Also known as Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards, the 10th annual edition at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles, started with an Opening Act, hosted by Sydnee Goodman. The show started off with a trailer for Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound which is set to release in summer 2025.
The first award of the evening was Best Fighting Game, and Tekken 8 took home the prize.
Following that, more trailers, starting with cozy game One Move Away:
That was followed up by Slay The Spire 2:
The next award was presented for Best VR/AR game, with Batman: Arkham Shadow winning.
After that was a short feature on Laura Carter, the recipient of this year’s TGA Global Gaming Citizen Award
Which then moved right into trailer for Dave The Diver: In The Jungle DLC. It was hard to tell when the feature ended and the trailer started, given that the feature was focusing on the environment.
Following that was a World Premiere of Warren Spector’s new project Thick As Thieves:
And then, more awards! A few in a row this time with the eSports awards given out one after another:
Best eSports Game was League of Legends
Best eSports Player went to Faker (Who else?)
Best eSports Team went to T1 (Faker’s team, of course).
Back to the trailers we go and Bandai Namco surprised us with a new, unique look at Pac-Man in the Shadow Labyrinth reveal trailer:
The awesome looking Pac-Man game was followed up by one of (many) anime styled games, a reveal trailer of Steel Paws – The latest game from Virtua Fighter Director and Producer Yu Suzuki. This game was revealed as a Netflix Game, coming out in 2025:
Back to an award, Neva won the Games For Impact Award:
Up next, Cozy Game player @Cozyk shared her latest cozy game fascination, Tales of the Shire, a cozy game set in the Lord of the Rings universe:
Next on the trailer block was STALCRAFT: X “Operations”, coming out in 2025.
Next up a game called Midnight Murder Club:
And oh! an award! This one was for Innovation in Accessibility, and it went to Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.
Next up from the makers of Core Keeper, its Kyora, sandbox multiplayer game:
Another award followed, this one for Best Family Game, with Astro Bot picking up the first a few awards this evening:
Two more World Premiers ended of the Opening Act (this is a loooooong article / list of trailers), with the makers of Sifu premiering Rematch, a soccer game that basically looks like Rocket League, but with humans:
And we ended off with a World Premiere for Solasta 2 (There was a Solasta 1?)
Ok, lets take a break, breath, get some water, because now The Game Awards actually began. Host Geoff Keighley finally took the stage, and after some intro remarks got heckled by muppets Statler and Waldorf. The first award of the main show was for Best Performance, with Troy Baker and Todd Howard taking the stage before introducing Harrison Ford. The award itself went to Melina Jurgens of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II. This is Melina’s 2nd Game Award.
Following that were two heavy hitter World Premiere’s, first up, CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 4:
That was followed by FromSoftware’s new Elden Ring game, Nightreign:
A brief trailer (ad) for FF7 Rebirth for PC was followed by an ad for the recently released Indiana Jones and the Golden Circle (which looks great, btw). The next reveal trailer was for a Cozy Cat Game called…. Catly (what else would you call it?)
A brief Path of Exile II trailer reminded people that early access was available now, before we got our next award, presented by Abubakar Selim of House of the Dragon fame. He was on hand to present the Best Action Game, which went to Black Myth: Wukong.
Next up was a sneak peak of an as yet untitled game from Fumito Ueda, the creator of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus & The Last Guardian.
Civilization 7 got into the act with The Game Awards Orchestra performing music from the new game, composed by Grammy Award winning artist Christopher Tin
Up next was a reveal for Outer Worlds 2, from the studio that brought you sequels from other well known game franchises:
Hazelight’s Josef Faris came out to promote his studio’s new game Split Fiction, a two player co-op game coming out March 2025:
During a commercial break we got a trailer for Fragpunk, yet another 5v5 shooter, but this one has collectable in-game cards as well:
Followed by Killing Floor 3:
Host Geoff Geoff Keighley actually addressed somewhat the layoffs in the game industry, and announced The Game Awards first “Game Changer” award, which went to Amir Satvat, Satvat created a resource for devs to network and find new jobs in the gaming industry.
Time for more trailers, with mecha game Steel Hunters getting it’s turn:
Followed by a game from Canada! Blackfrost: The Long Dark II:
Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford came to pitch us all on Borderlands 4:
A shorter version of this trailer then popped up: Final Fantasy XVI’s Clive Rosfield will be included as a playable character in Tekken 8, starting next week:
And oh hey! Award time again! Geoff ran through the following awards:
The Most Anticipated Game Award goes to Grand Theft Auto 6
Best Multiplayer Game Award goes to Helldivers 2
Best Community Support went to Baldur’s Gate 3
Best Art Direction went to Metaphor: ReFantazio
Continuing The Game Trailers – sorry The Game Awards, a trailer for Splitgate 2 (I guess Splitgate 1 did well enough):
This next trailer for Mecha BREAK was sandwiched between ads for Dragon Age: Veilguard and Star Wars: Origins (at 35% off!):
After one of many Fortnite ads, a musical tribute to Arcane featuring Twenty One Pilots took the stage:
Not one but two World Premiere trailers from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio then played in succession:
A new Virtua Fighter Project was follwed by something called Project Century, set in 1915 Japan and possibly connected (or at least in the same universe as) the new Virtua Fighter game.
