Everything announced at The Game Awards 2024

By Tomas Franzese Published December 12, 2024

The Game Awards 2024 has concluded. As is the case every year, The Game Awards served as a celebration of all the games that came out this year while also teasing what’s to come for the industry in the future. Those who tuned into The Game Awards 2024 just for its announcement will not have come away disappointed. In addition to the teased appearances of games like Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country, plenty of new games were revealed. The includes new entries in the Okami, Onimusha, The Witcher, Elden Ring, Ninja Gaiden, and Virtua Fighter franchises, and original IPs like Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

That all makes The Game Awards 2024 a must-watch event for fans of video games. If you missed it live or just want a recap of what was shown off, we’re here to help. Here’s an overview of everything announced at The Game Awards 2024, from the first reveal of its Opening Act to the “one more thing” of the main show. Read through it, and you’ll get a better idea of what you should expect from the video game industry in the coming years.

Warren Spector is a legendary game designer best known for trailblazing the immersive sim style of video games through titles like Ultima Underworld, System Shock, Deus Ex, and Thief: The Dark Project. His studio, OtherSide Entertainment, previously worked on an Underworld Ascendant, a spiritual successor to Ultima Underworld, and revealed a spiritual successor to Thief during The Game Awards’ Opening Act. Titled Thick as Thieves, OtherSide’s new game is a PvPvE immersive sim where four players compete to steal treasure simultaneously. It will come out sometime in 2026 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.

As the first announcement of The Game Awards 2024’s main show, CD Projekt Red released the first trailer for The Witcher IV, the next game in its critically acclaimed RPG series. It was a long cinematic trailer that shows Ciri, now an adult and full-blown Witcher, saving a girl meant to be sacrificed. To do that, she has to fight a giant monster in a cave that messes with her mind. She eventually kills the monster, only to find the woman she tried to protect was killed. There’s no release date yet, but I’m sure The Witcher IV has just shot to the top of a lot of most anticipated games lists.

Elden Ring was a gigantic hit for FromSoftware, as was its Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. FromSoftware and Bandai Namco Entertainment are following it up with a standalone multiplayer Elden Ring spinoff. It looks like it contains the same intense FromSoftware gameplay we’ve all come to love but is much more explicitly a cooperative multiplayer experience as players work together to fight monsters. Elden Ring: Nightreign launches for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in 2025.

Josef Fares is an icon of The Game Awards at this point, so it’s not surprising that he showed up this year to unveil a new game. That game is Split Fiction, a co-op action-adventure game where two writers venture through simulations of the respective sci-fi and fantasy worlds that they’ve created. It looks to have all of the creative charm and clever co-op play of Hazelight’s previous titles. During a hilarious conversation with Geoff Keighley, Fares confirmed that Split Fiction launches for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S on March 6, meaning it isn’t far away at all.

We finally got our first real look at Borderlands 4 following an initial teaser at Gamescom Opening Night Live. It kicked off with a cinematic showcasing a massive battle between Psychos and some meaning aliens that are all led by a mysterious being called the Timekeeper. We then got a look at some gameplay, which seems to retain the vibrant cel-shaded art style and looter shooter nature of its predecessors. Borderlands 4 launches for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S next year.

RGG Studio and Sega, the developers behind the Like a Dragon series, showed up in a big way at The Game Awards this year. However, they weren’t promoting Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. Instead, they revealed two new games. First was a new Virtua Fighter titlea new entry in a historic 3D fighting game series that has been dormant for some time. Next, it showed a teaser trailer for Project Century, a new action game with more brutal combat than the Like a Dragon games. Fans of RGG Studio definitely have a lot to look forward to in the coming years.

After showing off Borderlands 4 earlier on in the show, 2K returned to show off Mafia: The Old Country. The first entry in this crime series since 2016, The Old Country is technically a prequel that brings the series back to Italy. More specifically, we got a more in-depth look at Mafia: The Old Country’s take on Sicily in its new cinematic trailer. Some in-engine clips also showed a little bit of combat and driving. We won’t have to wait too much longer to check this game out, as its trailer confirmed a summer 2025 release window. The whole Mafia series is on sale at massive discounts to celebrate.

At The Game Awards 2024, Capcom confirmed it is finally making another game in the Okami series. We don’t know much about it, as its reveal consisted of an orchestral performance over footage of Amaterasu running. We did learn that Hideki Kamiya, a famed developer who worked on the original Okami, has returned to Capcom to reform Clover Studio and create a sequel to Okami. No word on a release date or platforms for this one just yet, but fans of classic Capcom series should be happy that Okami and Onimusha are coming back.

As the “one more thing” reveal of The Game Awards, Naughty Dog unveiled its new IP. It’s a sci-fi game called Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. While its reveal trailer was purely cinematic, it’s awesome to see this studio take a swing at a sci-fi game for the first time since Jak and Daxter. Tati Gabrielle will play the main character, while Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will compose its soundtrack. Not much more is known about Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet at this time, but it’s nice to know what Naughty Dog has been working on since 2020.