The 2024 Sport Awards befell in Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater on Thursday night time, with builders travelling from throughout the globe to have fun this yr in video video games.
Now in its tenth yr, The Sport Awards have turn out to be identified for brand new recreation bulletins and previews as a lot as they’re for celeb appearances, bizarre advertising stunts, and forcing timid recreation builders to awkwardly ship speeches in entrance of hundreds of individuals.
Listed below are all the largest bulletins from The Sport Awards 2024.
The Witcher IV introduced, nearly a decade after final recreation
The 2024 Sport Awards began out robust 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 somewhat than earlier protagonist Geralt — and it seems 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 Mission Crimson stating that it “marks the start of a brand 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 shocking is that Elden Ring: Nightreign can be a three-person co-op motion survival recreation, and is a spin-off somewhat than a sequel. Luckily it is going to additionally assist singleplayer, so you will not all the time want to attend in your associates to play.
Elden Ring: Nightreign could have gamers work collectively to outlive the “everchanging” land of Limveld and stage up considered one of eight characters, every of whom have their very own particular talents. Survive for 3 days, and you will have to face the harmful Nightlords.
Although the sport could have lots of the similar weapons and enemies present in Elden Ring, the world can be totally different in each playthrough. New key places, enemies, and weapons will seem or shift round in every new recreation, FromSoftware stating that gamers should overcome “the map itself.”
Elden Ring: Nightreign is presently 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 need to keep watch over. The Sport Awards supplied a short glimpse at a brand new recreation from genDESIGN and its founder Fumito Ueda, the creator behind notable titles akin to Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Final Guardian.
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Borderlands 4 provides official first look
Borderlands 4 was beforehand introduced with a teaser trailer in August, however now we have now 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 stated 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 looking for treasure, wealth, and glory after crash touchdown on Kairos a number of years later. It could not all be hedonistic self-interest although. Gamers will cope with The Timekeeper, Kairos’ ruthless dictator and chief of a military of artificial troopers often called The Order. Additionally opposing him are the Rippers led by their formidable Queen Callis, making the scenario on Kairos unstable to say the least.
The sport will assist solo gamers in addition to co-op video games, with two-player native break up display screen 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 massively influential preventing recreation collection. Thought of 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 vary.
SEGA introduced a brand new Virtua Fighter recreation throughout Thursday’s Sport 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 workforce has additionally returned to work on the sport for the primary time since 2006.
“For quite a lot of years now, we have now been engaged on this undertaking along with the Virtua Fighter builders as a united workforce,” stated Ryu Ga Gotoku director Masayoshi Yokoyama (translated from Japanese to English). “[It will] incorporate the sport applied sciences that Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has constructed and refined over time, in addition to Virtua Fighter‘s signature full-contact motion programs.”
The Final of Us builders reveal retro sci-fi recreation Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
The Sport Awards historically finish with “only one other thing,” an enormous, thrilling reveal to shut out the night time. This yr 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 person has left Sempiria’s orbit in over 600 years, with all communication from it having gone darkish. Now Jordan should preserve her wits about her and combat onerous if she needs to be the primary particular person 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 akin to The Social Community, The Woman with the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Woman, 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 as much as the Naughty Canine custom of making an emotional, character-driven epic journey,” and that it is going to be “the deepest gameplay in Naughty Canine’s historical past.”
Astro Bot received Sport of the 12 months 2024
For a lot of players, The Sport Awards’ principal attraction is its slew of latest recreation reveals. Even so, the occasion is technically an awards ceremony, with one recreation finally taking house the title of Sport of the 12 months.
The 2024 Sport Awards’ Sport of the 12 months went to platformer Astro Bot, developed by Workforce Asobi. Although Astro Bot and Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth led the nominations with seven every, the previous took house essentially the most trophies after profitable Finest Sport Route, Finest Motion/Journey Sport, and Finest Household Sport as nicely.
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