Don’t Nod, the team behind Jusant and Life is Strange, has a new story-driven adventure game called Lost Records: Bloom & Rage.

The trailer begins rather innocently in 1995 with a group of four young high school friends –  Swann, Nora, Autumn, and Kat – partying together without a care in the world. The video then takes a darker turn with hints that something sinister, and perhaps otherworldly, flipping their lives on their heads. 27 years pass with no contact between the friends, but the secret they swore not to talk about again brings them back together. Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is the first title of Don't Nod's Montreal studio. 

The game is coming in late 2024 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.

Good news, Mana fans. After years of remakes and remasters, Square Enix have announced the first all-new Mana game in 15 years. Visions Of Mana will return to the series action-RPG roots, and pop you into the boots of Val, who - all right, deep breath - is a soul guard chosen to be the Alm Of Fire, and whose job it is to go and revive the mana flow at ye olde Mana Tree. Got it? GOod. Let's watch the reveal trailer.

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the second chapter of Square Enix’s big ‘ol remake project, is set to launch on February 29, 2024. And tonight during the 2023 Game Awards, we got yet another look at the ambitious return to Cloud and co.’s journey through the outskirts of Midgar and beyond via a performance of the theme…

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The original creative team behind Life is Strange have unveiled their long-awaited new project, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, due out late 2024 for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S.

Tonight's first teaser, shown at The Game Awards, featured four teens discovering something in the forest - and then one of them reflecting on these events more than two decades later.

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is a new IP from the Don't Nod team that made the first two Life is Strange titles, before the franchise was continued on elsewhere and the team moved out of Don't Nod's Parisian headquarters to set up shop in Montreal.

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As part of Square Enix’s The Game Awards 2023 announcements, a new Final Fantasy VII Rebirth trailer appeared during a performance of a new vocal theme song and showed Vincent and Cid. This one focused on highlighting the vocal theme and events in this second portion of the game.

Here’s a better look at the latest video going over elements of the game. It offers a mix of cinematic moments in the game, illustrating how the story will go, as well as new peeks at gameplay and how the experience will go this time around. This includes getting to see how various characters look in-battle, and seeing Aerith herself "sing" the theme song at one part. As for the song, it is called "No Promises to Keep" and is performed by Loren Allred. Nobuo Uematsu composed the music, while Kazushige Nojima wrote the lyrics.

Here's the Japanese version of the trailer.

Dave the Diver publisher Nexon and developer Neople have revealed The First Berserker: Khazan, a single-player action RPG that is the next entry in the long-running Dungeon & Fighter universe. The First Berserker: Khazan stands in stark contrast to the most recent entry in this universe, DNF Duel, a multiplayer fighting game released last year. 

Neople says the DNF series combines the fast-paced, higher-energy action of old-school brawlers with classic RPG elements, all wrapped in an anime-esque art style. However, with The First Berserker: Khazan, players can expect hack 'n' slash combat and plenty of customization. 

Check it out for yourself in The First Berserker: Khazan reveal trailer below: 

"The Pell Los Empire has been saved – at a cost," a press release reads. "After the Great General Khazan and Archmage Ozma defeat the Berserk Dragon Hismar and the Dragon Legion, players will step into the shoes of Khazan as he is falsely accused of treason and exiled beyond the empire."

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been in development for a long time; by the time it comes out next year, it will have been nine years since Rocksteady's last game. But after years of secret development and repeated delays, it's finally around the corner, and The Game Awards just gave us our latest look. See for yourself in the trailer below:

The notion of killing the Justice League, some of the most powerful people in the DC universe, has always felt like an impossible task for the Suicide Squad, and the more we see of these corrupted superheroes, the harder it looks. This trailer gives us a look at Green Lantern's arsenal of hard light weaponry, the Flash's speed and lightning bolts, Wonder Woman's lasso of truth, and a shadowy Batman (which is potentially related to Scarecrow's fear gas, though that's just speculation).

