While the tutorial portion of Marvel’s The Avengers has been shown behind closed doors at both 2019’s E3 and Comic-Con, we’d been left curiously in the dark as to what the game actually is. The fluid frantic action of the front roster – Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, and Black Widow – was nice to look at, but Square Enix had given us little information beyond the team’s aesthetics and the basics of how they play in combat…until now.
At Gamescom 2019, we not only went hands-on with that same tutorial to get a real feel for how it controlled, but we also learned a whole heap of new information that paints a picture of a deeply ambitious, ever-evolving experience that blends the loot-shooter hook of Destiny with the story-driven heart of the MCU. There’s a lot to unpack here, so let’s get started.
The new trailer for Destiny 2: Shadowkeep shows a Vex army amassing, so prepare to shoot a bunch of them in the face when Season of the Undying begins. You can watch the trailer above.
Destiny 2: Shadowkeep will launch on October 1, bringing major changes to the Destiny 2 experience. On the same day, Destiny 2: New Light will make all previous content free-to-play, but existing Destiny fans will need to purchase the expansion to access new content. A few days after the expansion drops, on October 5, Season of the Undying will kick off. All purchases of Shadowkeep will come with a season pass, so this will be accessible to anyone diving into the expansion.
Shadowkeep will take you back to the Moon, which we haven’t been back to since Destiny 1, but this trailer is showing off the raid that will take place in the Black Garden. This looks like it’s going to follow through on some of the narrative threads dropped at the end of the original game’s campaign, which is good – players have waited years to learn more about the Vex.
Destiny 2 is also getting cross save on August 21, which will make it easy to import your characters and progress as you see fit.
Gamescom 2019 is officially in full swing, and plenty of excellent new trailers have already premiered. With so many new cinematic and gameplay trailers making their debut, we’ve decided to compile our favorites. Be sure to check back here throughout Gamescom as more trailers are released.
We’ve put our favorites that actually feature gameplay first, but that doesn’t make the cinematic trailers any less cool. Other than that distinction, the trailers aren’t listed in any particular order. Although there were many trailers for triple-A titles scheduled to launch in the Fall 2019 season, most of the best trailers at Gamescom have been for indie games. Notable titles include Everspace 2—sequel to one of the best roguelike games of 2016–and pinbrawler Creature in the Well. However, there are quite a few standouts for the major releases too, such as Destiny 2 and Death Stranding–the latter of which got three new trailers.
Best Gameplay Gamescom Trailers
Creature In The Well
Creature in the Well sees you play as a cute robot engineer who must stop a monstrous entity that has destroyed the weather machine that keeps the town of Mirage safe from vicious sandstorms. In the Creature in the Well 101 trailer, creative director Adam Volker walks through how the game works–a hack-and-slash dungeon crawler imbued with pinball mechanics.
Darksiders Genesis
Darksiders Genesis reworks the franchise’s Zelda-like combat and exploration into a top-down hack-and-slash RPG. Fully playable in co-op–which can be seen in the new trailer–you and a friend can team up as two of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Strife and War. This will be the first game in the Darksiders franchise to focus on Strife.
Death Stranding finally has a gameplay trailer. Unfortunately, the story for the game is still about as clear as mud. We’re still excited to see what Hideo Kojima has in store with this upcoming PS4 exclusive, largely because its gameplay seems rife for hilarious misadventures and odd moments.
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Death Stranding – Official Gameplay Reveal | Gamescom 2019
Gears 5, New Xbox One Controllers, And More From The Inside Xbox Gamescom Stream – GS News Update
Gamescom 2019 Opening Night Live Hosted By Geoff Keighley
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Gunfight PS4 Alpha Coming Soon – GS News Update
Announced at Gamescom, Everspace 2 won’t release until 2021, but its gameplay trailer already makes the game look really cool. Though Everspace seems to be adding new locations and ship designs, plenty of weapons and gadgets look familiar.
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Everspace 2 – Official Reveal Trailer | Gamescom 2019
Gears 5, New Xbox One Controllers, And More From The Inside Xbox Gamescom Stream – GS News Update
Gamescom 2019 Opening Night Live Hosted By Geoff Keighley
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Gunfight PS4 Alpha Coming Soon – GS News Update
Speaking of surprising sequels, the story of Little Nightmares will continue in Little Nightmares II. This sequel puts you in control of a brand-new character and takes place in a much more open area than the first game.
Best Cinematic Gamescom Trailers
Destiny 2: Shadowkeep – Season Of The Undying
The first seasonal content drop for the Shadowkeep expansion for Destiny 2, titled Season of the Undying, starts October 5. In the latest trailer, a brief cinematic sees Ikora Rey narrate as an army of Vex emerges from a portal connected to the Black Garden.
