Three days of live broadcasting are part of Microsoft’s fully disclosed plans for Gamescom 2024.
Microsoft said on Xbox Wire that starting on Wednesday, August 21, and ending on Friday, August 23, it will be streaming several times a day from its Xbox booth at the expo. With first-look gameplay, developer interviews, and brand-new trailers, these will provide a more in-depth look at the many titles that Xbox is scheduled to release in the upcoming months. Bethesda, a company owned by Microsoft, will also provide daily multimedia streams from the booth.
Stalker 2, Atomfall, Age of Mythology, Star Wars Outlaws, Towerborne, Avowed, Ara: History Untold, and the World of Warcraft expansion The War Within are among the games scheduled to appear during these sessions.
After acquiring Activision Blizzard, Xbox now owns every video game franchise.
Although there have been many rumors that Microsoft will announce the launching of an Xbox portable at Gamescom 2024, it appears that this announcement will not take place there. Here, however, the emphasis is on previously revealed titles like Stalker 2 from GSC Game World, Avowed from Obsidian, and Star Wars Outlaws from Ubisoft.
Fallout 76 and The Elder Scrolls Online are two of Bethesda’s popular multiplayer games. Later this year, the Starfield expansion Shattered Space is expected to be released. Activision, a division of Microsoft, did not have any titles featured in the Xbox article, but Blizzard is there to showcase the expansions for Diablo 4 and World of Warcraft.
Conversely, Sony and Nintendo have declared that they will not be attending Gamescom in 2024. Nintendo and Sony both stated in April that they had no intentions to produce the show, according to Eurogamer.
Nintendo’s decision was unexpected considering that it had recently attended Gamescom, but Sony’s decision was predicted as the company had not attended in a long time. However, a quieter 2024 makes sense because the Nintendo Switch successor system is not expected to launch until 2025.
Microsoft’s massive Gamescom 2024 endeavor coincides with severe layoffs that have resulted in the departure of 1,900 employees from its gaming division and the closure of many Bethesda companies, including Redfall developer Arkane Austin and Hi-Fi Rush creator Tango Gameworks. When speaking about these layoffs in June, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer insisted that he had to make “tough decisions” to operate a long-term company.
