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The Game Awards 2024 showed off a ton of upcoming games, from The Witcher 4 to Naughty Dog's next game.
The Game Awards 2024 returned for another three-hour show this year, delivering a bevy of announcements and reveals for upcoming video games in what remains of 2024, 2025, and beyond. The event also bestowed awards to the games industry’s best talent and titles across multiple categories, ranging from Game of the Year to Best Esports Team.
This year, The Game Awards gave us the announcement of Naughty Dog's new game and an Okami sequel as well as new trailers for The Outer Worlds 2 and The Witcher 4. In case you haven’t caught up yet, here’s every big game reveal and announcement from The Game Awards 2024:
Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
We're getting a new Ninja Gaiden game at long last, from developer Dotemu. This is a 2D platformer game in the retro style of the classic Ninja Gaiden games, with flashy combat and gorgeous visuals.
Slay the Spire 2
The beloved roguelike deck-building game Slay the Spire is getting a sequel launching in early access next year, which means that we're all going to be addicted to playing Slay the Spire again.
Thick as Thieves
We got a new look at game developer Warren Spector’s latest project: a multiplayer stealth game where players step into the roles of different playable classes.
Shadow Labyrinth
Pac-Man’s Secret Level episode is shockingly getting a game adaptation. This looks like a metroidvania following Pac-Man and their companion, as the duo fight to escape a maze.
Rematch
This football game comes from the maker of Sifu. Players can team up with friends and tackle, dribble, aim, and shoot their way to victory in fast-paced 5v5 matches.
The Witcher 4
CD Projekt Red showed up with one of today's more shocking game reveals: a new Witcher game starring Ciri, Geralt’s mentee and now-seasoned monster hunter. How has the world of The Witcher changed since the events of Geralt’s trilogy? We're about to find out.
Elden Ring: Nightreign (2025)
Elden Ring: Nightreign is a new co-op multiplayer game arriving sometime in 2025, meaning that FromSoftware’s claims that a sequel to Elden Ring wasn’t happening was technically true… and also not?
Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth on PC (January 23)
If you’ve been waiting to play the new entry in the Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy on PC, the wait is almost over.
Untitled new game by Fumito Ueda
The creator of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian is finally releasing something new. Judging by this trailer, players will explore a dystopia sci-fi world ruined by a mysterious and formidable threat.
The Outer Worlds 2
Obsidian Entertainment’s fantastic sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds is back with a new sequel in 2025. This sequel seems to retain the satirical tone - and wild weaponry - of the original.
Split Fiction
It Takes Two developer Hazelight’s new co-op adventure game has been revealed: Split Fiction. This ambitious game sees players team up in a series of imaginative levels, playing as two writers stuck inside stories of their own creation. One is a sci-fi world while the other is a fantasy world, but both have to escape their worlds together to survive.
Borderlands 4
We got a new look at the newest entry in Gearbox’s looter-shooter franchise Borderlands 4, including its four Vault Hunters.
Final Fantasy 16 x Tekken 8
Clive Rosfield from Final Fantasy 16 is coming to Tekken 8 as a playable fighter, with actor Ben Starr returning to voice the role.
Virtua Fighter
Sega has shown off its new Virtua Fighter game, made in collaboration with Yakuza maker Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio.
Project Century
Speaking of Yakuza, check out this all-new project from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio. Set in an older time period in Japan with a new protagonist, players will… get beaten up a lot, it looks like?
Turok Origins
Turok is back! Wait, Turok is back? It’s best not to question it.
Helldivers 2: Omens of Tyranny
Helldivers 2’s latest major update is out now, bringing vehicles to the multiplayer game.
Warframe 1999
Here’s a trailer for Warframe’s next standalone expansion, which adds romance, new story content, and much more to the looter-shooter.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Capcom has unveiled an all-new Onimusha game at long last, to the great pleasure of fans of the franchise everywhere.
Arad: Dungeon & Fighter
If you’re looking for an anime game to fill the Genshin Impact-sized hole in your heart, but for whatever reason don’t actually want to play Genshin Impact, this game was made for you.
Dying Light: The Beast
We got a new look at the next Dying Light game - a first-person survival game with an emphasis on parkour, much like previous entries in the series.
Stage Fright
Ghost Town Games, the creator of Overcooked, has announced an all-new co-op video game. This spooky game sees players work together to survive in what appear to be multiple realities.
Game of Thrones: Kingsroad
Netmarble is making a new game set in the world of Game of Thrones with Jon Snow as a featured character.
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
The Sonic Racing game series is back, as evidenced by this new trailer starring Shadow and his appropriately edgy car.
Mafia: The Old Country
2K’s Maria game franchise gets a new entry with Mafia: The Old Country. This sequel stars a new protagonist named Enzo, in a story set in Sicily.
Dispatch
Aaron Paul, Jeffrey Wright, Laura Bailey, Jacksepticeye and more star in this game, which is described as “a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter.”
Okami Sequel
We’re finally getting a sequel to Okami - and with game director Hideki Kamiya heading the project, no less.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog has finally revealed its next game: Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, set for the PlayStation 5. This game is set thousands of years in the future, with players playing the role of bounty hunter Jordan A. Mun. When Jordan gets stranded on a distant planet called Sempiria, she has to use all her skills and wits if she hopes to be the first person in over 600 years to leave its orbit.
