Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout's Season 2 of content is on the way. Developer Mediatonic revealed new medieval-themed minigames and costumes during Gamescom Opening Night Live 2020. A giant castle for tail tag and a new block-pushing game where you have to climb over castle walls were revealed, as well as new dragon, knight, Viking, wizard, and witch costumes.

Season 2 won't start for over a month, but when it does, it will have more games and costumes inspired by "epic quests." Despite being hyped beforehand, the Fall Guys segment during Opening Night Live was quick, only showing off new content during a short clip. Many of the same games are returning, albeit with new maps and obstacles. Those include swinging axes and games where you have to physically move ramps and platforms around in order to, say, jump through a floating ring that's otherwise out of reach.

Fall Guys lead designer Joe Walsh started out his Gamescom appearance by thanking fans for the game's runaway success. He had previously promised that a lot of new content was in the works for the game, so expect more beyond the second season. We also know that, in China, a mobile version of Fall Guys is in the works--meanwhile, we're hopeful that the game will come to other platforms around the world.

During Gamescom: Opening Night Live 2020, a new gameplay trailer was shown for Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. The trailer shows off pivotal moments from the Skywalker Saga, but of course, with TT Games style of humor that we’ve come to expect from the Lego video game series.

You can check out the new trailer for the title down below:

Here’s a description of the game from its Steam page for more info:

The galaxy is yours with LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga! Play through all nine Star Wars™ saga films in a brand-new LEGO video game unlike any other. Experience fun-filled adventures, whimsical humor, and the freedom to fully immerse yourself in the Star Wars universe like never before.

For the first time ever in a LEGO video game, explore the galaxy your way as you fly to some of the saga’s most legendary locales. You can start your journey with Star Wars™: The Phantom Menace for some podracing on Tatooine. Or choose to launch right into Rey’s adventures in Star Wars™: The Rise of Skywalker. Players have the freedom to seamlessly travel to any planet, in any order, at any time.

A new trailer for Star Wars: Squadrons is coming in hotter than a tauntaun’s guts, fresh out of Gamescom Opening Night Live. It shows more of the story campaign, which’ll have us playing on flying for both the Empire and New Republic, seeing two sides of a weird time in Star Wars history. That ‘weird time’ being before shortly after Palpatine died but a good few years before they discovered actually he was fine and his clones were sewing their wild oats across the galaxy and… welp. Here, watch the new Squadrons trailer and I promise it will remind you of none of that.

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Are you looking for a turn-based, time-warping first-person shooter? Get ready to do some loops. Time loops, that is. Ratloop Games and Frontier Foundry showed the game off at Gamescom Opening Night Live today. The game is slated to hit sometime in early 2021.

Lemnis Gate features four-dimensional combat where you must master past, present, and future in 25-second rounds in order to come out ahead. Strategy is critical to set up for victory. 

Want to see more? Check out the trailer below. It's pretty loopy! HA!

The Gamescom: Opening Night Live event is happening right this moment. There are tons of games being showcased, and 12 Minutes is one of them. This new trailer reveals three major additions to the 12 Minutes cast in Willem Dafoe, James McAvoy, and Daisy Ridley.

12 Minutes has been shown off a number of times here and there over recent months, since its initial reveal in 2019.

12 Minutes is an interactive thriller that has players assume the role of a man stuck in a mysterious time loop. What’s going on? How do you escape the loop? That’s up to you to find out once you get your hands on it.

There’s no official launch date yet, but Annapurna Interactive continues to drum up hype with each trailer that it releases.

Check out the cast trailer below to hear Willem Dafoe’s narration alongside some gameplay from the upcoming 12 Minutes:

If you’re looking to see more games from Gamescom, you can follow along, or find the reveals that you missed directly from the Gamescom Twitch channel.

Today during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live show, Modus Games announced Override 2: Super Mech League.

The game will release for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC in December 2020. 

You can enjoy the trailer revealed during the show below.

Below you can read an official description directly from the game’s Steam page. Beta signups are already available on the official site.

The gigantic robot brawler is Mech-ing a super-charged comeback in Override 2: Super Mech League!

Meet four of the Scarlet Nexus Fubuki Spring team members and learn about their abilities.

