13 big announcements and new previews for The Game Awards 2024

Game Rewards are over – thanks to Team Asobi for that Astro Bot taking home the Game of the Year award. As always, the long, long river was a mixed awards ceremony, advertising and sports advertising competition.

There were countless announcements included in the entire offering, including new games such as Intergalactic: A prophet of deception from Naughty Dog, The Witcher 4 from CD Project RED and Share Fiction from It Takes Two studio Hazelight. It was also a showcase for revivals, with long-running franchises like Okami, Onimusha, Ninja Gaiden and Virtua Fighter returning.

Here are our top announcements from the show, in no particular order – you can watch all the videos below, or click on individual titles to hear the full story.

Naughty Dog takes a post-apocalyptic fungal adventure to an interstellar sci-fi bounty hunt with its new game, Intergalactic: A prophet of deception. The studio revealed its new title and trailer at The Game Awards on Thursday. Intergalactic races It takes place thousands of years in the future and stars the bounty hunter Jordan A. Mun, played by Sabrina’s Fun Facts actress Tati Gabrielle. Jordan finds himself in danger on the world of Sempiria, which has been cut off from the universe for over 600 years. He is on his way to escape Sempiria, but it looks like some evil robots have joined him.

Let’s be honest: I don’t think any of us expected to see a preview of CD Projekt Red Witcher 4 so soon, but the studio did just that, sharing a long video trailer for the upcoming sequel on GamesRadar+. Although no gameplay footage can be found, fans of the series love what they see.

it’s just in the rearview mirror and FromSoftware has a new game in the wings. The first trailer for Elden Ring Nightreign, a stand-up co-op game, on .

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio delivered a one-two punch at The Game Awards. First came the news that Like A Dragon’s studio was on the back burner . Not only that, but the studio is always busy (which, you may remember, has the likes of Like A Dragon. ) is remaking the drama Like A Dragon set in the 1910s.

There were a number of big announcements made at this year’s The Game Awards, but perhaps none were quite as good as the headlines. The eyes. Not only that, the director of the first game, Hideki Kamiya, is at the helm.

It’s only been a few months since then the next game in his long-running franchise. Back in August, what we had was a tease, but at today’s Game Awards, we got a good look at the game.

We already told you in 2021 that The Outer Worlds 2 was and now, three years later, we have the proof to prove it: a sports car.

2K’s original Mafia series will return in 2025. Mafia: The Old World is set in Sicily in the 1900s, and will explore the origins of organized crime. The developer of Hangar 13 has announced that a new Mafia title is in progress but he gave more than that. The first trailer for the game is a heartwarming story with a single parent tending to candles, horses running across plains and opera music as a backing track. These are dramapeople.

Swedish indie studio Hazelight is synonymous with co-op games, so its next project is designed for two players – but this time, it also has two modes. Split Fiction is a multiplayer adventure where players jump between sci-fi and fantasy worlds in an attempt to escape the clutches of a greedy publishing house. It supports local and online connectivity, and, ideally, it plays on the screen.

Brawlers Absolutely and Sifu put Sloclap on the map thanks to its unforgettable visuals, fast-paced action and dynamic animations. So naturally the next project of the French studio is (see notes) a 5v5 arcade football game. Oh, sure! Repetitionwhich is expected to arrive next summer, perhaps makes more sense to Sloclap than it first appears. The studio says that the theme falls within its concept of complex gameplay and aesthetic features.

Thick as Thieves is a new project from the iconic sim and hidden object graphics team at OtherSide Entertainment, which includes Deus Ex creator Warren Spector, Glass Studios Founder Paul Neurath, and Thief: The Dark Project director Greg LoPiccolo. Yes, that’s a group list. Together, the OtherSide team has created or worked on the System Shock, Deus Ex, Thief and Ultima Underworld series, and (along with Doug Church and Ken Levine) are largely responsible for the existence of immersive sims as we know them.

There are two good stories here. First, the indie studio behind the Overcooked series, Ghost Town Games, is working on a new title called Stage Fright, and it will support both online and offline. Radi! Second, Stage Fright is being published by No Man’s Sky studio Hello Games, a move that signals that Hello is beginning to publish other studio projects. Twice twice! Stage Fright is built around co-op, and its mechanics bring overcooked chaos to a series of escape rooms in the world of Luigi’s Mansion.

Reviving a beloved game series like Ninja Gaiden is always a challenge. Anyone who may have worked on the license during its development period must either move on or leave the job. But based on the talent working on Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, the new series that has been revealed on GamesRadar, I think it’s safe to say that the franchise is in safe hands. That’s because Ragebound brings together two companies that know a thing or two about making great games.