The 15 largest bulletins and new trailers from The Sport Awards 2024

The Sport Awards are over — congratulations to Workforce Asobi for Astro Bot taking dwelling the Sport of the Yr award. As at all times, the lengthy, lengthy stream was a hybrid award ceremony, promoting reel and recreation announcement marathon.

There have been numerous bulletins interspersed all through the awards, together with all-new video games like Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet from Naughty Canine, The Witcher 4 from CD Projekt RED and Break up Fiction from It Takes Two studio Hazelight. It was additionally a present of revivals, with long-dormant franchises like Okami, Onimusha, Ninja Gaiden and Virtua Fighter returning.

Listed below are our high bulletins from the present, in no explicit order — you’ll be able to watch all of the trailers beneath, or click on on one of many headlines to get the total story.

Naughty Canine is pivoting from post-apocalyptic fungal drama to interstellar sci-fi bounty searching with its latest recreation, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. The studio revealed its new title with a cinematic trailer at The Sport Awards on Thursday. Intergalactic takes place 1000’s of years sooner or later and it stars bounty hunter Jordan A. Mun, performed by Chilling Adventures of Sabrina actor Tati Gabrielle. Jordan finds herself stranded on the planet Sempiria, which has been minimize off from the remainder of the universe for greater than 600 years. She’s on a mission to flee Sempiria, however it appears to be like like some vicious robots are going to get in her means.

Properly, let’s be sincere: I do not suppose any of us anticipated to see CD Projekt Crimson preview The Witcher 4 any time quickly, and but the studio did simply that, sharing a prolonged cinematic trailer for the upcoming sequel on the Sport Awards. Even when there isn’t any gameplay footage to be discovered, followers of the sequence will love what they see.

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is simply barely within the rearview mirror and FromSoftware already has a brand new recreation within the wings. The primary trailer for Elden Ring Nightreign, a standalone co-op motion recreation, at The Sport Awards 2024.

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio delivered a meaty one-two punch at The Sport Awards. First got here the information that the Like A Dragon studio is behind a revival of the Virtua Fighter series. Not solely that, however the forever-busy studio (which, you could recall, has a Like A Dragon spinoff coming in February) can be making a Like A Dragon-style recreation set within the 1910s.

There have been a number of main shock bulletins throughout this 12 months’s version of The Sport Awards, however maybe none was fairly as out of the blue as phrase of a sequel to Okami. Not solely that, the unique recreation’s director, Hideki Kamiya, is on the helm.

It’s solely been a brief few months since Gearbox announced Borderlands 4, the following recreation in its long-running looter shooter franchise. Again in August, all we had was a cryptic teaser, however at immediately’s Sport Awards, we obtained a correct have a look at the brand new recreation.

We advised you again in 2021 that The Outer Worlds 2 was a thing that existed, and now, greater than three years later, we’ve got proof in assist of this declare: a gameplay trailer.

2K’s constantly sporadic Mafia sequence will return in 2025. Mafia: The Outdated Nation is ready in Sicily within the 1900s, and can discover the origins of organized crime. Developer Hangar 13 introduced {that a} new Mafia title was in improvement back in 2022, however gave few particulars past that. The sport’s first trailer is a melodramatic affair full with a patriarch monologuing over candlelight, horses galloping throughout the plains and opera music as a backing observe. That is drama, folks.

Swedish indie studio Hazelight is synonymous with co-op gaming, so in fact its subsequent mission is constructed for 2 gamers — however this time, it additionally options two genres. Break up Fiction is a co-op journey the place gamers leap between sci-fi and fantasy worlds in a bid to flee the clutches of a grasping publishing company. It helps native and on-line co-op, and, fittingly, it performs out in split-screen.

Brawlers Absolver and Sifu put Sloclap on the map due to their memorable appears to be like, slick motion and crunchy animations. So naturally the following mission for the French studio is [checks notes] a 5v5 arcade soccer recreation. Uh, positive! Rematch, which is slated to reach subsequent summer time, maybe makes extra sense for Sloclap than first meets the attention. The studio says the title falls inside its remit of creating difficult motion video games with a stylized look.

Thick as Thieves is a brand new mission from the crew of immersive sim and stealth-action icons at OtherSide Leisure, which incorporates Deus Ex creator Warren Spector, Trying Glass Studios founder Paul Neurath, and Thief: The Darkish Challenge lead Greg LoPiccolo. Sure, that is a stacked lineup. Collectively, the OtherSide crew has created or labored on the System Shock, Deus Ex, Thief and Ultima Underworld sequence, and (together with Doug Church and Ken Levine) are largely liable for the existence of immersive sims as we all know them.

One of many highlights from The Sport Awards was the second Breaking Unhealthy star Aaron Paul and voice actor Laura Bailey took the stage to disclose Dispatch. Set to reach in 2025, the narrative recreation is from AdHoc Studio, based by former Telltale Video games builders, and includes a stacked solid together with Paul, Bailey, Jeffrey Wright, Erin Yvette, Jacksepticeye and others — a mixture of A-list Hollywood expertise and top-tier recreation voice actors.

There are two cool items of reports right here. First, the indie studio behind the Overcooked sequence, Ghost City Video games, is engaged on a brand new title known as Stage Fright, and it will assist each on-line and sofa co-op. Rad! Second, Stage Fright is being revealed by No Man’s Sky studio Hiya Video games, a transfer that marks Hiya’s first foray into publishing different studios’ initiatives. Double rad! Stage Fright is constructed round co-op, and its mechanics carry Overcooked-style chaos to a sequence of escape rooms in a spooky, Luigi’s Mansion sort of world.

Capcom has introduced Onimusha: Method of the Sword, the primary new Onimusha recreation because the unique 2001 PS2 model was remastered in 2019. Revealed at The Sport Awards 2024, it reveals a contemporary tackle the traditional darkish motion recreation, minus the fastened perspective. The trailer for the only participant, Wordplay motion recreation exhibits an unnamed Samanosuke-like hero as he takes on samurai zombies in bloody fight, accumulating golden orbs as earlier than.

Resurrecting a beloved gaming sequence like Ninja Gaiden is at all times a difficult proposition. Anybody who may need labored on the franchise in its heyday has seemingly moved on to different initiatives or left the business totally. However judging by the expertise engaged on Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, the brand new sequence entry revealed on the Sport Awards, I feel it is protected to say the franchise is in protected fingers. That is as a result of Ragebound unites two firms who know a factor or two about making high quality video games.

Replace, December 13, 1:15PM ET: This text was up to date to incorporate a pair extra tales that rolled in after we initially revealed. Benefit from the Dispatch and Onimusha trailers! (The headline was additionally up to date from “13” to “15” as a result of math is necessary.)