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Having a friend along for the ride doesn’t always lessen the terror of a situation, or at least that’s the case in the latest trailer for Little Nightmares II.

Streamed during the Gamescom Opening Night Live digital event held on Aug. 27, the trailer provides a better glimpse at the long-awaited sequel in action. It begins with the two playable characters encountering one another, one of which is already adorned in the paper bag over their head. They then set out together into a moody and atmosheric world, which is almost as beautiful as it is eerie.

Things quickly take a turn for the unnerving though, as the two make their way further into the world in a variety of clips. Large, looming figures seem to be hunting them all the time, and most every corner turned reveals new traps and dangers they need to protect each other from.

All the while, a soft whistling melody which plays throughout the trailer gets more and more distorted, hinting at the deteriorating state of the world the player characters are forced to delve deeper into.

The mood continues to worsen as each new danger becomes more and more unnerving, and the two become separated at some point. It all culminates in the child with the sack on their head coming upon a large figure that snatches them up in the blink of an eye. Shortly after, it’s revealed that the game is slated for release on modern platforms on Feb. 11, 2021, while next-gen consoles will receive a port later in the year.

It’s unnerving, yet captivating, and well worth giving a look down below.

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12 Minutes is an interactive narrative game about a man stuck in a time loop, gradually gathering information to unravel a mystery. During Gamescom's Opening Night Live stream, publisher Annapurna Interactive revealed some surprising star power for the upcoming title. 

James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe all play characters in the game – all names that should need no introduction. Watch the trailer above to get a teaser for the vaguely menacing dialogue.

12 Minutes is releases on Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and PC. According to the video, the game is "coming soon."

For more on 12 Minutes and how its intriguing time loop works, read our impressions from E3 2019.

Murder mystery 12 Minutes re-emerged at Gamescom 2020 opening night with even more polish and an all-star voice cast that includes Daisy Ridley, James McAvoy, and Willem Dafoe.

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It's been a while since we've had a new Lego adventure from TT Games, but that's going to be changing this spring with the release of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. A new trailer shows off the game in action, which features new gameplay and action based on all the mainline entries in the Star Wars franchise.

The trailer is packed with moments from the original trilogy, new prequels, and the most recent adventures with Rey and company. It's a fresh take on many of those older stories, since it includes voice acting from the films – something that wasn't incorporated in a lot of the older pantomime-based games.

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch in spring 2021.

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World of Warcraft is set to receive a fresh new expansion in the form of Shadowlands, and BLizzard Entertainment has released a slew of reveals and promotional material to tide fans over until it launches.

During the Gamescom Opening Night Live digital event held on Aug. 27, Blizzard revealed two new videos tied to the expansion. The first is an animated short setting up the story of the expansion, giving some backstory as to what the Shadowlands entail and what has led to the story taking place in the expansion.

Following a betrayal by a student, a man named Bastion is given a chance at revenge by heavenly beings known as Paladins. He accepts, tracking down his traitorous student and casting him into the Shadowlands; all without realizing that he’s carrying out the deeds of a Paladin that may have her own ends she’s pursuing.

More videos in the same vein are set to be released in the coming weeks, and will play into a larger Afterlives series.

The second video is a trailer of the Shadowlands’ expansion in action. Characters clash with new enemies in dark and dilapidated environments, while a darker force lurks just out of view. The footage culminates in the reveal that the expansion is set to release on Oct. 27, giving fans only a few more months that they’ll need to wait to experience the fresh new content.

Both videos give plenty of insight into what the expansion has in store, and set the tone of the story that will unfold in the coming months. Fans will want to check each out down below as soon as possible.

We just got the biggest look yet at Dragon Age 4 during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live and… they still didn’t really show us much. Not that I’m complaining! A morsel of info on BioWare’s excellent RPG series is enough to sate me months, and the new screens and tiny segments of in-game footage shown tonight will surely keep fans speculating until we finally get a release date. So, what did BioWare actually show? Well, the most interesting thing I reckon was a new look at Solas, who is, of course, making a comeback after his rude exit in Dragon Age: Inquisition.

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During the Gamescom: Opening Night Live presentation, a brand new gameplay trailer was shown for the voxel simulation game Teardown by developers Tuxedo Labs.

