The Recreation Awards are over — congratulations to Group Asobi for Astro Bot taking house the Recreation of the Yr award. Our evaluate of Astro Bot earlier this yr referred to as it “one of the best games Sony has ever made,” and it appears the business and game-playing public agree.
As all the time, the lengthy, lengthy stream was a hybrid award ceremony, promoting reel and sport announcement marathon.
There have been numerous bulletins interspersed all through the awards, together with all-new video games like Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet from Naughty Canine, The Witcher 4 from CD Projekt RED and Cut up Fiction from It Takes Two studio Hazelight. It was additionally a present of revivals, with long-dormant franchises like Okami, Onimusha, Ninja Gaiden and Virtua Fighter returning.
You may view the entire winners at the Game Awards’ official site. And should you missed it, you may watch a the Video Game Orchestra’s GOTY medley; it is all the time a spotlight of the present and watching them match Astro Bot and Balatro on this yr was a vibe — reward the keytar!
Listed below are our prime bulletins from the present, in no explicit order — you may watch all of the trailers beneath, or click on on one of many headlines to get the total story.
Properly, let’s be sincere: I do not suppose any of us anticipated to see CD Projekt Crimson preview The Witcher 4 any time quickly, and but the studio did simply that, sharing a prolonged cinematic trailer for the upcoming sequel on the Recreation Awards. Even when there is not any gameplay footage to be discovered, followers of the sequence will love what they see.
Naughty Canine is pivoting from post-apocalyptic fungal drama to interstellar sci-fi bounty looking with its latest sport, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. The studio revealed its new title with a cinematic trailer at The Recreation Awards on Thursday. Intergalactic takes place 1000’s of years sooner or later and it stars bounty hunter Jordan A. Mun, performed by Chilling Adventures of Sabrina actor Tati Gabrielle. Jordan finds herself stranded on the planet Sempiria, which has been lower off from the remainder of the universe for greater than 600 years. She’s on a mission to flee Sempiria, but it surely seems to be like some vicious robots are going to get in her manner.
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is simply barely within the rearview mirror and FromSoftware already has a brand new sport within the wings. The primary trailer for Elden Ring Nightreign, a standalone co-op motion sport, at The Recreation Awards 2024.
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio delivered a meaty one-two punch at The Recreation Awards. First got here the information that the Like A Dragon studio is behind a revival of the Virtua Fighter series. Not solely that, however the forever-busy studio (which, you could recall, has a Like A Dragon spinoff coming in February) can also be making a Like A Dragon-style sport set within the 1910s.
There have been a number of main shock bulletins throughout this yr’s version of The Recreation Awards, however maybe none was fairly as out of the blue as phrase of a sequel to Okami. Not solely that, the unique sport’s director, Hideki Kamiya, is on the helm.
It’s solely been a brief few months since Gearbox announced Borderlands 4, the following sport in its long-running looter shooter franchise. Again in August, all we had was a cryptic teaser, however at at present’s Recreation Awards, we received a correct have a look at the brand new sport.
We instructed you again in 2021 that The Outer Worlds 2 was a thing that existed, and now, greater than three years later, we’ve got proof in help of this declare: a gameplay trailer.
2K’s persistently sporadic Mafia sequence will return in 2025. Mafia: The Previous Nation is about in Sicily within the 1900s, and can discover the origins of organized crime. Developer Hangar 13 introduced {that a} new Mafia title was in growth back in 2022, however gave few particulars past that. The sport’s first trailer is a melodramatic affair full with a patriarch monologuing over candlelight, horses galloping throughout the plains and opera music as a backing monitor. That is drama, folks.
Swedish indie studio Hazelight is synonymous with co-op gaming, so in fact its subsequent venture is constructed for 2 gamers — however this time, it additionally options two genres. Cut up Fiction is a co-op journey the place gamers leap between sci-fi and fantasy worlds in a bid to flee the clutches of a grasping publishing company. It helps native and on-line co-op, and, fittingly, it performs out in split-screen.
Brawlers Absolver and Sifu put Sloclap on the map because of their memorable seems to be, slick motion and crunchy animations. So naturally the following venture for the French studio is [checks notes] a 5v5 arcade soccer sport. Uh, certain! Rematch, which is slated to reach subsequent summer time, maybe makes extra sense for Sloclap than first meets the attention. The studio says the title falls inside its remit of constructing difficult motion video games with a stylized look.
Thick as Thieves is a brand new venture from the staff of immersive sim and stealth-action icons at OtherSide Leisure, which incorporates Deus Ex creator Warren Spector, Trying Glass Studios founder Paul Neurath, and Thief: The Darkish Venture lead Greg LoPiccolo. Sure, that is a stacked lineup. Collectively, the OtherSide crew has created or labored on the System Shock, Deus Ex, Thief and Ultima Underworld sequence, and (together with Doug Church and Ken Levine) are largely chargeable for the existence of immersive sims as we all know them.
One of many highlights from The Recreation Awards was the second Breaking Unhealthy star Aaron Paul and voice actor Laura Bailey took the stage to disclose Dispatch. Set to reach in 2025, the narrative sport is from AdHoc Studio, based by former Telltale Video games builders, and encompasses a stacked forged together with Paul, Bailey, Jeffrey Wright, Erin Yvette, Jacksepticeye and others — a mixture of A-list Hollywood expertise and top-tier sport voice actors.
There are two cool items of reports right here. First, the indie studio behind the Overcooked sequence, Ghost City Video games, is engaged on a brand new title referred to as Stage Fright, and it will help each on-line and sofa co-op. Rad! Second, Stage Fright is being revealed by No Man’s Sky studio Hi there Video games, a transfer that marks Hi there’s first foray into publishing different studios’ initiatives. Double rad! Stage Fright is constructed round co-op, and its mechanics carry Overcooked-style chaos to a sequence of escape rooms in a spooky, Luigi’s Mansion type of world.
Capcom has introduced Onimusha: Means of the Sword, the primary new Onimusha sport because the unique 2001 PS2 model was remastered in 2019. Revealed at The Recreation Awards 2024, it reveals a contemporary tackle the traditional darkish motion sport, minus the fastened perspective. The trailer for the one participant, Wordplay motion sport reveals an unnamed Samanosuke-like hero as he takes on samurai zombies in bloody fight, gathering golden orbs as earlier than.
Resurrecting a beloved gaming sequence like Ninja Gaiden is all the time a difficult proposition. Anybody who may need labored on the franchise in its heyday has possible moved on to different initiatives or left the business solely. However judging by the expertise engaged on Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, the brand new sequence entry revealed on the Recreation Awards, I feel it is secure to say the franchise is in secure fingers. That is as a result of Ragebound unites two firms who know a factor or two about making high quality video games.
Replace, December 13, 3:00PM ET: This text was up to date to incorporate a pair extra tales that rolled in after we initially revealed. Benefit from the Dispatch and Onimusha trailers! (The headline was additionally up to date from “13” to “15” as a result of math is necessary.) We additionally added a hyperlink to view the entire award winners, a shoutout to our Astro Bot evaluate, and a hyperlink to the Recreation Award Orchestra’s GOTY medley, simply because.
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