Gamescom

There's a lot of hubbub around the upcoming World of Warcraft 20th Anniversary these days.

Date Everything is one of those games where either you are baffled at why or how anyone would think of this concept, let alone follow it through, with dozens of unique characters voiced by a star-studded cast, multiple relationship types, and statuses, and endings, for every single one of those characters, or you already wishlisted the game on Steam after the first part of this sentence.

World of Warcraft's appearance at the Xbox Gamescom stream today was, shall we say, light on new information.

While the opening ceremony of Gamescom 2024 left something to be desired in terms of enthusiasm and hype, one offering stood out on the sheer level of authentic human emotion displayed by a passionate creator.

Gamescom 2024 kicks off today, and with E3 thoroughly out of the picture we're all looking to Germany for the latest gaming news.

With gamescom in full swing, we've seen a lot of demos, trailers, cinematics, and previews, running the gamut from the new AAA behemoth games like Starfield and Diablo 4, all the way through charming high-concept indies we'd never heard of before.

So we have just learned that in the absence of their annual BlizzCon fan event/exposition/game announcement/demo/rock concert/eardrum-damaging lobby party, Blizzard has settled on February 19-20 for an online edition of the show.

It’s another queue, so we’re talking about just about anything and trying really, realyl hard to not make any typos. Even if I do, it’s cool — the Infinite Dragonflight means I can just change it in a different reality, and nobody will be the wiser.

Off to a great start!

In 2017, Blizzard did a really big Gamescom reveal, with Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, and World of Warcraft all seeing fairly large announcements, as well as Overwatch dropping the Mei short video for folks.

Five days after finally announcing this year's BlizzCon, Blizzard announced they would not have a booth at gamescom 2019, despite historically using that platform to reveal relatively major developments.