In Teardown, your job is to plan “the perfect heist” by solving problems with creativity and brute force. The environment is a Minecraft-like voxel block world where you can literally tear down and destroy everything around you both on foot and in vehicles like trucks and bulldozers.

It’s not all about tearing things down, though; you can use resources to stack objects and build other structures to take advantage of your surroundings.

You can take your time to carve out an escape path, plan the heist, then escape as quickly as possible before security arrives and catches you.

Teardown is planned to release sometime in 2020 for PC. An early access version of the game on Steam is also planned.

If you’re interested in the game, you can find some more information (such as frequently asked questions) on the Teardown official website right here.

You can watch the gameplay trailer that was shown during Gamescom: Opening Night Live below. Be sure to check back at Twinfinite for more game announcements from Gamescom.

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You’ve killed every god, demon and monstrosity in the world of the living – so I s’pose it’s time to quest through the afterlife instead. The next chapter in Blizzard’s seemingly-unstoppable MMO, World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands tonight announced that it’ll open the gates to the collective afterlives in October with two new trailers.

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During Gamescom: Opening Night Live 2020, there was new gameplay shown for the upcoming platformer, Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time. A developer from Toys for Bob revealed that there would be new “Flashback Tapes” for this latest entry in the long-running series.

These Flashback Tape levels give players a peek back into the 90s when Dr. Neo Cortex was testing on Crash and Coco before the events of the first Crash Bandicoot title back on the original PlayStation.

They act as really challenging and creative puzzle rooms for hardcore Crash Bandicoot players that want that extra oomph. These levels can be unlocked by picking them up in regular stages, but you have to obtain them without dying once in the stage.

You can watch the gameplay presentation down below:

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is set to launch on Oct 2 for PS4 and Xbox One.

Here’s a short description of the game from its PS store listing:

It’s About Time – for a brand-wumping new Crash Bandicoot game! Crash fourward into a time shattered adventure with your favorite marsupials.

In a presentation during Gamescom Opening Night, we got a new look at the storytelling coming to Star Wars: Squadrons. As has been previously discussed, players will alternate between playing two distinct pilots, each on opposing sides of the galactic war.

We saw snippets of several missions, from an extraction of a high-value target above Hosnian Prime, to bombing runs at the Nadiri Dockyards. In one brief moment, the trailer also shows a glimpse of fan-favorite character, Hera Syndulla, from Star Wars: Rebels. It appears she’ll play a part in the game’s unfolding narrative.

Check out the trailer below. Star Wars Squadrons is headed for a launch on October 2 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

After Tweeting yesterday that a new game pack would be revealed today at the Gamescom Opening Night Live 2020, EA has kept their promise and The Sims 4 Star Wars Journey to Batuu Game Pack has been unveiled at the event. The release date has also been set as September 8, 2020– just a couple weeks away!

Here’s the trailer below followed up by some highlights.

It looks as though aspects of the Star Wars universe are being pulled straight into The Sims 4, from Stormtroopers to an astromech droid that greatly resembles the beloved R2D2. It also seems like your Sim will get to battle with lightsabers– while sporting some awesome Star Wars inspired gear! Journey to Batuu will likely bring a new world, objects, and aspects of Create-A-Sim to The Sims 4, as seen in the trailer.

Are you going to be buying the upcoming game pack? We can’t wait to learn more! For some more Sims 4 fun while you anticipate September 8, have a go at our personality quiz to see which trait you resemble the most, or check out some of these mods.

It's back - and creepier than ever. Initially announced back at Gamescom last year, Little Nightmares 2 now has a release date of 11th February 2021, and a new gameplay trailer that will definitely keep you up at night.

A sequel to the hit indie platformer from 2017, Little Nightmares 2 once again follows the story of Six, who will be computer-controller, and a new player-character called Mono. That's the one wearing the paper bag, by the way. The new trailer shows a variety of horrifying new monsters and puzzles for the player to overcome, including a rather horrible pianist. If you'd like a more in-depth look at around 15 minutes worth of brand new gameplay, our Ian Higton went hands on with the first level of the game and you can listen to his first impressions in the video below.

Last year I had a chat with the Tarsier devs behind Little Nightmares 2, who were reluctant to give too much away - but could confirm that you can wield a whisk to fight back against the monsters. Useful.

