13 big announcements and new trailers from The Game Awards 2024

The Game Awards are over – congratulations to the Asobi Team for it Astro Bot taking home the Player of the Year award. As usual, the long, long broadcast was a hybrid awards ceremony, promo reel and game announcement marathon.

There were countless announcements packed into all the awards, including new games like this one Intergalactic: The Rogue Prophet from Naughty Dog, Witch 4 from CD Project RED again Split the Myth from It Takes Two Studio Hazelight. It was also a revival show, with long-running franchises such as 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 trailers below, or click on one of the headlines for the full story.

Naughty Dog goes from a post-apocalyptic mold game to a sci-fi epic hunt with its new game, Intergalactic: The Rogue Prophet. The studio revealed its new title with a cinematic trailer at The Game Awards on Thursday. Intergalactic takes place thousands of years in the future and stars bounty hunter Jordan A. Mun, played by Cool Adventures of Sabrina actress Tati Gabrielle. Jordan finds himself stranded on the planet Sempiria, which has been isolated from the rest of the world for over 600 years. He’s on a mission to escape Sempiria, but it looks like vicious robots will get in his way.

Well, let’s be honest: I don’t think any of us expected to see a preview of CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 4 anytime soon, but the studio did just that, sharing a long cinematic trailer for the upcoming sequel at the Game Awards. Even if no footage is available, fans of the series will love what they see.

it’s just not in the rearview mirror and FromSoftware already has a new game in the wings. The first trailer for Elden Ring Nightreign, an independent co-op action game, at .

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio delivered a delicious one-two punch to The Game Awards. First came the news that Like A Dragon studio was behind bars. Not only that, but the studio is always busy (which you may remember, has a Like A Dragon spinoff ) and is making a Like A Dragon-like game set in the 1910s.

There were a few big surprise announcements during this year’s edition of The Game Awards, but perhaps none that stood out as the buzzword. Mine. Not only that, the director of the original game, Hideki Kamiya, is in the lead.

It’s only been a few months is the next game in the long-running pirate hacker franchise. Back in August, all we had was a tease, but at today’s game awards, we got a good look at the new game.

We told you back in 2021 that The Outer Worlds 2 was, and now, more than three years later, we have evidence to support this claim: a gameplay trailer.

2K’s ongoing 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. Developer Hangar 13 announced that a new Mafia title is in development, but gave few details beyond that. The first trailer for the game is a beautiful story with a patriarch talking to himself by candlelight, horses galloping across the plains and opera music as the backing track. This dramapeople.

Swedish indie studio Hazellight is synonymous with cooperative gaming, so its next project is designed for two players – but this time, it also combines two genres. Split Fiction is a co-op adventure where players jump between sci-fi and fantasy worlds in an attempt to escape the clutches of a greedy publishing corporation. It supports local and online co-op, and, ideally, split-screen play.

Brawlers The Absolver again Cloud put Sloclap on the map thanks to its memorable look, fast-paced action and strong animations. So naturally the next project of the French studio i [checks notes] 5v5 soccer game. Uh, sure! Match againwhich is expected to arrive next summer, probably makes more sense with Sloclap than before. The studio says the title fits within its mission of making challenging action games with a stylish look.

Thick as Thieves is a new project from the sim and stealth-action icon team at OtherSide Entertainment, which includes Deus Ex creator Warren Spector, Looking Glass Studios founder Paul Neurath, and Thief: The Dark Project lead Greg LoPiccolo . Yes, that’s a stacked arrangement. Together, the OtherSide team 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 online co-op. Rad! Second, Stage Fright is being published by No Man’s Sky studio Hello Games, a move that marks Hello’s first venture into publishing projects for other studios. Double rad! Stage Fright is collaboratively designed, and its mechanics bring Overcooked-style chaos to a series of escape rooms in a spooky, Luigi’s Mansion type world.

Reviving a popular game series like Ninja Gaiden is always a tricky proposition. Anyone who may have worked on the franchise during its heyday may have moved on to other projects or left the industry altogether. But looking at the talent working on Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, the new featured series revealed at the Game Awards, 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 quality games.