One Gamescom tradition is that a lucky few get to play a new Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord preview build, then developers TaleWorlds lock up their medieval warfare sandbox fight-o-RPG for another year with nary a word of when the rest of us might get to play it. Well, Gamescom is here again, we have another appointment to play a preview build there, and… wait! Surprise! TaleWorlds have at long last announced that we’ll get to play Bannerlord in March 2020, when the long-awaited prequel enters early access. So we still don’t know quite when it’ll be finished. But hey, here, watch the new Gamescom trailer.

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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is the medieval war em up that often pops up to say: Hello, I still look good. We have seen its sieges, its horse archers, and even played some of its multiplayer sword-clashing. But at this year s Gamescom, I played some of the single player campaign. And oh yes, that s the good stuff. I played as Valtis, an athletic sword-swinging dude from the Southern Empire who can also throw javelins. I like javelins. I like the sound they make as they whoosh by and impale a man. (more…)