What will be shown at The Game Awards?

Are you ready for new announcements? On the night of December 6-7, at 4:30 Moscow time, the annual The Game Awards starts. The ceremony will not only award the best titles of this year, but also show more than 10 new projects. Let’s list which ones.

Confirmed Announcements

A new game from Obsidian

As part of The Game Awards, we will be told about an unnamed project by Tim Kane and Leonid Boyarsky. These are the authors of the classic Fallout. Their new game, judging by the posters, is also made in the style of retrofuturism.

A new Take-Two — Private Division will publish the game.

A new game in the Far Cry series

Yesterday Ubisoft published a teaser of the new part and promised a full announcement at the award ceremony.

The teaser showed a nuclear explosion and a post-apocalypse, but no details were disclosed.

Likely announcements

Dragon Age 4

The head of BioWare Casey Hudson hinted at the development of the next game in the Dragon Age series. Later, VentureBeat journalists reported that the announcement of the new part will take place on December 7. Nevertheless, they write that you should not count on an early release.

Recall that the previous game of the franchise — Dragon Age Inquisition — was released in 2014.

Borderlands 3

An interesting message appeared on Twitter from Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox Software:

My To Do list today has just 3 things on it. But I also have 3 meetings scheduled before 3pm. Is the universe telling me something?

— Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) November 29, 2018

There are only 3 things on my to-do list today. However, I have 3 more appointments scheduled before 3 p.m. Is the universe trying to tell me something?

After that, they started talking about the upcoming announcement of the next numbered part in the Borderlands series. In the end, the studio did not hide that it was working on the game. It is being prepared for release in 2019-2020.

The last released project of the series was Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel of 2014. This is not counting the spin-off Tales from the Borderlands from the deceased Telltale studio.

The Avengers

Among the guests at The Game Awards are the Russo brothers, directors of the movie “Avengers: Infinity Wars“. There are rumors that they will present a new game from Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal and Square Enix.

Alien: Blackout

The trademark of the same name in the category “video games” was recently registered by Fox. It is known that the company is working on a shooter in the Alien universe together with the young studio Cold Icon. The project is designed for PC and consoles.

Mortal Kombat XI

Rumors about the screening of the game at The Game Awards appeared on 4chan. From there, it became known that the game is being made on the Unreal Engine 4 engine and that development has been going on for four years.

Reissue of Crash Team Racing

Eurogamer writes that the ceremony will present a game that Activision is already teasing with might and main.

Collection Metroid Prime Trilogy + Metroid Prime 4

The cover of the collection for Switch can already be seen in the Swedish Inet store. There is a chance that tomorrow Nintendo will present both it and the new franchise project.

Fresh trailers

The Game Awards will also feature gameplay trailers and teasers of already announced games, such as:

• Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey;
• Anthem;
• Devil May Cry 5;
• Rage 2;
• Rocket League.

It was also reported that a new trailer and the release date of Death Stranding could be shown at the ceremony. But the creator of the game, Hideo Kojima, announced on Twitter that he would not come to the award ceremony.

Also on the topic:

• Nintendo became the winner of the 2017 Game Awards
• The Game of the Year according to The Game Awards was Overwatch

Sources: VentureBeat, Eurogamer, Gameinformer, 4chan, Twitter, Studio Websites