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this Henry guy just can't seem to catch

a break when we last left the

blacksmith's son turned KN at the end of

the original Kingdom Come Deliverance

things were finally starting to look up

for him we did a fine job but the sequel

in true video game sequel fashion starts

by knocking him down a peg or two and

dumping him into a new larger open world

to regain his dignity one side quest at

a time and to be honest that's

refreshing if you do not believe me try

me

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sh the story of Kingdom Come Deliverance

2 picks up almost immediately where the

first one left off but it's certainly

not essential to have played it to

follow what's going

on thanks to an extended intro that

brings you up to speed on the broader

Strokes the year is 1403 Henry is a

village boy from Bohemia modern day

Czech Republic who saw his home burned

to the ground due to a Civil War for the

crown taken place between two half

Brothers he ended up in the service of a

frustratingly goodlooking nepo baby sir

Hans Capon to try and help out the

supporters of the royal brother who

isn't going around burning down villages

and that plan got a little sidetracked

what's the

matter

females let's go to them

it's not exactly a start back from

square one though Henry began the first

game as the kind of old school RPG

protagonist who is really just some

random guy with no skills to speak of he

could barely hold a sword and The

Unforgiven combat really made you feel

that until you put in the time to master

it but Henry's a seasoned Adventurer now

he knows how to read which is

practically a superpower in medieval

Europe and while you were out partying

he studied the

blade you are

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Surrender this is reflected in the

changes to combat in kcd2 which the

developers described as luring both the

skill floor required to play competently

and raising the skill cealing for the

most devouted Warriors there are only

four attack directions now instead of

five thrust attacks are no longer a

separate attack button and have instead

been folded into the combo system for

weapons that make sense with them only

carriers are a bit easier to pull off

and much to my delight blocking can now

defend you from multiple attackers as

long as they're all in front of

you come on there basically whether you

mastered kcd 1's combat or not the lower

skill requirement at the very beginning

models the fact that Henry is simply a

better Fighter by now but careful

stamina management is still the core of

every scrap and button mashing is one of

the quickest ways to die I came across

plenty of challenging encounters even as

someone with more than a 100 hours

across two playthroughs in kcd1 it's not

as easy to spam your way through them by

getting a couple of powerful combo moves

down to muscle

memory Mercy spare me

the world of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2

is quite a bit larger as well with two

distinct maps about the size of the

first games that you can travel back and

forth between once both are unlocked the

terrain feels fairly familiar for the

most part we're still in the central

Bohemian Woodlands basically just over

the hill from where kcd1 left off but

the level of detail on the terrain and

vegetation is a noticeable step up and

better yet it's way more optimized my

RTX 4070 super still can't run kcd1 a

6-year-old game on Max settings but what

I played of kcd2 rarely had any

performance

problems you

won't the centerpiece of this new world

is the city of kenberg which is quite a

bit larger denser and more vibrant than

anything we saw in kcd1 it's certainly

no Paris or Prague but navigating its

crowded streets and markets taking

shortcuts through back Gardens and

admiring its Grand Gothic architecture

is a complete change of pace from

wandering around muddy Woodland Trails

it's big enough to get lost in built on

a realistic scale that makes towns and a

lot of other RPGs feel like tiny

diaramas the side quests I got to play

were also very open-ended and complex

the most notable example of this was an

arc involving two rival sword schools in

kuttenberg with the older and more

established one who just so happen to

support the wrong King trying to force

out the newcomers who are loyal to our

boy the rightful Heir it fell on my

shoulders to steal a ceremonial sword

from the established school and display

on the walls of the Town Hall which

would be seen as an open call for

Challengers the quest doesn't much care

how you get the sword I took a sneaky

approach picking a lock to the guild

side entrance but often you'll be able

to choose violence or even diplomacy to

solve your problems what it does care

about is whether or not you got caught

carrying out this little false flag

operation as it can affect how the

tournament between the two schools play

out I of course maintain plausible

deniability and won the competition for

my school but there are a variety of

other ways it could have progressed some

of which have long-term

consequences

up

daning do look at that Henry remains

unbreakable and undefeated

another Quest gave me the option of

killing or talking my way past some

quote unquote Bandits and I was told

that if I didn't kill them they might

shop up later and present me with new

opportunities Lord Von berov sent us to

find the Renegades who ambushed some

Knights company down by the pond

yesterday a couple of them fled and are

hiding out here in the Rocks so tell me

who you are and what you know about it

skills and perks have also been expanded

upon and the perks themselves are gen

more powerful some of the ones in the

first game offered a boon and a penalty

which made them feel more like side

grades perks in kcd2 are more

straightforward upgrades which they

should be especially if I'm going to

spend my scarce hard one progression

points on them almost everything else

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 has to offer

feels like a careful refinement of its

predecessor warhorse isn't Reinventing

The Wagon Wheel here diplomacy still

takes into account factors like what

clothing you have on and how clean you

are with a new system of Saved favorite

outfits so you can quickly switch

between combat gear and something more

suited to a Suare but this time there's

more emphasis on picking the right thing

to say for the situation instead of just

the option you have the best stats for

Alchemy is back allowing you to craft

various potions and concoctions it's

been made less fiddly there's a new

blacksmith in mini game for forging your

own gear and making a bit of coin

following in Henry's Father's Footsteps

the reading skill has been replaced by

scholarship which is gained by reading

books and can provide booms like opening

up new dialogue options Henry's still

crap at reading Latin though and I'm not

sure if that could be fixed and in

addition to new more diverse move sets

for all kinds of melee fighting Henry

can finally get his hands on some guns

now this is the early 1400s so we're

talking about extremely primitive

Firearms the kind that had the tendency

to blow up right in your

hands my leg so don't go expecting to be

Med evil John Wick but if you point them

in the right direction from close enough

range there's really no amount of armor

that will save your foes from the blast

then you probably want to grab a sword

because the remaining foes will not

stand and wait for the subjective

eternity it takes for you to

reload take

that in just about every sense Kingdom

Come Deliverance to is shapen up as

simply a smoother prettier more refined

continuation of the things I like to

about the original the core mechanics

are mostly the same but sharper and with

deeper progression the world looks

familiar but broader and more grandiose

I had two whole days to play it and it

felt like far too little when I was

first turned loose from the stocks to

pick my own path to Glory I felt that

tingly feeling you get the first time

you play Skyrim or The Witcher 3 of a

massive world full of diverse Adventures

that aren't just clearing icons off a

map I look forward to spending dozens of

hours exploring gearing up the authentic

medieval weapons and armor and

progressing through the improved perk

system maybe Hans will stop being a huge

bag of dicks too we've got no message no

coin nothing but our ragged asses you

know anything is theoretically possible

I'm just glad I won't have to wait much

longer as 2024 comes to a close there is

one question on everyone's mind what is

the game of the

year and I JM we take this award very

seriously and this year you're invited

to join in on the debate the payoff to

our game of the year watch begins on the

week of December 16th with our podcast

Nintendo voice chat hey what's up super

infos Beyond I can see you wielding a

buster sword and unlock what you think

after playing it where we deliberate and

bicker about each console's game of the

year it all culminates with the reveal

of the big winner on December 20th on

our special episode of Games scoop it's

been a great year for games already so

far lots of great games log on and join

us in celebrating this year's best in

Gam gaming wo only on

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igf Flow even after the positive preview

for AOW this summer I found myself

wondering if it was a fluke maybe it was

just a fun mission maybe obsidian won't

be able to keep my interest as more

quests are discovered maybe it was just

a nice day nope AOW is just a lot of

fun coming fresh off of trying out

Dragon A's the veil guard I was so happy

when I discovered just how evil I could

be to people I met along the way right

from the start of a vow something Veil

guard just didn't fulfill I am

ready do

it is in the machine right now from the

start I had one NPC dropping F bombs

because I was going to leave her in

prison a short while later ad Dua would

try to intimidate me on a bridge only to

meet a swift demise I wasn't in the mood

for their nonsense I just wanted to be

evil and while I could have handled it

the nice way sometimes being evil is

just more fun another win but who's

counting it's not just the fact that you

have more Nuance with every conversation

it's empowering to craft the kind of

hero or villain you want to be sure

obsidian has a story to tell but I feel

more in control when deciding how these

scenarios play out the character

customization options will allow you to

craft the face of the character you'll

build and while you don't see it all

that often you can make someone

perfectly lovely or someone that looks

like they came straight out of that

creepy claymation episode of Adventures

of Mark Twain try to survive same thing

I do every day even the vendors have

unique banter I had the chance to meet

the ex-husband of another nearby vendor

and the two would talk badly about each

other because of their failed marriage

vendor had a past relationship with my

companion Kai and warned him not to

cross her again these little beats do a

lot to make the world feel like it has a

history and you'll uncover more of that

as you Adventure I love these dangling

threads that are teased throughout the

playthrough hopefully I get to tug on

some of them and see how deep each story

goes Kai I told you not to show your

face around here again on the combat

front I also immediately noticed

improvements especially in the sound

Department

obsidian clearly spent a lot of time

working on the audio and combat flow and

it's immediately noticeable the sound

spikes are so satisfying to hear when

you've stunned an opponent and can

execute a Flurry of Blows or bullets or

when using stealth and you're able to

execute your prey with an ethal

blade and one addition we got to see for

the first time was the ability to use

third person or firstperson combat both

feel great and while I personally opted

for the firstperson perspective most of

the time third person is looking and

feeling good too the only slight gripe I

have is that the movement can have a bit

of that floaty obsidian style to it in

third person but that doesn't affect

combat all that

much who's this watch out and while I'm

discussing minor complaints knowing full

well that obsidian still has months of

Polish time left I did feel that your

companion Kai was a bit too handh holdy

with his tips at times there were a few

moments when I was simply Scavenging for

Loot and found him Whispering tips about

a puzzle in my ear I think there's

something on the Upper Floor we might be

able to reach it from outside I know

obsidian is trying to help out new

players but it takes away from that

feeling of accomplishment you get when

solving the mystery for yourself Kai I

know how to solve the puzzle okay like

give me a second you got everything you

need to fix up your arm let's head to

camp but to get back to the positives

loot was also a highlight even early on

upgrading from a bow and arrow to an

arabus felt awesome and even though I

probably said Arbus wrong the trade-off

with the rifle is that it has a long

reload time but once you've upgraded

your abilities with it you'll unlock

faster reloads and more damage and the

ragd doll physics add to the fun Factor

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well yet again though my time with a vow

felt all too short and make no mistake

there was plenty to explore in this

small area I found a spider cave where I

took on a spider boss I found the entire

hourlong demo that we had the first time

we played AOW and a plethora of small

stories within the world like this one

guy who happened to be missing a ring

and trying to find it and I left wishing

that obsidian had given us more time to

play but that's a good sign and so far

everything seems to be coming together

in what I can best describe as a really

fun RPG but more importantly it feels

like an RPG where I'm in control of my

own destiny and while the decisions I

making will have consequences I love

knowing that I get to be the one

directing the orchestra so to speak we'd

be most appreciative of course in both

of my Hands-On sessions with a vow I've

only been able to see the donore section

of the map and not much more I do hope

there's plenty of content here but I'd

really like to see more given how close

the February release date is now when I

asked obsidian about this they promised

several biomes would be explorable and

that will no doubt add a lot to the

visual diversity of the world I just

wish we could get a peek at it beyond

the footage from the very first gameplay

reveal from many months ago

no spoilers on the story here but the

one narrative hook that is set up early

on is a mission which takes you to The

Voice this voice leads you through the

map and is clearly an entity you'll hear

from again during your adventures when

given the chance to help it or refuse to

make a deal I decided against siding

with a blue light as I've learned

nothing good ever comes from a deal with

an all powerful entity but I will be

curious to see how that plays out in the

end the voice did not seem happy

see who poisons us we cannot see and

that's really the best you can hope for

from previews of an RPG like this you

get just enough to leave you wanting

more and a vow certainly accomplishes

just that I want to power up my

companion Kai to see what other attacks

he can do I want to discover the coveted

weapons the design team told us about

during the pre Hands-On presentation I

want to kill more people and betray my

friends and a vow is empowering me to do

exactly that maybe I'll let the Virgin

live this time uh it's all

right I'm I'm sure someone else will

give me a hand about is set for a

February 18th release date and I can't

wait to find out just how evil so

contestants are you

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these are the times in which Legends are

born

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the video game industry is currently in