Luckily, the Squad is equipped with a wide array of weapons and traversal techniques, making them way more mobile than they would normally be in the comics or movies. We get a good look at new gameplay of them swinging, soaring, and shooting as well, which you can experience solo with AI companions or online with friends.

But the best part of the new trailer? The release date hasn't changed. We can take on the Justice League next year on February 2.

After a big old information splurge at the end of last month, developer Digital Extremes has announced Warframe's fascinatingly weird Whispers in the Walls expansion - which introduces a new story campaign, a new Warframe, cross-save, and more - will launch for Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC next Wednesday, 13th December.

Whispers in the Walls, in case you haven't been following along with Digital Extremes' previous showings, promises to reveal the "proverbial big bang" that kicked off every event in Warframe - and it all starts with the long-hidden (until the expansion's arrival, that is (laboratory of Albrecht Entrati, deep in the bowels of the planet Deimos.

Its feature list is a long one, promising the likes of new mission types, NPCs, bosses, factions, a new hub known as The Sanctum, and a new procedural tile set for Albrecht's aforementioned (and gothically gloomy) laboratory that serves as the expansion's primary new location.

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Black Myth Wukong finally has a release date: 20th August 2024.

The Soulslike, from Chinese developer Game Science, is inspired by classic novel Journey to the West and is hotly anticipated. It will release across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.

A new trailer was revealed at The Game Awards and showed a whole load of new bosses and fearsome enemies based on Chinese folklore.

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Jurassic Park: Survival was announced at this evening's Game Awards.

It's an upcoming single-player action-adventure game from Saber Interactive, set the day after the events of the 1993 Jurassic Park film. We will play as a character called Maya on the game's release (which is TBC).

She is aware she is alone on the island of Nublar, as I guess Alan and co forgot to make sure everyone was off the island before they took flight. Seems a bit remiss of them, really.

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Sega announced the development of new Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, and Crazy Taxi games with Sega Power Surge. A trailer showing the 5 new games appeared at The Game Awards 2023.

Each title is currently in different stages of development, has no definitive title, and will appear over the next several years. Sega Power Surge has been described as a new initiative to produce new titles from the publisher’s treasure trove of iconic game series. At the time of writing, there is no confirmation on which platforms the games are being developed for.

You can check out the new reveal trailer featuring footage with upcoming brand-new Sega classic games like Jet Set Radio here, though the clips going over the new titles is rather short. It's preceded by a live action segment setting the stage for the project, which includes references to the classics.

Wondering what Hideo Kojima's been brewing between Strandings? Well, we finally have an answer - albeit an extremely enigmatic one - courtesy of a teaser for new Xbox horror game OD.

A Kojima horror has been rumoured for quite some time, of course, with reports surfacing last year that the Death Stranding creator was cooking up a little something called Overdose.

That, it turns out, was mostly right, with Kojima's new project now revealed under the name OD. As for what it actually is, well, that's currently unclear, with Kojima and friends successfully taking up 10 minutes of tonight's The Game Awards without revealing much of anything at all.

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As Dusk Falls - previously an Xbox exclusive - is heading to PlayStation consoles on 7th March, as announced at tonight's Game Awards show.

On PS5 the game will have all-new haptic feedback and touchpad controls. It will also be available on PS4, as well as PC via Epic and Gog.com.

It first released in July 2022 as the first game from studio Interior/Night, founded by former Quantic Dream lead Caroline Marchal.

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Jurassic Park fans got a nice surprise during The Game Awards with the reveal of a new game called Jurassic Park: Survival. The cinematic trailer shows a young woman named Dr. Maya Joshi, an InGen scientist left behind on Isla Nublar in the immediate aftermath of the first film – one day after the park collapses, in fact.

Players explore the open world of Isla Nublar, which teems with a variety of newly escaped dinosaurs in a fully reactive world. Stealth seems to be more emphasized than combat, as players must use their intelligence, skills, and wit to outsmart and avoid John Hammond's prehistoric creations.

Jurassic Park: Survival has no release window, but it's coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. 

