Though not as packed as February’s launch schedule, March will likely be one other outstanding month for video video games in 2023. Extremely anticipated console blockbusters like Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty and Resident Evil 4 remake are joined by three consecutive weeks of main sports activities titles, plus The Final of Us Half I lastly involves PC. We’ll break all of it down for you right here, by date and platform.
March 3
- Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X)
![a combat scene from Wo Long: Fallen Kingdom, involving a player character and some kind of demon spirit](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/fvyvxGB3VtH7uEZ9p0h9TqPDDCI=/0x0:1920x1080/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:1920x1080):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24028457/FcujIIWWAAMwcRz.jpg)
Picture: Crew Ninja/Koei Tecmo
Soulslike followers get March’s first massive launch they usually don’t have to attend lengthy for it in any respect; it launches Friday. Crew Ninja revealed a table-setter demo again in September in order that gamers might have an concept of what they had been getting themselves into. Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty is a darkish fantasy set in China’s Three Kingdoms interval (particularly, the Later Han Dynasty of 189 to 220 C.E.). Gamers will get brutal, demanding fight combined, mixed with mystical powers, in opposition to demonic enemies.
March 9
- Deadly Body: Masks of the Lunar Eclipse (Nintendo Swap, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X)
March 10
- Earlier than Your Eyes (PlayStation VR 2)
March 16
- The Darkish Footage: Switchback (PlayStation VR 2)
- Gorn (PlayStation VR 2)
March 17
![WWE superstars Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair face each other down before a match in WWE 2K23.](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/TtliSH7522G1mIqryeJZp8NuQ0o=/0x0:1600x900/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:1600x900):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24379412/WWE_2K23_Rhea_and_Bianca.png)
Picture: Visible Ideas/2K Sports activities
A redemptive, ship-righting effort for WWE 2K22 final 12 months means the professional wrestling simulation will be taken significantly as 2023’s first main sports activities launch. WWE 2K23 additionally kicks off a three-week run of licensed sports activities titles coming to consoles. The massive new characteristic wrestling followers can anticipate is the long-requested WarGames bout sort.
March 21
- The Strolling Useless: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2: Retribution (PlayStation VR 2)
March 23
- C-Smash VRS (PlayStation VR 2, demo)
March 24
![Ganados villagers with axes in hand walk menacingly toward the camera in artwork from the Resident Evil 4 remake](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/cjLZQECco0KJ1xkx_ONhRHIPlKY=/0x0:3840x2160/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:3840x2160):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24128073/RE4_Ganado_Villager_02.jpg)
Picture: Capcom
EA Sports activities PGA Tour is a reasonably large deal — it’s the writer’s first golf sport in eight years, and the primary time Augusta Nationwide’s bucket-list golf course has been in a online game in a decade. However Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 remake could have the bigger, mainstream impression amongst hardcore video games followers. Capcom’s three previous remakes in its groundbreaking survival-horror collection have all been essential and industrial successes.
March 28
MLB The Present 23 is, in a primary for the collection, including an historic mode permitting followers to play video games as they appeared many years in the past. It’s not simply throwback uniforms in trendy stadiums with trendy tools. The primary season of Storylines will even give attention to a video gaming first — bringing the good stars {of professional} baseball’s segregated leagues again to life in your display. Storylines will likely be a reside service, so anticipate extra journeys again in time to find out about vital occasions and achievements in The Nationwide Pastime. For now, Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas Metropolis, shares the true origins of nighttime baseball, which gamers will get to recreate in The Present 23.
March 30
- Dredge (Nintendo Swap, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X)
March launch date nonetheless TBA
- System Shock remake (Linux, Mac, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X)
- Sifu (Home windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X)
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Picture: Nightdive Studios
Nightdive Studios has had plans for nearly eight years now to ship a remake of 1994’s PC traditional System Shock. It has run into protracted growth difficulties, together with Nightdive’s chief government publicly placing the venture “on hiatus” in 2018, to ensure that the studio to reassess its method to a extremely anticipated remake. Even then, the studio missed the 2021 launch date it introduced on the identical day it launched a demo. The March 2023 launch window confirmed up on the System Shock Steam page in October, however Nightdive hasn’t made any formal launch announcement itself. The studio’s most up-to-date steerage got here in a September Kickstarter post: “When it’s achieved.”