the THS of a paradox for players it

could be argued we're in one of the

greatest times for gaming there's

incredible breadth of choice across

consoles handhelds and PCs made ever

more accessible through gaming

subscription services like Xbox game

pass and PlayStation Plus but from an

industry perspective things could not

not be more dire more and more Studios

seem to be closing original IPS are

being scrapped mid development and vast

Legions of game developers programmers

artists and animators have been cut

loose to put it simply the AAA video

game Bubble has finally

burst across the past 2 years over

23,000 jobs in the video game industry

were lost with a staggering 6,000 in

January 2024 alone over 30 video game

development Studios have ceased

operations including Arcane Austin

volition and most recently fire walk

Studios what's worse is this trend only

shows signs of continuing rather than

diminishing so how did we get here well

some analysts have concluded these

closures and redundancies are a

necessary remedy to companies having

overextended themselves in response to

inflated demand in the market during the

covid-19 pandemic while that's

undeniably a factor that's just one of

many issues that have been gestating for

years within the AAA project

bubble just 5 years ago triaa Project's

average budget ranged from 50 to $150

million today the minimum average is2

$200 million Call of Duty's new

Benchmark is 300 million with Activision

admitting in the competition and Market

authorities report on AAA development

that it now takes the efforts of one and

a half Studios just to complete the

annual Call of Duty title but it's far

from Just Call of Duty facing ballooning

costs in the same CMA report an

anonymous publisher admits that

development costs for one of its

franchises reached $660 million with

$550 million of marketing costs on top

which makes it a $1.2 billion game to

put that into perspective Minecraft the

world's bestselling video game of all

time only broke $3 billion last year and

keep in mind that's what it made since

it launched way back in 2011 the

realities of these budgets mean entire

publishing houses are massively

overstretched and are now desperately

facing the consequences if their

developers huge projects don't make

money immediately they got to go sega's

sci-fi shooter super game hyenas was in

development at creative assembly for 7

years and just as it was publicly

playable for the first time via Alpha

Testing it was promptly cancelled the

reason Sega preemptively concluded that

couldn't make its money back blizzard

survival project Odyssey had a similar

trajectory Odyssey would have been the

Studio's first new IP in 8 years and

given the Market's love for games like

Minecraft and rust such a gaming Titan

should have undoubtedly made waves with

this project when Microsoft acquired

Activision Blizzard though the project

was swiftly killed with little reason

publicly given Beyond inconveniences in

switching engines to increase player

count on the servers these examples of

the current AAA publishing call reflect

a deep rooted fear to engage with

anything new and original Publishers

perhaps perhaps more risk averse than

ever to stray out of their established

IP safety bars but even well-known IP

that could be worth millions in sales

and revenue is being left to rot despite

owning Infamous Jack and Daxter Killzone

resistance and Sly Cooper to name a few

entries in PlayStation's sprawling

dormant Library Sony CFO heroki toi

recently claimed the company lacks

Enough original Ip to consolidate itself

as a true gaming Powerhouse yeah you

talking to him what toi May mean is that

Sony's older catalog of Library IP he

does not fit the mold of what every

publisher has been mindlessly chasing

for the better part of the decade the

next big live service money

printer money it's difficult to imagine

much fanfare for a Sly Cooper reboot

where Bentley and Murray are purchased

to play Grand heists or season pass

bonuses and worlds are delivered Half

Baked instead of fully formed it's

undeniable that on some level the video

game Market has changed forever because

of this live service model new video

games don't just have to compete with

new Rivals but somehow find space in an

increasingly crowded market dominated by

decade old titles like fortnite and

Grand Theft Auto online games which will

continue to hold higher player accounts

than many of the best sellers of the

last few

years but live service titles require

investment of not just money but also

time to find Their audience neither of

which was afforded to firewalk Studios

Concord the crew of concord's Northstar

will never fly again the recent fate of

concord's firewalk Studio serves as a

microcosm for the increasingly Bleak

outlook for the next few years in video

game development Concord was firewalks

first game it's baby in many ways an

8year development bolstered by a Sony

acquisition and a reported cash

injection of $ 200 plus million

PlayStation reportedly believed it had

the next star wars-esque franchise on

its hands but the game struggled

significantly across both its beta

testing period and launch and was soon

completely shut down by Sony just weeks

after it was released with firewalk

closed for business shortly thereafter

concord's downfall happened faster than

any other failed game of the live

service era don't joke about something

like this just a decade earlier though a

similar disaster was plaguing Blizzard's

Diablo II the crippling error 37 message

made the game unplayable and fans

worldwide decreed the absolute Failure

to Launch soon after the Game's real

money Auction House left players with a

foul taste in their mouth that Diablo

I's reputation was roasting in the fires

instead of abandoning it blizzard

repaired the game removed the auction

house and then fundamentally upgraded

and evolved it to Diablo I 2.0 with its

Reaper of Souls expansion finally

cementing its comeback as a brilliant

game it's a similar story to what we saw

with CD project Red's hardfought Battle

to win cyberpunk 2077 fans back after a

disastrous launch if concord's alleged

$2 200 plus million do budget had been

lowered and the project Direction

refocused as a spark for a new universe

rather than a big bang it doesn't seem

hard to believe that it could have found

an audience with some Blizzard or cdpr

like shepherding from Sony many projects

akin to Concord could be the mediumsized

successes they deserve to be if not for

the financial Corners these Publishers

find themselves painted into endless

R and really maybe some Publishers

should consider steering clear of these

Financial quarters entirely gamers are

beginning to WAN interest in these

monolith iic projects you need only look

at a top rated games of 2024 list while

2023 award lists were littered with AAA

titles from 500 strong Studios 2024 show

a revitalized hunger for a smaller more

independent Spirit arcade machine

throwback UFO 50 the Metroid Vania esque

animal well poker Rog light batro and

text-based pixel art Adventure the

crimson diamond are just some of the

games you'll see appearing again and

again on these lists despite their

numerous differences they share one

thing in common a smaller more refined

experience that recalls earlier eras of

Gaming where marriages and mechanics and

storytelling were key through

technological craftiness rather than

literal countrysize game worlds The

Nostalgia they create for older video

game Generations are Central to the

heart of their creation they just want

you to pick them up and have a good time

the slow but increasingly clear pivot of

video game audiences to a potential

Indie Renaissance is a clear message to

Publishers that if everything is bigger

and Bolder who possibly has the time and

energy to play more than one or two

games each year did I ever tell you the

definition of insanity that's not to

undercut the difficulty in getting those

independent titles made mind you UFO

50's mossmouth LLC team consisted of six

developers working over many years while

both animal well and the crimson diamond

share similar stories of being crafted

by solo developers Billy basso and Julia

minamata respectively over several years

even a Smash Hit like lethal company

started Life as a oneman band developer

zers learning to develop games on Roblox

before expanding his knowledge all of

these developers put everything they had

over several years of their lives into

creating these games not in pursuit of

money but because of a passion and this

is why they don't need human amongus

worlds or 300 plus side quests to tick

off these games all feel like lean

enjoyment

machines it feels like the top end of

the video game industry is currently

faced with two paths to choose from the

first is the status quo it can continue

to engorge on bigger budgets with

impossibly open yet incredibly empty

worlds filled with 80 plus hours of

content about 10 of which have any

meaning to its players and or hopelessly

pursue the live service train which left

the station over 5 years ago with late

passengers wondering why the money isn't

rolling in anymore these billion- dollar

gambles could pay off but it's seeming

less and less likely every day

conversely companies could opt for a

second path and take a page out of Julia

minamata Billy basso and zeker books a

wider breath of projects smaller in

scope and scale with a refined focus on

gameplay mechanics and perhaps a return

to older styles of video games long

dormant projects where developers aren't

afraid to make weirder choices and take

some unexpected left turns less they

crash their $400 million ship into a

mixed to decent reception and lackluster

sales maybe Studios and more importantly

Publishers and shareholders can remember

that we used to play video games games

because they were fun not because of

their bigger than last year Maps

carpeted by denser higher resolution

grass that you walk across to finish

another piece of side content that

pushes you just one digit closer to that

100% completion this wasn't the plan oh

just wasn't the one we started with

speaking of which congratulations you've

almost 100% at this video what do you

think needs changing in the games

industry do you want bigger games or

more games sound off in the comments

below and for everything gaming you are

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when it comes to the Call of Duty

franchise it's easy to H cast every game

is the same big Blockbuster Hollywood

action movie where you single-handedly

save the world from this year's nuclear

threat people like me and Adler are the

reason we ain't speaking Russian right

now year after year this clearly works

for one of the bestselling franchises of

all time but the Black Ops series tends

to do something a little different from

the left trigger right trigger shooting

galleries the franchise is known for

there's that shooting I remember from

the mancherian candidate inspired story

of the original Black Ops complete with

number of stations and even a hint at

who may have actually assassinated JFK

tried to make me kill my own President

right to the use of project MK Ultra a

real life CIA mind control project from

the 1960s in Black Ops Cold War and

recently Black Ops 6's drug induced

survival horror like emergence mission

complete with mannequin jump scares and

zombie hordes Call of Duty Black Ops

utilizes Horror in its games to elevate

the story of Black Ops into a mystery

spy Thriller that's not afraid to tackle

some of the darker events in the cia's

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history what's a video about Black

Operations without talking about one of

the strangest and at times scariest real

world examples of the cia's desperation

to win the Cold War without digging too

deep into the rabbit hole MK Ultra was a

project run by the CIA from 1953 to 1973

where they helped to develop new forms

of interrogation using brainwashing and

psychological torture LSD brainwashing

and other methods of psychological

experimentation were used on thousands

of unwilling participants throughout the

' 50s and into the 70s until the project

was ultimately ended due to its

unethical use of non-consenting

participants and Hefty costs a lot of

what happened during MK Ultra was lost

due to an order from CIA director

Richard Helms to destroy all records of

the project during a congressional

investigation kind of weird timing if

you ask me but it did inspire a bunch of

movies shows books and video games to

try to fill in the gaps thanks to MK

Oprah's research we had a backup plan in

Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War MK Ultra

was the basis for one of the more

creative and horrifying levels of the

series near the middle of the third act

the player character Bell is taken into

a CIA black site to be questioned and

have their mind broken into once Adler

and perform an interal injection of LSD

on Bell to kickart his memories and

break his mental conditioning the game's

psychological horror elements really

kick into gear damn through the eye

socket you sure about this

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doc while only about 30 minutes long the

entire scene elevates Black Ops

storytelling and production value in

more ways than one visually it uses

traditional horror movie elements like

jump scares and unsettling imagery to

give the player a first-person view of

the horrors of brainwashing and a

deteriorating mind the music is menacing

and the sounds of Belle's heart racing

are only interrupted by the droning

sounds of an old stereo playing at half

speed while Adler tries his best to

drive through Belle's broken mind B's

heart rate is do it

now heart rate is spiking I'm not sure

how much longer Bel can last this all

comes together at the scene's climax

providing the impetus for the whole

campaign when Belle learns the truth

about why this happened and how he

became the perfect but unfortunate

candidate for Mk Ultra

testing the numbers Mason what do they

mean where are they bradc don't know

anything about any numbers Black Ops 1

is also full of some otherwise

horrifying segments that are Amplified

due to their real world Inspirations one

of the most prominent throughout the

series is number stations which were

used to relay encrypted messages across

one ray Radio

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5 8

8 0 2 5 8 8 during the Cold War these

stations gained prominence and were used

frequently by Soviet spies operating

Western countries While most number

stations are believed to have been

nothing more than really secure phone

calls it's alleged that some are used to

activate sleeper agents once they heard

a specific phrase the main character of

Black Ops one Alex Mason is one of those

agents the subject has been successfully

implanted with the knowledge to

translates the number sequences

throughout the game Alex finds himself

in a dimly lit room full of screens with

strange numbers flashing on them

complete with a disembodied voice

leading an interrogation as players

progress through the story numbers start

to flash on screen as well as events

that didn't actually happen like when

Mason imagines himself assassinating JFK

in a CIA black

site and the evolvement of Victor rnof

Alex's close friend who revealed to have

died years prior even though he shows up

in gives Alex life multiple times

throughout the story he nearly took a

bullet no one fights alone the eeriness

of these unexplained numbers and

disembodied voices during the early days

of the Cold War gives an otherwise

standard action game much deeper meaning

to its death and its story brainwashing

in number stations may not be as

traditionally scary as Pyramid Head or

Lisa from PT but the idea of a trigger

phrase that can make someone unwillingly

carry out a task that no matter how

unethical or Grizzly it may be is pretty

scary and how Black Ops presents this as

an analog horror during real world

events only elevates a great spy

Thriller from summer blockbuster to

something that people still talk about

almost 15 years after its release why

did you have to kill it cuz the numbers

were telling me too why don't you

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14 Black Ops 6 is full of disturbing and

dark imagery but the mission emergence

is by far the most horror heavy Miss

mission in the entire Call of Duty

franchise you know outside of the zombie

mode obviously there we

are this mission is a cation of a few

different aspects we've covered so far

there's mention of MK Ultra programming

drug field psychological warfare

brainwashing and even

zombies prior to this Mission players

will have come across notes and audio

logs that detail a human experiment

involving a set of twins and a

mysterious drug called cradle they

developed the

Cradle a new generation of operatives

would be born of it these audio logs

hearken back to the research done during

MK Ultra and its real life predecessor

project artichoke building up for what

may be one of the most unique and

surreal levels in the entirety of the

Call of Duty

franchise no one will know this took

place you may not even remember much

yourself at the start of the emergence

Mission you fall deep into an

underground research facility run by a

shadowy government agency known as

Advanced Technologies and applications

everything about this level cranks the

horr dial up to

11 and the game immediately shifts from

its modern military routs to something

more akin to Bioshock than Battlefield

the ATA facility is full of mysterious

and unsettling Illuminati imagery like

the Eye of Providence which we've all

seen on on things before like

Renaissance paintings depicting Jesus

Christ the backside of a dollar bill and

Freemason iconography it's used here to

represent one of the most common

depictions of the Eye of Providence the

Illuminati while number of stations in

MK Ultra have existed at one time the

Eye of Providence better known as the

allseeing eye has been associated with

the agal conspiracy theory of a shadowy

one world government that calls a shots

with complete jurisdiction and no

ethical boundaries by allowing players

to explore the abandoned ATA facility to

discover its secrets we get to learn

more about the cia's ties with the

characters in Black Ops and how no

matter what they do there's really not

much they can do to stop the government

from carrying out these experiments on

people for the sake of Mind Control

emergence raises the bar for Call of

Duty's horror storytelling sections by

removing the player's usual weapon load

out in favor of an Axe and introducing

multiple zombie jump scares in the game

that has been relatively grounded up

until this point

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Black Ops 6 is able to lean heavily into

the dark and Mysterious World of Black

Operations and the more Fantastical side

of things with Illuminati imagery and

even more references to project MK Ultra

after treating us with the Cradle they

tried to mold us into the perfect

Soldier they plan to Break Down The

Walls of Mind and

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Body the the series strategic use of

horror and its ability to highlight some

of the US intelligence community's

darkest moments has not only made the

Black Op games stand out in a sea of

modern advanced and infinite Warfare but

also elevated their capacity to tell a

thought-provoking and at times

terrifying story about the real Things

That Go Bump in the night while they may

only dive into traditional horror for a

few brief moments in each game's

campaign the effectiveness and

unsettling nature of each Mission along

with many other explorations of

disturbing topics have proven time and

time again that the Black Ops series use

of horror has contributed to some of the

best campaigns in Call of Duty and

Modern military shooters ever whether

you adored 2013 Indie darling contrast

or were disappointed by 2016's we happy

few it's hard to argue that developer

compulsion games doesn't swing for the

fences and try new things after spending

a day with the team taking a closer look

at South of midnight it's clear that

Innovation streak hasn't slowed down one

bit and I went from mild curiosity to

full-blown hype for this unique action

adventure game though I didn't see

anything that blew my socks off in terms

of gameplay it stood out in just about

every other way especially with its

striking setting curious stop motion

animation and Stellar original

soundtrack that all left me eager to see

more and play it for myself you mean to

tell me your mama never told you stories

about Critters and

Weavers oh you're lucky I come along a

quick disclaimer before we get started I

wasn't provided footage of the hands-off

demo shown at compulsion games' office

and so won't be able to show you all the

things I saw instead I'll be relying on

existing publicly available sources and

you'll just need to fill in the blanks

shaking

bones been a while south of midnight is

set in a part of the world we don't see

too often in games the American Deep

South it isn't just a backdrop for you

to fight monsters but rather the entire

premise on which the adventure sits with

characters folklore and mythical

creatures all drawn from Real World

places and stories during a hands-off

demo I saw flooded Wetlands after a

recent storm mosquito riddled swamps and

ostentatious antibellum manners each

infused with elements of fantasy I'd not

seen anywhere else these exotic places

fit nicely with an equally unusual art

style that emulates stop motion

animation yet another rare games and one

that would be sure to fog up G mod del

Toro's glasses the whole thing looks

like it was ripped from the pages of a

children's story book which I really dug

it definitely took some getting used to

it first as the jerky movement might

easily be mistaken for frame rate

wonkiness to the untrained eye but it

also adds to the otherworldly fantasy

charm that south of midnight oozes it

can sometimes be pretty difficult to

understand how exactly a game will feel

to play during a hands-off demo but in

the cas case of south of midnight

touching a controller wasn't necessary

to recognize its best quality it's

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music each level has you facing off

against a crypted from Deep South

folklore as Southern inspired blues and

jazz intensifies and the lyrics help

tell the story of whatever Beast you're

tracking

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down in the case of this demo it was an

enormous alligator called two toad Tom

based on an actual legendary creature as

to toad Tom be at first the music

Started slow with a slick Baseline and a

choir Whispering totoe

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Tom but by the time we unraveled The

