The 15 biggest new announcements and trailers including The Witcher 4 and Elden Ring

The game’s rewards are out — congratulations to Team Asobi on that Astro Bot Get the Game of the Year award. Our review for Astro Bot Earlier this year it was called “One of the best games Sony has ever made“And the industry and gaming public seem to agree.

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.

You can see all the winners on The official website of The Game Awards. If you missed it, you can watch GOTY Medley Orchestra video game; It’s always one of the highlights of the show and a fitting one to watch Astro Bot and Balatro This year has been a blast – praise the keytar!

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.

Well, let’s be honest: I don’t think any of us expected to see a CD Projekt Red preview Witcher 4 Any time soon, however, and the studio has done just that, 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 love what they see.

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.

Ring of Elden: Shadow of Erdtree It’s barely in the rearview mirror and FromSoftware already has a new game in the wings. The first trailer for Elden Ring Nytrinan indie co-op action game, at The Game Awards 2024.

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio delivered a huge hit at The Game Awards. First came the news that Like A Dragon studio was shutting down A revival of the Virtua Fighter series. Not only that, but the eternally crowded studio (which, you may recall, has a spinoff like A Dragon Coming in February) 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 Gearbox announced Border areas 4the 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 so in 2021 Outer Worlds 2 He was Something was thereNow, 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 Again in 2022But 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 imagination It 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 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, Thief: Dark Project Driving by 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.

That moment was one of the highlights of The Game Awards Very bad Star Aaron Paul and voice actress Laura Bailey He took the stage To reveal send. Set to arrive in 2025, the narrative game is from AdHoc Studio, founded by former Telltale Games developers, and features an ensemble cast including Paul, Bailey, Jeffrey Wright, Erin Yvette, Jacksepticeye and others – a mix of Hollywood talent and Hollywood stars. The game’s voice actors are top notch.

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 frightIt will support online and couch co-op play. Rad! second, stage fright It is published by No sky man studio Hello Games, a move that marks Hello’s first foray into publishing other studios’ projects. Double rad! stage fright Built around cooperative play, its mechanics bring Overcooked-style chaos to a series of escape rooms in a spooky world resembling Luigi’s Mansion.

Capcom announced Onimusha: The Way of the Swordthe first new Onimusha game since the original 2001 PS2 release was remastered in 2019. Revealed at The Game Awards 2024, it reveals a modern take on the classic dark action game, without the fixed perspective. The trailer for the single-player action game Wordplay shows an unnamed Samanosuke-like hero taking on samurai zombies in bloody combat, collecting golden orbs as before.

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 it Ninja Gaiden: Ragethe new installment in the series that was revealed at the Game Awards, I think it’s safe to say that the franchise is in good hands. This is because Anger Uniting two companies that know a thing or two about making quality games.

Update, December 13, 3:00 PM ET: This article has been updated to include two additional stories that appeared after we originally published. I listen send and Onyemosha Trailers! (The title has also been updated from “13” to “15” due to the importance of mathematics.) We’ve also added a link to view all the award winners, thanks for our efforts Astro Bot A review and a link to the Game Award Orchestra’s GOTY medley, just because.