The 2024 Recreation Awards happened in Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater on Thursday evening, with builders travelling from throughout the globe to have a good time this 12 months in video video games.
Now in its tenth 12 months, The Recreation Awards have grow to be recognized for brand new recreation bulletins and previews as a lot as they’re for movie star appearances, bizarre advertising stunts, and forcing timid recreation builders to awkwardly ship speeches in entrance of 1000’s of individuals.
Listed here are all the largest bulletins from The Recreation Awards 2024.
The Witcher IV introduced, nearly a decade after final recreation
The 2024 Recreation Awards began out sturdy with the announcement of The Witcher IV from CD Projeckt Crimson. The fourth recreation within the Witcher collection, The Witcher IV will break from its predecessors by following former supporting character Ciri moderately than earlier protagonist Geralt — and it appears to be like as if she’s shaping as much as be simply as formidable a monster slayer as he’s.
The Witcher IV can be a single-player open-world roleplaying recreation although, with CD Challenge Crimson stating that it “marks the beginning of a new saga with Ciri as a protagonist.” This undertaking is the studio’s first new recreation since 2020’s Cyberpunk 2077, and the primary new title within the Witcher collection since The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 2015.
Elden Ring co-op spin-off Elden Ring: Nightreign unveiled
Contemplating how fashionable FromSoftware’s Elden Ring was in 2022, it is unsurprising that we’re getting extra video games in the identical universe. What’s stunning is that Elden Ring: Nightreign can be a three-person co-op motion survival recreation, and is a spin-off moderately than a sequel. Fortuitously it should additionally help singleplayer, so you will not all the time want to attend to your buddies to play.
Elden Ring: Nightreign may have gamers work collectively to outlive the “everchanging” land of Limveld and stage up one among eight characters, every of whom have their very own particular talents. Survive for 3 days, and you will have to face the damaging Nightlords.
Although the sport may have most of the identical weapons and enemies present in Elden Ring, the world can be completely different in each playthrough. New key areas, enemies, and weapons will seem or shift round in every new recreation, FromSoftware stating that gamers must overcome “the map itself.”
Elden Ring: Nightreign is at the moment deliberate for launch on PlayStation 4/5, Xbox Collection X/S, Xbox One, and PC in 2025.
Untitled recreation from Shadow of the Colossus developer teased
We do not even know the title of this recreation, however its pedigree already makes it one which many individuals will wish to keep watch over. The Recreation Awards supplied a quick glimpse at a brand new recreation from genDESIGN and its founder Fumito Ueda, the creator behind notable titles equivalent to Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Final Guardian.
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Borderlands 4 presents official first look
Borderlands 4 was beforehand introduced with a teaser trailer in August, however now we now have our official first look at 2K Video games’ subsequent entry within the fashionable franchise.
The brand new first-person loot shooter will choose up after the occasions of Borderlands 3, when — spoiler alert — Siren Lilith averted a disastrous collision by teleporting Pandora’s moon Elpis to an unknown location. It seems that mentioned location was the ambiance above Kairos, which didn’t do nice issues for the protecting barrier surrounding the planet.
Borderlands 4 positions gamers as a Vault Hunter trying to find treasure, wealth, and glory after crash touchdown on Kairos a number of years later. It might not all be hedonistic self-interest although. Gamers will take care of The Timekeeper, Kairos’ ruthless dictator and chief of a military of artificial troopers often known as The Order. Additionally opposing him are the Rippers led by their formidable Queen Callis, making the scenario on Kairos risky to say the least.
The sport will help solo gamers in addition to co-op video games, with two-player native cut up display or as much as 4 gamers on-line. Borderlands 4 is scheduled to reach on PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X/S, and PC in 2025.
New Virtua Fighter recreation from Yakuza‘s studio in improvement
Virtua Fighter is a vastly influential preventing recreation collection. Thought-about the primary ever 3D preventing recreation, the sport has knowledgeable and impressed quite a few others since its first title was launched in 1993. Even so, there hasn’t been a brand new Virtua Fighter recreation since Virtua Fighter 5 in 2007. That is about to alter.
SEGA introduced a brand new Virtua Fighter recreation throughout Thursday’s Recreation Awards, this time led by Like a Dragon/Yakuza developer Ryu Ga Gotoku. In a subsequent livestream, SEGA President and COO Shuji Utsumi additionally revealed that the unique Virtua Fighter group has additionally returned to work on the sport for the primary time since 2006.
“For a number of years now, we have been working on this project together with the Virtua Fighter developers as a united team,” mentioned Ryu Ga Gotoku director Masayoshi Yokoyama (translated from Japanese to English). “[It will] incorporate the game technologies that Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has built and refined over the years, as well as Virtua Fighter‘s signature full-contact action systems.”
The Final of Us builders reveal retro sci-fi recreation Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
The Recreation Awards historically finish with “just one more thing,” a giant, thrilling reveal to shut out the evening. This 12 months that reveal was a model new recreation in a model new IP from The Final of Us developer Naughty Canine, providing a cool ’80s retro sci-fi aesthetic.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet follows bounty hunter Jordan A. Mun (Tati Gabrielle), who pursues her newest goal to the mysterious planet of Sempiria. No one has left Sempiria’s orbit in over 600 years, with all communication from it having gone darkish. Now Jordan should hold her wits about her and battle onerous if she needs to be the primary individual in six centuries to flee.
The sci-fi journey recreation can be scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who’ve beforehand supplied the soundtracks for movies equivalent to The Social Community, The Lady with the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Lady, and Challengers.
We do not know a lot else about Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet but. Nevertheless, Naughty Canine Studio Head Neil Druckmann states that it “lives up to the Naughty Dog tradition of creating an emotional, character-driven epic journey,” and that it is going to be “the deepest gameplay in Naughty Dog’s history.”
Astro Bot gained Recreation of the 12 months 2024
For a lot of players, The Recreation Awards’ foremost enchantment is its slew of recent recreation reveals. Even so, the occasion is technically an awards ceremony, with one recreation in the end taking dwelling the title of Recreation of the 12 months.
The 2024 Recreation Awards’ Recreation of the 12 months went to platformer Astro Bot, developed by Crew Asobi. Although Astro Bot and Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth led the nominations with seven every, the previous took dwelling probably the most trophies after successful Finest Recreation Course, Finest Motion/Journey Recreation, and Finest Household Recreation as nicely.
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