Mystery of the mythical Gator and

progressed to the final confrontation

the chorus reached a fevered pitch the

words of which told the tale of poor old

Tom

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all of these components the setting art

and music set south of midnight apart in

a major way and made me extremely

excited to get my hands on it the flip

side of that is that what I saw of

gameplay offered far less originality

combat looked like a pretty by theum

System of dodging striking and finishing

moves that are quite well trodden and

exploration relied on double jumping

midair dashing and grapp to distant

locations that are pretty standard stuff

the boss fight against two-toed Tom for

example was a very repetitive process of

leaping over telegraphed attacks and

wailing on the gator when he presented

obvious opportunity to do so compulsion

games says that while they expect

gameplay to be engaging it isn't nearly

as much of a focus as the story music

and other elements they've clearly put

the line share of work into instead

they're keeping levels relatively short

for a 10ish hour story and putting all

of their chips into south of Midnight's

exceptional presentation and World

building and so far I'm convinced they

just might pull it off after all even

without playing it myself it's made a

great impression on me here's hoping it

delivers when we finally get to play it

next year I'll pick you up y after to go

find your

mom as 2024 comes to a close there is

one question on everyone's mind what is

the game of the year

at IGM we take this award very seriously

and this year you're invited to join in

on the debate the payoff to our game of

the year watch begins on the week of

December 16th with our podcast Nintendo

voice chat hey what's up super INF

friendos Beyond I can see you wielding a

buster sword and unlock what you think

after playing it where're will

deliberate and bicker about each

console's game of the year it all

culminates with the reveal of the big

winner on December 20th on our special

episode of Games scoop it's been a great

year for games already so far lots of

great games log on and join us in

celebrating this Year's best in

gaming only on

IGN right now is probably the best time

in a while to be a fan of action RPGs

the developers are cooking the gamers

are eating it's as simple as

that if you're into the arpg genre of

top- down monster slaying looter games

then you're most certainly bursting at

the seams luckily you're primed to loot

some new better pants anyways

if you aren't playing these games now is

the absolute best time to set everything

else aside and join the buffet to grind

these games down with the rest of

us let's talk about three of the biggest

best and coolest games in the genre

right now and why they each deserve your

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time

cheers the developers of games like

Diablo 4 Path of Exile last Epoch and

soon path of Exile 2 are seriously

competing in a brutal War for your

engagement grinding gear games has been

hard at work crafting a fully fledged

sequel to Path of Exile a game that's

been going strong for more than a decade

and even recently hit an all-time Peak

not just in concurrent player counts but

in the quality of new content as

well meanwhile blizzard has spent the

last year reacting to critical feedback

from its fan base to turn Diablo 4

around and introduce meteor in-game

iterations that keep players

satisfied and we're not just getting AR

RPGs from legendary iconic game studios

there's also the newcomer last Epoch

from 11th Hour games a studio that built

a hit game that was mostly birthed out

of a Reddit

conversation see about 8 years ago

Reddit user MOX jet 200 made a post on

the Social Media Forum asking for input

from other arpg fans on what features

would make for a great entry to the

genre that user Jud cobbler is now

founder and CEO of 11th Hour games the

developers of last Epoch a studio with

Talent from all over the world working

to keep this game going while there are

other notable AR RPGs out there in the

wild Diablo V Path of Exile and last

Epoch come together to keep us well fed

throughout the year with regular

seasonal or League content updates oh

God Che let's talk about Diablo I a game

that managed to have a significant

Redemption Arc after many players

dismissed it shortly after launch and a

few unfavorable seasonal releases when

Diablo I first released back in 2023 it

felt slow and monster density was about

as low as player morale the game quickly

came under Fire for its lackluster

in-game design especially compared to

other args that's been released since

Diablo I which effectively altered how

players engaged in these types of games

blizzard has been quick to react

releasing season after season of

meaningful content updates that stuck

around permanently in the game

this feels like a direct result of

healthy competition in the genre while

grinding gear games implemented new ways

to ease the quality of life in the

endgame with Settlers of calgar and the

introduction of gold and auto mappers

blizzard shook up the very fabric of

their game to change its Pace the weight

of their itemization and overall

relevance of

content meaningful releases are

necessary to maintain players over the

course of their Seasons otherwise player

numbers dwindle as they have other

avenues to satisfy the craving of

deleting hordes of monsters on their

screen so if you were one of the many

action RPG fans let down by Diablo V

early on it's definitely worth a second

look now Diablo 4 season 5's infernal

hordes in-game activity is a perfect

example of Blizzard listening to player

feedback players ask for Monster density

players got monster

density jumping into the infernal hordes

feels like a complete different game

than what we got with Diablo I's vanilla

release another clue that competition is

key look I get it Diablo I doesn't need

to be another Path of Exile with a

different skin in fact it shouldn't be

however it's refreshing to see that a

company the size of Blizzard has been

backed so far into a corner that the

core gameplay Loop of their game is

almost unrecognizable and that's nothing

but a good thing for

us I've been playing Diablo 4 Seasons

longer than I ever have raid likee

content check the unders City an

infinite grindable activity where you

can Target Farm loot check I'm more

motivated to chase that next upgrade and

actually want to take on the Uber bosses

doesn't all feel aimless

anymore welcome to Kings March meanwhile

path of exile's recent Settlers of

calgar released with such high praise

from fans that it set a new bar for

League content quality you can't help

but thank such competition for allowing

it to happen the 3.25 update for Path of

Exile was timec consuming in the best

way possible and surely has to be a

response to the growing split attention

the fact is is that they are doing more

to entice you to play their game they

have to be reactive they have to be

Innovative and they have to be creative

and it's

working my jaw legitimately dropped when

grinding gear showed off all the quality

of life updates and new content during

the settlers of calgar reveal live

stream what do you mean you can hire

NPCs to grind while I grind it was a

dream come true for a dream I didn't

even know I had there have been nothing

but promising updates for Path of Exile

2 and this most recent release for its

predecessor gives me nothing but faith

in what's waiting for us in the sequel

not only will grinding gear games be

continually adding content to Path of

Exile 2 they will also still support the

original Path of Exile with regular

leagues as normal they've even alluded

to porting back features that they add

in Path of Exile too features like gold

the currency trade market and more

prominent health bars have already been

added so not only will grinding gear be

in constant competition with other

developers they'll also be competing

with

themselves here Li the answers you

seek but what about the little guys 11th

Hour games are still here their 1.0

launch for last Epoch was insanely

popular with high concurrent counts

while last Epoch did suffer from major

server and connectivity issues the game

was still an excellent grind their

monolith endgame mapping system while

still a little shallow has so much

potential for the addition of depth and

player engagement soon after launch last

Depo got its 1.1 update harbingers of

Ruin sure the update wasn't as massive

as something grinding gear games or

blizzard could pull off but it shows the

dev's commitment to the game that was

made by devoted fans of the

genre they're a bit silent at the moment

on content updates but the imminent

release of Path of Exile and Diablo 4's

ongoing Seasons likely play a role here

as I mentioned they're the little guys

they need more time to

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cook in grinding gears games's recent

Path of Exile 2 live stream they blew

the lid off most aspects of the game one

of these aspects being their new Atlas

mapping in game system which if you peer

closely it looks eily similar to last

epoch's monolith system an infinite

mapping system where if you die you'll

be locked out of rewards of course it

can be argued that path of exile's delve

was the actual inspir Iration for

grinding gears games new Atlas iteration

but I like the narrative that developers

are just sharing ideas now because they

love and need our

attention anyways you're hungry yet

luckily the sweet ambrosial allore of

this genre is Hardy enough to keep you

well fet when one game is on the

downswing but you're still looking to

scratch that looting and slaying itch

arpg games are a plenty and of excellent

quality Diablo games the path of Exiles

Grim daon the torch light series Lost

Arc the list goes on the genre has never

been better than it is now it's a space

in gaming where the developers are truly

getting the meaning of life service and

what it takes to keep players engaged

and happy and to that we say keep them

coming so contestants are you

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ready you coming

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these are the times in which Legends are

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as 2024 comes to a close there is one

question on everyone's mind what is the

game of the

year at IGN we take this award very

seriously and this year you're invited

to join in on the debate the payoff to

our game of the year watch begins on the

week of December 16th with our podcast

Nintendo voice chat hey what's up super

in friendos Beyond I can see you

wielding a buster sword unlock what you

think after playing it where will

deliberate and bicker about each con

game of the year it all culminates with

the reveal of the big winner on December

20th on our special episode of Games

scoop it's been a great year for games

already so far lots of great games log

on and join us in celebrating this

year's best in

gaming only on

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igf over its 30-year history it's fair

to say that a lot of incredible games

have graced PlayStation across five

generations of consoles two handhelds

and Toes dipped into the VR Waters there

are a lot to choose from but we've put

our heads together to narrow it down to

the top 100 of all time now what games

do you see when you close your eyes and

hear the word PlayStation now while

we've got a good amount of exclusives on

this list we of course have to include a

fair few multiplatform Classics as well

now our rule of thumb for those is when

you think of that game do you see a

PlayStation Banner at the top top of its

box if so well it qualifies right here

now you'll see plenty of familiar faces

here from Crash to Kratos but there will

no doubt be some that surprise you as

well I have an opinion on what should be

placed here well let us know in the

comments down below so without further

Ado here are the top 100 PlayStation

games of all time

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mascot Platformers were all the rage at

the height of the PS1 era and hot on the

heels of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro Sony

opened a whole barrel of colorful new

characters with ape Escape a

familyfriendly chimp hunting Adventure

that armed players with a slew of monkey

capturing gadgets AP Escape was popular

enough to spawn many sequels and is

still referenced as recently as in

2024's astrobot but perhaps its most

important Legacy was being the first

game that could only be played with a

newly released dual shot controller

introducing players to the world of dual

analog sticks that would soon become not

just the norm for PlayStation devices

but the industry standard to this day

got

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yes greetings greats of this world I

come to compete Crash Bandicoot was

Sony's answer to Nintendo's Mario so

naturally if Mario had a cart racer

crash needed one too a Shameless

imitation of Mario Kart crash team

racing is nonetheless a genuinely fun

time with a great selection of tracks

and all of the silly weapons and

powerups you'd expect from the genre

just like his platforming though crash's

driving isn't quite on par with his

redca Rivals but still CTR is a speedy

party in its own right

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it's working I've got a

dragon wa rough Landing ripto's rage is

the most complete Spyro package more

challenging than its predecessor it

improved on everything that everyone's

favorite little purple dragon brought to

the table the first time around a

certain Bandicoot may have ultimately

come out on top as the original

PlayStation's most beloved platforming

master Scott he was after all the guy in

the suit who showed up in PlayStation

commercials but Spyro certainly played

his part it's also notable and worth

celebrating that both Spyro developer

Insomniac and crash Studio naughty dog

have together evolved into two of Sony's

most important sources of Blockbuster

creativity from such humble and similar

Beginnings impressive most impressive

please take this sacred uh thing theama

as a token of our Everlasting gratitude

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jumping ahead a few console generations

and taking a smaller detour Little Big

Planet developer medium molecule

reinvented its arts and crafts approach

for portable gaming with terway one of

the PSVita shining stars truly

showcasing The Versatile little

handheld's capabilities terway made

Innovative use of the console's rear

touchpad and front-facing camera letting

you enter tera's papercraft World by

pushing your fingers through the

landscape or by having your own mug

Adorn the skies as a big Coss shining

Sun but even without all the clever

gimmicks and set dressing terway is

still at its core just a great Charming

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platformer come on CT you got to put

this

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together death Loop was an exciting and

stylish new property from Arcane Leon

the studio behind the Dishonored series

Microsoft acquired arcane's parent

company shortly before death Loop's

release but the game still released as a

timed exclusive for the PS5 and it was a

good one echoing the outside the box

creativity of Sony's best output death

Loop is a Time looping shooter that is

also a detective game and a PVP

assassination Sim it's ambitious but

never to a fa I want you to remember why

you came

here I want information where the hell

am I

it's a little ironic that most of the

Beloved PlayStation properties mentioned

so far have since been acquired by

Microsoft but that is not the case for

Jack and Daxter Who Remain some of

Sony's most beloved characters Rockstar

may have dominated the PS2 era of open

world games but that didn't stop naughty

dog from trying its hand as well Jack 2

moved away from the mascot platform of

Bedrock of its predecessor to take Jack

and His otel companion Daxter to a hub

world city filled with danger an

ambitious pivot to a more combat heavy

focus it was a gamble that paid off as

well as being one of the best looking

games of its

generation I think the baron set me up

actually I think everybody's trying to

kill

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me another colorful handheld platformer

loor roko is one of the PlayStation

Portable must own games and one of the

many examples of the out there

creativity that Sony's Japan Studio

contributed to PlayStation since the

very beginning relatively simple concept

based around the idea of rolling

colorful jellies from point A to point B

it contained hidden complexities that

accentuated its elegant design packed

full of charm that threatened to burst

out of its portable confines it was a

treat in every sense of the word

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let we're doing

it another beloved Sony Duo dating back

to the PS2 era Ratchet and Clank made

their PlayStation 5 debut with Rift

apart which is arguably still the

greatest display of the Hardware's power

to date colors pop off the screen at

each turn and particles flood the sky at

every opportunity especially when firing

one of the many outrageous esoteric

weapons the series and developer has

become known for the incredible visuals

are augmented by Insomniac games making

full use of the ps5s 3D audio

capabilities the Dual sense controllers

hap dicks and adaptive triggers and

truly showcasing how the nextg

Hardware's

infinalon platforming to a multiversal

scale considering how much of a sensory

overload Rift apart was on a launch PS5

it's not a surprise to see Sony using it

to test drive the upgraded PS5

Pro can't anyone print instruction

manuals anymore

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before Reinventing the tetraamino and

