Nintendo also scooped up some awards. The Game Awards has just wrapped up for another year and Larian’s epic RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 just won the award. It was up against Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Resident Evil 4, Super Mario Bros. Wonder and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Baldur’s Gate 3 also took…
Three years on from a legendarily catastrophic launch that jeopardized CD Projekt Red’s once-sterling reputation, Cyberpunk 2077 has completely turned it around. After failing to nab a Game Award for its initial launch (eligible at the 2021 TGA), Cyberpunk took home an award for Best Ongoing Game at this year’s show. Now, I always loved…
Eiji Aonuma accepts the award. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was up for multiple nominations at The Game Awards this year, and the one it’s taken out in the end is best “action / adventure” game. Nintendo and Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma went up to receive the award, thanking everyone for their…
Contestants! Strap in and get ready to experience the mad destruction of The Finals, launching on PlayStation 5 today. The Finals is the ultimate virtual combat game show, where you and your team fight for fame, riches, and the favor of generous seasonal sponsors. Play Video This free-to-play, team-based, first-person shooter pits contestants against each…
When Geoff Keighley takes the stage for The Game Awards, it’s expected that there might be a new game releasing before the end of the night. This year, that game is The Finals, the highly-destructible FPS from ex-DICE folk that attracted hundreds of thousands of players to its open beta last month. Season 1 of…
Final Fantasy XVI players will soon be able to enjoy two new DLC chapters for the critically-acclaimed action-RPG, one very soon indeed: Echoes of the Fallen launches on PlayStation Store today! The second DLC, entitled The Rising Tide, releases Spring 2024. Both are paid-for DLC, but players can purchase the Final Fantasy XVI Expansion Pass…
How do you follow-up a game with an entire galaxy of procedurally-generated planets? With one procedurally-generated planet, it turns out—but it’s a really big one. Ten years on from the original announcement of No Man’s Sky at the VGX awards, Hello Games has announced its new project, Light No Fire, at the TGA. It’s clearly…
Stormgate is an upcoming real-time strategy game from a company with a great RTS development pedigree going back to StarCraft, but not one you’d necessarily expect to attract big Hollywood actors. Sometimes, though, big Hollywood actors happen to be huge StarCraft fans. At The Game Awards tonight, Marvel star Simu Liu added a Hollywood twist…
Sharkmob, the developer of the World of Darkness battle royale Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt, unveiled its new game tonight at The Game Awards: Exoborne, a “tactical open-world extraction shooter” set in a devastated near-future world where the remnants of humanity use powerful “Exo-rigs” to survive, scavenge, and—of course—shoot at each other. At first glance,…
The Den of Wolves trailer at The Game Awards first announces that we’re looking at a new game from from the creator of Payday: The Heist and Payday 2, but then goes on to show something that has very little resemblance to a bank robbery: a pair of men growling at each other in a…