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During The Game Awards, Don't Nod revealed its next game, and it's a brand-new IP that looks nothing like Life is Strange, the series that made the French dev house famous. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a third-person action-adventure game with role-playing elements that takes place in an original story universe where players are tasked with banishing spirits from their lands. Banishers is called an action-RPG by the team making it. In it, players will take on the roles of two ghost...
Company of Heroes 3 is officially coming to console. Developer Relic announced during The Game Awards that the strategy game will come to console in 2023. This isn't a big surprise, as a recently discovered rating revealed that Company of Heroes 3 would be released on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Whether or not the game comes to last-generation consoles remains to be seen. Company of Heroes 3 will be the first entry in the series to come to console--2006's Company of Heroes and...
As part of The Game Awards, Behaviour Interactive has revealed Meet Your Maker, the long-awaited follow-up to its popular PvP slasher, Dead By Daylight. A wholly new IP, Meet Your Maker is described as "a unique first-person building and raiding game" that will see players both creating and defending their own bases of operations while also heading out into the world and raiding enemy players' bases, each one as intricate and devilish in design as their creators can accomplish. The game is...
Skydance Interactive debuted a new cinematic trailer for their upcoming game, Behemoth, at The 2022 Game Awards. The trailer gave players their first good look at the game since the release of its announcement trailer back in October. The VR adventure challenges players to traverse the remains of a once-glorious empire using non-traditional travel methods, like a grappling hook. Set just after a plague has ravaged the world, the game see players facing off with enormous monsters called...
Transformers Reactivate, a new title from developer Splash Damage, got a mysterious trailer at The Game Awards. The trailer shows a team of scientists working to awake a Transformer, who appears to be Bumblebee. Most of the trailer is shown from the perspective of the Transformer, as the team of humans work around it to repair it. One talks about loading its memory core, upon which footage of a crowd in a city plays. The masses of people are fleeing a giant, red, and spiky spaceship that...
Remnant II, the sequel to the third-person action game Remnant: From the Ashes, was announced for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC at The Game Awards. Developed by Gunfire Games, the sequel has players fight against deadly creatures and powerful bosses, either alone or with up to three friends. The trailer shown during The Game Awards showed an emphasis on guns and third-person shooting, while giving brief glimpses of some of the desolate environments players will be able to explore, like...
Celeste developer Extremely OK Games has revealed its first look at Earthblade, the new game first announced over a year ago. The trailer shows off a lush, fantasy-inspired world, showcasing the title's "seamless" 2D exploration. Also featured is Earthblade's horned protagonist and a secondary character who welcomes them to the world after they appear out of a portal. The trailer confirmed that Earthblade will release in 2024. This story is developing Source
Bungie has shared another look at the highly-anticipated next entry in the Destiny 2 saga, Lightfall. Revealed at The 2022 Game Awards, the new trailer shows off the game's newest power, Strand, as well as the neon-lit city of Neomuna. The expansion is slated to release on February 28, 2023. Heavily featured in the new trailer is the next Darkness subclass Strand, which is available to Guardians with the coming expansion. Equipping the Strand ability turns Warlocks into telekinetically...
After tweeting about starting a "new journey" earlier this month, veteran game designer Hideo Kojima has officially unveiled his next game at The Game Awards. It is Death Stranding 2, a game that Norman Reedus announced himself many months ago. Kojima himself appeared on stage at The Game Awards to hype the game, saying the announcement trailer was filled with secrets about the project that fans can dig into as they await new information. The story for Death Stranding 2 was written before...
Revealed during The Game Awards, a new trailer showed off Arrakis in Dune: Awakening, the upcoming survival-MMO based on the sci-fi novel. The new trailer is pre-alpha footage, showing off the many treasures and dangers that can be found on Arrakis as players fight for spice and survival. The trailer shows the many different aspects of Arrakis, from the open sand dunes to mountain ranges and even the small parts of a city. Players appear to be able to explore the many different parts of...