Tetris effect designer tetsuya mizuguchi

had an idea that combined block-based

puzzling with electronic music that

could be played on the go that idea

became illuminous one of the best puzzle

games to ever grace the PSP while

solving its tetris-like puzzles was what

made it fun the kicking soundtrack that

synchronized its beat to the gameplay

made it so that anyone who played

luminous felt like a third member of

deft Punk

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when does the operation begin our

intelligence within the FBI was not

clear but rumor's men are already inside

the subway it's easy to write off siphon

filter as a metal gear clone especially

when it was released just months after

kima's PS1 Masterpiece but despite the

similarities between these two stealth

experiences siphon filter is a brilliant

Espionage Adventure in its own right

thanks to Sharp Gunplay a story stuffed

with twists and missions that just as

varied as they are action-packed now I

will show you how I deal with

informance look at this place it's

amazing so this is your world the

PlayStation 3 library is loaded with

Gorgeous games but nuni Wrath of the

White Witch is the only one that comes

close to feeling like a playable Studio

gibl Movie developed in collaboration

with that legendary Anime Studio level

five delivered a lavish RPG with a

Pokémon likee monster collecting battle

system that told an enrapturing story

about a boy whisked away to a fantasy

land to revive his recently deceased

mother while the Stellar art Direction

shines moment to moment it's the

sequences produced by the animation

studio that gave us princess monoke and

Spirited Away that truly make this one

of the most visually arresting games on

the PS3 though the PS3 was lacking in

top tier RPGs for much of its lifetime

Wrath of the White Witch is one very

notable exception if all that wasn't

enough it also gave us the Welsh legend

that is Mr drippy long live our short

King you must be the one we fairies call

the pure hearted

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one proevolution soccer 6 is as good as

football games have ever been at a time

when the Rivalry between proevo and FIFA

was at an all-time high Konami soccer

simulation was the sports game to play

on PS2 it's the sort of standout

opposition that EA sorely misses now as

with no strong competition the genre is

left to wallow in mediocrity oh for

those Glory Days to return

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at the mere mention of the game it's

likely paton's infectious soundtrack is

now playing in your head if you were

never hooked patapon was a PSP game that

marched to the beat of its own drum

quite literally gameplay was a unique

blend of Rhythm and strategy because

every note you hit in this case a

different beat to an actual drum issued

commands to a band of oneeyed Warriors

you led into battle each game had its

charm but patapon 3 refined what made

the first two games click while adding

new features like multi-level dungeons

versus mode races and

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battles

Untamed

Majestic but

leful if you hunt these Wilds no matter

how skilled you are no matter how clever

you will become the hunted Hill Zone

developer Gorilla Games took a big swing

on the PS4 ditching its desaturated

shooter series for the altogether much

more vibrant world of horizon zero Dawn

it's rug pulling sci-fi story is a solid

backdrop for the introduction of a new

PlayStation hero in the form of aloy and

her metal dinosaur decapitating archery

combat The Horizon series seems cursed

with the first and second games

launching in the same week as The Legend

of Zelda breath of the wild and Elden

ring and even the first games PS5

remaster shared a release date with

Dragon Age The Veil guard still Horizon

has persevered against some very stiff

competition and zerod daon has already

seen a PS5 sequel VR experience and Lego

game spawn for it so something tells us

we're going to be seeing a lot more of

aloy and you will crush our enemies and

cast down those who lead us astray

PlayStation isn't exactly the natural

home of the first person shooter so not

too many made this list but it shouldn't

come as a surprise that Doom Eternal is

one of them after the 2016 reboot ripped

and tore the Doom franchise back into

the mainstream after a 12-year Hiatus

its sof's follow-up refined the

experience in a way that made it feel

like the shooter of tomorrow instead of

the seventh sequel in a decades old

series the consequences of your actions

here

welcome to SSX

tricky go SSX tricky proved stiff

competition in the extreme sports market

for Tony Hawks Pro Skater barreling down

perilous mountains and flipping around

in every direction was fun in its own

right but it's tricky's colorful style

that made the otherwise Snow White

Vistas truly pop off the

screen the ps2's abundance of BMX

surfing and skateboarding titles made

for some tough to rock around but SSX

tricky stuck The Landing I am

unbelievable two times

multip sometimes it's so easy being

me long associated with the Game Boy

where Tetris was sold as a bundled game

Tetris effect saw re Mastermind tsia

naguchi reimagine the Eternal puzzle

game for the PlayStation VR headset

themed around the psychological effect

of the same name that occurs when

playing the block stacker for long hours

Tetris effect transformed the classic

game into a psychedelic trip by

combining the Timeless tetraminos with

far out visuals and a stellar soundtrack

a VR Tetris game could have been the

most phone in shovelware imaginable but

Tetris effect elevated it to a

practically religious experience

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Mickey Mouse fused with Final Fantasy

shouldn't work but with Kingdom Hearts

Square Enix proved that it

can't flam's goofy I'm Sora I'll go with

you guys however it's in the sequel

where the concept truly began to

flourish Sora Goofy and Donald and the

whole gang embark on a convoluted

Adventure through beloved Disney Worlds

with particular highlights including the

Steamboat Willie inspired Timeless River

level Hercules Olympus Coliseum and on

space paranoids does it all make sense

that's a question for another day we'll

enjoy any game that lets us chat with

Winnie the Pooh in between bashing

enemies with a giant

Keo okay guess it's about time to be

moving

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on the monster hunter franchise is

fondly remembered for its PSP Legacy

which enabled millions of Gamers mostly

in Japan to spend hours hunting and

Gathering ing together in between work

and

school but Monster Hunter world's

arrival on PlayStation 4 marked a new

age for the series and became the

destination for millions of fans new and

old from around the globe with enormous

monsters to take down and sprawling new

areas to explore and even more players

to join the hunt monster hunter World

takes the series tried and true gameplay

Loop and makes everything much much

bigger

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the original 1999 Medal of Honor

co-created by Steven Spielberg was a

true PlayStation classic however its

2002's medal of honor front line on PS2

where the historical shooter series

finally fulfilled its lofty Ambitions of

making Saving Private Ryan's most iconic

scene

playable opening on an intense

Recreation of the D-Day Landings

frontline's exciting and varied campaign

would prove to be the blueprint for Call

of Duty's later success we're placing

you on a special Mission good luck

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Patterson it's hard to think of many

games that are more perfectly suited to

the PlayStation vaita than Hotline Miami

a top- down violence simulator that's

fast frantic and Relentless with

murder hotline Miami's secret is its

addictive Simplicity and even though it

came to other platforms its bite-size

levels and Rapid restarts are perfectly

suited to the take it everywhere

PlayStation vaita it's so good that it

even featured as a cameo being played on

the vaita no less in one of

PlayStation's biggest games ever The

Last of Us Part

Two yeah they want to buckle up here we

go Killzone may have never proved to be

Sony's Halo killer but its industrial

weight shooting and grimy aesthetic were

instrumental in putting Horizon's

developer gorilla on the

map Killzone 2 is particularly memorable

for being a graphical showcase to a

controversial degree an early E3 demo

may have been too good to be true but

the final game was nonetheless a

stunning example of the Cinematic

visuals the PS3 was capable of

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Square enix's vision for remaking Final

Fantasy 7 became crystal clear with its

second installment untethered from the

need to set up the familiar events of

Final Fantasy 7 rebirth is able to throw

our beloved Heroes into a vibrant open

world that brings to life what every

gamer who played the original Final

Fantasy 7 was only able to imagine

previously bursting at the seams with

love for its iconic characters in World

rebirth is an ambitious second act in

this three-part remake that's already

proving as essential as its blocky PS1

predecessor the big question is how long

will we have to wait for the final

installment but in reality it's barely

hanging

on the words Ridge Racer are now best

known for being shouted by an exuberant

Karai at

e306 AG racer remember that one all

right so let me uh let me go right ahead

but years before that it was

PlayStation's standout driving

game type four hit a sweet spot between

the Sim trappings of Gran Turismo and

the White Knuckle speed of Wipeout

carving out its own Corner as one of the

most popular games on the original Sony

console

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before returnal house Mark was known for

its exhilarating but relatively Niche

twin stick shoot them UPS then in 2021

seline's time looping sci-fi Rog likee

burst on a ps5s to showcase exactly what

the console and the studio could do

encountered

hostile it's psychologically twisting

story excellent shooter gameplay and

stunning art design locked it in as one

of the generations must playay games

with bonus points for being one of the

few PS5 games that really got creative

with the Dual Senses adaptive

triggers truth is Tanner 3 years on the

department and you're still the best

driver I got in the days of the original

PlayStation open world driving games

were limited to Grand Theft Auto's top-

down perspective and the thought of

being able to navigate the streets at 60

MPH from a 3D Viewpoint felt like a

distant dream but in 1999 driver arrived

on Playstation to shatter those

expectations allowing players to become

a Wheelman in a video game like never

before On The Run Miami tell me who he

talks to where he goes that is of course

assuming you could actually get past its

initial notoriously difficult driving

test a fish barrier to entry before

tearing up the streets of Miami and

Beyond

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the hunt for a family-friendly

PlayStation mascot is as old as the

brand name itself but it's fair to say

that 2008's Little Big Planet delivered

the hero the OTS were looking for with

Sack Boy Little Big Planet was not only

the birth of a mascot though it was also

PlayStation's first significant

experiment in user generated content

giving players the tools to share their

woolly 2D creations with the world

developer media molecule would

unquestionably do it a whole lot better

with sequels and spiritual success or

dreams but none of that happens without

The Whimsy charm and just plain

adorableness of Little Big

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PL the yakaza series now known as like a

dragon has been a PlayStation staple

since the first entry's release in

2005 steadily growing over the years

from Niche interest to a cult phenomenon

our pick of the bunch is 2015's Yakuza

zero in part because its prequel status

makes it an easy entry point for

newcomers but most importantly is

because it has everything you'd want

from one of ryugoku Studios crime epics

over the- toop action melodramatic CU

and majima plot lines and of course

life-c consuming mini games including a

full Cabaret Club management s

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between MTV's Pimp My Ride and Need for

Speed Underground 2 it seemed like every

car in the world in the early 2000s had

tinted windows and underglow neon

lighting the PS2 was homeed to Need for

Speed at its height with Most Wanted

pink slip system and open world police

chases providing just as many Thrills

but Underground 2 uses its nitrous oxide

to just Edge in front here thanks to its

electric street racing drenched and

glowing in the dark painted

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cool you are the best of the best

PlayStation's recent history has been

gilded with single player success

stories as such it was quite a surprise

when Arrowhead game studios Co-op

Blaster hell divers 2 seemingly dropped

out of nowhere to capture the Democracy

obsessed minds of PS5 players everywhere

building on the foundations of the

arcadey top down twin stick shooter that

launched on PS3 PS4 and vaita way back

in 2015 Arrowhead sequel expanded and

augmented every aspect of the game

especially the Starship Troopers

flavored brand of propaganda satire you

will never destroy our way of life the

end result was a delightful PVE

experience that became a massive team

effort with players doing their part to

tackle bug-like aliens and Terminator s

cyborgs on multiple fronts

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Russia you are

worthy Legacy of cane has emerged as one

of PlayStation's favorite CT series over

the years and we think it peaked with

1999 Soul Reaver on the PS1 Crystal

dynamic introduced players to vampire

ghost protagonist Raziel whose

supernatural abilities were put to the

test with a combination of combat and

puzzles that were equal parts stylish

and challenging it was incidentally the

first game directed by Amy henig who

would then go on to help shape naughty

dog in the modern PlayStation Behemoth

it is today all the aspects of what has

become Sony's trademark single player

Formula can be felt way back here in

Soul Reaver what pitiful form is this

that I have come to inhabit d death

would be a release next to this

travesty do you think I felt regret as I

gazed upon the destruction we have

rought or at least humility at the speed

with which a world can be transformed

from a good work into a hell Prince of

Persia the Sands of times chronology

warping mechanics were incredibly novel

back in 2003 helping cement it as an

instant PS2 classic and signaling return

to popularity for a series that had been

left in the 2D era but while SS of time

Supernatural approach formed the Bedrock

of a fantastic action adventure the game

as a whole is more significant for being

the foundation of ubisoft's modern-day

success while Sans of time received a

number of direct follow-ups ideas for a

proposed Prince of Persia sequel would

eventually morph into what would soon

become ub's Flagship series Assassin's

Creed wait I don't even know your name

just call me Co

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luia I'm Pete pikowski Jimmy Hopkins and

don't ask how I'm doing I've been here 5

minutes and already people want me dead

even my parents didn't hate me this

quickly bully comes from a time when

Rockstar would dominate the PS2 on an

annual basis a far cry from the seven

plus year weights we have now to suffer

through but while those long development

Cycles have their benefits Jimmy Hopkins

Miss Adventures through a year at Bull

North Academy are a prime example of

when the GTA developer would take risks

on smaller projects that offered unusual

spins on the Studio's trademark humor

and Larger than Life characters Hit Me

With Your Best

job rumors of a sequel have always

persisted and we certainly wouldn't say

no to another term of classes after GTA

6 drops in

2045 I said you could have fooled me

this place is full of bullies and

Maniacs nonsense that's just school

spirit

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kadari deashi was the cool artsy kids

favorite PlayStation 2 game before the

need to roll up famous IP and turn them

into AAA Blockbuster Games The Prince of

all Cosmos was rolling up everyday

objects into a larger and larger ball

and taking over the gaming world with it

Katamari deashi is emblematic of the

kind of MadCat video game ideas that we

don't really see from big studios these

days but were a regular blessing during

the PS2 era thankfully kadari dhi's

Legacy lives on in the quirky Indie

Games developed by those same cool artsy

kids who grew up playing

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it you must be the handyman who'll take

any dirty job am I correct I only take

special jobs if you know what I mean the

original devil cry was an ice cool

breath of fresh air when it slashed its

way onto the PS2 in 2001 Hideki kamya's

wild combination of lightning quick

combat and Demon slaying story conjured

up out of 700-year-old Italian poetry

was originally planned as an entry into

the Resident Evil series before Capcom

realized it might have been a little too

out there and just made it its own thing

instead one of history's most iconic

action series it effectively created the

character action genre the original DMC

has spawned multiple sequels but none

have made as big of an impact as Dante's

first outing

sword time to go to work

guys what you doing look around

you this is your

family oh my God one of the great gaming

tragedies is that Metal Gear Solid 5 the

phantom pain is likely hideo kima's last

metal gear game game ever but what a

game to go out on though it was the

series first fora into an open world the

phantom pain integrated almost all the

core mechanics from the previous games

refined into their most advanced evolved

iteration

fire though the Phantom Pain's trouble

development begins to show in its later

missions the momentto moment gameplay

truly feels like the perfected final

form of the Tactical Espionage action

kajima pioneered way back on the

original PlayStation the only language

left to me

Revenge soccer with cars possibly the

most chocolate and peanut butter

combination the games industry has seen

since Mario with carts rocket League

might not be the hited as today without

its success on PlayStation Plus rocket

league is fun as hell but it could have

very well been sted on entirely if not

for the huge influx of ps+ subscribers

who test drove it for free and

presumably told their friends while

rocket League arrived on the PS4 back in

2015 it gained and maintained enough

momentum to attract the attention of

Epic Games who acquired developer

psionics 4 years later and it's still

going strong

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today I'm a go ghost actually now I'm

your ghost and

you well you've been dead a long time

after making its mark on Xbox with the

HALO Series Bungie forged close ties

with PlayStation for its ambitious MMO

shooter Destiny while it may have been

multiplatform Destiny's timed exclusive

content drops on PS4 including an

all-important alpha test made it feel

like an exciting Sony experiment the

original Destiny is flawed but it was

the lab where Vault of Glass was born

The Raid that set Bungie on the path

towards both with Destiny 2 and its

wobbly multiplayer Crown the darkness is

coming

back we will not survive it this

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time kick punch it's all in the mind

