Over the previous decade, The Sport Awards has grow to be a house for main online game reveals. Geoff Keighley’s annual celebration of gaming is arguably as a lot concerning the trailers than the precise awards handed out to sport builders, streamers, esports athletes, and voice actors each December. Publishers prefer to make a giant splash at The Sport Awards, even when the video games they’re saying aren’t anticipated to be out for years. Therefore, massive trailers that hardly ever promise launch dates.
Some video games revealed at The Sport Awards go lacking in motion for uncomfortably lengthy durations. Some video games that have been introduced or proven way back to The Sport Awards 2019 nonetheless haven’t shipped. Others, like Campo Santo’s Within the Valley of Gods, revealed at The Sport Awards 2017, by no means will.
However individuals who love video video games sufficient to look at The Sport Awards annually know endurance. Under are among the massive video games we’ve been eagerly anticipating for years now, hopeful that sometime we’ll get to play them.
[Ed. note: 2023’s edition of The Game Awards revealed more than 20 games that haven’t been released yet, but it’s only been a year. That’s nothing in game development terms, so we’re focusing on much older announcements.]
Prologue was introduced almost 5 years in the past at The Sport Awards because the mysterious new venture from Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene, in any other case referred to as the creator of the battle royale style and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (now referred to as PUBG: Battlegrounds). Prologue was described as “an exploration of latest applied sciences and gameplay” on the time, and it has since developed to be only a style of what Greene and his PlayerUnknown Productions workforce are engaged on.
Prologue actually hasn’t disappeared. It now serves as a tech demo designed to showcase the terrain-generation instruments that PlayerUnknown Productions is growing for a good greater venture, Artemis, “a large multiplayer sandbox expertise.” PlayerUnknown Productions has been posting common updates on its in-house know-how and the ambitions of Prologue and Artemis. Greene has additionally been very lively on social media offering updates, so it’s not like PlayerUnknown has gone radio silent.
However as for when gamers will really get their arms on Prologue and Artemis? That continues to be to be seen.
Ark: Survival Advanced developer Studio Wildcard delivered a giant shock at The Sport Awards 2020. Ark 2 was coming, and Quick and Livid star Vin Diesel was going to be a giant a part of the sequel to the hit dinosaur-survival sport. Studio Wildcard promised a “next-generation survival expertise” set on a large alien world, Darkish Souls-inspired fight, and full utilization of the then-new Unreal Engine 5.
Ark 2 was initially anticipated to reach in 2022, however Studio Wildcard delayed it to 2023 after which delayed it once more to the top of 2024. The studio then delivered a remastered model of Ark: Survival Advanced as a substitute, and has been fairly quiet about the place Ark 2 stands. The sport’s Steam web page now has a “To be introduced” launch date. gamerlifemedia has reached out to Studio Wildcard for a standing replace on Ark 2, however has not obtained a response (but).
BioWare’s subsequent entry within the sci-fi role-playing sport franchise Mass Impact is coming. We all know little or no past that, as BioWare has been slowly drip-feeding particulars and mini trailers for the fifth Mass Impact sport since teasing it at The Sport Awards 2020. (The studio had really confirmed a brand new Mass Impact a couple of month previous to its teaser trailer reveal at that 12 months’s present.)
BioWare has been fairly busy, although, specializing in getting Dragon Age: The Veilguard out the door. Now that it’s carried out with that, BioWare plans to focus its consideration on Mass Impact 5, the studio says. The newest N7 Day, the annual celebration of the Mass Impact franchise, was extremely quiet. Maybe that’s the calm earlier than the storm (or perhaps I’m simply coping).
Within the meantime, BioWare followers have one thing else to sit up for, now that Amazon MGM Studios is shifting ahead with the Mass Impact TV present.
Joanna Darkish will return in Excellent Darkish, developer The Initiative’s reboot of the Uncommon-created spy shooter. Initially unveiled in a cinematic trailer at The Sport Awards 2020, we’ve since seen some progress. At this 12 months’s Xbox Video games Showcase in June, we acquired a style of precise Excellent Darkish gameplay, a hopeful signal for a venture that’s rumored to have had a rocky growth cycle.
