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During a development update at Gamescom Opening Night Live, Horizon: Forbidden West’s director Mathijs de Jonge confirmed the sequel wll hit PS4/PS5 on 18th February 2022.

Originally slated to have a “Holiday 2021” release window, Horizon Forbidden West was recently heavily rumored to be delayed to next year. de Jonge confirmed that the sequel is now on track for 2022, citing a healthy work/life balance was important for the Guerilla Games team as they developed Forbidden West during the 2020 pandemic and beyond.

“While the decision to move the game’s launch to 2022 certainly wasn’t easy,” said de Jonge, “we’d like to take a moment to thank all of our fans for their unwavering support; we know how much you’ve been looking forward to reuniting with Aloy and her friends, continuing her story, and exploring a new and more dangerous world. Your passion, fan art, cosplay, virtual photography, and videos have meant the world to all of us.”

Pre-orders for Horizon: Forbidden West will lift September 2, 2021. It was also announced that Horizon Zero Dawn will be getting a 4K, 60 FPS patch for PS5.

You can read IGN’s in-depth story on why so many games have been delayed in 2021.

An open beta for Amazon’s New World MMO has been revealed during Opening Night Live, set to take place from September 9 to September 12. This beta will allow anyone to try New World out ahead of its eventual September 28 release.

While exact details weren’t shared, Amazon also discussed its desire support New World with post-launch content and updates. One thing hinted at was a common player request for more supernatural weapons and elements, which will arrive in some form “shortly after launch.” Additionally, more group content and expeditions seem to be on the docket toward the holiday season.

New World was recently delayed by a month, pushing it back into September. Despite this, its closed beta has been a huge success on Steam, and our preview was pretty positive. Its high-level PvE zones also show real promise for its end-game, and so – fingers crossed – New World could be another MMO with a long life ahead of it.

Horizon Zero Dawn just received a surprise 60 FPS update on PlayStation 5 that ups the performance of Guerrilla Games’ adventure game on Sony’s next-gen console.

During Opening Night Live, Guerrilla announced that the 60 FPS update is live now on PlayStation 5. Download the update now and play Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition with a boosted performance. The update also brings 4K checkerboard resolution to PS5 players.

Surprise announcement we know you’ve been waiting for: the Enhanced Performance Patch for Horizon Zero Dawn on PlayStation 5 is live now!

🔥 Unlocks 60 FPS Mode
✨ 4K Checkerboard Resolution
🎮 Free for all PS5 players#HorizonZeroDawn pic.twitter.com/HdiuNNBTmS

— Guerrilla (@Guerrilla) August 25, 2021

The update went live prior to the announcement on Opening Night Live, meaning eagle-eyed fans were able to download the update and potentially start playing in the new frame rate already.

Guerrilla Games also announced a release date for the sequel Horizon Forbidden West, which is now coming on February 18, 2022.

Check out IGN’s full Gamescom coverage for news, trailers, and other announcements, or check out IGN’s Horizon Zero Dawn review.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

JETT: The Far Shore, the mysterious space exploration game from Superbrothers and Pine Scented Software will be released on October 5 for PS5, PS4, and PC via the Epic Games Store.

First revealed during last year’s PS5 reveal event showcase, JETT preorders will begin today and feature a 20% discount off its $29.99 price. The developers confirmed its launch today alongside a new cinematic trailer debuted during gamescom’s Opening Night Live ceremony.

JETT is a single-player adventure that puts players in the role of Mei, a scout sent alongside a group of explorers to an alien, ocean planet where her people hope to forge their new future. Players will explore the planet via a “jett,” a ship that can skim across land and sea, as they investigate local flora and fauna, encounter new challenges, and seek to understand the source of the mysterious “hymnwave,” which has been the impetus for Mei’s people to look to the stars for salvation.

Players will also get to learn more about Mei’s fellow travelers in first-person sequences and gain a better understanding of this dangerous but important mission.

Though tentatively planned for a 2020 launch, JETT was delayed into 2021 late last year, while earlier in 2021 during a State of Play, Superbrothers offered a detailed deep dive of what JETT’s gameplay would be like.

Jonathon Dornbush is IGN’s Senior Features Editor, PlayStation Lead, and host of Podcast Beyond! He’s the proud dog father of a pup named Loki. Talk to him on Twitter @jmdornbush.

If you haven’t been following events like Pearl Abyss Connect, you might have missed DokeV — a creature-catching adventure from the makers of Black Desert Online that just got an explosively colorful new trailer at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021.

