The Game Awards are over– congratulations to Team Asobi for Astro Bot taking home the Game of the Year award. As constantly, the long, long stream was a hybrid award event, marketing reel and video game statement marathon.
There were many statements sprinkled throughout the awards, consisting of brand new video games like Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet from Naughty Dog, The Witcher 4 from CD Projekt REDand Split Fiction from It Takes Two studio Hazelight. It was likewise a program of revivals, with long-dormant franchises like Okami, Onimusha, Ninja Gaiden and Virtua Fighter returning.
Here are our leading statements from the program, in no specific order– you can enjoy all the trailers listed below, or click among the headings to get the complete story.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is a brand-new sci-fi video game from Naughty Dog
Naughty Dog is rotating from post-apocalyptic fungal drama to interstellar sci-fi bounty searching with its latest video game, Intergalactic: The Heretic ProphetThe studio exposed its brand-new title with a cinematic trailer at The Game Awards on Thursday. Intergalactic occurs countless years in the future and it stars fugitive hunter Jordan A. Mun, played by Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Tati Gabrielle. Jordan discovers herself stranded on earth Sempiria, which has actually been cut off from the remainder of the universe for more than 600 years. She’s on an objective to leave Sempiria, however it appears like some vicious robotics are going to get in her method.
The very first Witcher 4 trailer sees Ciri kicking butt
Well, let’s be truthful: I do not believe any of us anticipated to see CD Projekt Red sneak peek The Witcher 4 anytime quickly, and yet the studio did simply that, sharing a prolonged cinematic trailer for the upcoming follow up at the Game Awards. Even if there’s no gameplay video to be discovered, fans of the series will enjoy what they see.
Elden Ring Nightreign is a co-op spinoff can be found in 2025
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is simply hardly in the rearview mirror and FromSoftware currently has a brand-new video game in the wings. The very first trailer for Elden Ring Nightreign, a standalone co-op action video game, at The Game Awards 2024
RGG exposes a Virtua Fighter revival and a fighter embeded in the 1910s
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio provided a meaty one-two punch at The Game Awards. Came the news that the Like A Dragon studio is behind a revival of the Virtua Fighter seriesNot just that, however the forever-busy studio (which, you might remember, has a Like A Dragon spinoff being available in Februaryis likewise making a Like A Dragon-style video game embeded in the 1910s.
An Okami follow up is on the method, almost 20 years later
There were numerous significant surprise statements throughout this year’s edition of The Game Awards, however maybe none was rather as out of the blue as word of a follow up to OkamiNot just that, the initial video game’s director, Hideki Kamiya, is at the helm.
Borderlands 4 gameplay trailer reveals 4 brand-new Vault Hunters having a bad day
It’s just been a brief couple of months given that Transmission revealed Borderlands 4the next video game in its long-running looter shooter franchise. Back in August, all we had was a puzzling teaser, however at today’s Game Awards, we got an appropriate take a look at the brand-new video game.
The Outer Worlds 2 gameplay trailer exposes it’s pertaining to PS5 in addition to Xbox
We informed you back in 2021 that The Outer Worlds 2 was a thing that existedand now, more than 3 years later on, we have proof in assistance of this claim: a gameplay trailer.
Mafia: The Old Country is a Sicilian prequel showing up next summer season
2K’s regularly erratic Mafia series will return in 2025. Mafia: The Old Country is embeded in Sicily in the 1900s, and will check out the origins of the mob. Designer Hangar 13 revealed that a brand-new Mafia title remained in advancement back in 2022however offered couple of information beyond that. The video game’s very first trailer is a melodramatic affair total with a patriarch monologuing over candlelight, horses galloping throughout the plains and opera music as a support track. This is dramaindividuals.
It Takes Two studio returns with dueling sci-fi and dream worlds in Split Fiction
Swedish indie studio Hazelight is associated with co-op video gaming, so naturally its next task is constructed for 2 gamers– however this time, it likewise includes 2 categories. Split Fiction is a co-op experience where gamers jump in between sci-fi and dream worlds in a quote to leave the clutches of a greedy publishing corporation. It supports regional and online co-op, and, fittingly, it plays out in split-screen.
The next video game from the Sifu group is … a 5v5 game soccer title?
Fighters Absolverand Sifuput Sloclap on the map thanks to their remarkable appearances, slick action and crispy animations. Naturally the next job for the French studio is [checks notes] a 5v5 game soccer video game. Uh, sure! Rematchwhich is slated to show up next summertime, possibly makes more sense for Sloclap than very first satisfies the eye. The studio states the title falls within its remit of making difficult action video games with an elegant appearance.
Thick as Thieves is a multiplayer stealth-action video game from legends Warren Spector and Paul Neurath
Thick as Thieves is a brand-new task from the group of immersive sim and stealth-action icons at OtherSide Entertainment, that includes Deus Ex developer Warren Spector, Looking Glass Studios creator Paul Neurath, and Thief: The Dark Project lead Greg LoPiccolo. Yes, that’s a stacked lineup. Together, the OtherSide team has actually produced or dealt with the System Shock, Deus Ex, Thief and Ultima Underworld series, and (in addition to Doug Church and Ken Levine) are mainly accountable for the presence of immersive sims as we understand them.
The Overcooked group has a brand-new creepy-cute co-op video game called Stage Fright
There are 2 cool pieces of news here. The indie studio behind the Overcooked series, Ghost Town Games, is working on a brand-new title called Stage Fright, and it’ll support both online and sofa co-op. Rad! Second, Stage Fright is being released by No Man’s Sky studio Hello Games, a relocation that marks Hello’s very first venture into releasing other studios’ tasks. Double rad! Phase Fright is constructed around co-op, and its mechanics bring Overcooked-style turmoil to a series of escape spaces in a scary, Luigi’s Mansion type of world.
Ragebound is a brand-new Ninja Gaiden video game from the group behind Blasphemous
Reanimating a precious video gaming series like Ninja Gaiden is constantly a challenging proposal. Anybody who may have dealt with the franchise in its prime time has actually most likely proceeded to other tasks or left the market completely. Evaluating by the skill working on Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, the brand-new series entry exposed at the Game Awards, I believe it’s safe to state the franchise is in safe hands. That’s due to the fact that Ragebound joins 2 business who understand a thing or 2 about making quality video games.