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Destiny 2: Shadowkeep – Official Season Of The Undying Trailer
Gears 5, New Xbox One Controllers, And More From The Inside Xbox Gamescom Stream – GS News Update
Gamescom 2019 Opening Night Live Hosted By Geoff Keighley
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Gunfight PS4 Alpha Coming Soon – GS News Update
Publisher Private Division–the same studio attached to upcoming games like The Outer Worlds and Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey–announced Disintegration at Gamescom, and also released a new trailer for the sci-fi first-person shooter. Though mostly a cinematic trailer, there is some gameplay thrown in there too.
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Disintegration – Official Gameplay Announcement Trailer
Gears 5, New Xbox One Controllers, And More From The Inside Xbox Gamescom Stream – GS News Update
Gamescom 2019 Opening Night Live Hosted By Geoff Keighley
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Gunfight PS4 Alpha Coming Soon – GS News Update
Death Stranding got two new cinematic trailers during Gamescom, both of which further fleshed out two of the game’s characters. The first focuses on Mama, while the second sees main character Sam meet Deadman.
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Death Stranding – Mama Character Trailer | Gamescom 2019
Gears 5, New Xbox One Controllers, And More From The Inside Xbox Gamescom Stream – GS News Update
Gamescom 2019 Opening Night Live Hosted By Geoff Keighley
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Gunfight PS4 Alpha Coming Soon – GS News Update
The small, undockable Switch Lite will be out in a matter of weeks, but Nintendo already has an answer for anyone hoping to upgrade their Switch experience without sacrificing convertibility. Unofficially dubbed the “New” Switch, it looks exactly like the existing model, but inside lies a more capable battery, and a screen with a slightly warmer color temperature than the previous version.
For every other console family, setting up your account and accessing your games on a new system is a straightforward process. This usually involves logging into an account with your email and password on the new system, and at worst, deactivating your old one online or via the console’s settings menu. Unfortunately, Nintendo has never made it this easy, and the Switch transfer process is no different. CNET’s Ashley Esqueda gave us a glimpse into her experience transferring to a new Switch.
You can get the new, improved Switch for $75 by trading in your old one at GameStop, and the console is also available to purchase at several other retailers listed below. If you decide to transfer your save data from your old Switch to the new one, here’s exactly what you’re in for.
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Xbox Game Pass for PC was announced and launched during E3 2019 and has since accrued a significant library of awesome games. These include first-party titles like Forza Horizon 4 and Sea of Thieves, in addition to third-party games like Metro Exodus, Prey, and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Now, Alienware is giving away free one-month keys for the program.
You can claim your free month of Xbox Game Pass for PC here, but you should act fast: there’s less than 4,000 codes left at the time of writing. You’ll need to sign up for an Alienware Arena account, which shouldn’t take long but has been causing some people (including myself) a little trouble due to the volume of people visiting the site. Once you login or create your account, you can claim your key and redeem it in the Xbox app (you may need to update your Windows 10 PC to access it).
Thankfully, if you’re an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriber like myself, you’re still eligible to redeem your free-month code. There is a catch, however. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate bundles Xbox Live Gold with Xbox Game Pass for both the Xbox One and PC, and if you redeem your free-month code for the PC version of Game Pass, it converts it into 20 days of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.
In related news, new subscribers can get two months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $2. That’s an awesome deal for a subscription service that grants you access to a bunch of games on both Xbox One and PC. Some of my favourite games from this year are included–Metro Exodus and Void Bastards–and you can also expect to see Gears 5 hit the service on September 10. You can see some of the latest additions to Xbox Game Pass here.
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima took to the stage at Geoff Keighly’s Gamescom press conference to reveal more new footage of Death Stranding. While the story information we got was still vague, we’re slowly getting more details about the way it plays. Hopefully we’ll have an even clearer picture of Death Stranding by the time it comes out in November, but for now, we’ll have to keep scratching our heads as we analyze and outline the scraps that Kojima feeds us.
The Gamescom gameplay trailer for the PS4-exclusive featured just a sliver of gameplay. Actor Norman Reedus plays protagonist Sam Bridges, whose mission to reconnect the fractured societies of the world amid the bleak remains of a ruined North America grows all the more intriguing with each new reveal.
Here’s an analysis of the most interesting details from the new gameplay footage. If you’re eager to learn even more about the game’s story and characters, be sure to read our in-depth analysis of the previous Death Stranding trailer.
The internet was abuzz with talk of the high-flying Marvel hero Nova after a Wired video featuring the Russo brothers answering fan questions saw them reveal that Nova Richard Rider was somewhere in the final battle of Avengers: Endgame. However, the Russos then released a statement to ComicBook.com that they were joking and Nova is not in Endgame.
“Look closely at that scene again and you will see … Richard Rider in the background of the shot. Easter egg,” Joe Russo said in the original Wired video, only for Joe to later clarify via email, “That was actually a joke on our part.”
