Gamescom’s ONL shows 2023 is a great year for games | Kaser Focus

Gamescom held its Opening Night Live earlier this week and, barring a stage jumper, showed off a number of trailers for upcoming games. We didn’t get very many new announcements, but what we did see affirmed one of my beliefs: 2023 is just a really darned fun year for games. It’s almost September, and by rights I feel that I should have only a couple of games to look forward to in the remaining few months of the year — after all, I’m figuratively stuffed from what I’ve already eaten. But no, there’s a lot more on the way. It’s like all the delays have finally paid off and we’re getting all the games at once.

Among the trailers for the games coming out this year at Gamescom’s ONL, we saw (in no particular order): Alan Wake 2 (Oct 27), Assassin’s Creed Mirage (Oct 5), Payday 3 (Sep 21), Modern Warfare 3 (Nov 10), Armored Core VI (Aug 25), Immortals of Aveum (Aug 22), Lords of the Fallen (Oct 13), Sonic Superstars (Oct 17), The Crew Motorfest (Sep 11), Starfield (Sep 1) and Mortal Kombat 1 (Sep 19). And that’s just what was at the show. That’s not taking into account Super Mario Bros Wonder, Spider-Man 2 (both Oct 20), Lies of P (Sep 19), Detective Pikachu Returns (Oct 6), Super Mario RPG (Nov 17), Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (Nov 9), Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (Dec 7) and multiple other games I don’t have space to list.