Live from Los Angeles, The Game Awards has come yet again in 2024. This year has seen some fantastic games, and we'll be watching, reporting, and detailing all of the important information for you. Watch along with us, jump into the comments and give your take on the awards and new trailers, or just hang around and shoot the breeze with us on a cool Thursday night. The Game Awards starts at 7:30 EST today!
The Game Awards Live Blog - The Reveals, The Awards, and Your Comments!
The final game premiere showed off a spacefaring game with both new and nostalgic themes. Naughty Dog introduces a new game in a unique world called Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.
Game of the Year 2025 Award: Astro Bot
A new game about super heroes was teased featuring Aaron Paul. Dispatch is a narrative title similar to Telltale games.
Best Narrative Award: Metaphor: Refantazio
Okami Sequel with a musical announcement.
Pearl Abyss has shown a gameplay trailer for Crimson Desert including its release date window for late 2025.
A new lego game shows off a lot of co-op play, in Lego Fortnite Odyssey.
Best Score in Music Award: Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII rebirth will be headed to PC soon.
A cinematic narrative action game from Hangar 13 was teased Mafia: The Old Country for Summer 2025
Best Independent Game Award: Balatro
Best Mobile Game Award: Balatro
Best Audio Design: Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2
Players' Voice: Black Myth: Wukong
Infiniy Nikki trailer was shown as a cute cozy title where you take care of animals and adventure in a big world where you can fish, farm and more.
Co-Op Heist thriller was teased with its first gameplay trailer. Den of wolves will be a 3 person co-op game full of challenges for your team.
Honkai Star Rail shows off their 3.0 version coming in 2025. Players will take a step into Amorpheus: the Eternal land
[Music Break with Snoop Dogg]
Brand new game from Ghost Town Games, the creators of the Overcooked series brings a new co-op game called Stage Fright.
Upcoming action adventure game by netmarble showed off a new trailer for their Game of Thrones title with a lot of characters from the popular show. Game of Thrones: Kings Road debuts in 2025
Monster Hunter Now debuts a trailer for season 4.
Double Dragon Revive was also teased as an update to the popular beat'em up of the 90s.
A solo leveling game trailer was also shown, depicting the new episode coming to the mobile game.
A sweet anime inspired tuner racing game was teased called screamers, headed to you in 2026.
on 4/3/2025 The Last of Us Part 2 remastered will head to PC
The Best Adaptation Award: Fallout
Onimusha Way of the sword was teased for 2025
Brutal action RPG The First Berserker Khazan is coming March 27th 2025
Best Action Adventure Game: Astro Bot
Best RPG: Metaphor: Refantazio
Content Creator of the Year: Caseoh
Best Sports / Racing Game: EA Sports FC 25
Best Ongoing Game Award: Helldivers 2
Warframe shows off the final trailer for the 1999 update which launches tomorrow, December 13th.
A new arena shooter with plenty of portal hopping fun was shown called Split Gate 2. Fants of Split Gate should be happy to see that.
[Musical Performance from Netflix Show Arcane]
World premiere of Virtua Fighter was shown, with a Sega Direct broadcast on the 13th of December.
Project Century was announced, which looks like a yakuza-style game
Legendary Developer Hideo Kojima joined the stage to present the next award.
Best Game Direction Award: Astro Bot
TGA Game Changer Award: Amir Satvat
A trailer was shown for wargamings new mech-battling game Steel Hunters, and the playtest begins December 12th - December 25th.
The next world premiere is for a survival game where players must survive in a post apocalyptic nuclear irradiated world in Blackfrost. Early Access starts in 2026.
Borderlands 4 was introduced by Gearbox. The game has updated stylized graphics, tons of new enemies, asnd will release in 2025.
A new trailer for Tekken 8 was shown where Clive from Final Fantasy will be joining the roster.