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We're happy to share that @twelveminutesgame will be featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe. Coming soon to Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and PC. Wishlist now: https://t.co/kZKOI5nqN4 pic.twitter.com/6Axjipl1wI

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The four girls are back, sporting new looks and dropping a new song

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Players are excited for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles' return, but there are a lot of variables to what exactly a “return” means.

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Ahri, Kai'Sa, Akali, and Evelynn are back! The League of Legends virtual pop group, K/DA, made waves with their 2018 debut single "POP/STARS,” which reached the top of iTunes K-Pop chart and Billboard World Digital chart. The music video that followed garnered over 340M+ views, earning K/DA the most successful debut for a K-Pop group in YouTube history, but can they strike gold twice? Today, the group made its comeback official, unveiling a new track called “The Baddest.” 

“The Baddest” is now available for your ears, complete with a lyric video. The talent line-up for the song includes SOYEON and MIYEON of K-pop girl group (G)I-DLE, who performed on POP/STARS, alongside new collaborators, BeaMiller and Wolftyla. The single is a part of a brand new EP slated to hit later this year. And yes, K/DA are getting new outfits for the occasion.

“Ever since K/DA premiered their explosive track POP/STARS at the 2018 League of Legends World Championships, fans always ask what’s next for the group,” said Toa Dunn, Head of Riot Games Music in a press release. “We can’t wait for everyone to hear the new track today, followed by the EP later in the year, which is packed with tons of surprises for League of Legends and K/DA fans to enjoy."

We’ll be learning more about the full comeback campaign and new EP in the coming months. 

This game came out of nowhere during Gamescom: Opening Night Live, and I’m sure it shocked just about everyone who was watching the event. In Bridge Constructor The Walking Dead, players will need to save lives and guide survivors while under pressure.

Bridge Constructor The Walking Dead “combines the challenging puzzle gameplay of Bridge Constructor with a post-apocalyptic zombie world in a tricky puzzle game for fans of both series.

If you had this on your Gamescom bingo card, I refuse to believe you.

Check out the trailer below to get a really quick look at some gameplay mixed in with a live-action performance:

If you’re looking to see more games from Gamescom 2020, you can follow along, or find the reveals that you missed directly from the Gamescom Twitch channel.

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The Sims 4 will soon be traveling to a galaxy far, far away in the story-driven expansion Star Wars: Journey to Batuu. Set to release on September 8 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC for $19.99, this licensed content draws heavily from Disney's new Galaxy's Edge theme park. You'll see many of faces from the theme park in the game, and can even build your own lightsaber with its own blade color.

Your Sims characters can dress up in costumes, interact with droids (you'll get your own), and enjoy all things Star Wars in this unexpected new addition to the long running game. As your Sims get to know the Star Wars locals, they can complete missions and challenges for the Resistance, First Order, and Scoundrels. The influence gained in each of these groups changes the world and rewards. Depending on who you side with will determine which starfighter access you get and what costumes you unlock. You'll eventually gain enough influence in a group to meet the leaders, Kylo Ren, Rey, Vi Moradi, and Hondo Ohnaka.

The Sims 4 has had a long and successful run, and it's nice to see it branching out in new ways to bring in even more players. I will likely be one of them because I can't say 'no' to anything Star Wars.

Come September 9, scouring the mod scene to turn your Sims into Jedi and Stormtroopers becomes a thing of the past. The Sims 4 Star Wars: Journey to Batuu game pack will give players the chance to officially make their own Star Wars story.

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Today during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live show, Electronic Arts presented a new trailer of Star Wars: Squadrons.

We get to take a first look at the single-player campaign of the game, which certainly looks awesome. 

In the mission showcased today, we get to experience the story from the Imperial side. The game will let you play both as a rebel and as an Imperial pilot.

You can enjoy the trailer revealed during the show below.

Below you can read an official description of Star Wars: Squadrons.

All Wings Report In – Plan skirmishes with your squadron in the briefing room before taking off to the evolving battlefields across the galaxy. Compete in intense 5v5 multiplayer dogfights or unite with your squadron to tip the scales in monumental fleet battles. Together, you’re the galaxy’s finest.

Head back to the 90's with the more challenging flashback levels in Crash Bandicoot 4.

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