Medieval Fighter Warhaven Has a Release Date [IGN]

Revealed at gamescom Opening Night Live, the upcoming medieval fighter Warhaven will launch on Sept. 21. It also got a new trailer, which you can watch below. It focuses on a thoroughly powerful-looking character named Blade.

Warhaven’s combat is a bit reminiscent of other third-person melee fighters like For Honor, but with larger scale battles. In our hands-on preview, we descibed Warhaven’s 16-vs.-16 multiplayer battles as a chaotic “jumbled pile of swords, shields, and cannonballs that’s almost always pure mayhem.”

“So far Warhaven seems to be shaping up into a bizarrely disheveled war simulator that manages to pack a whole lot of entertaining moments in each chaotic match,” IGN’s Travis Northup wrote earlier this month. “I hope to spend more time blowing up my foes with a giant cannon when it is launched free-to-play later this year.”

Warhaven was developed by Nexon, and will be free-to-play when it launches on Steam. A console edition has not yet been announced.

For more, check out our roundup of everything that was announced at gamescom Opening Night Live, including a new trailer for Alan Wake II, details on Diablo 4 Season 2, and the latest look at Mortal Kombat 1.