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, the latest from Life is Strange developer Don't Nod Entertainment, hits PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC in February. Ahead of its release early next year, the studio released a new cinematic trailer to highlight the game's narrative at The Game Awards 2023. 

While Banishers features intense action-RPG gameplay, it's also a Don't Nod game, which means players can expect a heavy emphasis on storytelling. And tonight's trailer speaks to that. 

Check out the latest Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden cinematic trailer for yourself below: 

"New Eden, 1695: Antea and Red are lovers and Banishers, trained spirit-hunters protecting people from lingering specters," a press release reads. "But when tragedy strikes and Antea herself becomes a ghost, will you honor your Banisher oath or sacrifice the living in a desperate bid to bring your beloved back?" 

Here are some additional Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden screenshots: 

Kojima Productions announced OD, a new horror game for Xbox consoles, during The Game Awards 2023. Jordan Peele will be involved in the creation of the game.

Actors Sophia Lillis, Udo Kier, and Hunter Schafer will appear in the game in undisclosed roles. The reveal trailer only showed CGI head shots of the actors delivering cryptic dialogue, accompanied by eerie music playing in the background.

You can watch the OD reveal trailer here:

Following the reveal, Jordan Peele and Hideo Kojima discussed the project on stage. The two discussed working with each other, their thoughts on what the experience will be like, and their inspirations. This conversation also touched on how the two of them got started, and it included a hint from Kojima that some other creators are also going to be involved in the creation of OD. However, he didn't offer any details about other people who could be working with him.

Hideo Kojima isn't only working on Death Stranding 2. It's long been rumoured - and leaked - that Kojima Productions are also developing a horror game, thought to be called Overdose. It was finally officially revealed at The Game Awards this evening. It's actually called OD, and it's being developed in partnership with Jordan Peele.

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I don't want to encourage more publishers to create irrelevant, self-indulgent trailers for Geoff Keighley's Advertganza, but I'll cut Sega a break for their one. Sure, the first 52 seconds are some live-action skit, but the following 41 seconds announce no less than five games. Sega are returning to their glory days once again, with new games coming based on Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Streets Of Rage, Golden Axe, Shinobi, "and more." You can get a few tiny glimpses at those in the trailer below.

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During TGA 2023, artist and video game director Ikumi Nakahara went on stage to reveal her new project called Kemuri. While the trailer shows the general concept and aesthetic behind the the game, it’s unclear what genre it’ll be.

You can watch the trailer here:

The trailer isn’t even a minute long. It shows an urban environment, showing its characters parkouring from the walls. They wield weapons like katanas and bows, with monsters appearing from the sky. After the monsters appear, more people wielding weapons show up. It looks like it’s either an action RPG or a multiplayer game similar to Overwatch. Though Unseen Inc does have a website, it does not have information on Kemuri, which looks to be the studio's first game. More information will come out in the future.

Supermassive Games have dropped the first trailer for The Casting of Frank Stone, their single player Dead by Daylight spin-off, a collaboration with original developer Behavior Interactive that was announced earlier this year. The new horror game combines Until Dawn’s branching storyline approach with Dead by Daylight’s supporting fiction of a malevolent Entity, trapping people in fog-bound pocket dimensions with legendary killers, so as to feast on their fear.

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Developer Game Science's Soulslike action RPG, Black Myth: Wukong, is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC next August. More specifically, it hits those platforms on August 20, 2024, as revealed in a new gameplay trailer that aired during The Game Awards 2023. 

Alongside the August 20 release date, this new Black Myth: Wukong trailer also gives us our biggest look yet at the game's combat, which continues to look great. 

Check out it in the Black Myth: Wukong release date trailer for yourself below: 

Black Myth: Wukong pits the player's monkey warrior character, known as the Destined One, against various legends, foes, and creatures from throughout Chinese Mythology. It also features a story based on Journey to the West. 

Black Myth: Wukong hits PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on August 20, 2024. 

For more, check out this Black Myth: Wukong gameplay trailer from earlier this year. 

Are you excited for Black Myth: Wukong? Let us know in the comments below!

