The Game Awards 2024 Announcements: The Witcher 4, Elden Ring Nightreign, Intergalactic and More
The Game Awards 2024, held live at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles Thursday, honored the best games of the year across genres, celebrating developers and creators in the industry. Team Asobi's PS5 exclusive Astro Bot was named Game of the Year at the ceremony, while breakout roguelike deckbuilder Balatro won in three categories, including Best Debut Indie Game, Best Independent Game and Best Mobile Game.
We've covered the full list of winners from the show separately, but aside from the awards themselves, the event also featured several major announcements, game reveals and world premiere trailers. In addition to some expected updates, The Game Awards presented a few truly surprising announcements, including a new Elden Ring co-op title from FromSoftware, the reveal trailer for The Witcher 4 and a first look at Naughty Dog's next game.
As 2K had promised ahead of the event, Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country were showcased with first-look trailers; both games are set for release in 2025. Hazelight Studios' Josef Fares also revealed his next game, Split Fiction. Just like It Takes Two, the game is a co-op action-adventure, and it's set for release on March 6. Here are the biggest announcements from The Game Awards 2024:
The Witcher 4 finally received a first-look trailer at the Game Awards 2024. Developer CD Projekt Red has been working on a new The Witcher saga for some years now, and the cinematic trailer finally provided a glimpse into the new chapter of the franchise. As was previously rumoured, Ciri was confirmed as the protagonist for The Witcher 4. But you can hear Geralt's voice towards the end of the trailer, suggested the Butcher of Blaviken might have role to play. There's no release date for the game yet, but it's expected to arrive on PC and current-gen consoles.
Hidetaka Miyazaki recently said that FromSoftware didn't have plans for Elden Ring 2. Turns out he was a right — somewhat. Bandai Namco and FromSoftware announced Elden Ring Nightreign,
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