Well that’s a wrap! After a seemingly endless parade of ads, Geoff Keighley, and more, riddled with celebrity gigs, musical performances, and major game revelations, the Game Awards 2021 is done and in your pocket. Here is everything you missed or caught and just want to catch up on again.
Below are links to our full coverage of the evening’s news (click / tap the headline to jump to the post), from announcements to trailers to botched attempts to get an important message across.
Sega revealed Sonic Frontiers, The first open world Sonic game
We’ve seen Sonic the Hedgehog Play with free roaming hub areas but a completely open world sound? It’s a whole new animal. Ready or not, here comes Sonic Frontiers, which Sega calls Sonic’s first “open-zone-inspired gaming experience”. Check out the first trailer as well as a few screenshots of its huge, fully explorable areas.
Surprise: The matrix Unreal Demo is a simple, strangely entertaining open world game
Later that month, the next movie in The matrix Franchise hits theaters and is streamed on HBO Max. But before that lands, WB and Epic Games have teamed up to give fans something they call “The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience. “So what exactly is it? Well, it turns out it’s part Campy cutscene, part QTE-filled shooter, and part open world GTA-like exploration. It is strange.
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Geoff Keighley opens Game Awards with disappointing vagueness
Keighley referred to recent headlines about wrongdoing in a series of statements that strongly denounced in-game abuse but failed to specify the types or who was responsible for it call of Duty Publisher Activision Blizzard, without specifically addressing the company or the allegations made against it.
Hell yeah, Wonder Woman stars in her own big game
The folks at Monolith Productions are developing a Wonder Woman game, as The Game Awards revealed with a barebone teaser tonight. And since no release date or even intended platforms have been discussed, we may wait a while to learn more.
Space Marine II Announced ten years after the original
A continuation of Space Marine was just announced at the Game Awards and was certainly a pleasant and unexpected surprise. The original is one of the best Warhammer: 40K games ever made, and it was a good racket in itself, so you see it languishing while 175,249 other crappy ones 40K Games made and published in its place over the past decade has been an odd thing.
Alan Wake 2 finally announced
After a brutal 11 years there is finally one Alan Wake Sequel and it’s a survival horror game. For my part, I’m more than excited.
Dune: Spice Wars Is a new real-time PC game
dune has a long history of very good strategy games going back to 1992 when we got not one but two all-time sizes based on the license. It’s been a while between then and now – with a little Dune 2000 in the meantime – but we are now driving back to Arrakis in Dune: Spice Wars.
Homeworld 3 Shows first gameplay, looks great
Not me to know if the game is okay as I haven’t played it yet and won’t be for a while, but at least in this first gameplay trailer we can finally see how it evolves and it looks large. Like, wow, a a lot bigger than the older ones Homeworld Games, with platforms and ships and battles that dwarf those we are used to.
Ex-Telltale developers do A Star Trek game
The best Star Trek Games are adventure games, and one of the top adventure game makers has been Original telltale games. Tonight at The Game Awards, Dramatic Labs announced a studio made up of over 20 former Telltale folks Star Trek: Resurgence, an interactive narrative adventure that takes place immediately afterwards The next generation Feature films. Set phasers to incredibly interesting, which isn’t a phaser setting, I know.
It’s an eye-catching turn-based role-playing game with Scottish pilgrim Vibrations
During the preshow for the Game Awards tonight, indie mega-publisher Annapurna Interactive raised the curtain on the next big game in its portfolio. It’s a turn-based role-playing game called Thirsty suitors, made by the people behind it Falcon age. There are some cute looking skateboards out there. And it all smells serious Scottish pilgrim Vibes everywhere. have a look
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