Naughty Dog has announced that The Last Of Us Part 1 is coming to PC on March 3, 2023. During The Game Awards 2022, it was confirmed that the game will be making its way to PC after the current-gen version was released for PS5 in September. The Last Of Us Part 1 is a remake and features a variety of modern features including several display modes with 60 FPS and 4K resolution. Brand new game modes, a collection of accessibility options, an improved photo mode, and difficulty customizations...
The Ghostbusters renaissance continues, as the debut trailer for Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord was revealed during The Game Awards. Developed by nDreams, Rise of the Ghost Lord will be coming to Meta Quest 2 and PlayStation VR2 in 2023, and takes place in San Francisco. As the newest Ghostbuster on the block, you'll have access to all the usual tools of the trade--PKE meters, proton packs, and neutrona wands that fire beams which you definitely should not ever cross--as you hunt...
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League focuses on baddies fighting against the Justice League, and it wouldn't be the Justice League without Batman. But in one last surprise, a new trailer at The Game Awards revealed that the late Kevin Conroy, who voiced Batman for decades across animated movies and video games, has reprised the role at least once more for the upcoming Suicide Squad game. The trailer featured the Suicide Squad on its mission to take down a corrupted Justice League, with a...
The final reveal of The Game Awards pre-show brought a new fearsome foursome to Street Fighter 6, as Dee Jay and brand-new combatants Marisa, Manon, and JP were officially revealed for the game's main roster. Marisa is a power fighter from Italy with powerful strikes and takedowns, while Manon is a graceful supermodel and judoka from France. The lone returning fighter, Dee Jay showed off his new look with some classic dance-themed moves. JP is the most mysterious of the four reveals, as he...
The Game Awards brought out the big guns, recruiting Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino to present the award for Best Performance. Pacino, who admitted to not being a big gamer himself, walked on stage in a big surprise and spoke about how he enjoys watching his children play video games. Pacino also marveled at the craft of video games for its skilled performers. Pacino, who won an Oscar for Scent of a Woman and starred in The Godfather series, was a natural, if unexpected, fit to hand out the...
The holidays have come early for BioShock fans, after a launch trailer for Ken Levine's new game was revealed at The 2022 Game Awards. Called Judas, Levine's new narrative-driven game is unrelated to the BioShock franchise but shares many visual similarities to the series, something long-time Levine fans are sure to appreciate. The trailer itself follows the game's female protagonist, Judas, as she struggles to survive on a damaged starship. The psychological thriller FPS features gameplay...
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon was announced at the Game Awards, with a March 17, 2023 release date. The game has an isometric perspective and a painterly storybook style. It's a prequel to the original game, featuring Bayonetta as a young girl wandering a strange and colorful world. The trailer opens with a set of pages in a storybook that show Bayonetta's adventures in the first three games, before flipping back to the beginning and showing the familiar logo. The image of a...
Dystopian platformer Replaced debuted a new trailer at The Game Awards, its first since the game was delayed to 2023. The new trailer from developer Sad Cat Studios shows a more refined version of Replaced's cinematic pixel vistas, including a sneak peek at the game's combat and platforming. Replaced is a 2.5D retro-styled platformer, set in an alternate version of 1980s America. Players will take the role of R.E.A.C.H, an artificial intelligence unwillingly trapped in a human body. The...
Supergiant's next game, Hades 2, a sequel to the hit Hades game, was revealed at The Game Awards. Hades 2 will be set in the same universe with what looks like some new faces from the Greek pantheon and similar roguelike gameplay. The game is currently in development. Unlike the first Hades game, Hades 2 features a female protagonist, Melinoë, who is Zagreus' sister and is called the Princess of the Underworld. The trailer opens with her training with a masked mentor, and it's revealed...
Revealed at The 2022 Game Awards, a new Hellboy game is on its way. Hellboy: Web of Wyrd is an original Hellboy story featuring Lance Reddick as Hellboy himself. Furthermore, Mike Mignola--the legendary comic book artist and writer best-known for creating Hellboy--is attached to the project as a collaborator. According to its press release, Hellboy: Web of Wyrd is a roguelite action-adventure that features an original story created by Mignola. In addition, Mignola has provided the game's...