The Game Awards 2024 - Winners, Announcements, Trailers, More - Article

by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 December 2024 / 4,628 Views

The Game Awards 2023 took place tonight and it featured dozens of announcements and trailers, alongside the award winners.

Astro Bot is the biggest winner as it won Game of the Year, as well as Best Game Direction, Best Action / Adventure Game, and Best Family Game.

Other notable winners include Metaphor: ReFantazio, Balatro, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, Helldivers II, and Black Myth: Wukong.

There were many games announced throughout the awards show including a new IP from Naughty Dog called Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. It is directed by Neil Druckmann and has been in development since 2020.

Several older IPs from made a return with a sequel to Okami, Turok: Origins, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and more announced.

The cinematic reveal trailer for The Witcher 4 was showcased revealing Ciri will be the new protagonist and FromSoftware announced cooperative action RPG, Elden Ring Nightreign. The Outer Worlds 2 and Borderlands 4 both got a first look at gameplay as they are both launching in 2025.

Developer genDESIGN, best known for developing Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian, teased its next game. Sega announced a new Virtua Fighter game is in development. It Takes Two developer Hazelight announced cooperative adventure game, Split Fiction.

The Last of Us Part II Remastered and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth were both announced to be coming to PC on April 3, 2025 and January 23, 2025, respectively.

Check out links to all the news, announcements, trailers, and winners below:

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

6 Comments

Geralt99 (on 13 December 2024)

Astro bot did it.
Watch the sales sky rocket.

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HopeMillsHorror (on 13 December 2024)

Finally, a Game Awards that wasn't an awful waste of time.

CRAZY how many 2+ decade long sequels were announced.
Turok
Okami
Onimusha
Double Dragon
Ninja Gaiden (kinda)
Virtua Fighter
Warcraft 4 (jk)

And as I predicted, everyone hyped themselves up for a Half Life 3 that doesn't exist
Though I would have been happy to be wrong lmao