The Sport Awards are over — congratulations to Staff Asobi for Astro Bot taking house the Sport of the Yr award. Our evaluation of Astro Bot earlier this yr known 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 recreation 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 all the winners at the Game Awards’ official site. And for those who missed it, you possibly can 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 specific order — you possibly can watch all of the trailers under, or click on on one of many headlines to get the complete story.
Nicely, let’s be sincere: I do not suppose any of us anticipated to see CD Projekt Pink 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 Sport Awards. Even when there is not any gameplay footage to be discovered, followers of the collection will love what they see.
Naughty Canine is pivoting from post-apocalyptic fungal drama to interstellar sci-fi bounty looking with its latest recreation, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. The studio revealed its new title with a cinematic trailer at The Sport 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 reduce off from the remainder of the universe for greater than 600 years. She’s on a mission to flee Sempiria, but it surely seems like some vicious robots are going to get in her approach.
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is simply barely within the rearview mirror and FromSoftware already has a brand new recreation within the wings. The primary trailer for Elden Ring Nightreign, a standalone co-op motion recreation, at The Sport Awards 2024.
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio delivered a meaty one-two punch at The Sport 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, chances are you’ll recall, has a Like A Dragon spinoff coming in February) can be making a Like A Dragon-style recreation set within the 1910s.
There have been a number of main shock bulletins throughout this yr’s version of The Sport Awards, however maybe none was fairly as out of the blue as phrase of a sequel to Okami. Not solely that, the unique recreation’s director, Hideki Kamiya, is on the helm.
It’s solely been a brief few months since Gearbox announced Borderlands 4, the following recreation in its long-running looter shooter franchise. Again in August, all we had was a cryptic teaser, however at in the present day’s Sport Awards, we received a correct take a look at the brand new recreation.
We informed you again in 2021 that The Outer Worlds 2 was a thing that existed, and now, greater than three years later, we’ve proof in assist of this declare: a gameplay trailer.
2K’s constantly sporadic Mafia collection will return in 2025. Mafia: The Previous Nation is ready in Sicily within the 1900s, and can discover the origins of organized crime. Developer Hangar 13 introduced {that a} new Mafia title was in improvement 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 observe. That is drama, individuals.
Swedish indie studio Hazelight is synonymous with co-op gaming, so after all 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 due to their memorable seems, slick motion and crunchy animations. So naturally the following venture for the French studio is [checks notes] a 5v5 arcade soccer recreation. Uh, positive! Rematch, which is slated to reach subsequent summer season, 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 workforce of immersive sim and stealth-action icons at OtherSide Leisure, which incorporates Deus Ex creator Warren Spector, Wanting Glass Studios founder Paul Neurath, and Thief: The Darkish Undertaking 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 collection, and (together with Doug Church and Ken Levine) are largely accountable for the existence of immersive sims as we all know them.
One of many highlights from The Sport Awards was the second Breaking Dangerous star Aaron Paul and voice actor Laura Bailey took the stage to disclose Dispatch. Set to reach in 2025, the narrative recreation is from AdHoc Studio, based by former Telltale Video games builders, and incorporates a stacked forged together with Paul, Bailey, Jeffrey Wright, Erin Yvette, Jacksepticeye and others — a mixture of A-list Hollywood expertise and top-tier recreation voice actors.
There are two cool items of stories right here. First, the indie studio behind the Overcooked collection, Ghost City Video games, is engaged on a brand new title known as Stage Fright, and it will assist each on-line and sofa co-op. Rad! Second, Stage Fright is being printed by No Man’s Sky studio Whats up Video games, a transfer that marks Whats up’s first foray into publishing different studios’ initiatives. Double rad! Stage Fright is constructed round co-op, and its mechanics deliver Overcooked-style chaos to a collection of escape rooms in a spooky, Luigi’s Mansion form of world.
Capcom has introduced Onimusha: Means of the Sword, the primary new Onimusha recreation for the reason that authentic 2001 PS2 model was remastered in 2019. Revealed at The Sport Awards 2024, it reveals a contemporary tackle the traditional darkish motion recreation, minus the fastened perspective. The trailer for the one participant, Wordplay motion recreation 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 collection like Ninja Gaiden is all the time a tough proposition. Anybody who may need labored on the franchise in its heyday has doubtless moved on to different initiatives or left the business solely. However judging by the expertise engaged on Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, the brand new collection entry revealed on the Sport Awards, I feel it is secure to say the franchise is in secure arms. 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 printed. Benefit from the Dispatch and Onimusha trailers! (The headline was additionally up to date from “13” to “15” as a result of math is essential.) We additionally added a hyperlink to view all the award winners, a shoutout to our Astro Bot evaluation, and a hyperlink to the Sport Award Orchestra’s GOTY medley, simply because.
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