A new entry in the Mana series is on the way called Visions of Mana - the first mainline instalment for over 15 years.

It's set for release in 2024 across PlayStation consoles, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.

As is typical of the Square Enix series, it's an action RPG and features a beautiful anime style. Check out the trailer below.

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Jurassic Park fans, good news: We are finally getting a new game set in the famous universe that isn’t a park builder.

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Rise of the Ronin will release on 22nd March, 2024. As already confirmed, it will be a PlayStation 5 exclusive.

At this evening's Game Awards, we got a new trailer for Rise of Ronin, which is coming from Team Ninja.

"Japan at the end of the 19th century was characterised by the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, a period of oppression and stagnation," reads the trailer's description.

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It's been a while since we last got a proper good look at Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, but this year's Game Awards hasn't just given us a new trailer for Ninja Theory's long-awaited sequel, but a rough release window as well. Coming in 2024 to PC, Xboxes and Game Pass, it hopefully won't be long now before we can continue Senua's story and maybe slay some cool looking giants.

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During The Game Awards 2023, Square Enix revealed a new Mana game called Visions of Mana, which is set to release in 2024. The game will release on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC.

Visions of Mana is the first new mainline Mana game being released in the series in over 15 years. It will be an action-RPG with an expansive semi-open field adventure. Mana fans will play as Val, a young man who lives in the Fire Village of Tianeea. As described by Square Enix in a blog post, every four years the Faerie visit the different regions of the world to choose people who will travel to the Tree of Mana. Val sets out with his friend as her soul guard on the journey.

Screenshots of the game can be viewed below:

Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear and director of Death Stranding, revealed a first look at his new Xbox exclusive tonight. It’s called OD and Jordan Peele is involved in it. The director of Get Out and Nope said the project is unlike anything players have seen in a game before.

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Hideo Kojima, the director behind Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding, and Jordan Peele, the director of movies such as Get Out and Nope, are making a new cloud-based project for Xbox Game Studios called OD Announced tonight during The Game Awards, the project also stars Sophia Lillis (It) and Hunter Schafer (Euphoria).

In typical Kojima fashion, the trailer doesn't illuminate much. We see several characters reading (and sometimes failing to do so) a tongue twister before Lillis' character screams in horror at what they see behind a door. 

Talking onstage, Kojima was joined by Peele to mostly compliment each other's work. However, Kojima stressed OD is, in fact, a game. But it's also a movie. And apparently something unlike much else. Or so he says. Peele said it was "crazy." I lost the plot after a while.

Anyways, check it out for yourself:

OD isn't the only project Kojima is working on. His studio, Kojima Productions, is also developing a sequel to Death Stranding.

During TGA 2023, Spike Chunsoft and Bandai Namco revealed Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero. It will be the newest entry in the Budokai Tenkaichi series and was first announced back in March 2023.

You can watch the trailer for Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero here:

The announcement trailer is over a minute long, starting with Goku and Vegeta fighting each other. The video notes that this is “a new Budokai Tenkaichi,” and it is the latest entry in the fighting game series since the 2007 Budokai Tenkaichi 3. Other characters who appear in the trailer include Frieza, Broly, Krillin, Cell, and Android 18. You can wishlist the game now on retailers like Steam.

Bandai Namco has revealed the title of the new Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi game called Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero during The Game Awards. 

The trailer sees Goku and Vegeta doing the one thing they know how to do: fight each other. The battle escalates to the pair powering up to Super Saiyan Blue, but we also get looks at Freiza and Broly (the new version of him). The game is the next entry in the long dormant Budokai Tenkaichi series and was announced back in March without an official title. 

Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero doesn't have a release date but is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. 

Amidst the glitz, fits, and Muppets at this year’s Game Awards, fans of genuinely delightful people got an appearance from beloved developer Ikumi Nakamura who took to the stage to give us all a first look at her latest game, Kemuri.

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I hope you're not sick of third-person sci-fi shooters with slick angular décor yet, because we have incoming. Archetype Entertainment and Blur Studio have announced Exodus, an action-adventure role-playing game featuring Matthew McConaughey, which deals with the theme of time dilation during space travel, much as in McConaughey movie Interstellar.

