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It's time to see what the best games of 2024 have been, by watching The Game Awards, which are airing tonight. Host Geoff Keighley will take the stage to celebrate what panelists have voted as the illustrious "Game of the Year". What might be the bigger draw for the show, however, are the world premieres, announcing all sorts of exciting video game news. Two reveals are set to shock the gaming world, and there are even rumors of Half Life 3 being announced. Tune in and see what madness unfolds, or you can keep updated through our live coverage thread! The Game Awards start at 6:30 pm CST/12:30 am GMT.

Live Coverage - Pre-Show

Dotemu and Koei Tecmo kick off the show. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. Summer 2025.

Best fighting game goes to: Tekken 8

Clive Rosfield from FFXVI is coming to Tekken 8.

This next game has you pack and unpack luggage over the course of a character's life. One Move Away, coming 2025.

Slay the Spire 2 shows off some gameplay. Early access, next year.

Best VR game goes to: Batman: Arkham Shadow.

Late 2025 will see more content for Dave the Diver called In the Jungle.

Deus Ex's creator has a new game. Thick as Thieves.

Best eSports game goes to: League of Legends.

Best eSports athlete: Faker

Best eSports team goes to: T1

Bandai Namco has a 2D metroidvania, with Pac-Man as a familiar. Shadow Labyrinth, out next year.

Yu Suzuki has a new game for mobile, Steel Paws, coming next year.

Game for impact goes to: Neva

Cozy K, a creator, has Tales of the Shire to show. It's a farming sim type of game, March 25.

Stalcraft Operations, 2025. First-person horror elements.

Fight in the dark, team vs team, in Midnight Murder Club. Crossplay beta coming Feb 2025.

Innovation in accessibility: Prince of Persia the Lost Crown.

Core Keeper's developers have a new game. It's 2D. Kyora.

Best family game: Astro Bot.

Sifu's developers have a new game. It's soccer-related. A more arcadey form of soccer video game. Coming 2025. Rematch is the name.

Solasta 2, early access next year.

That's the end of the pre-show. The Game Awards starts now.

Live Coverage - The Game Awards

Todd Howard and Troy Baker are here to present the first award. They then present Harrison Ford to actually deliver the award. Melina Juergens wins for her performance in Hellblade 2.

The first major reveal is from CD Projekt Red. The Witcher IV has gotten its first cinematic trailer. Ciri is the protagonist.

Following up on that drop, FromSoft has a new project, too. Elden Ring: Night Reign, next year.

Catly is brightly colored, and has cats.

Path of Exile 2 is available now in early access.

Best action game: Black Myth Wukong.

Shadow of the Colossus's creator has a new game. It debuted with a cinematic trailer. It's untitled.

The Outer Worlds 2 is next. 2025.

Joeseph Fares has a new coop game. You play as two stuck in a simulation. You play half in a sci-fi world and half in a fantasy themed world. Split Fiction is coming out March 6th.

We get a moment to think about all the game developers who have been laid off.

Steel Hunters playtest starts today.

Blackfrost: The Long Dark II announced, coming to early access 2026.

Borderlands 4 gets its first actual trailer.

Most anticipated game is GTA VI.

Best multiplayer game: Helldivers 2.

Best community support: Baldur's Gate 3

Best art direction: Metaphor ReFantazio

Split Gate 2.

Mech fighter game Mecha Break is out Spring 2025.

Ryu Ga Gotoku studio is next. Virtua Fighter is back. More details tomorrow.

Project Century is a new game by the Yakuza devs as well, taking place in 1915's Japan.

Kojima, as expected is here. Astro Bot wins for best game direction.

Turok Origins announced.

Warframe 1999 launches tomorrow, is free to play.

Palworld has a new trailer. Feybreak launches December 23.

Best debut indie: Balatro

Onimusha Way of the Sword has been revealed. Out 2026.

The First Berserker Khazan, out March 27, 2025.

Anime game Arad: Dungeon Fighter, published by Nexon.

Dying Light: The Beast is out this summer.

