Gamescom 2025 has dropped a wave of concrete launch dates that will reshape your gaming calendar before the year ends. Blue Protocol: Star Resonance exited its long hibernation and opened a closed beta on August 22; Bamco Pacific confirmed the reboot now targets October 2025 worldwide release on PC and mobile. Built from the ground up after the original sunset, the new build adds cross-platform play and an overhauled soul system, and servers are already running under NDA until the public day-one wipe.
Bandai Namco’s surprise was matched by NCsoft’s first public look at Cinder City, the newly-christened Project LLL MMO shooter. The Iron Engine-powered open world—where you jump between centuries and battle alien gods—will enter closed beta later this year and launch in 2026.
Equally fresh, the Korean team behind Interstellar Utopia pitched a galactic sandbox with seamless space-to-planet transitions, cyborg augmentation, piloted mechs and modular starships; a looming Pre-Alpha 1 signup is live on the official site.
Those locked-in calendars now also show Where Winds Meet, the 2024 Steam hit, returning November 14 for its last big global test before release, and Heroes of Might & Magic Olden Era unleashing the Order-turned-Schism faction ahead of its late-season client test.
For players already living inside virtual worlds, Guild Wars 2 relaunched the Visions of Eternity elite-specialization beta and quietly let free accounts back in—good reason to dust off level-80 templates. Path of Exile 2 layered Act 4: The Third Edict onto the closed beta realm, paired with a full-speed Abyssal League cycle and a free-to-download stress client that resets any XP you’ve earned there. World of Warcraft: Midnight meanwhile took real-world cash: pre-orders are open and the expansion is locked for first-half 2026, with alpha flags already out to selected players.
If you missed the first wave of invites, keep a browser tab handy this weekend: Square Enix will reopen Blue Protocol: Star Resonance registration on Friday for a brief stress window; NCsoft has confirmed another Cinder City QA session; and the Interstellar Utopia dev AMA on Discord starts at 6 p.m. UTC to detail the closed-test roadmap.
