Last night Geoff Keighley and all the firepower of a fully armed and operational marketing platform descended on Los Angeles for the 10th Game Awards, continuing in fine form as an amalgam video game trailer fest and occasional award show. In service to the former, there was plenty to see over the night as one world premiere after another introduced a bevy of upcoming games–if you missed it, here’s our run down of our favourites from the worlds of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.
Dispatch
Aaron Paul stars as a down-on-his-luck former superhero now working at an agency tasked with assigning superheroic freelancers to crimes as they happen, in this intriguing new game from former Telltale Games developers.
The Witcher 4
CD Projket Red returns to the Continent for an all new saga–and this time Ciri’s all grown up to become the titular protagonist of what is promising to be a new trilogy of RPG adventures.
Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
Revealed during the pre-show, the next game from the developers of Blasphemous is a retro-2D take on Ninja Gaiden.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Capcom’s beloved horror and Japanese-folklore-infused hack-and-slashes are finally making a comeback.
The Outer Worlds 2
The latest trailer for Obsidian’s sci-fi RPG sequel is mostly a gag about how well they are known for making RPG sequels, but it does give us a little bit of a better look at the expanded scope of the new game along the way.
Slay the Spire 2
The roguelike deckbuilder returns for more card-based strategy in our latest look at the followup.
Solasta 2
The follow up to the massive RPG recruits Baldur’s Gate 3‘s narrator Amelia Tyler as a mysterious new villain.
Elden Ring: Nightreign
Get ready to return to the Lands Between for a new standalone co-operative game set in the same world as FromSoftware’s latest addition to the Souls-ian canon. Just don’t call it Elden Ring 2!
Shadow Labyrinth
In a twist that is both surprising and also extremely not surprising, it turns out that wild Pac-Man episode of Secret Level was actually just an advert for an actual upcoming game, in this weird, dark metroidvania twist on the classic gaming icon.
Okami 2
Amaterasu and Hideki Kamiya are back at Capcom for an all-new continuation of the beloved 2006 action-adventure game. Sure, this trailer tells us very little, but it does remind us that Okami‘s music was phenomenal.
Steel Hunters
World of Tanks developer Wargaming is trading tanks for, well, walking tanks, in an original mecha shooter.
Fumito Ueda’s Next Project
Gen Design revealed an untitled look at the next game from the creator of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, and it was as haunting as it was mysterious. Giant robots? A mystical wave of annihilation? Even more deliberate climbing mechanics? We don’t know what it is next exactly, but we’re on board.
Turok: Origins
The dino-shooting series returns with a new reboot from Saber, bringing third-person action (and maybe even some co-op team ups) with it.
Split Fiction
The next ambitious game from It Takes Two‘s developer Josef Fares follows two female writers, who find themselves trapped in simulations of their fantasy and sci-fi works and forced to work together to survive.
Borderlands 4
It’s more Borderlands! Four new characters to play, plenty of multicolored loot to pick up, and a dire new threat for you to put all that loot into action against.
Game of Thrones: Kingsroad
Tired of all these swanky licensed games like Star Wars Outlaws or Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, uh, looking good? Netmarble’s take on the HBO fantasy certainly has approximations of famous faces from across Game of Thrones that you’ll rub furry-cloaked shoulders with as you play a hulking new member of the Night’s Watch.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
Naughty Dog launches an escape vector from endlessly re-releasing The Last of Us and its sequel for an all new ’80s-tinged sci-fi world. It stars Tati Gabrielle as Jordan, a bounty hunter stranded on an alien world that no one’s managed to leave in centuries, as she carves her way through menacing foes with a cool-as-hell-looking equalizer laser sword.
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