those seven words have lived rentree in

the heads of an entire generation of

Gamers for almost three decades PaRappa

the Rapper was a huge part of

PlayStation's push for experimentation

in the PS1 era and again something we

just don't see enough of these days from

Big Publishers he might have been a two-

hit wonder in terms of games but

parappa's influence can't be overstated

the hip-hop Hound Pioneer the rhythm

game genre which Guitar Hero and rock

band built on years

later that's it for

today you are agent 47 the world's

finest professional Hitman Metal Gear

Solid may be considered the definitive

PlayStation stealth series but iio

interactives Hitman has a strong Legacy

dating back to the PS2 era and hey if

we're paying more attention to snake

maybe that means Agent 47 is actually

stealthier but either way it deserves

recognition now we could have picked any

of the Silent Assassin contracts or

blood money for this list but instead

we've opted for the much more recent

world of assassination the now combined

Trilogy of games that acts as the

mination of over a decade of playful

stealth Mastery io's huge opportunity

field levels act as immersive Clockwork

murder playgrounds these scripted

objectives always allow for amusingly

Creative kills but it's the death

scenarios you come up with yourself that

always prove the most rewarding and The

Gallows humor is always to die for

hidden in plain sight you are the

Ultimate

Weapon I want food that don't make me

sick I want walls that hold back the

wind I want a decent life a PS4 launch

game Black Flag showed how

transformative the eighth generation of

consoles could be for the Assassin's

Creed series now while the PS3 version

was still able to render the huge nearly

seamless Caribbean map the PS4 build did

all that with much more detail resulting

in beautiful ocean waves and Lush

vegetation arguably the best assassins

game to date its ambitious Land and Sea

open world lay the groundwork for the

Beloved Assassin's Creed Odyssey while

its environmental detail was echoed at

smaller denser scale in cult favorite

Assassin's Creed unity all things

considered I think it's turned out to be

a rather fortuitous day hasn't

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it what a pleasant surprise brother save

it you're no brother of mine don't say

you've forgotten me snake after the

success of the first Metal Gear Solid

expectations for hideo kojima's PS2

follow-up were immense but rather than

merely give fans a better version of

what they got in the first game gojima

trusted his vision and gave us well

something different though he made some

divisive choices like sidelining hero

Solid Snake in favor of newcomer Ryden

coima definitely delivered on bringing

Metal Gear Solid to the next generation

of PlayStation the visual and mechanical

improvements between the first and

second game were the kind of massive

leap we just don't see much anymore and

Metal Gear Solid 2 employed a number of

systems and features that have since

become commonplace in stealth Action

games as for the story say what you will

but there's no denying that Metal Gear

Solid 2's commentary on the information

age and AI was way ahead of its time and

is shockingly relevant even today Legend

a legend is nothing but fiction someone

tells it someone else remembers

everybody passes it

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on the PS3 was the major starting point

for online multiplayer on PlayStation

and while there are many examples of

great PVP games from that generation

that game company's Journey was easily

the most Innovative and Whimsical way of

showing how connections can form between

players a completely rless Adventure

players would encounter a mystery Co-op

partner and despite the complete lack of

communication they would navigate

Journey's ethereal world and uncover its

quietly impactful story together

creating a singular and Unforgettable

shared experience

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back in 1996 an orange marsupio spun his

way into our hearts when Crash Bandicoot

arrived on the original PlayStation

courtesy of a little studio called

Naughty Dog initially earmarked to be

Sony's answer to Mario and Sonic crash

has long since formed his very own

identity of Tom Foolery and wper fruit

Obsession he can still be seen regularly

smashing through crates and setting off

TNT boxes to this very day but even

though the lovable Bandicoot has since

appeared appeared on the majority of

video game platforms and is now

technically the intellectual property of

Microsoft he's still unquestionably a

PlayStation icon thanks to his explosive

shirtless debut on the

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PS1 there must be thousands of them we

will face

death and defend our home G of sushima

was the PS4's last big Harrah and few

consoles get to go out on such a high

Sucker Punch transported its open world

learnings from Infamous to feudal Japan

in astonishing style perhaps the most

purely cinematic of PlayStation's

Blockbusters ghost tow the story of Jin

sakai's quest for vengeance though its

superb sword combat was invigorating the

stunning scenery was as good a setting

for relaxing as it was for Revenge I'm

ready I'm going

we end this

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together despite many considering it to

be one of the best in the series Final

Fantasy 9 is often overshadowed as a

PlayStation classic by its older

siblings it also didn't help that it

arrived right at the tail end of the

console's lifespan falling to the

Wayside when the PlayStation 2 and Final

Fantasy 10 were on the horizon but this

welcome return to the series original

High fantasy storytelling demands your

respect a tale of political turmoil seen

Through The Eyes of a thief called

zidane its clever evolution of Siri

Staples and ability to tell multiple

concurrent powerful stories truly places

it shoulder-to-shoulder with the genres

Giants it's arguably one of the

strongest RPGs for the original

PlayStation and without question the

console's last big

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harah how does it feel Wayne to stand on

the very stones that ran with your paren

blood 2009's Batman Arkham Asylum was a

surprise hit with its intricate Metro

Vania action but it was Rock steady's

followup that truly blew the doors wide

apart as we were Unleashed to an open

world

Gotham why do you work alone

Batman the most notorious Rogues gallery

to Grace the PS3 clashes with the cape

Crusader as he races against time to

save the city from a thrilling plot that

has you second guessing at every turn

you cannot stop me soon I will come

demand forces beyond your comprehension

throw in an evolution of one of the most

influential melee combat systems

designed in recent memory and you've got

a fully fledged superhero fantasy youve

all people should know there's plenty

wrong with

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me vagrant story is a fantastic RPG with

a finally tuned battle system and

interesting puzzles but it's best

remembered for exploring new depths in

video game

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storytelling Square had already enjoyed

an incredible run of genre defining RPGs

on the original PlayStation but vagrant

stories Adventure through bindia

captured the hearts and minds of anyone

who walked in the shoes of Ashley Riot

our hero who is accus of a murder they

didn't commit perhaps the biggest crime

of all though is that we never got a

sequel we can fight this

together Marvel Spider-Man 2 is the

culmination of insomniac's web slinging

work so far taking the best bits of both

Peter Parker's and Miles Morales games

to create an amazing and truly

Sensational Adventure enture will silky

smooth swinging across a stunning New

York City a twisting comic book

storyline and exciting melee combat it

is yet another in a long line of Highly

polished releases from a studio that can

consider itself among PlayStation's most

prolific wasn't this city empty not too

long ago do you enjoy crying well maybe

we could interest you in a trip across

the zombie apocalypse with Lee and

Clementine and tell Tales The Walking

Dead Season one of this episodic Choose

Your Own Adventure saw the studio

working at the peak of its powers as

agonizing decision after agonizing

decision was placed in front of us on

the PS3 a tonally faithful expansion of

the post-apocalypse introduced in Robert

kirkman's seminal graphic novel series

Telltale spin reinvigorated the

adventure genre in 2012 and is to this

day probably the most upsetting video

game that involves cell-shaded zombies

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you hey take it easy

Amigo I left you pouring your heart out

into the gutter it is hard to even

articulate how hugely influential Grand

Theft Auto 3 was on vium without

Rockstar's original satire of New York

City the open world genre today simply

wouldn't exist GTA 3 catapulted the

previously top down Grand Theft Auto

series into a 3D world that felt

genuinely alive its streets packed with

Unforgettable characters and underpinned

by a mob movie in inspired narrative

that was as funny as it was compelling

throwing an unparalleled level of

Freedom allowing players to tackle

missions in different orders and

different ways plus the ability to steal

any car you saw in GTA 3's Liberty City

started a legacy that is still going

strong over 20 years later

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as part of the burgeoning relationship

between Final Fantasy and Playstation

series Creator honobu sakaguchi

conceived of a tactical spin-off for

Final Fantasy combining his beloved

role-playing series with a more

strategic genre he loved the result was

Final Fantasy Tactics a beautiful and

thoughtful tactical RPG for sure but it

also introduced the world of eies the

land which would go on to become the

setting for games like vagrant story and

Final Fantasy X

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a grimy fantasy dungeon Delver thick

with mystery and lore demon Soul's place

in the halls of PlayStation history is

secure thanks to being the starting

point of from software's Modern Legacy

it was the journey where we first rested

at bonfires to restore our health

summoned unknown strangers to Aid Us in

difficult boss battles and fought tooth

and nail to retrieve our Lost Souls

demon souls laid the foundation for

bigger and better games but that

shouldn't detract from its own

achievements particularly its evocative

environmental design thankfully it's all

been painstakingly restored and

handsomely preserved in Blue Points

fantastic PS5 remake

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the PS2 era God of War was a completely

different proposition to its character

Focus modern reinvention but what 2007's

God of War II may have lacked in Nuance

it made up for in scale ferocity and

excess chaining together combos with the

blades of Olympus Never Felt So Good as

ancient Greece's Gods fell at kratos's

sandal feet initially created as a

western answer to a genre popularized by

Japanese developers with this sequel God

of War secured its place in the Pantheon

of Great Character action

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games Chrono Trigger is widely regarded

as one of the greatest RPGs ever made

but its sequel is equally deserving of

Praise rather than simply rehash ideas

chronocross89

discover but more importantly its battle

system is completely overhauled mixing

real time and turn-based strategy to

create one of the deepest most

fulfilling RPG experiences of its

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time the beauty of Metal Gear Solid

Peace Walker is how hideo kajima really

emphasized the portable in PlayStation

Portable taking the stealth action

gameplay the series is known for Peace

Walker delivered bite-sized missions for

Big Boss to take on that could be

finished in a single commute to worker

school not only that but the big story

implications set up in peace Walker

makes this PSP outing a genuinely

important part of the metal gear

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storyline picking a favorite Guitar Hero

game is difficult because ultimately it

comes down to which ER span set list of

rock songs you most prefer to pretend

you were performing in front of 20,000

people sure Guitar Hero 2 had War Pigs

and Freebird but three had a killer

Edition that would become synonymous

with the series Dragon forces Through

the Fire and Flames it's impossible to

overstate just how much of a phenomenon

on Guitar Hero and its competitor rock

band were during the PS3 era but just

take a look at how many played to death

plastic guitars you'll find at your

local landfill and you'll get a pretty

good idea go on head over to the dump

I'll wait

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few games Define the original

PlayStation's cultural identity as

perfectly as Wipeout it's futuristic

heavily stylized aesthetic and techno

soundtrack were the epitome of Sony's

vision for PlayStation being a lifestyle

rather than just another games console

but beneath the Slick visuals was a

blisteringly fast racing game that

thanks to its anti-gravity Vehicles felt

completely different from anything that

had come before and everything that made

the original wipe out great is on Full

display in its successor Wipeout

2097 you go after them I'll hold them

off

here hey yeah good luck

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thanks when it comes to the history of

console multiplayer Tales of golden eye

on N64 and Halo on Xbox dominate the

split screen conversation but

PlayStation had its own FPS King that

deserves just as much respect time

Splitters 2o this was the essential PS2

shooter and almost certainly the reason

anyone owned the four-player multi-tap

peripheral its arcade mode provided

match after match of exciting showdowns

made all the more thrilling and esoteric

by the maps and the weapons that were

pulled from a whole host of different

time periods and genres

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BT got

you the original Titanfall was an XBox

exclusive without a campaign when its

sequel arrived on the PS4 with one of

the finest set of firstperson shooter

single player missions ever constructed

the series full potential was finally

realized toss in an exhilarating and

criminally underplayed multiplayer mode

to the mix and Titanfall 2 is not just

one of the best Shooters to appear on a

PlayStation console but one of the best

FPS games of all time and of course

because we can't have nice things we're

still waiting on Titanfall 3 what are

you

doing trust

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me look Sunny we were set up the deal

was an ambush after an 11year En

counting wait for Grand Theft Auto 6 to

arrive the thought of a Grand Theft Auto

sequel coming only one year after its

predecessor is unimaginable but it

happened back in 2002 with fan favorite

Grand Theft Auto Vice City promptly

arriving 12 months after GTA 3 and it

wasn't a quick and dirty spin-off either

or a half-baked expansion pack Vice City

was a Triumph that took everything its

predecessor had to offer and improved it

the characters were better the

storytelling stronger and the decision

to create an 80 set o to Scarface set in

a fictionalized Miami was inspired

opening the doors for an incredible

soundtrack and exciting visual flare

Grand Theft Auto 3 may have laid the

foundation but Vice City coated it with

irresistible style and a whole lot of a

neon that's a good idea that's a great

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idea it may have taken nearly 30 years

but Sony finally made a mascot

platformer to rival the likes of

Nintendo's Mario it's the most recent

game on this list but it's there for a

reason astrobot is a consistently

inventive joy ride through PlayStation

history paying homage to dozens of other

games on this list even if you don't

have five console Generations worth of

nostalgia for PlayStation it's a joy

beautiful audio visual showcase that

fully Embraces the quirks of the ps5s

Dual sense controller instantly one of

the console's best games its Legacy will

surely only grow over

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time there would be no Uncharted without

Tomb Raider in fact it's hard to imagine

what action adventure games would look

like without L's first outing hitting

the PlayStation in 1996 it's often

considered the first game to approach

storytelling in a truly cinematic manner

an Outlook Sony would adopt for decades

to come it may be a little unwieldy to

play at this point in time but there's

no denying the original tomb Raiders

impact

so are you ready to seek your fortune

speaking of Uncharted Uncharted 4 a

thief's end saw Nathan Drake contending

with the prospect of retirement

attempting and then failing Miser to

resist the call of Adventure an odyssey

into not just the darkest dungeons but

also the minds and fraying relationships

of its lead characters Uncharted 4 was

as human as Drake has ever appeared and

a reflection of the evolution of naughty

dog as a studio that didn't stop it from

doing what the series is best known for

though delivering Blockbuster bursts of

action the Madagascar Chase sequence

still Reigns as one of the most dynamic

sequences ever experienced through a

dual shot controller this Bittersweet

closing chapter serves as the perfect

ending for one of PlayStation's most

beloved series at least for now is going

to be

close it's that all you've got little

Android in order to fully uncover the

secrets of the wild ride that is 2017's

near aoma you'll need to play through it

three times that would seem like a chore

for most games but Platinum games'

one-of-a-kind exercise in narrative

structure makes that Journey thrilling

from start to finish tasked with saving

a post-war planet from machine forces

it's as dynamic as it is compelling

packed start to finish with varied

gameplay approaches that range from

third person hack and slash action to

top- down bullet held battles it's

exactly the sort of exciting experiment

synonymous with the PS1 era making near

automa a perfect fit for this list it

was an honor to fight with you truly

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crash bang

wallow Criterion for Out 3 take down

looked at what pfy was doing with

simulation racing in Gran Turismo and

took things as far to the other side of

the spectrum as possible with just as

much emphasis placed on ramming into

your Rivals as speeding past them

driving games have really been as fun as

they were in takedown on the PS2 and

that's without even mentioning crash

mode an altimer of a mode designed

around creating the biggest recks

possible

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you cover your face but I know who you

are Emily calwin if Clockwork like

intricacy and artistic Elegance is what

you're searching for in a game then look

no further than arcane's beautiful

Supernatural assassin Sim Dishonored 2

this PlayStation friendly gateway to the

player-driven ideals of early 2000s PC

gaming is packed with wickedly Smart

Level design in which targets can be

attacked and approached in any way you

see fit going stealthy or stabby is just

the first choice and Dishonored to's

World reacts appropriately to every

single decision you make while

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playing there's a reason why Clover

