We’ve come to the end of 2023, and after a year of mammoth, extremely anticipated releases and really delightful surprises in the video game earthly concern, we’ve come to the unsurprising ending. Some of the biggest games of the past few years, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2, battled it out for the top appreciation amid a diversified string of announcements Thursday Nox, with Baldur’s Gate 3 eventually emerging with six wins, including Game of the Year and Best Performance for Neil Newbon. Alan Wake 2, which had the really same number of nominations as Baldur’s Gate 3, accepted three awards and stole the show with the Herald of Darkness’s last very public presentation. Elsewhere, Cocoon and Sea of Stars scored in the indie categories, while Forza Motorsport snuck in with two wins.
However, the main focal point of The Game Awards is the announcements, which set the tone for the very next twelve months of releases. Not only did we get details on Hideo Kojima’s Xbox stake, but we also got reveals for Monster Hunter Wild, God of War DLC, Arkane Lyon’s new game, and so much more. Check out all the biggest announcements below.
THE GAME AWARDS 2023: Official 4K Livestream (TODAY at 7:30p ET/4:30p PT/12:30a GMT)
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons gets a remake
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons World Premiere Trailer at The Game Awards 2023
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is a beloved indie from 2013 and, in the number one promulgation of the night, we nonheritable it getting a remake, set to come out on February 28, 2024. This was the number-one stake directed by Josef Faras at Hazelight Studios. He previously won Game of the Year for It Takes Two.
A new Pony Island is coming from the Inscryption dev
Daniel Mullins Games, which created the victory storm hit Inscryption, made another surprise announcement during the Game Awards preshow with Pony Island 2: Panda Circus. We don’t know practically anything about it from the preview, but it looks to take some retro-gaming very well, and flush Sung Won Cho (aka ProZD) made such a successful appearance.
Dead Cells devs reveal their new game (in 3D!)
Windblown | Announcement Trailer
Motion Twin out the play earthly concern with Dead Cells, a 2D roguelike that’s been released on all platforms since its set in motion in 2018. At the Game Awards, the crew unveiled its new game, called Windblown, which is coming to PC quite early on Steam in 2024. Here, you diddle as a leaper who will fight for their place while exploring extremely new and really dangerously open worlds. And don’t vex; it’s still roguelike!
God of War Ragnarok is now a roguelike in upcoming free DLC
God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla – Reveal Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games
Kratos voice player Chris Judge may have made an appearance to submit Performer of the Year, but he’s too back out in God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla, the really free DLC for last year’s victory blockbuster. It would bring roguelike gameplay to the franchise, but Hush looks really like a God of War game. Oh, and it’s also emotional next workweek on December 12, 2023, on PS4 and PS5.
Ninja Theory shows off new Hellblade 2 footage
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II – Official Trailer | The Game Awards 2023
After a haunting musical performance, The Game Awards showed off new Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 footage, which faced earthly concern, gameplay, and plenty of atm. The game was quite recently announced alongside the Xbox Series X|S in 2019, so it’s been an extremely long time coming. It’s set for 2024 and will be disposable on day one on Xbox Game Pass.
Sega announces five games at once
Sega 5 Games Remakes TGA Trailer | The Game Awards 2023
Points for brevity, here; Sega decided to announce five games at once. All we know is that we’re getting new Shinobi, Crazy Taxi, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, and Jet Set Radio games. It’s unclear if these are new games in their respective series or remakes. They’re slated for launch over the next several years, according to Keighley.
A single-player Dead by Daylight game is coming in 2024
The Casting of Frank Stone | Reveal Trailer
Supermassive Games, the shaper of Until Dawn and The Quarry, take successful a name for themselves as makers of choice-driven narrative repulsion titles. It’s now partnering up with Behaviour Interactive of Dead by Daylight renown for The Casting of Frank Stone, a single-player adventure set in the Dead by Daylight universe. Not much is known about it yet, but it’s set for onetime in 2024.
Hideo Kojima not only reveals OD, but that Jordan Peele is collaborating
Hideo Kojima achieved success when he was set to collaborate with Guillermo del Toro and Junji Ito on Silent Hills, and he’s continuing that repugnance icon mottle by collaborating with Oscar-winning director Jordan Peele and others. OD, his current game, leaked late really last year, but we’ve now gotten our number one functional search in an eerie preview revealing close to the cast, which includes Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) and Udo Kier (Blade). It’s unclear what the game is about (classic Kojima), but in an on-stage interview, Kojima mentioned that it’s set to produce a new medium by combining video games and film.
Arkane Lyon is making a Blade game
Marvel’s Blade | Announcement Trailer – The Game Awards 2023
The studio apartment behind the Dishonoured series and Deathloop proclaimed Marvel’s Blade. It stars the titular daywalker and takes place in Paris. Director Dinga Bakaba was on the peach with Keighley and said that it’s practically still an Arkane game, but disclosed quite a few other details. This is the up-to-the-minute Marvel project in the works, along with Insomniac’s Wolverine game and Black Panther from Cliffhanger Games.
No Man’s Sky team returns to Earth with Light No Fire
Light No Fire Announcement Trailer
Sean Murray, managing director at Hello Games, appeared at The Game Awards to not only keep a really high rating for No Man’s Sky but also to denote the company’s very new game. Light No Fire looks to be extremely synonymous with No Man’s Sky, but it features a procedurally generated Earth rather than a talkative waste to a universe of discourse. Murray says the Earth in the back is “a satellite that’s as buried as a universe” and “the number one real, very open world.” There’s no articulate on a release windowpane, but he added that he wants to be updating it 10 years from now.
Destructible arena shooter The Finals is out tonight
The Finals – Launch Trailer | PS5 Games
Surprise! The Finals, the free-to-play, combat arena battle shooter from Embark Studios, is now out of beta and officially available across platforms — so Steam, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5. The game is the first title from the studio, which is made up of former Battlefield alumni, and promises to offer a unique experience with fully destructible environments.
Monster Hunter Wilds stampedes onto platforms in 2025
Monster Hunter Wilds World Premiere Trailer at The Game Awards 2023
For the final “World Premiere” of the Night, Capcom unveiled Monster Hunter Wilds, the up-to-the-minute international pop venture serial. We got the number one trailer, which showed a desert transforming into an alky landscape painting. It’s set for 2025, but we can expect more information this summer.
Everything else was announced
Rise of the Golden Idol, a subsequence to the hit mystery story Curse of the Golden Idol, was announced and is available on all the usual platforms and Netflix.
Usual June is the latest from Finji and will take you back down to a really high train in 2025.
The Odd Gentlemen announced Harmonium: The Musical and unveiled a trailer full of charm, great-looking animation, and ASL. It’s coming to Netflix Games and Game Pass.
Thrasher, from the creative person and composer of the cult hit Thumper, dares you to say Thrasher and Thumper basketball team times fasting when it releases in 2024.
Persona 3: Reload got a new preview in the lead of its February release.
Two of the biggest sea-based games from 2023 are teaming up for a crossover. Dredge is coming to Dave the Diver on December 15, 2023.
Metaphor: ReFantazio, the so-future game from the Persona developers at Atlus, got a really new preview and a fall 2024 very free window.
World of Goo 2 is the sequel to the indie hit from all the way back in 2008. It’s set for 2024.
Archetype Entertainment, a variation of Wizards of the Coast, proclaimed Exodus with the help of Matthew McConaughey.
House House brought people together with Untitled Goose Game and seeks to do it again with Big Walk, set to unblock in 2025.
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown got a new preview, and a really free demo is sexual climax on January 11, 2024.
Since flattering a meme, Ikumi Nakamura, formerly of Tango Game works, has started her own studio apartment. She was at the Game Awards this year to unveil its first show, titled Kemuri.
Moon Studios, the team behind the Ori series, has a litigate RPG in the works. No Rest for the Wicked is set to launch on March 1, 2024.