Most Anticipate Game Aware: Grand Theft Auto 6
Best Multiplayer Game: Helldivers 2
Best Community Support: Baldur's Gate 3
Best Art Direction: Metaphor: Refantazio
The next game announcement trailer from Epic Game Publishing was a cinematic with some early gameplay from the creators of ICO, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian comes a game that would feel very familiar to fans of those titles, though the game has yet to have a title. Still, the climbing of the large mech felt similar to games created previously by the studio.
[Musical Performance]
First gameplay trailer for Obsidians Outrerworld 2 trailer showing the gameplay and what to expect when the game launches in 2025.
A new co-op adventure from It Takes Two develolper Hazelight called Split Fiction, where two players get sucked into simulations of mixed sci-fi and fantasy worlds, as they try to get back to their real world. Each level will have unique design choices to help you get to next world. The game has a lot of different challenges which include both taming dragons and being hotdogs. It looks like a great co-op game from an award winning co-op developer. The game releases on March 6th 2025.
The next award was for Best Action Game.
Best Action Game: Black Myth: Wukong
The first world premiere of the show proper was from CD Projekt Red for a new Witcher game. It showed off a prerendered cinematic trailer with an unreleased UE5 build. The Witcher IV will follow Siri, more information in 2025.
The next trailer was for a brand new standalone game from Bandai Namco Entertainmen and From Software. Soulslike fans will rejoice with the announcement of Elden Ring Nightreign which is a co-op soulslike game which will release in 2025.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is now coming to PC.
Geoff Keighley joins the stage and gives a recap on the 10 year anniversary of The Game Awards. He welcomed Ken Kutaragi, Ella Purnell, and Josef Fares .
Waldorf and Statler from the Muppets chimed in as part of the show.
The next award was presented by Todd Howard and Troy Baker. They then welcomed Harrison Ford to the stage, to raucous applause.
Best Performance Award: Melinda Jurgens
A new sports game premiered with a great stylized art style and arcade-like gameplay called ReMatch, which will be headed to players in Summer of 2025.
Solasta 2's had a trailer as well. Fans of Solasta should love the details of the next iteration in the tactical fantasy RPG series. A free demo is coming soon.
That was the end of the opening act, now on to more awards.
From the creators of Core Keeper their next game called Kyora was shown, and it has a stark Terraria vibe to it.
Best Family Game Award: Astro Bot
A new cozy game was introduced by Cozy K called Tales of the Shire. This Tolkeinesque game has cooking, decorating and plenty of fun to explore the shire, when it comes out March 25, 2025.
The next trailer was for a game called Stalcraft Operations which looks like a shmup of sorts.
The next trailer was a horror party game called midnight murder club which is now in a Crossplay Beta.
Innovation in Accessibility Award: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
The next trailer is for a world premiere from Bandai Namco. This metroidvania called Shadow Labyrinth had some exceptionally action oriented gameplay.
The next trailer was for a mobile game called Steel Paws, from Virtua Fighter creator.
Games for Impact Award: Neva
Laura Carter from Treesplease Games won this year's award for their game Lonely Valley, as a game that is making an impact environmentally.
The next trailer was an update to the popular game Dave the Diver called Dave the Dive in the Jungle, releasing in late 2025.
The next trailer is for Thick as Thieves. The trailer depicts some high definition stylized graphics.
Best Esports Game: League of Legends
Best Esports Athlete: Faker
Best Esports Team: T1
The next trailer is for a cozy game where you pack up a cars and move items from one home to another. The game is called One Move Away.
Next trailer showed Slay the Spire 2nd Edition, the popular roguelike game has more coming with Slay the Spire 2, headed to early access in 2025.
Best VR/AR Game was the next award. The game award went to Batman: Arkham Shadow.
Best VR/AR Game: Batman Arkham Shadow
Sydnee Goodman announces the 10th anniversary show from the peacock theater. Borderlands 4 and Mafia the Old Country were teased.
The first trailer was an anime inspired rendition of Ninja Gaiden Ragebound as a sidescrolling metroidvania.
The first award category for best fighting game was then announced.
Tekken 8 Won Best Fighting Game