Studio is remembered so fondly even

decades after it was disbanded the

Capcom subsidiary behind games like

Beautiful Joe and godand created some of

the most wildly creative and beautiful

games for the PlayStation but none of

its titles are quite so beloved as Okami

the cell-shaded art style that renders

mythological Japan will be forever

beautiful and the iconic paintbrush

mechanic that brings brush Strokes to

life still feels like pure magic we miss

you everyday Clover Studio

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although Tony Hawk's Pro Skater made an

important mark on Playstation it's the

sequel that took the series to the next

level birthing the generation of extreme

sports video games that followed where

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 excels is its

ability to push Beyond being an

excellent sports game it established a

reasonably complex formula of combos

puzzles and collectibles all wrapped up

within a 2minute time constraint it

demands to be endlessly replayed and

when you're doing that in some of the

most iconic locations ever committed to

a sports game it's hard to resist Tony

Hawk Pro sker 2 vitally helped extend

the combo by adding in the frankly

essential manual system incorporating

some vastly improved level design and

including one of the most iconic game

soundtracks all of which helped cement

its Legacy as an extremely good extreme

sports

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game listen to my story

this may be our last chance Final

Fantasy 10 is perhaps the best example

of how the ps2's DVD drive

revolutionized console gaming thanks to

the disc's vastly higher storage

capacity Final Fantasy 10 was able to be

both the First full 3d and fully voiced

game in the series resulting in an

experience notably more cinematic than

its PS1 predecessors combined with

dozens of beautifully rendered cutscenes

Final Fantasy 10 story is granted an

enhanced level of emotion and intimacy a

vital thing considering the romance

between characters Titus and Yuna that

acts as the game's Soulful heart this

along with Rock Solid turn-based combat

and a bright fascinating world makes

titus's Journey arguably the last truly

essential Final Fantasy game and that's

no laughing

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matter it's no surprise Nintendo was the

dominant console for jrpgs during the

early 90s but when PlayStation launched

the landscape changed dramatically this

was in part due to Square's Final

Fantasy and Chrono series coming to

Sony's console but also konami's beloved

Soden games their storytelling

especially in suen 2 was a notable

highlight filled with depth emotion and

character so wonderfully realized you

couldn't help but fall in love with them

it's those connections that make Su and

2 as fondly remembered today as it was

25 years ago

what is this wow what a mansion it's

hard to imagine what video game horror

would look like without the arrival of

Resident Evil the first in the long

running and extremely successful series

debuted on Playstation in 1996 letting

players explore the zombie infested

puzzle fielded Spencer Mansion although

primitive by today's standards Resident

Evil set the mold for everything that

followed the isolation the limited

resources the Relentless sense of dread

and of course jump

scares the formula has been regularly

improved upon and the original is

arguably weaker than most of its sequels

but none of raccoon City's later highs

would have been possible without the

progenitor its importance to the genre

and Playstation is

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unquestionable no one wants to admit it

but humanity is under

attack Mass Effect 2's achievements are

well known with its s tier companions an

unrivaled sense of urgency in its story

and reactive decision-making its

bioware's finest Hour less documented

though is Mass Effect 2's journey to

PlayStation during which the series

Broke Free from the shackles of

Microsoft exclusivity a year after the

game's launch on Xbox 360 PS3 players

were asked to jump into the middle

chapter of a Trilogy without having

played its predecessor using an

interactive comic to catch up on the

story it was an awkward transition but

one players happily endured in order to

play one of the best RPGs ever

made both Street Fighter and Mortal

Combat dominated the fighting game space

in the 90s but neither was synonymous

with the PlayStation brand in quite the

same way as Tekken the new upand comer

that along with virtu fighter

established and cemented the 3D fighter

there are many contenders for the best

Tekken game on PlayStation and we'd

especially like to shout out PlayStation

2's launch game Tekken Tag Tournament

but for our money Tekken 3 the first

outing for legendary characters like jyn

Kazama and Eddie Gordo will always stand

tall as the true king of the Iron Fist

tournament round one

fight well I recognize that Dar

expression anywhere it was no easy task

for Sony Santa Monica to follow up its

2018 North Masterpiece but with God of

War Ragnarok it succeeded to Almighty

effect while not telling as tight a

story The sprawling PS5 sequel evolved

kratos's bone crushing combat even

further adding a creative new weapon to

his Arsenal that reflected his past life

in a poignant yet delightfully brutal

manner dealing with everything from

familial friction to the literal end of

the world the ambition on show is

staggering making it all the more

impressive that it pulled it off and

remains one of this generation's finest

games

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just take a quick glance at one of its

eye-catching menus or listen to five

seconds of its Acid Jazz soundtrack and

you'll quickly realize that no

PlayStation game possesses more style

than Persona 5 Royal a 100 hour roller

coaster ride through Modern Tokyo and

its darker parallel metaverse the Royal

version enhances the original Persona 5

by adding an extra chapter and gameplay

tweaks to an already Stellar RPG it's a

flashy fun foray into the hearts of the

worst people encountered by the Phantom

thieves a group of teenagers pulling off

Inception like Heist using monsters

pocketed along the way your gang of

heroes must do all that while also

managing the delicate bonds created in

its high school setting incredibly

exciting from start to finish it

cemented Atlas as one of the all-time

great RPG

Studios such as the code of the Phantom

Fe why you can lose

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with the gallon Knight protects the

princess

Fair remake Resident Evil 2 sure why not

Resident Evil 3 haven't seen that one

for a while but remaking Resident Evil 4

doesn't that feel too soon isn't

Resident Evil 4 already perfect well it

turns out you can teach an old dog new

tricks Capcom decided to tackle the

seemingly imp possible task of remaking

one of the greatest video games of all

time rather than a beat for beat remake

Capcom took some ingenious liberties

with re4 doubling down in the horror and

losing some of the campier elements of

the original it still strikes that

perfect balance between scares and

action but the PlayStation 2 horror

classic may just have been usurped with

its newest

edition this is kind of

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fun oh sh

here we go again another Grand Theft

Auto entry finds its way onto this list

GTA San Andreas displayed a new level of

ambition from Rockstar as it look to

evolve the open World Series in the

ps2's Twilight years a mammoth-sized map

for the mid-2000s included three entire

cities and miles of Countryside in

between with every square inch of it

acting as a playground for CJ Johnson as

he navigated the gang Warfare and police

corruption plaguing his home state you

haven't forgotten about us have you boy

hell no officer Tamp peny I was just

wondering what took y'all so long

experimenting with new life simes

mechanics and a satirization of more

mature topics amongst the [ __ ] costumes

and comical dildo fights it signaled the

direction that Rockstar would take as it

moved into the HD generation

Drive these next tests require

cooperation consequently they have never

been solved by a human

that's where you come in tucked away in

2007's Orange Box bundle was a small

scale interdimensional puzzle game

called portal it was fun created a few

memes had a great song and a story

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right well for Portal 2 developer valve

decided a fun distraction wasn't enough

along with a much more comprehensive

story and more ingenious puzzles for the

sequel valve doubled down on the fun

with one of the best co-op modes ever

made for a puzzle game or any game for

that

matter don't disappoint

me 30 seconds going dark Call of Duty's

first Venture into a contemporary

setting couldn't have gone much better a

memorable Globe trotting campaign packed

with instant classic missions such as

all ghillied up combined with a

multiplayer Suite of maps in an online

progression system that would go on to

define a generation of Shooters Modern

Warfare changed the game when it burst

onto the PS3 in

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2007 Silent Hill was always the David

Lynch to resident Evil's George Romero

the PlayStation's other iconic horror

franchise prided itself on taking pure

horror gaming as far as it could go and

with Salen Hill 2 Konami created an

unrelenting nightmare of a game

everything about Silent Hill 2 from its

creatures to horrible locations was

meant to fill you with overwhelming

dread forget power fantasy this is the

game that forces you to take several

deep breaths and calm your nerves before

you push open the doors to some new

horrifying location get the hell out of

here leave me alone already

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Demon Souls may have been the first

flame for from software's Rise but Dark

Souls was where it truly set the bonfire

Ablaze while the two share many

similarities Dark Souls left the level

likee structure of its predecessor

behind in favor of a fully

interconnected

world the result is a physical place

that's as mysterious and surprising as

its deep and naughty backstory and just

as difficult to work through foes like

orstein and SM are still spoken about in

hallowed tones now fromsoft has since

made better games but it's hard to argue

against Dark Souls being the Studio's

most significant

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achievement it's easy to forget just how

huge the Gran Turismo series is the

third game Gran Turismo 3 asec was the

bestselling exclusive on the bestselling

console of all time with over 14 million

copies be sold the PS2 racing Sim blew

people away at the time with unmatched

graphical power attention to detail and

authentic car handle what could so

easily be an overwhelming experience for

those used to the arcade Rough and

Tumble of Need for Speed Gran Turismo 3

managed to lure in even the most casual

of fans thanks to its intelligently

designed progression system that ranged

from fun test track challenges to

concentration testing and multi-hour

endurance races in an era when driving

games were all rage ASC created an

unmatched Legacy coming out on top as

the best of the

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bunch Persona 4 Golden was for many in

the west their first exposure to the

Beloved jrpg series an enhanced version

of the 2008 original first seen on the

PS2 Persona 4 Golden managed to

successfully balance the series

trademark tone of high school Antics

with darker issues that plague our world

all while going on the hunt for a serial

killer plaguing a rural Japanese town

the elemental rock paper scissors

inspired turn-based combat was a

fantastic Stepping Stone from the likes

of Pokemon into a realm of more mature

RPGs which was brought to life with an

unforgettable cast of characters that

coupled with an earworm of a soundtrack

and a distinct visual style make Persona

4 Golden Hands Down the best game

released for the PlayStation VA Sony's

High powerered handheld might not have

been a commercial hit but it did

introduce many to the Persona series and

for that it deserves all the praise in

the

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world few games have had as much of an

impact on RPG design as The Witcher 3

wild Hunt CD project Red's Landmark

fantasy epic practically reinvents the

side quest transforming optional

Adventures from extracurricular busy

work into complex twisty narratives that

were as deep and essential as any main

chapter geralt side hustles add a unique

richness to the overarching story

coloring between the grimy lines as each

tale overlaps and intertwines making the

game's famous choices and their often

devastating consequences all the more

powerful you really do feel the world

and its people people move with each

decision you

make The Witcher 3 is unquestionably the

greatest RPG in the PS4 library but its

position as such is such a fascinating

indicator of change PlayStation's RPG

history is primarily a Japanese story

told by the likes of squaresoft and

Konami but the 2010 saw more and more

traditionally PC focused Western

developers bringing their RPGs to

console the fact that wild Hunt the

final chapter in a PC game TR Trilogy

was able to prove such a massive

succcess on Playstation is a testament

to its revolutionary roleplay

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design it's hard to think of a game more

ahead of its time than Metal Gear Solid

3 Snake Eater reframing the Espionage

action series as a 60 set James Bond

style Behind Enemy Lines Mission its

intricate stealth and camouflage systems

bold cinematic flourishes and unmatched

boss design make its release on the PS2

seem like a miracle for 2004 naked

snake's Journey Through the Soviet

jungle manages to balance moments of

genuine emotional weight best showcased

by his final showdown with former Mentor

the boss with points of frivolity and

experimentation an indulgent theme song

crocodile headwear and of of course a

famously long ladder sequence just to

name a few however it's in those

game-changing Boss Designs that Snake

Eater truly shines the multiple

ingenious ways you can take down elderly

sniper the end the thrilling Shaga Chase

and vulgan Showdown and of course the

stunning surroundings of that

aformentioned encounter with the boss

Snake Eater was a masterpiece at the

time of its release and remains one to

this day so it's quite a relief that the

upcoming remake is barely changing a

thing about it

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the Castlevania Series has always

provided fun sidescrolling action games

but with Symphony of the Night it was no

longer just a game where you ran from

left to right the game setting of

Dracula's castle is instead one

open-ended map for protagonist alukard

to freely explore with all four

directions demanding equal attention

while heavily inspired by Super Metroid

Symphony of the Night made its own

important contributions to a genre it

would go on to co-headline from the

shifting map to adding RPG light

experiences conquering this giant puzzle

of a map as it twists and turns

throughout the story immediately puts

into perspective just what a Monumental

accomplishment Symphony of the Night

turned out to be I'll guide you to meet

your

destiny as PlayStation entered the 3D

era Symphony of the Night arrived in the

darkness as a true swan song to 2D

gaming and the triumphant start of the

Metro Vania genre praise be to Goji

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gashi the biggest surprise in Elden ring

might just be how similar it is to pass

from software games but don't let the

time tested combat and epic boss battles

fool you Elden ring is a Monumental

achievement and a true Evolution that

Rose from the primordial RPG soup Demon

Souls served up on PS3 every corner of

its massive open world holds some kind

of new secret boss fight or dungeon and

the freedom it extends the players feels

downright radical compared to other open

world RPGs must

extinguish thy flame while some games

have a fear that players might get lost

without some sort of invisible guidance

Elden ring provides players with a few

specs of light to point them in the

approximate right direction but

otherwise lets them loose unto its

magnificent playground pick a direction

encounter a boss fight that's too hard

change directions and then you find an

even harder boss it's

great I have to finish

it violent sad scary and irrepressibly

Grim The Last of Us Part Two isn't best

described as a fun time

but it is a phenomenally powerful one

2020s ell Leed sequel to one of the most

recognizable games of all time took us

to the Rainy overgrown streets of

Seattle on a trip that spirals through

all seven layers of

Hell naughty dog's most intricate combat

system to date delivers fast and

energetic stealth combat that's far

superior to its comparatively clunky

predecessor infected and humans alike

are dispatched with difficult watch

ferocity Ellie has had to grow up a lot

in the time between this and the PS3

original and both the gameplay and story

brutally reflect the harsh realities of

her world but it's the introduction of

Abby that is part 2's Master stroke her

perspective into this post-apocalyptic

America is initially jarring but it

proves to be a prime example of how to

play with split narratives in the medium

you may not enjoy the outcome this isn't

a story that presents good and bad as a

clearly defined concept but it's a

wholly ambitious swing from a studio

that's willing to push the borders on

what is expected from a video

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game there are many contenders for the

best entry in the Resident Evil series

but our vote emphatically goes to the

2019 remake of Resident Evil 2 the

original Resident Evil 2 took everything

successful about the survival horror

formula established by its older sibling

and refined it the locations were

creepier the enemies more menacing and

the scares were bigger and batter what

the hell is that the adventures of Leon

and CLA in Raccoon City not only became

a benchmark for Resident Evil but also

set the standard for a Playstation

Blockbuster but in every way that 1998's

Resident Evil 2 improved on its

predecessor the Remake also replicated

in kind it's a prime example of how to

take an older game and reanimate it for

a new generation of players pioneering a

new generation of scares that are often

imitated but rarely equaled Resident

Evil 2 sits at top the pile when it

comes to one of PlayStation's most

famous series

the future of Boulders gate hangs in the

balance will you be the hero and save it

from looming

Darkness perhaps it's bold of us to put

balers Gate 3 in the top 10 with its

complex character menus and fiddly

inventory screens Lan's Dungeons and

Dragons Adventure is clearly a died in

the wool PC game but there's no getting

away from the simple fact that while

balers Gate 3 is far from a classic

PlayStation game it is undoubtedly one

of the very best games you can play on

Sony's current machine a Monumental

achievement in RPG design balers Gates

World reacts to your every single

decision be that something as simple as

a little white lie or as devilishly

Grand as slaughtering an entire

population also chaos in your

way the physical and emotional impact of

those choices can be felt across the

entire Journey shaping the character

arcs of your companions and adjusting

the trajectory of the Epic finale and by

painstakingly translating the D and D

rule book into video form larion ensures

battle is just as malleable as its

storylines dozens and dozens of skills

abilities and weapon options means you

can mold each character into the warrior

of your choosing and devise creative

strategies to decimate your foes few

experiences f as bespoke to you as

balers Gate 3 and that's why this

traditionally PC experience deserves to

live alongside PlayStation's Heavy

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Hitters beyond all the crime Cinema

homages and wanton violence the Grand

Theft Auto series has been an exercise

in perfecting the urban open World

Rockstar finally nailed it of GTA 5's

Los Santos a digital City that feels

authentically alive in the campaign the

streets heartbeat comes courtesy of the

series most accomplished Mission chain

which combines the character study

Narrative of GTA 4 with the wild

objective variety of San andreus the

ambitious character switching mechanic

gels perfectly with the story's Heist

Focus pivoting the action between the

team's specializations as each job

demands but as good as the campaign is

it's GTA 5's multiplayer mode that

captured the imagination of millions

taken online Los Santos becomes a crime

playground where it's the purge every

day superficially GTA online is a

collection of PVP modes with a constant

trickle of seasonal content to the

people who walk at streets though it's a

community stomping ground where

friendships are forged rivalry sparked

and dominance achieve multiplayer heists

provide a taste of that Rockstar single

player storytelling magic but it's the

emergent Tales spun by players that make

GTA online an enduring

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favorite it's not hyperbole to say that

