The Recreation Awards are over — congratulations to Group Asobi for Astro Bot taking residence the Recreation of the Yr award. As at all times, 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 Break 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.
Listed below are our high bulletins from the present, in no explicit order — you possibly can watch all of the trailers beneath, or click on on one of many headlines to get the complete story.
Naughty Canine is pivoting from post-apocalyptic fungal drama to interstellar sci-fi bounty searching with its latest recreation, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. The studio revealed its new title with a cinematic trailer at The Recreation Awards on Thursday. Intergalactic takes place hundreds 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, however it appears to be like like some vicious robots are going to get in her manner.
Nicely, let’s be sincere: I do not assume any of us anticipated to see CD Projekt Purple preview The Witcher 4 anytime 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 no gameplay footage to be discovered, followers of the collection will love what they see.
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 .
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 . Not solely that, however the forever-busy studio (which, chances are you’ll recall, has a Like A Dragon spinoff ) 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 Recreation 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 , the subsequent recreation in its long-running looter shooter franchise. Again in August, all we had was a cryptic teaser, however at as we speak’s Recreation Awards, we bought a correct have a look at the brand new recreation.
We advised you again in 2021 that The Outer Worlds 2 was , and now, greater than three years later, now we have proof in assist of this declare: a gameplay trailer.
2K’s persistently sporadic Mafia collection will return in 2025. Mafia: The Outdated 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 growth , 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, individuals.
Swedish indie studio Hazelight is synonymous with co-op gaming, so in fact its subsequent undertaking is constructed for 2 gamers — however this time, it additionally options two genres. Break 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 appears to be like, slick motion and crunchy animations. So naturally the subsequent undertaking for the French studio is [checks notes] a 5v5 arcade soccer recreation. 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 creating difficult motion video games with a stylized look.
Thick as Thieves is a brand new undertaking from the group 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 Mission 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 answerable for the existence of immersive sims as we all know them.
There are two cool items of reports 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 revealed by No Man’s Sky studio Hey Video games, a transfer that marks Hey’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 sort of world.
Resurrecting a beloved gaming collection like Ninja Gaiden is at all times a tough proposition. Anybody who might need labored on the franchise in its heyday has doubtless moved on to different initiatives or left the business completely. However judging by the expertise engaged on Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, the brand new collection entry revealed on the Recreation Awards, I believe it is protected to say the franchise is in protected palms. That is as a result of Ragebound unites two firms who know a factor or two about making high quality video games.