Hideo Kojima then took the stage, not to reveal anything new that he’s been working on (unfortunately), but to present an award for Best Game Direction, which went to Astro Bot.
Then we got a trailer for Turok: Origins. A New Turok? in 2025?
Then we got a presentation and trailer of Helldivers 2 latest major update, Omens of Tyranny:
Warframe Creative Director Rebecca Ford then took the stage in this stunning number:
To present Warframe 1999, Available December 13th, which I guess is now.
A trailer for Palworld DLC Feybreak was next but we don’t wanna get sued by Nintendo so we’re not gonna link the trailer, also this is a way to link one less video to this massive article. (we’re at like 50 linked videos by now, I hope they all load for you!)
After that though was a promotional video for Wuthering Waves:
Following an XBox commercial it was time for another award, with Best Debut Indie Game going to Balatro:
We then got an announcement trailer for Onimusha: Way of the Sword. Coming in 2026 though so we’ll have to wait for a bit.
That was followed by two games allegedly set in the same Dungeon and Fighter universe. First up (haha) The First Berserker: Khazan coming March 27, 2025
The next game apparently in the same universe is Genshin clone Arad: Dungeon & Fighter:
To cleanse our palette of Genshin clone we then got to MEET THE BARON from Dying Light: The Beast.
And finally, more awards!
Best Action Adventure Game went to Astro Bot
Best RPG went to Metaphor: ReFantazio
Content Creator of the Year went to Caseoh
Best Sports/Racing game went to EA Sports FC 25
Best Sim/Strategy game went to Frostpunk 2 (I like my sim/strategy game so maybe I’ll give this one a shot down the line)
Anyway, back to trailers! This one featuring Post Malone:
So, Post Malone’s Murder Circus is an event happening in the game Hunt: Showdown 1896. Got it?
We’ll skip the Fortnite 5v5 ad, the Squid Game Netflix game reveal (which was a bunch of people in Squid Game outfits on stage), to move on to Snoop Dogg’s first appearance, giving out the Best Ongoing Game Award to Helldivers 2:
After Snoop Dogg’s first appearance, about a zillion trailers took place before his performance. Those trailers were:
Stage Fright (two player co-op game)
Monster Hunter Now Season 4 (ad)
Screamer (an anime looking need for speed type game)
The Last of Us Part II Remastered for PC
An Award was also presented before Snoop took the stage again, with Best Adaptation going to Fallout, notably beating out Arcane.
A trailer from co-op FPS heist game Den of Wolves was next up on the list, followed by Hoyoverse games Zenless Zone Zero and Honkai Star Rail before, finally, we got some Snoop D O double G:
Ads for Fortnite Lego Odessey, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom for Nintendo Switch, and Batman: Arkham Shadow followed before the next award was presented, which went to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth for Best Score & Music:
A literal 5 second teaser for Sonic Racing Crossworlds (featuring shadow) flashed across the screen before a trailer for Mafia: The Old Country:
Then more awards!
Best Independent Game, and Best Mobile Game went to Balatro
Best Audio Design went to Seuna’s Saga: Hellblade 2
The Players Voice Award went to Black Myth: Wukong
Up next was a look at Infinity Nikki, available now, followed by a brief ad for various Mafia games for up to 80% off, followed by a google play for PC ad before we got Laura Bailey and Aaron Paul to reveal the game they’ve been working on, Dispatch:
On to the final spurt now, with Best Narrative Award going to Metaphor: ReFantazio:
Then a Genuine out of left field surprise:
While we were all wondering what just happened (Okami Sequel, really?), this trailer dropped:
Honestly, this trailer got lost in the shuffle near the end of the show. Hopefully it gets a chance to strut it’s stuff somewhere, because it immediately got overshadowed by Naughty Dog’s newest IP, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.
They’ve been working on this game since 2020, AKA Covid. I hope it works out for them (I’d like to give it a shot myself).
Finally, Sven Vincke from Lariat (Last year’s Game of the Year winner for Baldur’s Gate 3) came out to present the Game of the Year award, but not before we got The Game Awards Musical Medley:
Finally, the Game of the Year was awarded after close to 4 hours of award show (way too long Geoff). Congratulations to Astro Bot & Team Asobi for picking up The Game of the Year!
Ok, so finally, The Game Awards 2024 is over. Next year needs to be shorter, with WAY less “World Premiere” reveals (those can happen at anytime, really). The show is called THE GAME AWARDS. Focus on the awards, please. Give more devs time on that stage. As for the ads, well; ads are ads, you need to pay the production costs, fine.
But seriously, you have a whole other show called Summer Games Fest to reveal everything. Between those and all the “directs” that every semi-large gaming company/publisher seems to do, you can tone down the reveals.
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