The 2024 Game of the Year Awards took place last night at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles and saw the triumph of the excellent Astro Bot game developed by Japanese studio Team Asobi crowned Game of the Year.
We saw Harrison Ford take to the stage with Troy Baker and Todd Howard, the Bethesda boss, to welcome the release of Indiana Jones and the Ancient Circle in particular, and the adaptation of the studio’s license, Fallout, which was broadcast on Prime Video. Award for the best adaptation. To the surprise of many who thought Arcane, the animated series on Netflix based on the League of Legends license, would win the trophy.
The Game Awards also oblige publishers and studios to reveal the first images of upcoming titles; Some are especially expected. selected pieces.
The Witcher IV
In March 2020, the brilliant Polish studio CD Projekt Red, behind the video game adaptations of the novel franchise The Witcher and more recently Cyberpunk 2077, announced the start of work on a new installment of The Witcher. The ax fell last night with the release of a lavish cinematic trailer for The Witcher 4, created by the masterminds at Platij Image.
A lavish trailer to watch below..
In this nearly six-minute trailer, we discover Ciri, the adopted daughter of Geralt of Rivia, who accepts a contract as a witch in an isolated village that has been terrorized for generations by a huge monster that demands human sacrifice.
“We’re starting a brand new Witcher saga, this time with Siri at the center of the story!” commented Sebastian Kalemba, the game’s director, in a press release accompanying the images.
“It’s great to finally be able to say these words – we’ve known for a very long time that we wanted Ciri to be the main character in The Witcher IV, it’s natural for us and we think Ciri deserves it “We want to explore what it means to be a true witch Following Siri’s path. This trailer is a taste of that and how dark the world of The Witcher can be.”
As is often, if not always the case with this studio, you’ll have to wait to be able to play it… The Witcher IV currently has no release date.
A new game from the creators of The Last of us
It goes without saying that the new game developed by studio Naughty Dog, the father of the Uncharted saga and The Last of Us, has been eagerly awaited by legions of fans; Especially since the cancellation of the TLOU based multiplayer game.
So this is the 180° turn the studio offered last night with the reveal of its new game: Intergalactic: Heretic Prophet. Currently in development for PlayStation 5. Naughty Dog has been working on this brand new adventure since 2020.
Here are the pictures…
Intergalactic introduces a new hero, Jordan A. Moon, on a dangerous hunt that ends up on Sempiria, a distant planet whose communication with the outside world was cut off hundreds of years ago.
All those who went there in the hope of finding out about his mysterious past gave no sign of life. Jordan will have to use all his skills and wits if he hopes to be the first person in more than 600 years to leave the planet’s orbit.
Mafia: The Old Country
The saga of mafia games includes three games that have sold over 34 million copies on PC and consoles. The last opus was released in 2016. Each one takes place in a very different historical period and fictional city, but is always based on a real city.
For example, the first game (2002) was set in the 1930s in a fictional town. paradise lostInspired by 1930s Chicago, the player played Tommy Angelo, a taxi driver who had to prove his worth before climbing the ranks of the city’s mafia.
In the second game, the period began after the war in 1945 to the early 1960s and followed Vito Scaletta, a Sicilian-American, demobilized after the war, who joined the ranks of the Mafia. The action took place in a fictional cityEmpire BayVery much inspired by the cities of New York and San Francisco.
Mafia III takes place in 1968 in the fictional city of New Bordeaux, the real video game counterpart of New Orleans. A game in which we follow the rise of an African-American named Lincoln Clay, demobilized and unemployed after the Vietnam War, to create a crime empire by overthrowing the Italian mafia. The three games are not artificially connected, as we found for example Mafia II Very important characters from the first part of the saga.
Already working on Mafia III, Hangar 13 studio is back at work Mafia: The Old Country. The game will take place in Sicily in the 1900s and will put players in the shoes of Enzo Favara, who will have to prove his worth in Cosa Nostra. Release is planned for 2025.
Hangar 13 has suffered quite a few setbacks in recent years, with no less than three games being canceled, which led to it being released in 2017 and 2018. So here’s hoping that Mafia: The Old Country really lets him get back on track.
Border countries 4
As a delicious twist. While the theatrical adaptation of the Borderlands video game license is one of the biggest theatrical flops of the year, its storied studio, Gearbox Software, announced last August. Border countries 4Expected in 2025.
6 years have passed since the last opus. A good title, but one that was content to rub fans in the wrong direction without taking any risks. With 87 million copies sold since its inception, it’s hard to imagine parents missing out on this already largely multi-billionaire martingale…
Anyway, here’s the trailer released last night…
Outer worlds 2
In video games, there are studios that, like in cinema, have more aura than others. And when one of them announces that he’s returning to work with a title in the genre he’s mastered, all the players celebrate.
This studio is Obsidian, which was founded in 2003. Collaborated on the Baldur’s Gate series or was at the helm of such masterpieces as Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II and Fallout: New Vegas, and even the delirious and ultra-faithful South Park: the stick. Indeed, this development studio has a very strong reputation in the field of role-playing games, more precisely in games based on “choice and consequences”.
Released in October 2019, his game The Outer Worlds was an FPS RPG (first-person shooter role-playing game) set in a dystopian future and appeared to be a spiritual sequel to the excellent Fallout: New Vegas in form and content.
Largely steeped in the retro-futurism trend in SF that has fueled many films, from the iconic Forbidden Planet to Infinity Ward, Star of Silence and Worlds Collide, Outer Worlds plunged us into delicious retro. A world about which we told you all the good things we thought about it.
Outer worlds 2 So it was opened last night and it is expected in 2025.
Game of Thrones: Kingsroad
The Game of Thrones universe is struggling to expand on the small screen. Despite the success of spin-off series House of the Dragon, other spin-off projects don’t seem to be satisfying HBO executives. Will it be more successful in video games? to have
The world created by George Martin has in fact already been translated into video games, on all possible media, from smartphones to computers and of course home consoles: we note no less Eleven games that use the universe.
The twelfth is coming soon, in the form of a massively multiplayer role-playing game called Game of Thrones: Kingsroad. The game was developed by the company’s proprietary studio NexonBased in South Korea. And the action takes place at the height of the series on HBO, namely between seasons 4 and 5.
The big problem is that this game will only be released on smartphones…
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