Uncharted 2 among Thieves charted the

course for the next 15 years of

PlayStation history its predecessor

built solid if unspectacular foundations

but it's in Nathan Drake's Himalayan

Adventure that he really found his

footing it's ironic in some ways then

that it took him hanging off the end of

a derailed Mountainside train for him to

do that for many among Thieves Remains

the apex of the Uncharted series

although just as many would argue in

favor of a thief's in but there's no

doubt that two is the most

impactful its explosive dedication to

delivering Blockbuster cinematic action

with spark A Fire Inside Sony to make

single player stories like this their

focus for a decade and a half to come

naughty dog's PS3 Legacy can be seen in

everything from God of War to Ghost of

sushima to Horizon zero Dawn arguably

PlayStation's most important Studio the

real strength of naughty dog's

achievements began here with Uncharted

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2 ladies and gentlemen this is a robbery

sons of

Dutch makes us Brothers the highest

ranking multi-platform game on our list

Red Dead Redemption 2 saw Rockstar hit

its greatest creative Heights following

a chain of success that had been tied to

the PlayStation since the PS2 offering

unparalleled Emer into the American West

at the turn of the 20th century the

Fateful tale of Arthur Morgan is

arguably still the best looking game on

a PlayStation console despite having

been released on a past Generations

Hardware in

2018 but Red Dead Redemption 2 is so

much more than just a technical

achievement it is an open world

developer firing on all cylinders

inviting you to get lost in its land

full of quirky characters genuinely

worthwhile side activities and of course

an impeccably told story

only the feeblest of men take jobs in

the

government with the devilishly

charismatic Dutch vanderland operating

as his foil Arthur steals the hearts of

any who controls him making us cherish

each and every moment spent walking in

his shoes a world weary man with a

violent past looking to usher in a

brighter future for those close to him

he's brilliantly reflective of the time

and place he lives in managing to tell

such an engaging and affecting tail in

as huge an open world setting as this is

an art form in its own right and through

Red Dead Redemption 2 Rockstar showed us

why it's the master of its

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craft stay with

me you have to love yourself

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AAR in comparison to the new and

exciting remake project the original

Final Fantasy 7 looks little quaint The

Winds of time and technological progress

will do that but this Landmark Japanese

RPG was a GameChanger for Sony not only

did it see the developer squaresoft

defect from Nintendo in order to use the

power of the PlayStation to create the

first ever 3D Final Fantasy it also

communicated that Sony's console could

deliver much more than just arcade and

sports games on your TV Final Fantasy 7

showed everyone that PlayStation was the

new home of Epic Adventures delivered on

multiple discs those achievements may be

a thing of the past now but Final

Fantasy 7's Legacy endures because of

the elements that refuse to age its cast

of detailed emotionally driven

characters develop over the course of a

journey that balances personal Stakes

against the backdrop of a luming

apocalypse similar balance is found in

tone this is a game with weight and heft

that thrives on idiosyncrasies a variety

of bizarre enemies comedic mini gamess

and absurdly sized swords it's this

combination of light and dark that make

Final Fantasy 7 such an enduring

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classic you have no

idea what loss

is Naughty Dogs games have always been a

sign of changing times for PlayStation

shifting from mascot Platformers to

action games to cinematic adventures The

Last of Us is the shining example of

that latter phas a game that took the

interactive movie Ambitions of Uncharted

and grounded them in a compelling

character drama exploring the surrogate

fatherdaughter relationship between Joel

and Ellie the increasingly distressing

circumstances of the post-apocalypse

setting help drill deep into raw

emotions and personality flaws the

script elevated to Classic status thanks

to Performance by Troy Baker and Ashley

Johnson is smaller scale and less

ambitious than its sequel but has proven

more enduring in the minds of Gamers

thanks to its focus on the relationship

between its Central

Duo many of its achievements are

admittedly found in its movie great

cutscenes but the last of us wouldn't

rank so highly on this list if it

weren't for the way Naughty Dog entwined

its narrative and gameplay goals the

survival horror inspired gameplay

communicates a sense of desperation be

that in the constant search for supplies

DIY equipment or the messy struggle that

is

melee while Ellie is technically

invulnerable to damage combat triggers a

guardian likee rage inside of you a

feeling that pays off to tremendous

effect when it comes to the muddy

morality behind its final Act Joel I can

handle myself it's called luck and it is

going to run out

taking down giant bosses in a fantasy

world is meant to be fun and yes there's

a certain amount of glowing satisfaction

to be found in clamoring up one of

shadow of the colossus's many skyscraper

sized creatures but it's the distressing

emotive response that's triggered by

plunging wander blade into the creatures

weak spots that makes team M's

Masterpiece so special as black liquid

spurts into the sky and the Monsters

dying breaths chase you it's not Joy but

sadness that sweeps the screen

Conquering the colossi is pretty much

Melancholia defined team io's second

fantasy world is sparse yet haunting

largely empty apart from the hulking

figures that call it screen Fields

treacherous deserts and vast Lakes home

each one is a delicate puzzle waiting to

be unlocked the battles proving to be

enigmas that demand the use of brain

over braa this artistic poetic approach

creates a singular piece of work only

enhanced by the stunning PS4 remake that

arrived 13 years after the original

first lumbered onto the PS2 you may have

some regrets following your in-game

actions in Shadow of the Colossus but

you'll certainly be left with none about

experiencing it

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at first glance bloodborne is another

great souls-like RPG from the studio

that created the genre but look a little

deeper and you'll find something truly

Sinister running through its veins yes

the boss fights are Supreme and the

level design is tremendous but there are

dark and old Secrets hidden all

throughout bloodborne the way the game

unravels set secrets for the player is

the true Majesty of from software's

PlayStation 4 Magnum Opus this isn't

just a game with hidden treasure chest

behind disappearing walls taking direct

inspiration from author HP Lovecraft

from software took the concepts of

Arcane knowledge and eldrich horror and

translated them beautifully into video

game form parts of bloodborne don't even

reveal themselves to player until they

gain a certain amount of insight which

can only be revealed from encounter

bloodborne's most horrifying and

beautiful sites bloodborne isn't just

action RPG greatness it's pure

interactive

literature he doesn't know does

he about your true nature or his own

the peak of modern PlayStation 2018s God

of War is the quintessential cinematic

Blockbuster that defines Sony's first

party pedigree Santa Monica Studio's

Masterpiece acts as not just the

reinvention of a series but also the

reinvention of a beloved character slow

down your haste will cost us it takes

Kratos on a journey as heart-wrenching

as it is heads spitting the combat is

fierce and the performances Nuance

something perfectly exemplified in the

unforgettable sequence when the exiled

Spartan recovers his long buried blades

a moment that draws you in emotionally

before bursting into a fiery frenzy of

violence it's all elegantly woven into a

tale that all elegantly woven into a

tale that tells a profoundly human story

in its beautiful god-filled mythological

world all anchored by a seamless never

cutting camera that makes sure you never

miss a beat a Monumental achievement in

both narrative construction and game

design is PlayStation's best game of

this

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the word PlayStation has become

synonymous with a very particular kind

of game a singleplayer blockbuster that

definitely weaves together cinematic

storytelling with smart accessible

gameplay mechanics while that reputation

was truly solidified during the PS3 era

its roots go right back to 1998 and the

original PlayStation's most enduring

Masterpiece Metal Gear

Solid director hadel Kima brought his

Cinema Obsession to the console through

a dramatic Espionage story that

frequently sacrificed playtime in order

to examine its characters through

lengthy well-performed dialogue

sequences but it looks like our little

diversion got their attention now is

your best chance to slip in unnoticed

despite its playful often times metatone

Metal Gear Solid explores the

theoretical real world consequences of

nuclear aggression with genuine insight

delving into subject that remain as

essential today as they did in the late

'90s between the codec calls though are

Metal Gear Solid strongest achievements

we can't forget its all important Vision

col revealing radar which enables a

brilliant stealth experience in which

Bond likee gambits are easily planned

and executed but its true highlight are

the bosses each a perfectly executed

duel with its own bespoke mechanics the

fan favored of course being psycho

mantis whose mind reading powers gave

players a start and whose input

inverting Powers could only be overcome

by switching controller ports but really

every single one of Metar solids wild

Rogues Gallery is a special showdown in

its own right there are arguments to be

made that later Metal Gear Solid entries

went on to offer better experiences but

despite their respective achievements

none of them nor any other game on this

list are anywhere close to being as

truly revolutionary memorable or

timeless as the original Metal Gear

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to the 2024 game awards for the next

half hour we'll be breaking down what we

expect to see at the celebration of all

things gaming now every year the game

awards honors the best in gaming and

celebrates the people who make them but

it's also a huge event for brand new

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here to help me unpack everything we

might see tonight are my co-hosts Jay

Griffin Nick lemon and alak welcome

everyone everybody hit us with some uh

rapid fire predictions real quick one

one uh I want to see devil M cry 6 I

would love to see a Final Fantasy 9

remaster yes uh and I just want to see

more Monster Hunter Wilds that's coming

soon I think that's likely Nick I see

you chat I'm right there with you

halflife three let's go let's make it

happen I simultaneously think that

sounds crazy but also really want it to

happen so we'll see I really want it to

happen too I'm with you on that one for

me Resident Evil 9 I think that's I

think there's a good possibility too we

know that's coming from Capcom so I

think I think that's four years ago 2020

yes 2020 um the hit Mev talked about

project 007 so maybe some golden eye

that has been a long time coming as well

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plusus all right let's kick things off

