WATCH LIVE - Gamescom 2024 brought a ton of Game Announcements! | PX2S Gamer's Digest 8.33

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On our plate for this week: Secret level debut at Gamescom Opening Night Live as a love letter to the video games; Xbox backs track into some good news, on one of their biggest game of this year; Black Myth Wukong is changing the power structure of the 3rd person action adventure genre; All this and more on S8 episode 33 of Press X to Start’s Gamer’s Digest!

- Gaming News:
Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024: All The Biggest Announcements
Big announcements (from the 47+ announcements)
-- Borderlands 4 tease trailer - hints at possibly a different art style and 2025 release year
-- Call of Duty Black OP6 showcased a mission impossible-themed gameplay trailer with American flag motorbikes
-- Ark Raiders shows up again with another tease trailer and no gameplay, but a playtest is happening this Fall, and releasing some time in 2025
-- Marvel Rivals release date of Dec 6, dropping a trailer of Captain America and the Winter Solider joining the roster. Also, note that all characters added to the game will be free forever.
-- Genshin Impact finally arrives on Xbox on November 20th
-- Masters of Albion, a secret project developed by Fable creator Peter Molyneux, the game is notedly set in Albion the world of Fable while not having any connection to Xbox or the current Fable game in development…. Lawsuit incoming
-- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle release date Dec 9, and coming to PS5 Spring 2025
-- Mafia The Old Country, the next Mafia game, taking place in Sicily in the early 1900s
-- Secret Level a video game-themed anthology series is coming to Amazon Prime Video on Dec 10.
A List Of Every Game Featured In Amazon’s Promising ‘Secret Level’ Show | Forbes
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle hits Xbox and PC on December 9, PS5 in spring 2025 | Engadget
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Hugely-promising indie The Plucky Squire launches next month, day one on PlayStation Plus | Eurogamer.net
89% of Devcom speakers believe AAA games don't need additional purchases | GamesIndustry.biz
Xbox confirms Core and Standard Game Pass tiers will wait "up to 12 months+" for first-party games | GamesIndustry.biz

- Quick Hits
Zelda Movie Screenwriter Is Working On A Live-Action Eternal Champions Film | Time Extension
The First Descendant Has Lost Almost 70 Percent Of Its Players Since Launch | TheGamer
Black Myth: Wukong smashes Palworld and Counter-Strike 2 to become the second most-played Steam game of all time less than a day after launch, and it's gaining on PUBG's gold medal | PC Gamer

- What we been playing
Black Myth WuKong

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