It’s that time- the 2024 Game Awards are upon us!
While we’re very excited to see what trailers and titles are announced during today’s ceremony, we DO want to take a minute to acknowledge SAG-AFTRA, who are currently still on strike against various video game companies and producers.
That said, we’ll do our best to update with winners and all the news from today’s ceremony.
The first video up was for Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, coming in the summer of 2024.
First award of the night was for BEST FIGHTING GAME, which goes to Tekken 8!
BEST VR/AR GAME goes to “Batman: Arkham Shadow.”
“Dave the Diver In the Jungle” looks pretty adorable, not gonna lie. Coming late 2025.
“Thick as Thieves” got a cute little character intro video, showcasing a Victorian-set thieves trying to one up each other title.
BEST ESPORTS GAME goes to “League of Legends.”
BEST ESPORTS ATHELE goes to Faker.
BEST ESPORTS TEAM goes to T1.
GAMES FOR IMPACT goes to “NEVA.”
Another new look at “Tales of the Shire,” which WE REALLY REALLY REALLY WOULD LIKE to finally get a damn release date. That soup looks delicious. Looks like have an official release date of March 25th, 2025!
INNOVATION IN ACCESSIBILITY award went to “Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.”
BEST FAMILY GAME goes to “Astro Bot.” (Which my family absolutely LOVED!)
Okay…so somehow, that wasn’t the ACTUAL awards yet?
Jeff is on stage, welcoming everyone to the 10th Game Awards.
STATLER AND WALDORF ARE THERE
Todd Howard and Troy Baker take the stage. Holy crap and now Harrison Ford is on stage!!
Harrison is presenting the award for BEST PERFORMANCE, which goes to Melina Juergens for “Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II.”
WORLD PREMIERE for CD PROJEKT RED’s upcoming “Witcher” title, which features Ciri saving a young girl from a ritualistic end. Ciri will be the main character!!
“ELDEN RING: NIGHT REIGN” will release in 2025.
Uhhhh don’t know what the hell that “Catly” thing was, but it was a pile of hot AI-generated garbage.
Abubakar Salim (“Raised by Wolves,” “Game of Thrones“) is presenting BEST ACTION GAME. The winner is “Black Myth: Wukong.”
A first-look trailer for Fumito Ueda‘s upcoming untitled game, which looked…interesting? OH YAY the orchestra is on FIRE, and, there is Flute Guy (Pedro Eustache)!
“The Outer Worlds 2” got a gameplay trailer! It’ll release in 2025.
“Split Fiction” also got a game trailer!
Randy Pitchford, founder of Gearbox, is introducing “Borderlands 4,” coming out in 2025.
MOST ANTICIPATED GAME goes to “Grand Theft Auto VI.”
BEST MULTIPLAYER GAME goes to “Helldivers 2.”
BEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT goes to “Baldur’s Gate 3.”
BEST ART DIRECTION goes to “Metaphor: ReFantazio.”
WOW that 21 Pilots performance of pieces from “Arcane” was pretty amazing.
Virtua Fighter is getting a special 30th anniversary release.
Hideo Kojima comes out to “Brothers in Arms” by JunkieXL from George Miller‘s “Mad Max: Fury Road.”
BEST GAME DIRECTION just went to “Astro Bot!”
“Turok?!” Seriously!? What a weird thing to bring back! Watch the trailer here.
BEST DEBUT INDIE game goes to “Balatro.”
Joe and Anthony Russo introduce the first look at the video game adaptation of Keanu Reeves‘ “BZRKR,” “The First Berserker Khazan” coming in 2025.
BEST ACTION ADVENTURE GAME goes to “Astro Bot.”
BEST RPG goes to “Metaphor: Refantazio.”
CONTENT CREATOR OF THE YEAR goes to Caseoh.
BEST SPORTS/ RACING GAME goes to “EA SPORTS FC 25.”
BEST SIM / STRATEGY GAME goes to “Frostpunk 2.”
Snoop Dogg and his son Cordell Broadus are here to promote their new studio, Death Row Games. They’re also presenting the award for BEST ON GOING GAME, which goes to “Helldivers 2.”
BEST ADAPTATION goes to “Fallout.” Jonathan Nolan and Todd Howard accept the award, with Nolan teasing “New Vegas” to come in season 2 of the Prime Video series. “I want to thank ‘Fallout: New Vegas’ fans for not burning down my house, you’ll be thankful you didn’t.”
So. Snoop performed, and the majority of the audience looked confused. (He sounded great!)
BEST SCORE AND MUSIC went to “Final Fantasy: VII Rebirth.”
The final world premiere for tonight was “Intergalactic: the Heretic Prophet” from Naughty Dog Studios, and HOLY CRAP. Directed by Neil Druckman, it stars Tati Gabrielle, and will feature an all new score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
GAME OF THE YEAR goes to “Astro Bot!!!”
You can watch along on YouTube here:
