The 13 biggest new announcements and trailers from The Game Awards 2024

The game’s rewards are out — congratulations to Team Asobi on that Astro Bot Get the Game of the Year award. As always, the long-form broadcast was a mixed awards ceremony, ad reel, and game trailer marathon.

There were countless announcements interspersed between the awards, including brand new games such as Intergalactic: Heretic Prophet From Naughty Dog, Witcher 4 From CD Projekt RED and Split imagination from It takes two Hazlight Studio. It was also a showcase for the revival, with the return of long-dormant franchises like Okami, Onimusha, Ninja Gaiden, and Virtua Fighter.

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 to get the full story.

Naughty Dog moves from indie post-apocalyptic drama to interstellar sci-fi bounty hunting with its latest game, Intergalactic: Heretic Prophet. The studio revealed its new title with a cinematic trailer at The Game Awards on Thursday. Intergalactic The film takes place thousands of years in the future and stars bounty hunter Jordan A. Moon Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Actor Tati Gabriel. Jordan finds herself stranded on the planet Symperia, which has been isolated from the rest of the universe for more than 600 years. She’s on a mission to escape Sempiria, but it looks like some evil robots are going to get in her way.

Well, let’s be honest: I don’t think any of us expected to see CD Projekt Red’s preview of The Witcher 4 anytime soon, and yet the studio did, sharing a lengthy cinematic trailer for the upcoming sequel at The Game Awards. Even if there’s no gameplay footage to be found, fans of the series will like what they see.

It’s barely in the rearview mirror and FromSoftware already has a new game in the wings. The first trailer for Elden Ring Nightreign, an indie co-op action game, is available at .

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio delivered a huge hit at the Game Awards. First came the news that Like A Dragon studio was shutting down . Not only that, but the eternally crowded studio (which, you may recall, has a spinoff like A Dragon ) is also creating a Like A Dragon-style game set in the 2000s.

There were several big surprise announcements during this year’s edition of The Game Awards, but perhaps none were quite as surprising as the news of a sequel to The Game Awards. Okami. Not only that, but the director of the original game, Hideki Kamiya, is at the helm.

It’s only been a few months since then the next game in the long-running looter shooter franchise. Back in August, all we had was a vague teaser, but at today’s Game Awards, we got a proper look at the new game.

We told you back in 2021 that The Outer Worlds 2 was Now, more than three years later, we have evidence to back up that claim: a trailer for the game.

2K’s ever-running Mafia series will return in 2025. Mafia: The Old Country Set in 20th century Sicily, the film explores the origins of organized crime. Developer Hangar 13 has announced that a new mafia title is in development But he gave few details beyond that. The game’s first trailer is a melodramatic affair complete with the Patriarch’s candlelit monologue, horses galloping across the plains, and opera music as a backing track. This is it dramathe people.

Swedish indie studio Hazelight is synonymous with cooperative gaming, so of course its next project is designed for two players – but this time, it also features two game types. Split Fiction is a co-op adventure where players navigate sci-fi and fantasy worlds in an attempt to escape the clutches of a greedy publishing company. It supports local and online co-op, and is conveniently played in split screen.

Brawlers Forgiveness and Sifu Put Sloclap on the map with its unforgettable appearance, great action, and crunchy animation. So naturally, the French studio’s next project is (see notes) a 5v5 soccer game. Oh sure! rematchwhich is scheduled to arrive next summer, perhaps makes more sense for Sloclap than it seems at first glance. The studio says the title falls within its remit of creating challenging action games with a stylized look.

Thick as Thieves is a new project from the team of immersive simulation and stealth action icons 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, this is a stacked lineup. Together, the OtherSide crew created or worked on the System Shock, Deus Ex, Tief, and Ultima Underworld series, and are (along with Doug Church and Ken Levine) largely responsible for the existence of immersive simulation games as we know them.

There are two great news here. First, the indie studio behind the Overcooked series, Ghost Town Games, is working on a new title called Stage Fright, which will support online and couch co-op. Rad! Second, Stage Fright is being published by No Man’s Sky studio Hello Games, a move that marks Hello’s first foray into publishing other studios’ projects. Double rad! Stage Fright is designed around cooperative play, and its mechanics bring Overcooked-style chaos to a series of escape rooms in a spooky world similar to Luigi’s Mansion.

Reviving a beloved game series like Ninja Gaiden is always a difficult proposition. Anyone who worked on the franchise at its peak has likely moved on to other projects or left the industry entirely. But judging by the talent working on Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, the sequel revealed at the Game Awards, I think it’s safe to say the series is in good hands. That’s because Ragebound unites two companies that know a thing or two about making quality games.