DokeV is an open world action-adventure game where you befriend strange creatures called Dokebi that gain power from the dreams of people. With them, you explore the world, catch more even creatures, and get into fights. A lengthy trailer today showed off lots of activities, including battling, skateboarding around town, floating using an umbrella, a grappling hook, a jet ski, a tiny car, and plenty of unusual creature friends like a cute pink anteater on two legs, a bear with boxing gloves, and an adorable rideable alpaca thing.

DokeV isn’t a new reveal — it was first announced in 2019 at Pearl Abyss Connect and is being built on Pearl Abyss’ next-gen proprietary game engine. It’s planned for release on PC and console, but unfortunately we still don’t know when yet, as we didn’t get a release window at Gamescom today.

But from what we saw today, DokeV looks incredible, especially given that most of the footage we saw seemed to be actual gameplay. Black Desert Online was lauded at launch (including by us!) for its incredible attention to detail, and DokeV looks like it might follow in those footsteps with next-gen tech. Hopefully it avoids Black Desert’s more grindy shortcomings.

DokeV is just one of a number of games to get new trailers and announcements at Gamescom Opening Night Live today. You can follow this and IGN’s other Gamescom coverage over the rest of the week right here.

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

A previous version of this article referred to DokeV as an MMO as developer Pearl Abyss has referred to it this way in the past. Pearl Abyss reached out post-publication to clarify that the game is more correctly described as an open-world action adventure and is not an MMO. This has been corrected above.

Bandai Namco and Limbic Entertainment have announced Park Beyond, a new theme park management game with rides that look far more fantastical than their real-life counterparts.

Revealed at Gamescom 2021’s Opening Night Live, Park Beyond’s trailer introduces the concept of “impossification”. The idea is to transform standard theme park rides into creations that defy the laws of engineering and physics. Introduced in the short trailer is a multi-tiered carousel, a Ferris wheel with multiple interlocked wheels, a rocket-powered roller coaster, and an animatronic kraken ride.

These wonderful and ambitious ride designs look to be Park Beyond’s unique selling point over the ever-popular Planet Coaster, which it will presumably share a lot of DNA with.

Park Beyond is planned to release in 2022, on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

For more from this week’s huge summer gaming event, check out our Gamescom 2021 schedule. And for more from the world of theme park management, be sure to check out the trailer for Planet Coaster’s console edition, which released last year.

Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer.

A new look at Jurassic World Evolution 2 has been offered up as part of Opening Night Live, where a release date was also announced.

Revealed as part of the first big event of Gamescom 2021, Jurassic World Evolution will release November 9.

The announce date was accompanied by a pretty trailer that showcased both the dinosaurs and park elements

Jurassic World Evolution 2 was revealed last June, and is the sequel to Frontier’s dinosaur-themed park management game. Very little extra has been revealed since E3 2021, but we have had a trailer dedicated to the Triceratops, and a developer diary all about the game’s evolution beyond its predecessor.

After a very long wait, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga still doesn’t have a proper release date but is targeting a Spring 2022 release date.

Announced during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live, a new trailer for LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga showed off LEGO-fied events from the entire Skywalker movie saga, including Star Wars Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker.

The new trailer recreates specific moments from Rise of the Skywalker, including the scene where Rey jumps over Kylo Ren’s TIE Fighter. Check out screenshots of the new trailer below.

We’ve been waiting for a new release date since the game was delayed earlier this year. It’s not the game’s first delay after it was announced during E3 2019. The game is a compilation of all 9 mainline Star Wars movies, and aside from its funny rewrites of classic scenes, it also features a gorgeous new look.

Unfortunately, we still don’t have a proper release date, but Star Wars LEGO fans can look forward to Spring 2022 as a possible release window, barring any further delays.

UFL is a new soccer game aiming to take on the genre’s core games, FIFA and eFootball. It will be available for free on all major gaming consoles.

Announced during Gamescom‘s Opening Night Live, UFL is a football simulation set up as a global online football league in which “players will be able to create their own football clubs made up of more than 5000 licensed footballers and compete with other gamers worldwide to prove their skills and climb to the very top of the league.”

It comes from a new studio, Strikerz Inc., which has been developing the game for five years already. The game was introduced as “Fair to play”, with an emphasis on player skill, and no pay-to-win elements. It is being developed in Unreal Engine, and a release date will be announced “soon”.

“We are football fans and passionate gamers — we have been playing football video games for years and we know exactly what people want to see in a football simulator,” said CEO Eugene Nashilov in a press release. “We want to reinvent football video gaming from the ground up, offering players around the world a revolutionary, exciting and fair to play experience. We can’t wait to share more about the game.”

Players will be rated in-game based on partnerships with sports performance analysis company InStat, and player union FIFPRO is providing player likenesses and licenses.