Dark Arisen Turns Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Gameplay Loop on Its Head | gamescom 2026

Dragon’s Dogma 2 Dark Arisen is the all new expansion to Capcom’s 2024 action RPG. To get all the juicy details for the expansion, we caught up with Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, Producer, and Kento Kinoshita, Director to talk about the new locale, changes to loot and the new relic system.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 Dark Arisen launches on PC (Steam), PlayStation 5 (PS5), Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series X|S on October 9th!

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Trainwatch – Official Gameplay Overview Trailer | gamescom 2026

Meet the new gatekeeper, Troy, and get a deep dive into gameplay from Trainwatch in this latest trailer for the upcoming time-management psychological horror set in a fogbound railway crossing. In the new Trainwatch trailer, learn about the story, gameplay, exploration, and more. In Trainwatch, what seems like a simple 1-month job as a gatekeeper operating a crossing turns into an exploration of occult grounds, meeting unsettling folk, and trying to fix your own life. Trainwatch will be available on PC in 2027.

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Gate Zero – Official Combat Trailer | gamescom 2026

Gate Zero is a semi-open world action-adventure game set in ancient Israel that allows the player to explore history and Biblical events. As Max, a teen from a dystopian future, players utilize their own mix of combat, stealth, dialogue, and abilities to save history and get back to their own time. Check out gameplay and fast-paced combat in this latest Gate Zero trailer. Gate Zero will be available on PC (Steam and Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5 (PS5), and Xbox Series X/S in spring 2027.

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Why Ananta Isn’t a Gacha Game | gamescom 2026

Ananta is a brand new open world RPG from NetEase and Naked Rain that appears to let you tear up the rulebook to a traditional open world game by letting you really do everything you could dream of. We caught up with Riten Huang, GM and Marketing Head at NetEase Games to get the lowdown on Ananta’s setting, traversal, combat, and how monetisation will be handled.

Ananta is coming January 15th 2027 for PlayStation 5 (PS5), PC (Steam), and Mobile (iOS, Google Play)

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How Stranger Than Heaven’s Brutal Combat Borrows From Classic Yakuza Cinema | gamescom2026

You can always count on RGG Studio to find a new take on its Japanese underworld stories, and that’s exactly what we’re getting in Stranger Than Heaven. A distant prequel to the Like a Dragon series, it explores the origins of the Tojo Clan over multiple time periods. To talk more about creating that brand new world and the game’s unique combat system, director Mikinobu Abe joined us at gamescom 2026. His answers may not be strange, but the game sure does look like heaven.

Stranger Than Heaven is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on January 15, 2027.

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The Defiant is a WWII Story Call of Duty Never Told | gamescom 2026

There have been more World War 2 video games than anyone can count, but none of them have shown the historic conflict like this. The Defiant takes us back to the Second Sino-Japanese War and puts us in the boots of Chinese soldiers fighting across numerous real battles. We caught up with Yu Heng Kong, founder of developer Hoothanes and producer of The Defiant, and Chor Yong, COO of publisher 4Divinity, to discuss the different gameplay opportunities offered by each of the campaign’s battles, recreating historical weapons and locations, and telling a war story unlike anything the genre has seen before.

The Defiant is currently in development for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.

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