The Game Awards 2024: all of the biggest trailers and announcements – The Verge

Naughty Dog reveals sci-fi game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet

2024-12-12T23:05:14-05:00

The Game Awards' final world premiere was Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. Developed by Naughty Dog, Intergalactic is a futuristic space opera with the kind of futurepunk vibes that remind me of Cowboy Bebop. That comparison is apt as Intergalactic game director and Naughty Dog studio head Neil Druckmann mentioned on the game's website that it stars a space bounty hunter. Indeed, the trailer even featured an anime playing in the background reminiscent of Dirty Pair.

Here's Naughty Dog's description of the game, from the YouTube trailer:

Set thousands of years in the future, Intergalactic puts players into the role of Jordan A. Mun, a da …

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Okami is getting a sequel

2024-12-12T22:53:17-05:00

Capcom had quite the surprise in store at The Game Awards. The developer announced a sequel to Okami, a beautiful and beloved action-adventure game that originally launched back in 2006.

The sequel - which doesn't currently have a name - was revealed in dramatic fashion with a musical performance. Original director Hideki Kamiya is returning for the game, which will be developed by his new studio Clovers. It's still very early though; during the reveal TGA host Geoff Keighley said that "production is about to begin." Capcom, meanwhile, says only that "a new adventure in the same vein as Okami has been set in motion."

Not only has it been q …

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Borderlands 4’s first trailer is all out war

2024-12-12T21:01:49-05:00

We already knew it was in the works, and now we have an idea of how it will look and play. At the Game Awards, Gearbox Software revealed the first proper trailer for Borderlands 4, which is due out in 2025. The trailer starts with a cinematic depicting a large-scale conflict of some sort, before getting into the actual gameplay - which is as colorful and violent as you'd expect from the franchise. The game is playable solo or co-op with up to three other players, and Gearbox says that there are "billions" of weapons to use.

Here's the basic set-up:

Break free from the oppressive Timekeeper, a ruthless dictator who dominates the masses from …

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Split Fiction is the next co-op game from Hazelight Studios

2024-12-12T20:54:26-05:00

Josef Fares is back and so is his penchant for cursing. The director of Hazelight Studios has returned to The Game Awards to debut his next game: Split Fiction.

Split Fiction is a game that feels very much in Hazelight's wheelhouse. Like It Takes Two and A Way Out before it, Split Fiction is a two-person split-screen co-op game. In it, two game developers have been trapped in a world they created and must play together to escape.

It's been a quiet but massively successful handful of years for Hazelight Studios. In 2021, it took home Game of the Year for It Takes Two in which two players must work together to overcome the myriad dangers of …

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FromSoftware debuts a new Elden Ring game

2024-12-12T20:44:49-05:00

FromSoftware, the studio that just this month said it was "not really considering developments such as an Elden Ring 2," has revealed a game that looks a lot like it could be Elden Ring 2.

Elden Ring Nightreign is the next entry in the Elden Ring series. The trailer, debuting during this year's The Game Awards, didn't share much narrative details, but from the game's official announcement, it doesn't seem like game director Hidetaka Miyzaki told a fib. Nightreign goes in a completely different gameplay direction from the base game and the Shadows of the Erdtree DLC. Described as an action survival game, Nightreign is a standalone co-op mult …

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Here’s your very first look at The Witcher 4

2024-12-12T20:25:12-05:00

The 2024 edition of The Game Awards started with a bang - the very first look at the next Witcher game. It's called The Witcher 4 and was revealed via a lengthy cinematic trailer that starred Ciri in place of Geralt, who led the original trilogy.

There aren't many details yet, but CD Projekt Red says that in the new game, "Ciri takes center stage as the protagonist, embarking on her own journey to become a professional monster slayer." It will be a single-player, open-world RPG. The studio says that "the cinematic trailer is pre-rendered in a custom build of Unreal Engine 5 on an unannounced NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU."

It doesn't sound like t …

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How to watch the 2024 Game Awards

2024-12-12T10:00:00-05:00

It's December, which means one thing: it's time for another round of The Game Awards. As with last year - and every year - the awards themselves aren't really the highlight of the Geoff Keighley-hosted event. Instead, the show has become a very long stream full of video game announcements, reveals, and trailers, punctuated by the occasional award and musical performance.

This year, we know at least a few of the major reveals, which will include the first gameplay trailer for Borderlands 4 and the next release from Hazelight Studios, the team behind surprise hit It Takes Two. Games like Palworld, Dying Light, and Mafia: The Old Country, are …

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