Geoff Keighly has been trying to replace E3 with his Summer Games Fest. That’s where a lot of announcements come out. Iirc, Keighly said that this Gamescom wouldn’t be reveals for new games, but updates on ones we know are coming.

I’d say neither are really replacements for E3, since E3 had showcases from PS/Xbox/Nintendo. Nowadays all the major publishers and console makers have their own reveals.

That’s me with Beware of Chicken and Forge of Destiny 😭

Martha Wells’s Books of the Raksura would fit this niche pretty well!

Bastion by Phil Tucker has a bit of shapeshiftiness going on later on in the book, and is a continued theme.

I think the same studio is putting out a Quidditch game. Wonder if they purposefully kept it out of the first game because the separate one wouldn’t be worth it if it was in the original.