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Sonic the Hedgehog publisher Sega has announced five new projects at The Game Awards this evening: new chapters in a slew of classic franchises.

Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Shinobi, Golden Axe and Streets of Rage will all see new releases over the next few years, host Geoff Keighley said.

Sega's trailer also stated "& more" - though it's unclear what other series the publisher is pulling out of its broom closet. (No, don't hope for Skies of Arcadia, my heart cannot take it.)

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Team Ninja revealed Rise of the Ronin, its PlayStation 5-exclusive action game, during a State of Play last year. The game made an appearance at The Game Awards 2023 to showcase more of its fast-paced action alongside the news that it will hit PS5 on March 22, 2024. 

In the trailer, we see a Ronin take the steps to save a late-Edo period japan from chaos, dark magic, and more. While the trailer focuses on the game's combat, with trademark Souls-like Team Ninja action at play, it also highlights some of its traversal. Players will get to explore Japan on foot, on horse, and by way of glider.

Check it out for yourself below in the new Rise of the Ronin trailer: 

"Japan at the end of the 19th century was characterized by the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, a period of oppression and stagnation," the trailer's description reads. "Explore the vast world of late-Edo period Japan by horse and glider, while battling foes using a wide range of weapons and equipment – melee weapons like swords and spears, as well as ranged weapons like firearms and thrown weapons." 

Rise of the Ronin hits PS5 exclusively on March 22, 2024. 

Supermassive Games and Behaviour have unveiled their brand new narrative game set in the world of Dead by Daylight.

The Casting of Frank Stone, as it's called, is an original story with brand new characters. Behaviour announced the project at its Dead by Daylight livestream earlier this year, but it was officially revealed with a trailer at tonight's The Game Awards.

As with Supermassive's previous games (The Quarry, Until Dawn), The Casting of Frank Stone will be a choice-based narrative game and promises a "gruesome mystery".

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Tonight, during The Game Awards, Sega announced it had numerous remakes and new projects in development – including some of its coolest and most unique games.

Announced via a sizzle reel showing off in-development footage, Sega revealed it was working on remakes of Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Crazy Taxi, "and more." No announcement info was given.

Check it out below:

Sega announced it was planning numerous remakes last year (via IGN).

Ikumi Nakamura, creative and art director on Ghostwire: Tokyo, left Tango Gameworks back in 2019 to start her own company, Unseen. At The Game Awards' this evening, Nakamura appeared onstage to introduce the studio's first project. It's called Kemuri and the cinematic trailer suggests it's a combat parkour game with a colourful urban fantasy setting.

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During The Game Awards 2023, Exodus, a new science fiction action-adventure role-playing game franchise from Archetype Entertainment was announced. The game will release on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC.

Archetype Entertainment, helmed by James Ohlen who is known for his work on Baldur's Gate and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, was developed in 2019 by industry veterans from BioWare, Naughty Dog, and other iconic video game studios. Exodus will be the studio's first game to release.

Exodus is a narrative-driven game that focuses on the impact caused by time dilation, which is an effect created by traveling at lightspeed where time moves slowly for the traveller but moves fast for everybody outside of the time dilation. The game explores the ramifications of this and its impact on the choices made in the game.

The official cinematic reveal trailer can be viewed below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsCvugLI61I

The studio also shared an extended story trailer for the game which can be viewed below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAKAZNQuLqw

Earlier this year, Supermassive Games, the team behind The Quarry, The Dark Pictures Anthology, and Until Dawn, announced it was collaborating with Behaviour Interactive to create a single-player game set in the latter's Dead by Daylight universe. After teasing an appearance at The Game Awards 2023 yesterday online, the teams have officially revealed The Casting of Frank Stone. It hits PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC sometime in 2024.

Tonight during The Game Awards Sega showed up and dropped a short trailer announcing multiple new games based on classic franchises including Jet Set Radio, Golden Axe, Crazy Taxi, and more.

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