Microsoft announces full gamescom 2023 line-up including Stalker 2 and Payday 3 debuts
Microsoft has announced the full line-up of titles it will bring to gamescom 2023 later in August. Interestingly, big hitters like Starfield and Forza Motorsport won’t be playable at the convention and will only be present in the form of presentations and photo opportunities alongside historical strategy game Ara: History Untold, which seems to get a big reveal during the convention. Still, there will be plenty of PC and Xbox Series X|S games visitors can get their hands on.
Among them are the world debuts of Stalker 2, the development of which had been paused for a while due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where developer GSC Game World is based, and Payday 3, the next iteration of the crime shooter series.
Here are all games playable at Microsoft’s booths during gamescom 2023:
- Towerborne (Hall 8, Block A)
- Microsoft Flight Simulator (Hall 8, Block A)
- The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom (Hall 8, Block A)
- Jusant (Hall 8, Block A)
- Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest – The Adventure of Dai (Hall 8, Block A)
- Dungeons 4 (Hall 8, Block A)
- Under the Waves (Hall 8, Block A)
- Payday 3 (Hall 8, Block B)
- Stalker 2 (Hall 8, Block C)
- Sonic Superstars (Hall 8, Block C)
- Persona 5 Tactica (Hall 8, Block C)
- Party Animals (Hall 8, Block C)
- Immortals of Aveum (Hall 8, Block C)
- Mortal Kombat 1 (Hall 8, Block C)
- Ghostrunner 2 (Hall 8, Block C)
- Overwatch 2 (Hall 8, Block C)
- Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon (Hall 8, Block C)
- Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (Hall 8, Block C)
- Another Crab’s Adventure (Hall 8, Block C)
- Headbangers (Hall 8, Block C)
- The Lamplighters League (Hall 8, Block C)
- SteamWorld Build (Hall 8, Block C)
- Worldless (Hall 8, Block C)
- Lightyear Frontier (Hall 8, Block C)
- Little Kitty, Big City (Hall 8, Block C)
- Cocoon (Hall 8, Block C)
- Dead Pets (Hall 8, Block C)
- Mineko’s Night Market (Hall 8, Block C)
- Naiad (Hall 8, Block C)
- Botany Manor (Hall 8, Block C)
- Island of Winds (Hall 8, Block C)
- Stumble Guys (Hall 8, Block C)
- Antstream Arcade (Hall 8, Block C)
Microsoft has announced that it will run daily livestreams from the convention as well, sharing the fun of the event with everyone around the world.
Gamescom 2023 runs from August 23 to 27, 2023, in Cologne, Germany.
Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg