---
title: 'What Goes Up - Official Announcement Trailer | Xbox @ gamescom 2026'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZaCRCj8an5A'
video_id: 'ZaCRCj8an5A'
date: 2026-08-27
duration_sec: 100
channel: 'IGN'
---

# What Goes Up - Official Announcement Trailer | Xbox @ gamescom 2026

> Source: [What Goes Up - Official Announcement Trailer | Xbox @ gamescom 2026](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZaCRCj8an5A)

## Summary

This transcript captures a chaotic, comedic gameplay session of an upcoming physics-based party game, 'What Goes Up,' showcased during the Xbox gamescom 2026 announcement trailer. The players struggle with stacking objects, triggering collapses, and humorous mishaps, highlighting the game's core mechanics of balance, teamwork, and inevitable failure.

### Key Points

- **Gameplay Begins with Stacking** [00:01] — Players start by placing large objects to create a climbable tower, emphasizing the game's physics-based stacking mechanic.
- **Collapse Mechanic Introduced** [00:30] — The game features a countdown timer; when it reaches zero, the tower collapses, adding urgency and chaos to the gameplay.
- **Player Elimination and Items** [00:50] — A player gets 'benched' (eliminated), and items like cars and bats are introduced, suggesting a variety of objects and power-ups.
- **Climax of Chaos** [01:23] — The session ends with a dramatic collapse and exclamations, underscoring the game's comedic and unpredictable nature.

## Transcript

>> cuz it blows up. Not the tower. >> Oh no. Oh no. >> What did you do? >> WAIT, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT was >> you. Okay, battery is on. Should we put the
big things on first and make it easily climbable? climbable? >> You are. >> I would like one of those. This is insane teamwork, isn't
This is insane teamwork, isn't >> it? Reaches zero, it collapses. >> I can't just read that. >> Oh no, I got benched. >> Caraban, anyone.
>> One car, please. I want a bat, but not like as hot as >> Oh god. >> Oh, time.
>> Oh, no. No, no, no, no. >> Move on over, Aladdin.
>> Oh. >> Oh, FOR GOD'S SAKE. >> WHO IS THAT? >> You absolute swine.