If you need to know the release dates of the best new games 2021 and beyond has in the pipeline, then you've come to exactly the right place. We've gathered all of the video game release dates for upcoming titles and DLC on PS5, Xbox Series X, PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Switch in this useful reference list, so you don't have to go searching anywhere else. Are you ready to hit the toy tracks at tremendous speeds in Hot Wheels Unleashed? Or would you prefer to kick off another season on the pitch with FIFA 22? If you said yes to either of those then we have great news, as both are coming out this week. No matter what upcoming games you've got on your wishlist, you'll find them all listed here along with their release formats and the exact date you can start playing them.
Every month, a vast assembly of video games releases across all of the consoles gamers hold so dearly. If you're one of those individuals that tend to miss out on what's coming out when then allow us to make your life a tad bit easier. Starting with March, we're going to make sure you know about the biggest game releases. And of course, we'll also be sure to make you aware of all the upcoming ports and other assorted gaming launches that truly matter.
Here's a closer look at the biggest games that are set to drop in March. In the video game industry, 2021 is expected to see the release of many new video games. The numerous delays in software and hardware releases due to the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic has heavily impacted development schedules, leading to many games being delayed into this year or indefinitely. Additionally, computer and console hardware was impacted by the combined effects of semiconductor shortage (partially from post-COVID-19 effects) and a rising growth of bitcoin mining that strained the supply of critical components. Gamescom Asia, the first Asian satellite event of the world's largest computer and video games festival, Gamescom, is set to launch its hybrid event from 14 to 17 October 2021 in Singapore. A prelude to the full-scale convention that is set to take place in 2022, fans and industry players will get to enjoy a whole host of exciting events featuring the latest products and games from developers and publishers.
Dalton Cooper is an editor for Game Rant who has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his career, Dalton considers himself a video game historian and strives to play as many games as possible. Dalton covers the latest breaking news for Game Rant, as well as writes reviews, guide content, and more. It's been a long road for the next installment in the Rainbow Six series. The shooter was originally scheduled to launch in the holiday 2020 season.
At the time, it was titled Rainbow Six Quarantine — a title that quickly became awkward as the pandemic forced the world into lockdown. We wouldn't see the game again until E3 2021, where Ubisoft gave it a grand reveal. The newly named Rainbow Six Extraction was set to be a big fall release, landing on September 16. Just one month later, Ubisoft shockingly delayed the game to January 2022, pushing it over a year past its original launch window. The cancellation in 2020 of major video game events such as E3, the Tokyo Game Show and Gamescom (which all became digital-only) will also have had a dramatic effect on studios and development.
These big shows are also where a lot of publishing deals are brokered, and where developers present their projects to a huge number of potential partners. Excitement can quickly build around promising demos on the show floor – without these opportunities, innovative projects may be overlooked. As games can take two or three years to develop, the ramifications for the industry may last well into the decade.
Minit is an adventure with a twist and also a critique of capital split up into tiny bite-sized chunks and told through adorable animals in a sparsely drawn fantasy land. After enough stop and start minutes you'll realize a factory is running roughshod over this place, polluting the land and working some of its employees to the bone while firing others whose jobs can now be done by machines. Behind it all is a maniacal manager prioritizing productivity over all else.
After all these minutes and all these lives the true story reveals itself, and to reach the end you have to collect item after item, life after life, to eventually have the skills necessary to grind the factory to a halt. Even after realizing this it'll take many minutes and many lives to finish everything you know you need to do, tiny bits of incremental progress in-between passages of rote, mundane, repetitive busy work. If it starts to feel like a job, well, maybe that's the game's point. The factory is Minit itself, its employees all of us who play the game, and its dictatorial boss the developers who put us through these paces again and again and again in hopes of the smallest iota of progress.
Like the unending and uncaring work shifts that eat up our days until we die, we expend most of our vital energy redoing the same soul-killing nonsense over and over. It is one of the most effective metaphors for the exploitation of the working class seen in videogames. The minutes pass, we experience multiple tiny deaths every day doing the job we're expected to do. 2020 was quite a unique year with this coronavirus health pandemic outbreak.
