Week in Review: Gamescom 2024

We already had some results this week. Gamescom: Opening Night Live 2024, Future Games Show: Gamescom 2024 and other summer events in VidaoScreenthat’s why this article is only mewill include expansion of the specified information and remaining news.

• He Resident Evil 2 Original, “The One from 1998” will be released on August 27 on the GOG page. The first part of the saga was already available on Good Old Games, and the third has been announced, but no date has been given yet.
• City Cup 2 includes a new trailer that shows off the gameplay and a map of Berlin. The game will be a strategy game in the style of Cities Skyline or Roller Coaster Tycoon, where we will prepare football events and the city in which we will host them, with a dynamic economic system. The Berlin stadium is one of many real stadiums that will appear in the game. It will be released in 2025 for the next generation and PC.

• Motion Twin announces that the next update Dead cells: the end is nearas the name suggests, will be the last. Updates after the release of version 1.0, both paid and free, were developed by the Evil Empirestudio founded in 2019 by former Motion Twin employees. The statement is not without controversy, as the decision appears to have been unilateral on the part of Motion Twin: Sebastian Benard has criticized his previous studio, calling the end of updates a move. ‘greedy’ and sends his support to the Evil Empire.

• Valve breaks silence on ‘according to rumors’ The dead end of opening the Steam page, which only has a small teaser trailer, which leaves you with the same as after watching. In addition to this Steam page, Valve has also changed its approach to distributing the video game, now allowing content to be shared.
• Hyper Light Breaker’s Early Access has been delayed again, this time until 2025.
• Xbox is announcing three new controllers and a new configuration option to improve accessibility for people with mobility issues. The first is the 8BitDo Lite SE 2.4G Wireless Controller in collaboration with 8BitDo, which has much more responsive joysticks and buttons. This controller is now available on Amazon (US) for $59.99. The second is Xbox Adaptive Joystick which will be released in 2025 at a price of $29.99, along with various files for creating different heads on 3D printers, with the aim of adapting to all types of players, with a special focus on those who cannot hold the controller with their hands. Finally, Xbox has its own offer: ByoWave Proteus Controller which, thanks to its modular design, allows you to modify the control system according to the user’s needs. Its price is $299.99. In addition, they announce a hold-button-until-repeat function for those players who have problems holding buttons. More information on the Xbox page.

• The MENA Hero project was announced on the Sony Interactive Entertainment website. It is a program that aims to identify and support the most promising developers from the following countries: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.
• Sadly, we end this week’s news with the death of Atsuko Tanaka, the Japanese voice actress for Bayonetta and Chun-Li, among many other characters from the world of video games and anime. The news was announced on August 20 by Atsuko Tanaka’s son, Hiraku Tanaka.