August 2023’s big video game releases: Baldur’s Gate 3, Madden 24

August is usually a month when sports activities titles dominate the online game launch calendar, however this yr it’s bookended by two franchises with lengthy tenures and and big fandoms: Baldur’s Gate Three makes a full launch Aug. Three after three years in early entry, and FromSoftware’s Armored Core 6 arrives Aug. 25.

In between, Digital Arts is providing Madden NFL 24 and Immortals of Aveum. For the sports activities fan extra inclined to discover indie video games, there’s additionally WrestleQuest.

It’s a fairly large month, in different phrases, main into video games’ blockbuster fall season. Right here’s what’s coming to Nintendo, PlayStation, PC, and Xbox:

Picture: Larian Studios

Aug. 3

Baldur’s Gate 3

(Home windows PC)

Larian’s epic adaptation of the Dungeons & Dragons universe is three years within the making — longer, truly. Followers final noticed Baldur’s Gate in 2000 with BioWare’s Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn. This extremely anticipated RPG has a ton of lore behind it, so right here’s a recap for these new to the sequence, or returning to it after greater than 20 years.

Aug. 8

Gord

(PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox Collection X)

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WrestleQuest

(Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X)

Mega Cat’s uncommon tackle skilled wrestling is as a lot a love-note to the glory days of turn-based role-playing video games as the game itself.

Aug. 10

Atlas Fallen

(PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox Collection X)

Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

(Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X)

Aug. 15

Blasphemous 2

(Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4, Home windows PC, Xbox One)

Everspace 2

(PlayStation 4, Home windows PC, Xbox One)

Transferring Out 2

(Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X)

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Aug. 17

Vampire Survivors

(Nintendo Change)

A yr after launching, Vampire Survivors involves Nintendo Change, an ideal platform for the relentlessly playable, just-one-more recreation roguelite. Full disclosure: No precise Vampires are current on this recreation.

Aug. 18

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

(Nintendo Change, Home windows PC)

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Madden NFL 24

(PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox Collection X)

It occurs each summer season. EA Sports activities’ American soccer flagship arrives three weeks earlier than Kansas Metropolis and Detroit kick off the brand new season.

The Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath

(PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X)

Picture: Ascendant Studios/Digital Arts

Aug. 22

Immortals of Aveum

(PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox Collection X)

“Name of Obligation with magic” is how Ascendant Studios’ debut work has been pitched. On this all-new FPS, gamers tackle the position of a battlemage who wields eye-popping spells in a battle to finish an eons-long battle.

Picture: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco

Aug. 25

Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon

(PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X)

Regardless of its devoted fanbase, Armored Core hasn’t seen a principal sequence launch since 2012. The mecha journey lastly will get the complete FromSoftware remedy to shut out August.

Aug. 29

Samba de Amigo: Celebration Central

(Nintendo Change)

Sea of Stars

(Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC)