The Game Awards were stacked with even more big reveals than we expected this year

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Elden Ring: Nightreign

We were expecting some major reveals during this year’s 10th anniversary of The Game Awards and sure enough, Geoff pulled through with a stacked lineup of announcements—some of which even we weren’t anticipating.

We saw tons of hotly anticipated new games and returns from favorite creators. The studio behind It Takes Two revealed another co-op action game, the creator of Shadow of the Colossus also announced a new untitled project. We finally got a look at Ciri starring in The Witcher 4, a proper trailer for Borderlands 4, and so much more.

Elden Ring: Nightreign

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Elden Ring: Nightreign World Premiere Trailer from The Game Awards 2024 - YouTube

What the what,FromSoftwareis making a roguelike? One of the biggest announcements of the night was this standalone Elden Ring spin-off. It’s reusing loads of that game’s familiar weapons and baddies, but also adds a bunch of new stuff, like preset characters with their own unique abilities. That’s right, Souls has ults now. This definitely isn’t Elden Ring 2, but it may be the co-op action game a lot of Souls players have been fiending for for years now—assuming they’re more interested in fighting than the intricate level design of the Dark Souls games. We wenthands-on with Nightreignand found it’s leaning into faster-paced action and roguelike loot randomness, rather than exploration. It’s out some time in 2025.

Helldivers 2: Omens of Tyranny

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Helldivers 2 World Premiere Trailer from The Game Awards 2024 - YouTube

Split Fiction

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Split Fiction World Premiere Trailer from The Game Awards 2024 - YouTube

Borderlands 4

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Borderlands 4 - Official First Look - YouTube

One new planet, four new Vault Hunters, a billion new guns.Borderlands 4 sure does look like a Borderlands game, only this time the setting looks a little bit more high-tech than Pandora did, and you can drive a pod racer right out of the Star Wars prequels. It’s bound to be as much fun in brain-off co-op as the previous games were, but the jury’s still out on whether the solo mode will be a Borderlands 2-style laff riot or a Borderlands 3-style snoozefest.

Thick as Thieves

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Thick As Thieves - Announce Trailer - YouTube

Thief: The Dark Project but make it multiplayer. Warren Spector’s studio OtherSide is making a PvPvE stealth game, with criminals in a dense 1910s-style city competing to outwit guards and get away with loot. While players can sabotage and trap each other, it’s not a multiplayer game that isn’t about headshots—even the NPC guards are designed to be a challenge, and better outsmarted than outfought. It’s coming in 2026, and we’vewishlisted it already.

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The Witcher 4

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The Witcher 4 World Premiere Trailer from The Game Awards 2024 - YouTube

CD ProjektRed showed up packing.The Witcher 4is official, it stars Geralt’s adopted daughter Ciri, and it looks like a lot of time has passed since The Witcher 3. We were treated to a lengthy six-minute cinematic trailer (nothing in-engine) with our new protag in a scenario we’re all too familiar with: Ciri’s latest hunt takes her to a village in the middle of some sort of creepy ritual sacrifice. She interrupts the party and slays the monster menacing the village, but the people aren’t too happy about it. Go figure. A witcher can’t catch a coin from anyone these days.

Stage Fright

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Stage Fright Announcement Trailer (The Game Awards 2024) - YouTube

Project Century

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Project Century World Premiere Trailer from The Game Awards 2024 - YouTube

The Yakuza studio announced two games at the show, but I think we can all agreeProject Centurywas the more exciting one. Set in 1915 Japan, the game is so early it doesn’t have a proper name yet, but we can tell from the trailer that it’s likely an action game, not a turn-based RPG. It also looks way more violent than we’re used to from Ryu Ga Gotoku: A guy gets stabbed and a gallon of blood flies out of his body.

The untitled gen Design game

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Announcement Trailer For a New Upcoming Game From genDESIGN - YouTube

The Long Dark 2: Blackfrost

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The Long Dark 2: Blackfrost World Premiere Trailer from The Game Awards 2024 - YouTube

After years of working on updates to its tundra survival game,Hinterland Studio is finally tackling a sequel. The Long Dark 2: Blackfrost is coming to early access in 2026 and this time it’s going co-op, which is exciting to hear. The original adventure through the quiet apocalypse was full of tense moments of survival battling wolves and boiling drinkable water long after dark. The sequel is expanding on the original with things like urban environments and customizable survivors.

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet

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Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Announcement Trailer - YouTube

Naughty Dog is coming back witha whole new worldit’s been secretly working on for the last four years. The studio says that the sci-fi adventure will have its “deepest gameplay” yet and continue its storytelling ambitions with an emotional narrative. So far we know it stars a bounty hunter named Jordan stranded on a distant planet with little communication and hoping to escape its orbit.

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Elden Ring: Nightreign

Helldivers 2: Omens of Tyranny

Split Fiction

Borderlands 4

Thick as Thieves

The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals

The Witcher 4

Stage Fright

Project Century

The untitled gen Design game

The Long Dark 2: Blackfrost

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet