The Game Awards 2023: All The Biggest Announcements
08.12.2023 - 04:39
/ gamespot.com
/ Daniel Mullins
By Jason Fanelli on
The Game Awards 2023 are underway, and Geoff Keighley and company have already delivered some big announcements in the opening moments of the show. Teases on social media for this year's show were not as abundant as they were in previous years, and without many expectations, many major announcements packed more punch. Highlights include Marvel's Blade from Arkane Lyon, the next projects from Hello Games, Motion Twin, and Finji, and new entries in the Monster Hunter, Dead By Daylight, and Secret Of Mana franchises.
Below, we're rounding up all of the big reveals, announcements, and trailers shown during The Game Awards. We'll continue to expand this as the night goes on, so stay tuned for all the major news from the event.
For more, check out our other running list with all of the award winners from tonight's event.
Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons is coming to modern consoles over a decade after its original release. The game, which launched in August 2013, saw players control two brothers at the same time, with one controller, as they traveled to save their father from illness with water from a life-giving tree.
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Pony Island 2: Panda Circus 2 is the next game from Inscription creator Daniel Mullins, and it features first-person open-world gameplay mixed with a 2D game-within-a-game that mixes multiple formats from old-school pixel gameplay. The game is slated for release in 2025.
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Color Gray has announced The Rise Of The Golden Idol, the follow-up to The Curse Of The Golden Idol. A brief teaser showed multiple mugshots connected by string on a corkboard, before the cursed idol appeared on the screen. The Rise Of The Golden Idol is coming to Netflix Games, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
Usual June is the next game from Finji, the studio behind Night In The Woods and Tunic. The debut trailer showed the titular June, who is being followed by a mysterious ghost. The game will launch in 2025.
This is a musical adventure made from The Odd Gentlemen made to be accessible to the deaf, as the game is fully subtitled, and everyone in the game speaks in sign language along with the singing. The game is coming to Xbox Game Pass and Netflix Games.
Windblown is the latest from Motion Twin, creators of Dead Cells. The animated teaser trailer did not show any gameplay, but it did introduce us to the characters, the world, and a foreboding cyclone. Windblown will hit early access on PC in 2024.
Thrasher is a «a mind-melting cosmic racer and an essential audiovisual experience» from Drool, the studio behind the 2016 cult hit Thumper. The debut trailer shown during The Game