Best action adventure goes to: Astro Bot

Best RPG: Metaphor ReFantazio

Content creator of the year: Caseoh

Best sports game: EA Sports FC 25

Best sim/strategy: Frostpunk 2

Squid Game Unleashed tries to bring the TV show's style to game form. December 17.

Snoop Dogg and his son have a gaming studio. They're here to announce best ongoing game. It's Helldivers 2.

The creators of Overcooked are making a new game. This game is co-op too. Stage Fight.

Game of Thrones: Kingsroad announced, Netmarble is developing it.

Solo Levelling is getting a game.

Screamer is out 2026, it's a racing game.

The Last of Us Part II: Remastered to PC coming April 3 2025.

Best adaptation goes to Fallout's TV series.

Payday's dev has a new game. Similar in vein to Payday. Den of Wolves. Early access eventually.

Another anime game. Zenless Zone Zero new content. Followed by new content for Honkai: Star Rail.

Best score and music goes to: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is coming to PC on January 23rd.

Sonic Racing Crossworlds is coming soon.

Mafia: The Old Country gets a cinematic trailer.

Best indie: Balatro

Best mobile game: Balatro

Best audio design: Hellblade 2

Player's Voice: Black Myth Wukong

Infinity Nikki has a launch trailer celebrating its release.

Telltale is working on a new game. Dispatch. Aaron Paul is in it.

Best narrative: Metaphor ReFantazio

Okami is getting a sequel. Hideki Kamiya will direct.

Pearl Abyss is releasing Crimson Desert next year.

One more thing. The final reveal of the night.

Naughty Dog is working on a new space IP. Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are doing the OST. Neil Druckmann is on the project.

Game of the year: Astro Bot

 

[Robert Newbie]

Just popped in a day later. Onimusha and Okami (Directed by Hideki Kamiya) have my attention. The new Ninja Gaiden game looks pretty neat too.

No Half-Life 3, it seems. Status quo maintained.

 

[codezer0]

Unfortunately, E3 has trained me to be jaded and cynical of such award shows. And how they handled themselves last year was enough to ensure i wouldn't trust anything to be impartial about this event.

Still fail to see how Wukong won anything, outside of China. It's a game that stayed under the radar, but because it's yet another retelling of journey to the west or romance of the three kingdoms or some crap, suddenly half a billion people in china got rtx 4090 money to play the thing.
Help me, make it, make sense.

 

[64bitmodels]

gg astro bot. The first PS5 game and it won GOTY. Give it 6 years, maybe they can match the launch year of the PS2!

 

[RedColoredStars]

Unfortunately, E3 has trained me to be jaded and cynical of such award shows. And how they handled themselves last year was enough to ensure i wouldn't trust anything to be impartial about this event.

Still fail to see how Wukong won anything, outside of China. It's a game that stayed under the radar, but because it's yet another retelling of journey to the west or romance of the three kingdoms or some crap, suddenly half a billion people in china got rtx 4090 money to play the thing.
Help me, make it, make sense.

Being jaded and cynical explains why you feel the way you do. The game wasn't "under the radar" outside of China whatsoever.

 

[Armadillo]

Astrobot is great.

Okami 2 , I hope at some point we get a proper remaster of the first game and free it from the chains of 30fps.

 

[Noctosphere]

I was never into Okami, but it should be the best announcement here.
New Onimusha is great.
Borderlands, story-wise, died after 2 (and even that was already a bit too much for me), so meh.
Nothing indicates that Witcher 4 is woke from that trailer (A FMC by itself is not "woke", people, get your facts straight).

Astrobot totally deserved that W.

I checked out that Metaphor game thinking it was a great JRPG that I somehow missed, then I see it's just disguised Persona (really dislike that franchise and SMT), complete with that absolutely terrible UI they love to use. Sigh...

