Super Meat Boy 3D Adds Multiple New Dimensions to a Classic Platformer Danielle Partis I am the proud of owner of an achievement for the Xbox 360 release of Super Meat Boy where the aim is to complete an entire chapter without dying. It’s something that I bring up whenever possible, as a testament to my skill and commitment to mastering one of the most frustrating (and satisfying) modern platformers of a generation. So when the opportunity to hop into a demo of Super Meat Boy 3D arose at this year’s gamescom, I had to do…
Category: gamescomAugust 21, 2025 There Are No Ghosts at the Grand Is Exactly as Unusual as You’d Hoped Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief The first-ever public demo of There Are No Ghosts at the Grand takes me just under half an hour to finish. And yet, in that short time, this game morphs from a comedy hotel renovation sim, into boat repair, then an interactive musical, then a small-scale survival game, then a narrative horror and, finally, (checks notes) a first-person shooter that involves firing furniture at haunted armchairs with spider legs. If you, like me, watched the Xbox Games…
Category: gamescomAugust 21, 2025 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of Giants DLC – First Hands-on Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Here’s a sentence I didn’t think I’d type one day – I spent a very long time exploring the secrets of the Vatican. And I wasn’t the only one. After Indiana Jones and the Great Circle arrived last year, it became a common theme to hear how players had become obsessed with seeing all the marbled halls and mysterious chambers MachineGames had offered in its Indy adventure. As the first truly open area in the game, it’s…
Category: gamescom Invincible VS: Going Hands-on with Three New Characters (Including Omni-Man) Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published August 21, 2025 SummaryWe tap back in with some more hands-on time for the upcoming Invincible VS. from Quarter Up, a Skybound studio.Omni-Man, Rex Splode, and Battle Beast showcase their brutal moves at gamescom 2025.Invincible VS is set for release in 2026 for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox PC, and Xbox Cloud as an Xbox Play Anywhere title, available for wish listing today on the Xbox Store. If you’ve watched or read the excellent “Invincible,” you’re probably aware of just how brutal the…
Category: Xbox Game PassAugust 20, 2025 Dragon Age: The Veilguard Comes to EA Play August 28 Juliet NiczewiczSenior Director, Corporate Communications, EA SummaryImmersive single-player RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard comes to EA Play on August 28.Select from different races and combat classes, customize your appearance, choose your character’s backstory, and begin your journey as Rook, Dragon Age’s newest hero.Face larger-than-life foes as you traverse diverse environments in this dramatic campaign. Enter the world of Thedas, a vibrant land of rugged wilderness, treacherous labyrinths, and glittering cities – steeped in conflict and secret magics. Now, a pair of corrupt ancient gods…
Rev your engines, racers, there’s new Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds news that just dropped at Gamescom. Over the past few days, Sonic has dominated the newsfeeds with not one, but two trailer drops, featuring huge reveals. Play Video The first was a crossover no one saw coming – two iconic retro gaming heroes coming together in a universe-shattering collaboration: Sonic the Hedgehog and Pac-Man playable in each other’s upcoming games. Sonic joins Pac-Man in Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac for an explosive birthday celebration, featuring Sonic-inspired levels, costumes, and more. Then, Pac-Man and Team Ghost put their racing skills to the test…
Similar to many global businesses, we continue to navigate a challenging economic environment. As a result, we’ve made the difficult decision to increase the recommended retail price for PlayStation 5 consoles in the U.S. starting on August 21. The updated recommended retail price for PlayStation 5 consoles in the U.S. are as follows: PlayStation 5 – $549.99 PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – $499.99 PlayStation 5 Pro – $749.99 The recommended retail prices for PlayStation 5 accessories remain unchanged, and we have no other price changes to announce for additional markets. Go to Source (PlayStation.com)
Category: gamescomAugust 20, 2025 Keeper’s First Extended Gameplay Shows Us an Ever-Changing Adventure Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief There’s a primal human pleasure in simply finding out what something does. It’s the reason you’d still want to push a button that says “do not touch”, or wonder what’s behind a locked door. Keeper thrives on that idea, building out a game of discoveries and experiments around it. Seeing extended gameplay for the first time at gamescom, Keeper’s key trick – of telling its story in a never-before-seen world, all without words – means that almost everything you do is less…