{"id":15629,"date":"2024-08-22T08:37:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T06:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/pushing-buttons-indiana-jones-civilisation-vii-that-dune-mmo-and-all-the-other-news-from-gamescom\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T08:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T06:37:37","slug":"pushing-buttons-indiana-jones-civilisation-vii-that-dune-mmo-and-all-the-other-news-from-gamescom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/pushing-buttons-indiana-jones-civilisation-vii-that-dune-mmo-and-all-the-other-news-from-gamescom\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: Indiana Jones, Civilisation VII, that Dune MMO and all the other news from Gamescom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: The opening night in Cologne revealed unexpected comebacks, surprising debuts, and a long overdue TV tie-in<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today is the opening day of Gamescom, the Cologne expo that is now the biggest event in the video game calendar. This year, I am not among the 300,000-odd crowd descending on Germany, but I did watch the two-hour livestreamed opening-night broadcast yesterday \u2013 so you don\u2019t have to. Here is all of the most interesting news, arranged by theme because I am deeply bored of writing straightforward lists of games and trailers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News that will annoy <\/strong><strong>Xbox<\/strong><strong> fanboys the most<\/strong><br \/>\n There was a new trailer for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Bethesda and MachineGames\u2019s new first-person adventure, in which longtime video game actor Troy Baker seems charmingly thrilled to be playing Indiana Jones. It\u2019ll be out on Xbox and PC on 9 December \u2013 but it was also announced that it will be coming to PlayStation 5 in spring 2025. Earlier this year, Xbox boss Phil Spencer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2024\/feb\/21\/pushing-buttons-xbox-playstation-console-wars\">went to great lengths<\/a> to reassure Xbox fans that Indiana Jones would <em>not <\/em>be a multiplatform game, so I\u2019m interested to see how this goes down.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/article\/2024\/aug\/21\/indiana-jones-on-playstation-5-civilization-vii-and-a-new-mafia-gamescom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4675fa5a75edaa769a0b25864d5d65dc5c2a65f5\/120_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bad1082deda52ea9cac1f6d8f9553011\" title=\"Pushing Buttons: Indiana Jones, Civilisation VII, that Dune MMO and all the other news from Gamescom\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: The opening night in Cologne revealed unexpected comebacks, surprising debuts, and a long overdue TV tie-in<br \/>\n\u2022 Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nToday is the opening day of Gamescom, the Cologne expo that is now the biggest event in the video game calendar. This year, I am not among the 300,000-odd crowd descending on Germany, but I did watch the two-hour livestreamed opening-night broadcast yesterday \u2013 so you don\u2019t have to. Here is all of the most interesting news, arranged by theme because I am deeply bored of writing straightforward lists of games and trailers.<br \/>\nNews that will annoy Xbox fanboys the most<br \/>\n There was a new trailer for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Bethesda and MachineGames\u2019s new first-person adventure, in which longtime video game actor Troy Baker seems charmingly thrilled to be playing Indiana Jones. It\u2019ll be out on Xbox and PC on 9 December \u2013 but it was also announced that it will be coming to PlayStation 5 in spring 2025. Earlier this year, Xbox boss Phil Spencer went to great lengths to reassure Xbox fans that Indiana Jones would not be a multiplatform game, so I\u2019m interested to see how this goes down. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: The opening night in Cologne revealed unexpected comebacks, surprising debuts, and a long overdue TV tie-in \u2022 Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Today is the opening day of Gamescom, the Cologne expo that is now the biggest event in the video game calendar. This year, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/pushing-buttons-indiana-jones-civilisation-vii-that-dune-mmo-and-all-the-other-news-from-gamescom\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Buttons: Indiana Jones, Civilisation VII, that Dune MMO and all the other news from Gamescom<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15629"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}