It caused so many development studios to shut their doors and work remotely. As a result, some games got pushed back so we're expecting 2021 to be quite filled with new exciting video games. Likewise, with the latest generation platforms available, there's bound to be some titles well worth purchasing for the new console hardware. With all that said, Hogwarts Legacy is a game we were looking to come out this year but that's been delayed into 2022. Likewise, we won't see Ark 2 or The Elder Scrolls VI this year.
With live press conferences and a four-day long video stream, E3 2021's virtual format gives you unprecedented access to the premier video game industry event. Xbox, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Capcom, Take-Two, Sega, Square Enix and more are all set for the event. The conference focuses on industry workshops, Q&A panels, and live networking with professionals across the gaming industry.
InIt Takes Two, players take on the role of Cody and May, a married couple on the brink of divorce who get transformed into dolls. They then have to work together to not only survive their unique ordeal, but also repair their marriage. Fares is so confident in the game that he has said he would pay $1,000 to anyone that claims they're bored by it. Fares has a proven track record of delivering high quality games, so hopefullyIt Takes Two lives up to the hype. March 2021 is set to be an especially big month for the video game industry, with some major new releases coming throughout the month. 2021 is stacked with awe-inspiring releases from a bevy of talented developers.
Whether it is peppered with titles from established industry giants or indie studios making their initial foray into the gaming sphere, every month peeled away from the calendar yields a promising release. July isn't the busiest month for new video game releases, but there are a couple of big titles heading our way, along with a bunch of smaller indie game that look really interesting. Covid-19 caused some games to be delayed from 2020 to 2021, but it's making an even bigger impact this year. Expect more as the year goes on and developers continue working from home.
As we did last year, we'll keep this list of the games of 2021 updated with new release dates and delay announcements. And on the bright side, for every game that gets delayed, something new and exciting pops up too. 2021 may not be as big as some years for video games , but that doesn't mean you'll be starved for new games throughout the year. Lots of games have been delayed to 2022, but plenty are hitting their release dates as well. Whether you have a PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, or PC, you'll absolutely be able to find at least something to get excited about before year's end. There's a little something for everyone, no matter what genres you're into, or which console you own.
Not even Amazon is immune from the current game delay wave, though that may have less to do with COVID-19 than it does for other games on this list. The company has been trying to break into gaming for quite some time now, with weak results. Its free-to-play multiplayer game Cruciblehad a particularly rocky life span after it was put back into beta and then outright canceled. Originally scheduled to launch this spring, the game was pushed back to August 31 and then delayed again to September 28. Amazon says the decision was made to ensure the game had a proper endgame when it launched, so it's likely the studio is trying to avoid the same pitfalls games that Marvel's Avengers hit at launch. Since the very beginning of the year, seemingly no title has been safe from a dreaded delay, as some of the year's biggest games move further down the line or to next year.
That's led to a much slimmer release schedule than fans initially expected heading into what was projecting as an exciting year for gaming. Here's a roundup of all the major video game delays that have happened so far. How many of you expected the next Forza game to be the Forza Motorsport installment? Instead, we got a bit of a surprise when Forza Horizon 5 came out.
This is a racing game series, but it blends simulation and arcade-style racing a bit together. It's easy to get the controls and figure out just how to race around the tracks. Likewise, the games feature some rather significant and impressive maps to race around in. When it comes to Forza Horizon 5 from Playground Games, we're getting tossed into an open-world based around Mexico. As a result, this means having quite a diverse set of environments to travel around in.
These could range from an active volcano, jungle, beaches to cities, just to name a few areas. That should mean a relatively large map this time around and even dynamic weather systems. You'll have anything from dust to tropical storms rolling in, which should play a role in driving conditions. This video game brought out the same gameplay style as the original Subnautica title but with some new twists. In this game, players are going through the arctic region of Planet 4546B as you set out to investigate what happened to your sister. If you played the past game, then you can expect more biomes although a smaller map.
Still, there's plenty to explore, and as you roam around, you'll find that there's not much in terms of empty locations. Overall this is still a survival game, so you'll need to gather resources to ensure your survival. As a result, you'll need to explore icy caves, snowy peaks, and the ocean depths below. Although, you'll still have to be wary of the hostile alien creatures that roam around the area.