When The Witcher 4 trailer showed Ciri as the MC, everyone on chat started screaming "Woke! Woke! Woke! Woke! Woke!" At first I didn't understand, but then, later, they showed a 3D animation (I don't remember what it was for) and again, the chat spammed "Woke! Woke! Woke! Woke! Woke!" Then Borderland 4 trailer "Woke 4! Woke 4! Woke 4! Woke 4!"
I'm an anti-woke myself and I clearly didn't see any woke shits here.
I admit, I never played Borderland games, so I cannot say for sure if they changed the game for worst just to include minorities or something like that, but in the case of The Witcher 4, putting a female lead character, a character who was already in the lore since the first game, is NOT something woke. A change of lead character is something we can see in a lot of stories.

 

[64bitmodels]

Being jaded and cynical explains why you feel the way you do

I feel like there's a good majority of people on this site who don't even like video games anymore and just don't realize it. The amount of disappointment and "meh"s i see from new announcements here is staggering- and it's always from the same folks too!

 

[Pismire]

OOOONNIIIUMMMUUUUUSSSHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

I'm so fucking hype from that one teaser. I screamed when I recognized what it was, I used to come home from school and beat Genma Onimusha daily. I fucking adore that series, probably my favorite games of all time.

The future is now lads. Those were the best TGAs in years.

 

[RedColoredStars]

OOOONNIIIUMMMUUUUUSSSHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

I'm so fucking hype from that one teaser. I screamed when I recognized what it was, I used to come home from school and beat Genma Onimusha daily. I fucking adore that series, probably my favorite games of all time.

The future is now lads. Those were the best TGAs in years.

One of my all time favorite game series. I'm just hoping they didn't turn it into a soulslike.

 

[digipimp75]

I feel like there's a good majority of people on this site who don't even like video games anymore and just don't realize it. The amount of disappointment and "meh"s i see from new announcements here is staggering- and it's always from the same folks too!

There's some people who are just miserable and don't enjoy anything in life. I pity them.

 

[raxadian]

What a shitty year that a Mario clone collectaton actually won.

Like the game is okay but half the time it feels like Super Mario Odyssey and the other half you are gushing at all the references.

 

[Jayro]

What a shitty year that a Mario clone collectaton actually won.

This was a poopy year for gaming.

Still nothing about Elder Scrolls 6.
Still nothing about GTA 6.
Still nothing about anything Dino Crisis related (sequel, remake, or remaster.)
Still no Resident Evil 9.
Still no Half-Life 3.

This year sucked.

 

[Joel16]

I'm glad astroboy won (finally getting the recognition it deserves), although I would've pitched in Metaphor.

 

[Jayro]

Didn't Astrobot come included with the PS5 for free? It was a game included when my GF bought her PS5.

 

[The Catboy]

Palworld has a new trailer. Feybreak launches December 23.

Hyped as fuck for this!

 

[emigre]

Astrobot is a great game. No idea why people are crying about it.

Intergalactic has got me excited AF.

 

[codezer0]

Astrobot is a great game. No idea why people are crying about it.

Intergalactic has got me excited AF.

As another said, they are still thinking of the tech demo that was basically included with the launch PS5 console, rather than the more full fledged offering that released this year. One point of contention, if I may, is the fact that it's going out of its way to reference and celebrate properties that Sony actively ignores otherwise. But I digress.

The distribution of awards also makes my cynicism think that Sony paid a fat check for the awards it did get.

Side bar... was this year's awards just as ad-infested as last year's? I fully do not expect such hosting committees to learn ANYTHING about why people griped about it then, either.

 

[64bitmodels]

Didn't Astrobot come included with the PS5 for free? It was a game included when my GF bought her PS5.

astros playroom. Astro bot is a full 3d platformer based off of Playroom. it wouldnt have won shit if there wasnt a new game in 2024

The distribution of awards also makes my cynicism think that Sony paid a fat check for the awards it did get.

you ought to turn that cynicism thing off then. Spiderman 2 famously won 0 awards last year and sony was banking on it being the new hotness

 

[Faust03]

I don't care about astro bot because I don't have a PS5 nor do I want one.
They should put it on the PC if they want me to play it that badly

 

[Eddypikachu]

Excited for Okami 2