The Recreation Awards is concurrently an awards present and a trailer extravaganza by which sport studios and publishers showcase their upcoming slates. A few of these trailers are for video games which have already been introduced; others are what TGA host Geoff Keighley calls “world premieres.” We already know from official bulletins about what’s confirmed to indicate up, however we even have some knowledgeable guesses as to what titles and franchises might get trailers, launch date reveals, or different updates — plus some far-flung needs about what ought to seem.
What we all know: Mecha Break will get “a particular announcement.” Bandai Namco will reveal a brand new fighter for Tekken 8. Borderlands 4 will get its very first trailer, together with Mafia: The Outdated Nation. Plus, there’s some kind of replace approaching Warframe: 1999.
Now,it’s time for some educated guesses and a few barely much less seemingly hopes and goals. Share your personal predictions within the feedback.
Hideo Kojima will seem with stuff to really present
We knew Kojima would present up even earlier than The Recreation Awards affirmation final week. Kojima will at all times present up. The one remaining query is which of Kojima’s three initiatives appear most probably to get an enormous splashy showcase this 12 months. There are Demise Stranding 2: On the Seaside and OD, however there’s additionally Physint, described as a non secular successor to Steel Gear. I’m guessing that Demise Stranding 2 would be the important occasion right here, because it wants an precise launch date apart from simply “2025.” Why not reveal that date at TGAs? —Maddy Myers
Picture: Firaxis Video games/2K Video games
They gained’t be “world premieres,” nevertheless it’s seemingly we’ll see upcoming 2025 video games on the present — particularly the February 2025 lineup, which incorporates Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Civilization 7, Murderer’s Creed Shadows, Avowed, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, and Monster Hunter Wilds. With all of these launch dates quick approaching, these video games will in all probability get some remaining trailers so individuals bear in mind to play them in two months. —MM
Max Payne 1 and a couple of remakes
Picture: Treatment Leisure/Rockstar Video games
Treatment Leisure has had a strong 12 months, all in all. In 2024, Alan Wake 2 turned the fastest-selling sport within the firm’s historical past; the bodily Deluxe Version of the sport launched in October alongside the sport’s second and remaining enlargement; and in between all of that pleasure, Treatment introduced FBC: Firebreak, the corporate’s first multiplayer sport set within the universe of Management.
However there’s nonetheless another elephant within the room. In 2022, Treatment introduced it was remaking Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne as a mixed expertise in partnership with Rockstar Video games. We haven’t heard a lot in regards to the mission since, except for a quick point out within the firm’s enterprise evaluation earlier this 12 months that the sport was about as far alongside in growth as Codename Condor — which turned out to be FBC: Firebreak.
A Max Payne remake trailer debut at The Recreation Awards can be a serious coup for the corporate and a very good approach to spherical an altogether profitable 12 months. It could additionally seemingly be a really emotional second, too, as James McCaffrey, the voice of Max Payne and a longtime good friend and collaborator of the studio, died in December 2023. —Toussaint Egan
Picture: Insurgent Wolves
Stealthily introduced on social media in January 2024, Dawnwalker is a “AAA action-RPG set in medieval Europe” developed by Insurgent Wolves, the studio co-founded in 2022 by Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, the director of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
In October, Bandai Namco launched a press release saying that the corporate had agreed to a take care of Insurgent Wolves to publish the sport, which is anticipated to be the primary of a collection of titles set in what’s described because the “Dawnwalker Saga.” Not a lot else is thought in regards to the title, except for the truth that the sport is being constructed with Unreal Engine 5 and that the corporate is anticipated to disclose extra details about the mission “within the coming months.” Seems like prime TGA announcement materials to me. –TE
It’s been 4 years since IO Leisure introduced that it was engaged on a standalone 007 sport in partnership with MGM. Since then, we’ve heard neither a peep nor a squeak from the developer as to the sport’s progress… That’s, till October, when CEO Hakan Abrak spoke briefly however enthusiastically about Venture 007’s growth with IGN. It’s not a lot to go off of, however c’mon: Builders don’t usually discuss publicly about in-development initiatives until they’ve one thing to say or they’re getting ready to say one thing. The ground’s all yours, IO Interactive. –TE
Picture: Uncommon/Xbox Recreation Studios
After it was revealed in 2019 and absolutely rebooted in 2021, Uncommon’s Xbox unique Everwild was lacking in motion for years — till Phil Spencer visited the studio in October 2024 and confirmed in a publish on Threads that the sport truly exists (“Nice day at Uncommon, hanging out with the builders at their desks and enjoying Everwild”). When the staff stated in 2021 that the sport was getting a reboot, 2024 was the projected launch date, however clearly, that didn’t occur. This looks like precisely the kind of Recreation Awards shock that might flip up, although. Appears extra seemingly than Silksong. —MM