Everyone was talking about Valheim, which was developed by a five-person team, Iron Gate Studio. Here the premise is that Vikings that perish in life, such as the character you'll be taking on, get sent to Valheim. It's here that you'll prove worthy of passing on to the halls of Valhalla. However, to do that, you'll need to take on the different enemies that roam the lands. Similar to other survival games, players will have to craft up items and hunt down food. There is cooperative gameplay and some PvP, but again this is not a complete game.
You'll find that there will be updates as developers continue to finish the project. Nordic Game returns online this spring and fall for two virtual editions of Nordic Game, beginning with NG21 on May. As the leading games conference in Europe Nordic Game have a lot to offer.
The event is filled with the best speakers from the global industry and our own Nordic heroes and offers an access to countless games industry professionals via conference's events. Nordic Game Discord channel hosts networking and social events, creating a cool opportunity to connect your peers and industry pros. NG21 also included the highly anticipated Nordic Game Awards and NGDC Season V finals, and more. Which new PS5 game release dates are you most looking forward to in 2021?
Let us know in the comments section below, and be sure to refer to our PS5 guide for more on the console's upcoming games. January and February are typically pretty slow when it comes to new video game releases, with things picking up in March every year. 2021 is no exception, with a number of high profile video game releases currently scheduled for the month. And while unforeseen delays may push a couple of these games to sometime later in the year, it should be a solid month regardless.
August looks to be one of the better summer months for new video game releases, headlined by a number of indie game launches, Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut, and Civ-like Humankind. It's an exciting time to be a video game fan, so read on for a look at what's to come. And if you're the preordering sort, you can click the buy link if you want to lock in a preorder to make sure the games arrive on launch day. Gotham Knights was originally scheduled to launch sometime in 2021, but many fans predicted that a delay was inevitable.
So it's not surprising that the next big Batman game has been pushed to 2022. Warner Bros. casually announced the game's new launch window with a generic message about giving the game more development time. At this point, it's more shocking when major studio games release on time, rather than when they don't. For fans of the Five Nights at Freddy's series, the road to the upcoming Security Breach has been a long one.
The horror game was originally supposed to launch in late 2020, but it was quietly pushed to early 2021. Four months into the year and we hadn't heard a peep about a release date. Now creator Scott Cawthorn has confirmed that the game is moving to late 2021, putting it a full year out from its original launch window. Cawthorn notes that the game's scale has ballooned during the development process and it requires more time and money to complete. While it was originally scheduled for a 2020 launch alongside the Xbox Series X debut, Microsoft delayed Halo Infiniteindefinitely.
We now know that the company is planning for a fall 2021 launch, putting it a full year out from its original release plan. Like many games on this list, it's not fully clear if the pandemic has been a key factor in Halo's delay. While companies like Ubisoft have been transparent about the struggles of work from home, others are a bit more tight-lipped about why the schedule shake-ups are happening. Whatever the case may be, Halo Infinite's delay is the most significant to occur yet. Now, it's set to hit Xbox consoles and PC on December 8, barring any additional delays.
The Left 4 Dead spiritual successor was supposed to launch this summer, but it has been delayed to October 12. No specific reason was cited for the move outside of the usual "need more time" note. The good news is that the multiplayer game will get an open beta this summer.
So, fortunately, players will still get a chance to play it around the time the full game was supposed to launch. Originally positioned as one of the big games that would launch alongside next-gen consoles in late 2020, developer People Can Fly quietly pushed it back to February 2. As 2021 got into full gear, the game got delayed once again, this time to April 1. Before the release, players got a demo on February 25 that covered the first few hours of the full game.
Built from the ground up for the next generation of gaming, NBA 2K21 for PlayStation 5 is the latest title in the world-renowned, best-selling NBA 2K series and delivers an industry-leading sports video game experience. That's no surprise—Fire Emblem games always eat up a lot of time—but Three Houses has fully established the relatively new social aspects of the series as a true equal to the tactical battles that have always been the main draw. I've spent at least as much time teaching my students, learning about their lives and personalities, and trying to make them happy as I have on the battlefield—and no, that is not in any way a problem. It's a smart, charming, sometimes brutal experience, and one whose 80 hours length per house guarantees I'll never fully experience it.
