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It’s that time of the year. The Game Awards 2024 starts December 12th at 7:30 PM ET / 4:30 PM PT on Twitch and YouTube. This year marks the awards’ tenth anniversary so expect some big surprises to celebrate the occasion. We already know Borderlands 4 will make an appearance as well as the next game from Hazelight Studios, the developers behind Game of the Year 2021 It Takes Two.
Keighley’s BFF Hideo Kojima will probably show up to show off more of Death Stranding 2 or maybe even his new game / movie hybrid project OD. And with 2025 mere weeks away, the GTA VI hype season will officially start, likely with a new, potentially record busting trailer. Here are all the news, trailers, and surprises for this years Game Awards.
As for me, the only thing I’m excited about for TGAs 2024 is the possibility of Flute Guy and Metaphor: ReFantanzio Monk Guy sharing the same stage.
The creators of Overcooked take the stage.
They just announced Stage Fright, another co-op experience that takes things in a spookier direction. (It’ll support both online play and couch co-op when it launches.) The game is also being published by No Man’s Sky maker Hello Games.
Squid Game for everyone.
In a first for Netflix, the streamer has announced that the upcoming mobile game Squid Game Unleashed will be available for anyone to play, not just subscribers. However, it will only be that way for “a limited time” after the game launches on December 17th.
Onimusha is back and very bloody.
Capcom is returning to a favorite, with the next entry in the action series subtitled Way of the Sword. It’s still a while out though — the game doesn’t launch until 2026.
Helldrivers.
The next major update for Helldivers 2 has a big focus on vehicles. It’s also out now.
Virtua Fighter has an interesting new developer.
The next entry in the fighting game series is being developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, the team behind the Yakuza and Like a Dragon franchises. It still sounds early though, as there is no release date, platforms, or even a final name.
Borderlands 4’s first trailer is all out war
We already knew it was in the works, and now we have an idea of how it will look and play. At the Game Awards, Gearbox Software revealed the first proper trailer for Borderlands 4, which is due out in 2025. The trailer starts with a cinematic depicting a large-scale conflict of some sort, before getting into the actual gameplay — which is as colorful and violent as you’d expect from the franchise. The game is playable solo or co-op with up to three other players, and Gearbox says that there are “billions” of weapons to use.
Here’s the basic set-up:
FromSoftware debuts a new Elden Ring game
FromSoftware, the studio that just this month said it was “not really considering developments such as an Elden Ring 2,” has revealed a game that looks a lot like it could be Elden Ring 2.
Elden Ring Nightreign is the next entry in the Elden Ring series. The trailer, debuting during this year’s The Game Awards, didn’t share much narrative details, but from the game’s official announcement, it doesn’t seem like game director Hidetaka Miyzaki told a fib. Nightreign goes in a completely different gameplay direction from the base game and the Shadows of the Erdtree DLC. Described as an action survival game, Nightreign is a standalone co-op multiplayer game lets up to three players work together to survive a single day in a parallel universe to the Lands Between.
Some Outer Worlds 2 gameplay.
Obsidian showed off a new glimpse at its sci-fi RPG, which is due out at some point in 2025.
Fumito Ueda is back.
The legendary creator of Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian teased a new project that doesn’t currently have a name, but sure looks as gorgeous and melancholy as you’d expect from the designer.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, formerly a PS5 timed exclusive, is coming to PC.
PS5 Pro may not be the best place to play it for long — it’s coming to PC on January 23rd with “Improved lighting, enhanced textures & modeling, DLSS & VRR... and more!”
Square Enix will also sell a “Twin Pack” which includes Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, the earlier chapter which hit PC in 2022.
Here’s your very first look at The Witcher 4
The 2024 edition of The Game Awards started with a bang — the very first look at the next Witcher game. It’s called The Witcher 4 and was revealed via a lengthy cinematic trailer that starred Ciri in place of Geralt, who led the original trilogy.
There aren’t many details yet, but CD Projekt Red says that in the new game, “Ciri takes center stage as the protagonist, embarking on her own journey to become a professional monster slayer.” It will be a single-player, open-world RPG. The studio says that “the cinematic trailer is pre-rendered in a custom build of Unreal Engine 5 on an unannounced NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU.”
Think of it like Rocket League, but without the cars.
Sloclap, the studio behind martial arts action games Sifu and Absolver, has debuted its new game which is very much nothing like either of those. Rematch is an online multiplayer 5v5 soccer game with emphasis on what the developers call, “skill-based gameplay.” Wonder if they’ll include a special “rest of the world” setting to call the game “football”.
“Consume darkness.”
If you can believe it, that’s the tagline for the next Pac-Man game, which is a gritty reboot of the arcade classic. Then again, if you watched Secret Level on Prime Video, it actually makes perfect sense.
Move over, Balatro.
Mega Crit just showed the official gameplay trailer for Slay the Spire 2 at The Game Awards’ pre-show. I am not joking when I say this might be my most anticipated game of next year. It’s set to launch in early access in 2025.
Ninja Gaiden is back — and very pixelated.
The retro experts at Dotemu — the team behind the likes of Shredder’s Revenge and Streets of Rage 4 — is turning its attention to Ninja Gaiden with a side-scrolling action game launching next summer.
It’s almost time for Geoff.
The Game Awards 2024 YouTube stream is live and poppin’ with over 300,000 viewers less than a half hour before showtime. Watch it below, or, if you prefer a more up-to-date stream, watch it on Twitch.
How to watch the 2024 Game Awards
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It’s December, which means one thing: it’s time for another round of The Game Awards. As with last year — and every year — the awards themselves aren’t really the highlight of the Geoff Keighley-hosted event. Instead, the show has become a very long stream full of video game announcements, reveals, and trailers, punctuated by the occasional award and musical performance.
This year, we know at least a few of the major reveals, which will include the first gameplay trailer for Borderlands 4 and the next release from Hazelight Studios, the team behind surprise hit It Takes Two. Games like Palworld, Dying Light, and Mafia: The Old Country, are all confirmed to make an appearance, and it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if Hideo Kojima showed up as well, either to show off Death Stranding 2 or OD.
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