More THQ Nordic content with the surprise announcement of Comanche, a franchise born with voxels and which disappeared after 2001. This new episode will feature online team play where your skills, your equipment and your knowledge of the environment will make a big difference. The game will hit early access early next year and will be regularly updated to add maps and game modes, the team being willing to listen carefully to player feedback to improve the overall experience. From what we have learnt, the developers have a lot of ideas to add even more depth, with weather effects which will affect visibilty, sand which will also change the way the choppers will handle as it accumulates onto it, but also wind to name but a few examples. Overall it seems pretty promising, but don't take our word for it and check out the gameplay video we recorded there earlier today.

THQ Nordic invited us to a presentation of Darksiders Genesis and the developers were kind enough to let us capture the game with our own equipment. As you probably know already, this new episode in the Darksiders franchise is going to be a dungeon crawler which can be played with a friend, online or locally. The 15 minute video we brought you back should prove to you that Genesis hasn't forgotten what Darksiders is all about and that it includes all the elements we have come to expect from a game of the series (puzzles, platforming sequences and combat).

Compared to last year's Gamescom, we've clearly had fewer opportunities to record direct feed footage, but the upcoming Blair Witch by Bloober Team (Layers of Fear) was playable in the form of a demo showing several edited sequences. If you want to take a look, we have 2 60 fps videos which are both about 10 minutes long. The final version should be in our hands pretty soon, the game being officially released on August 30.

One of the biggest visual defects of the WRC series since the developers of Kylotonn took over was that the replays were not credible compared to real life. The developers clearly took this at heart as WRC 8 finally has some very natural looking cameras placed along the tracks, as seen in this video showing part of the replays of three of them.

Also from Bandai Namco's Gamescom booth, here is some PS4 gameplay of One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4, developed, you guess it, by Omega Force.

Just like every year in Cologne, we stopped by at BigBen's business booth to try WRC 8 on PC and didn't come back empty handed. We have a few videos to share but only one PC to encode them, so you'll have to be patient. Since it was our very first try at this stage and we hadn't truly found the best way to set up the wheel, don't expect to see perfect driving here. We'll do better with the review copy!

Update: Added a second gameplay video.

We were invited yesterday to Namco's booth to try and capture a few of their games. Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is one of these, and you'll be able to enjoy it through this long 1080p gameplay video.

Even though Driftwood and Davton went to sleep a bit after a super busy day at the Gamescom, the videos keep coming! So how about some Horde gameplay from Gears 5 to begin with?

Our first day at Gamescom was pretty busy with appointments but a bit disappointing in terms of video capture. We weren't allowed to record a lot of games but we still have a few things to share. We'll start with Battletoads which was playable in 4K on Microsoft's booth and we brought you back some footage.

A day before Gamescom opened its doors to the press, we were invited by Nvidia to play a bunch of game using Ray Tracing technology and we were able to bring back some footage for 3 of them. Inside, you will witness how truly impressive Minecraft can look (no irony here), you'll have a sneak peek at Remedy's use of the tech in Control and finally you'll see Wolfenstein: Youngblood patched with RTX. We also got a chance to play a bit of Watch_Dogs 3, whose reflections were pretty amazing, but capture wasn't allowed for this one.