There’s nonetheless no launch date for Excellent Darkish, however a 2023 report from IGN stated to not anticipate it till no less than 2025. However no less than we all know The Initiative and co-developer Crystal Dynamics are making progress.
ARC Raiders has had a captivating journey up to now. Introduced in 2021 because the debut title from Embark Studios, ARC Raiders was surprisingly back-burnered in order that the workforce of ex-Battlefield builders making it might launch a totally completely different sport as a substitute: The Finals.
Embark has since turned its consideration again to ARC Raiders and is aiming for a 2025 launch. The extraction shooter was just lately playtested and, almost three years after being introduced, we acquired our first have a look at precise ARC Raiders gameplay.
ARC Raiders is now slated to launch someday subsequent 12 months on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X.
When Star Wars Eclipse was introduced on the 2021 Sport Awards, we knew we have been in for an extended wait. Detroit: Turn out to be Human developer Quantic Dream stated Eclipse was in “early growth” when it confirmed off its intriguing cinematic trailer, and early reviews pegged the sport’s arrival to someday in 2027 or 2028.
Quantic Dream hasn’t stated a lot about Star Wars Eclipse over the previous few years, however we all know the sport is ready within the franchise’s Excessive Republic period — the identical time interval explored in The Acolyte — and that participant selection will function closely on this intricately branching action-adventure sport. Regardless of the already lengthy await Star Wars Eclipse, the sport’s quiet interval was anticipated. Like all introduced Star Wars initiatives, it’ll get right here when it will get right here.
Warner Bros. and Monolith Productions, creators of Center-earth: Shadow of Mordor and sequel Shadow of Conflict, promise to convey again the vaunted Nemesis System in a brand new sport starring DC’s Surprise Girl. That includes an unique story and open-world sport mechanics, Surprise Girl is extremely anticipated as a much-needed turnaround for WB Video games’ superhero properties.
However we haven’t heard virtually something new on Surprise Girl since late 2021. A supposed leak of sport particulars from a advertising and marketing survey from earlier this 12 months indicated that Diana — armed with tremendous energy and her golden Lasso of Fact — will face the sorceress Circe and her military of cyclopes, gorgons, and different monsters, who’ve invaded the Amazonian island homeland of Themyscira. Count on different DC characters to indicate up in Surprise Girl, based mostly on these supposedly leaked particulars.
It’s unclear if WB and Monolith’s plans have modified in any respect below the brand new regime at DC Studios, and whether or not the brand new Surprise Girl can have any connection to the reborn DC cinematic universe forming below James Gunn. We’ll simply must preserve ready…
Developer Splash Injury made, effectively, a splash with its shocking reveal trailer for Transformers: Reactivate in 2022 — and never only for its trailercore cowl of Bon Jovi’s “Wished Useless or Alive.” Hasbro and Splash Injury’s cinematic announcement trailer appeared prefer it was one thing else altogether; solely in its closing moments was it revealed to be a Transformers sport. That alone piqued our curiosity in what Splash Injury is cooking up.
However we’ve heard little to nothing new about Transformers: Reactivate within the intervening months. Is it nonetheless in growth? Can we anticipate it anytime quickly? We’ve pinged Splash Injury for an replace and can see what it has to say.
There have been loads of huge AAA video games unveiled at The Sport Awards 2022 — together with Dune: Awakening,
Demise Stranding 2, and Judas, all of which we’re purported to get subsequent 12 months — however there’s a smaller sport we’re anxiously awaiting extra information on. Earthblade, from Celeste developer Maddy Thorson’s Extraordinarily OK Video games, was as soon as anticipated in 2024, however no cube.
The excellent news is that Thorson stated earlier this 12 months that Earthblade remains to be coming. “We had hoped to be saying a agency launch date round now, but it surely simply isn’t within the playing cards,” Thorson wrote in March. “We all know that this might be disappointing for lots of you and we’re sorry for that. Possibly this was predictable, however nonetheless it all the time sucks when the haters are proper. The excellent news is that the sport just isn’t stagnant, we’re nonetheless making progress and we’re nonetheless excited to work on it.”
If Earthblade, an “explor-action platformer,” is even near pretty much as good as Celeste, it’ll be definitely worth the wait.