Gamescom

What's happening, friends? Welcome to Podcast Unlocked.

We are back after a little bit of a Gamescom induced hiatus.

My name's Ryan McCaffrey.

This is episode 754 of IGN's mostly weekly Xbox podcast, and I'm joined, as always, by the great Michael Higham.

Um, Michael, we... [laughs] I had, I had a whole agenda set, which we'll get to at least some of, 'cause it's been so long that you've played a bunch of games.

Mm-hmm.

Like, you were at Gamescom and saw a bunch of stuff.

I've played some stuff.

We've talked about it, but whatever

... i- it's, it's like, um, you know, I think more people watched the, uh, Zelda Direct than, um, opening night live for Gamescom.

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

And, and it's that, it's the combat part of that action RPG that's been, at least for me and I think a lot of people, the biggest question mark.

But we finally got to play it a little bit at Gamescom just a few weeks ago, and our own Simon Cardy...

I have, I have, did not have the pleasure of being there, uh, but our own Simon Cardy, uh, did have positive things to say about the feel of combat and the way that, the way it does play from a, from an action perspective.

So if they nail that, uh, and there are, there are some good videos on IGN now too, although again, you've gotta have it in your hands to really know for sure.

And we don't know the exact numbers, but I think that's gotta be one of the w- probably the worst-selling SKU of any Call of Duty game of all time is the Call of Duty: Ghosts Wii U version.

And so it's back, which is really great to see.

I know there was, I think it was at Gamescom, right? And I think that people came out of that show with positive impressions of how it was on Switch 2.

So yeah, th- just Switch 2's getting so many of these games now.

It's a massive, massive game.

I think more people watch the Zelda Direct than opening night live for Gamescom.

It was a lot more than State of Play as well.

If GTA wasn't happening this year, it'd be by far the biggest game.

Yeah, that'd be really cool.

Speaking of Alien, I've been watching more of the videos that have come out from Gamescom and it really fucking sucks that they are apparently doing a playable demo there for Isolation 2.

Yeah, and for Fireteam.

Yeah, and for Fireteam, but apparently no one can...

...

when was the last trailer? We saw at Gamescom.

Oh, it was a while ago.

I forget what it was, but we were kinda like-

Just looks like...

This is Gamescom.

Oh.

I was gonna say, I, I, I've seen-

Yeah.

"Hey, guys.

Just listened to the Gamescom episode.

Thought I'd pop in.

I've been away for a few weeks.

I had Gamescom, and then I came back from Gamescom hideously ill, which some of it admittedly was self-inflicted.

And also very, very busy because there was a lot of games.

So I'm back.

That's the big money bag me.

Take that to the casino, put that on black and see what happens.

I will plug Respec and RPGs, actually, because there's a lot of great Gamescom stuff up on both sides now.

So like Respec, there's like an interview for Exodus, which is that new Mass Effect-style game.

This one, the dev was actually not there.

The, uh, there was somebody manning the booth, uh, because the devs were still coming back from Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.

Uh, and this is from shatter flask games.

This game is called Cressata.