with some of the biggest reveals we

expect to see at tonight's show let's

get right into it Borderlands 4 we know

is going to be here uh this is we we got

a teaser trailer earlier this year with

with you know just the reveal I think

we're going to get a gameplay reveal

Borderlands 4 what would we want to see

from Borderlands 4 Borderlands 3 is the

best selling Borderlands game so far so

it did very well the movie didn't do so

hot but they want to move fast that put

it behind them mhm what do you want to

see from Borderlands 4 I want to see the

characters the characters is what makes

Borderlands we've got some fantastic

casts throughout all the previous games

I just want to see who they are and I

want to know which siren I get to play

as this time cuz it's always the siren

for me sure Nick we've talked about in

Games scoop how uh sometimes we get

annoyed with with bullet sponge enemies

and Borderlands has those yeah it is I

think the quintessential example of hey

if is the difficulty up just a nudge

then this enemy is going to take a r of

bullets before they get put down but

that said I do think Borderlands U you

know I might not be the biggest fans of

the Borderlands franchise but I am a big

fan of how they do weapons they are very

creative with what they do with the

weapons and I'm hoping to see something

just as impressive yeah oh yeah you fan

of the Borderlands franchise got to play

it I really enjoyed uh Borderlands 2 I

specifically have a lot of memories with

my brothers playing that one so for

Borderlands 4 just thinking of the

teaser that they launched a few months

ago I just want to see what that planet

is the plan that is being crashed into

that whole dimension multi-dimension

thing we got going on in that trailer I

just want to see what's going on there

and have them explain it yeah I was also

a big fan of Borderland 2 and it's been

it's been I think Borderland 3 is 2019 I

want to say so and like so many

spin-offs later yeah it's been a minute

I I I feel I'm ready I'm ready to return

to Borderlands I'll play another

Borderlands let's do it we also know uh

I think there's been one leak so far

this year only one which is pretty good

several leaks the the Mafia the old

country releas a trailer uh leaked ahead

of time with the release window of I

think summer 2025 interesting uh to be

getting a new mafia game in the same

year as a new Grand Theft Auto yeah but

I mean I think it's going to really set

itself apart with its just kind of

location and environments that we're

going to get with Mafia the old country

compared to what we're expecting in GTA

6 which is pseudo Florida um and so and

what I can see from our community and

chat and anytime this game has been

brought up they are extremely hyped for

Mafia old country this I think this game

is going to be a major surprise and

shake up in 2025 Nick or either of you

Mafia fans yeah I like Mafia I think um

it kind of sets it uh sets itself apart

from Grand Theft Auto by being very

selfs serious but in a good way it is

very Godfather esque and um I think with

the old country going back to the old

country it is going to be evocative of

the best Godfather Part Two so uh that

should be an exciting time this will

probably be the game that throws me into

the criminal underworld in the video

games uh with this Mafia I've seen it

many times I've seen people have so much

fun with it I know they it has a huge

fandom and I've always been attracted to

it I've seen it this might be the one

that makes me play it all right it's

well documented um Jeff key and hideo

kajima have a a friendship in Kim yep

it's true I know kajima often makes

appearances at the game awards and he is

confirmed to be making appearance

tonight so of the projects that he's

working on death stranding to OD and

Fant what do we think we like to see

this evening I mean I think we're most

likely to see death stranding 2 on the

beach but I would love to see more of OD

that's the one I has me most excited or

in intrigued I guess is the right word

OD was shown at the game awards last

year and there's I don't think there's

been any updates on it since but this is

something he's working with Xbox on I

believe and Jordan Peele yeah that's

right yeah I'm really intrigued by the

cloud they said they were working on the

cloud uh with with Xbox and I I was

thinking back on the metal gear solids

when coima was working on them and how

they kind of messed with the player a

little bit so I'm wondering how they're

going to use that cloud technology to

mess with the player since OD is a scary

it's meant to be a horror game could you

potentially receive phone calls text

messages through the cloud system to

scare you and immerse you into the game

I don't know transf faring is coming

back the PSP it's coming back baby for

death stranding two do I think a release

date I I think we got to get a release

at this point I feel like we've seen so

much of the game and I believe you

mentioned that in the Tokyo game show

they teas that we would be seeing uh or

hearing more about a release date for

death stranding 2 and at this point I

don't need to see more from the game I

just want to know when I'll be able to

play it on my PlayStation 5 Pro they

said soon four months ago so this could

be the soon it should be soon it should

be soon I'm expecting at least a release

window like a a a season I think spring

2025 call you think it's that that that

soon I'm calling I'm shooting my shot

the only reason why I don't say we get a

date is because so many people are

afraid of GTA 6 right now and don't

think death stranding is that same kind

of competitor but I think they're still

going to play it safe yeah it is true

going into next year I think everyone

will be waiting to see when GTA 6 uh

lands on its release date because no one

wants to be anywhere near that very true

what about Fant this is the game that

kajima is working on with Sony Pictures

I believe and it's supposed to be the

spiritual successor to Metal Gear yeah I

mean I as a gigantic Metal Gear fan this

is the one that I'm most interested in

just because gojima Metal Gear you know

he parted with with Konami on not

amicable terms so seeing him return to

the Tactical Espionage action is going

to be super exciting and now it sounds

like it's going to be tactical Espionage

fashion action because I know fashion is

going to be one of the big major 10 Poes

for whatever Fant ends up being and

fashion is doing big right now Infinity

Nikki just dropped it's got major fans

10 million downloads already so

microtransactions inant confirmed

question mark you do let us know

all right let's think about Bethesda

Todd Howard is presenting tonight he's

got um Doom the Dark Ages coming earlier

next year I think uh a new look at Doom

is is reasonable I would love more Doom

Dark Ages that game looks fire yeah and

I think just writing the momentum of the

high that is in Deana Jones I think

bethesda's you know getting its feet

under them again as I know it was Todd

Howard's like secret project that it was

like his precious little baby so I could

see him being the face of just

you know on not only Bethesda but ID

software and machine games obviously so

yeah I think I think it makes sense I

hope they do show us a little bit more

of doomed to Dark Ages is one of my

favorite games from the last years that

I've played and I need to see Doom

Slayer in the Dark Ages and flying on

what was it dragon mount that we get to

go on Mech it's Shing up skulls to make

projectiles get skulls into your gun

it's it's just the coolest most metal

ass game which I just really appreciate

commitment to the medal yeah and while

we're on the topic of you know Xbox

owned games AOW is coming early next

year too very hyp that's in that's in

February I believe so it's possible

although maybe Xbox would want to save

that to do like its own like showcase

dedicated to it in January or something

yeah I feel like we've seen a lot of AOW

I think I don't think that's the this is

the right stage for that at this point

but you know I wouldn't be mad to see a

little bit more we also have a very

generous preview that's available on

ign.com so make sure you check that out

good Shout good shout okay uh Sam Lake

from remedy is another uh we uh recent

he makes a lot of appearances at the

game awards he's going to be a presenter

that's confirmed so with Allan Wake 2

out the the lak house DLC is out I think

the next thing they have coming is FBC

fire break which is their Cooperative

multiplayer game based in the control

Universe yeah it's set in the FBC I

believe yeah you think that's more most

likely what would we see from him I I

believe so I think FBC makes the most

sense uh we've got a huge audience to

check out this game I think this one is

definitely more under the radar than say

something like the max P REM remakes or

remasters that they're doing or control

2 I think this one is one of those games

that would benefit the most from a

bigger audience seeing more of it I'm a

romantic at heart so I say this game is

somewhat of a known quantity in that it

is just a co-op PVE shooter with buddies

which is great don't get me wrong but

when I think of Remedy I think of first

person I'm sorry single player

experience

that really wow and I think based on

what we got in the lak DLC for Allen

wake 2 I wouldn't be surpris if we got

another look at control two fingers

crossed call me crazy but hey I like

crazy I like is the FBC what is it

called I'm missing fire bre is that is

that something that's on your radar that

you want to see more of yeah I want to

see more uh I want to I want to see a

game that is you know up my alley I like

Shooters single player uh FPS games

third person shooters anything that has

guns in it like Doom um this game seems

to be a PVE game that is right up my

alley so I'm excited to see what they

show Nick I feel like you're you know I

I think you should make your case for

why you think it's possible halflife

three could be appearance tonight you

want me to go down the rabbit hole all

right here stick with me here so Jeff

key has an established relationship with

valve uh we've seen that uh with his

publishing of halflife 2 the Final hours

halflife Alex the final hours basically

anytime a new valve thing comes out he

usually gets some sort of insight where

he gets to talk about the development

process with the team at valve that's

one thing two we got the 20th

anniversary documentary for halflife 2

that was one incredible but two it ends

on a very like wink wink nudge nudge we

know you want halflife three so I think

you're going to be pleasantly surprised

in the near future we've seen valve

software become this like obviously they

are the house of steam but but they are

becoming a publishing house again a

development house we see deadlock coming

out we've seen their failed card game

come out we've seen them make new things

which is a little bit unusual halflife

Alex was incredible and um I know that

they are bringing back the halflife 2

making of book which was long sought

after because they put it on their store

it's gone forever and then they brought

it back with the documentary so halflife

is in the air and I couldn't think of a

more Earth shattering announcement to

end the game Awards with then Mr Freeman

it's time to wake up Nick the chat is

going crazy uh it's all halflife 3 right

now uh one of our users on YouTube

chemically stupid please don't do this

to us I I'm right there with you I'm

right there with you I might be setting

myself up for failure but hey like I

said I'm a romantic I like the dream big

you know what I'll be right there with

you I woke up today we hadn't talked

about this at all and I sat here and I

said halflife three and he said halflife

three wait a minute there's something

going on there's something in the air

they said two Earth shattering

announcements what else could it be it

has to be halflife something I mean I

hope you're right it would be great I'm

going to be hooting and

hollering I'll do a lap around the desk

if it

happens okay well whether or not we see

half lifee three one thing we know we're

going to see is um Haz Light Studios

next game that's Joseph Ferris uh from

it takes two and what was a way out

before that so incredible Co-op experi

they make Co-op experiences and the next

one I think the title leaked called

split fiction we know that's going to

get a big reveal there tonight so what

sort of a what sort of Co-op game do you

hope this

is I mean knowing like I don't know

Joseph but just knowing his kind of

General ideological perspective when it

comes to approaching you know his um

co-op games he likes to do unique things

and stuff that you've never really seen

or done before so I'm assuming you know

if it's called split fiction I'm

assuming there's some interesting

narrative stuff happening from a co-op

perspective and I think that's an

untapped market for interesting ideas

because one of the biggest pains when

you're playing co-op with someone is

someone accidentally advancing the story

while you're still looking in this

corner over here so maybe he figured out

a way of uh circumventing that who knows

I'm expecting a whole bunch of different

stages each with Unique Mechanics kind

of like what we got in it takes two

where there's you know there's levels

where you you had like guns and there's

another ones where you were like combat

level yeah I would love to see just all

types of different more genres just kind

of mixed into it split fiction just

reminds me of for some reason time

Splitters so I'm thinking futuristic

Co-op platform or we get to you know

play with with our buddies hopefully we

get some online I think co-op games need

some online co-op cuz playing co-op on

land sometimes you're sitting in your

couch alone you know um can I play with

my friends online I would love to see

that hopefully we get a buddy pass

system back again where you know you get

a copy of the game and you can share it

with the Buddy and for free I'm sure

that'll be there I'm sure that'll be

there okay we've got more predictions

coming up but before that we're gonna go

before we go to break let's take a look

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2024 game awards and just a bit the show

will begin we're expecting looks at some

games we've never seen before but first

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January 31st okay now we just went over

what we know will be at the show let's

talk about who will be presenting why

that could be important as well as a ton

of other confirmed announcements going

into the show let's start with those

more things that we know we know that um

the head of

Allan Sven Vin he's gonna be presenting

it could just be you know last year

balers gate 31 game of the year so maybe

just presenting this year's Game of the

Year Award right um I don't know what

they could have to show we know they've

started their next game but I think it's

probably too early days yeah it's too

early for to see what Lars up to we all

we know is that it's not balers gate 4

they're still you know finishing off

support on balers Gate 3 we've got like

crossplay coming I believe early next

year and sub classes and sub more sub

classes yeah I'm hyped um but it's we do

know that it's going to be more more

than likely something that they can kind

of control around and that they own yeah

they've been pretty outspoken about like

they kind of they're done with the

Dungeons and Dragons license and are

looking to kind of take full ownership

of over their next title so I wouldn't

be surprised if we got a Divinity

original sin 3 Divinity original sin 2

rocks and I think that they could take a

lot of learning from their time in

balers Gate 3 and apply that to the next

entry in Divinity original sin I think

the balers gate like Fame will also

bring a lot more newcomers into Divinity

s because I know a lot of people didn't

really know of that series until balers

gate yeah also great games yeah now we

know uh Warframe 1999 which is the DLC

update for Warframe uh promises to take

players back to the beginning I like you

you familiar with Warframe right yeah

yeah it took three years of my life

playing that game yeah um shout out to

digital extremes for for that um yeah

Warframe uh 1999 this is a uh going back

in time to 1999 so we're going to take a

character called The Drifter or your own

character it's going to be an adult

version going go back in time and you

can experience the world at that time

but it's going to be also inspired uh in

you're going to see some Dark Sector for

anybody familiar with Dark Sector you

might see some some little call outs to

that game uh in in this one uh it's it's

cool there's there's going to be a new

story expansion on here and some new

factions too to to be clear you're

talking about the Xbox 360 PS3 game Dark

Sector how is that related to Warframe

digital extremes okay so they developed

it theyel published Dark Sector the man

with the little Tri glaive I love it

projectile I had no idea but that kind

of rocks so you you said the guy's name

is The Drifter so The Drifter how do I

explain Warframe is that is that the

character that that um Ben star is

playing how do I explain Warframe lore I

remember when I started this and I asked

what is Warframe lore and everyone was

like listen you just have to play it um

The Drifter is is a character that

introduced in the story of Warframe and

it's how do I even explain this it's a

version of of yourself uh when you're

when you're a tenno which is the the

character I'm going to nerd out here I'm

sorry this is the place for that this is

the place for that so your character is

called a tenno and I believe earlier you

asked me uh how warframes are connected

to tenno or tenno inside the Warframe um

the tenno is connected via transference

and energy that fills the the Warframe

so this character called a tenno also

has a version of him called The Drifter

so you're going to go back in time into

1999 and you're going to experience the

world during that time and I see some

cool characters being shown there um

digital extremes has taken a really cool

Direction with Warframe they've even

introduce some characters so you've gone

to not just play as your own created

character but you've also been able to

go through different factions and

characters and experience the Warframe

story and do I see a motorcycle a bike

in there too I just love how adventurous

digital extremes is they're not shy they

don't shy away from creating what they

want in their game so 1999 should be a

pretty cool story to jump into that

looks really cool now we know they're

going to um teeken 8 they're going to be

showing the the final character for

season one of Tekken 8 and jayen you had

an interesting theory about who this

might be yes the fans have been uh

really hoping and sending all sorts of

messages to haraan for Tifa as the final

DLC character for this season pass and

from Final Fantasy from Final Fantasy 7

Tifa would be a perfect fit she's that

brawler listening and she's she's got

the moves she's got the specials she's

got all sorts of combos that you can

pull off in Final Fantasy and I think

she would be a perfect fit and probably

my new main in Tekken 8 and it's not

unprecedented either because um they've

previously had Prince noctis from Final

Fantasy 15 in Tekken so they've had

Final Fantasy characters before in

Tekken and if they did again Tifa in

rebirth and the Remake felt like a

fighting game character so it feels

almost at home in Tekken I would love to

see that hear me out okay here we go

okay listen Master Chief has not been in

a sing has not been in a single fighting

game since he got released and fighting

game people you know we've been asking

for Master Chief to be in a single Super

Smash not happening apparently maybe

this could be the spot where Master

Chief fits in I don't know I could see a

plasma grenade grapple yeah he T sticks

them with the grenade and then throws

them off a cliff could see that all

right we can see we have the countdown

up now we're just five minutes away from

the game awards uh so as soon as that

begins we will hand you on over to Jeff

in the game awards be sure to stick

around after that for our postow

coverage we'll be breaking down

everything that we've uh just borne

witness to couple other things we know

are coming uh my man Aaron Paul is going

to be presenting there so for Speed go

let's go let's get a new Need for Speed

game baby we could get a new I would

love a new Need for Speed game yeah so I

don't know if he's just presenting as a

making a celebrity appearance or if he

has something he's promoting I don't

know um but then we have U the uh main

actress from Fallout Ella Pernell is

going to be uh presenting there or she's

or I'm sorry she's a double nominee so I

don't know if they're going to be

showing um a little Glimpse at Fallout

season 2 it feels appropriate I feel

like the game awards make sense for a

sneak peek at Fallout season 2 I know

that they've already started production

on season 2 so and I think they said

they wanted to Fast Track it too so yeah

so I I could see a world where we see a

little a sneak peek at a very uh beloved

location in the Fallout Universe I'll

save you any spoilers if you haven't

watched season one but go do it it's

very good and then two actors from The

Last of Us world it's Isabella Merced

who appears in season two of The Last of

Us on HBO and then the Shannon Woodward

who plays Dena in The Last of Us Part

Two and apparently in she's in Alien

Romulus which I just learned earlier

she's also presal so they're both

presenting so maybe a look at season two

of Last of Us on HBO time for that also

that also fits just like with the same

Theory with the Fallout I think Last of

Us season 2 is that's what February year

early time for that so yeah another game

that's coming early next year if we're

just start to making uh predictions

about what could make an appearance uh

civ7 that

out in February and we haven't seen any

gameplay of it I think that is a good

point we I think we actually had a

pretty extensive uh preview for it on

ign.com but that said it has been a

minute and I know they haven't really

detailed too much about the game yet so

I'd be very curious I know we got a lot

of fans of civ7 in the IGN offices so

I'd be really thrilled for them to get

another look at it because it's a game

that they won't shut up about do we have

any like far-fetched ideas I know

bloodborne remake remaster bloodborne 2

there's the people are things that every

year people want to see they want to see

blood and they want to see silk song yep

right see every time you say silk song

in chat it gets delayed another day so

like you just take everything in this

chat alone and Well Done guys but yeah I

think above all obviously halflife 3

would be incredible silk song for me

though would be one of those that would

just get me on on my feet cheering

because it's been so long since I've

played through Hollow night and I just

want to go back I want to play silk song

so bad in chat there were there was some

hope for Elder Scroll 6 right Elder

Scroll 6 yes I don't think we see Elder

Scroll 6 tonight let alone this

generation personally I we know it's a

ways out and I think we see it you know

come next console generation I think we

if we see anything Elder Scrolls it's

maybe a look at something older in their

Library brought back in a form of a

remaster or remake maybe a three like a

Mor wind kind of yeah I've seen a lot of

rumors of a Fallout 3 remaster that's

been an ongoing Rumor for years now so

who who knows that game would benefit

pretty greatly from a remaster or a

remake as would New Vegas and I think

New Vegas being the one that kind of

strikes me as a little more of a natural

thing to remake given the popularity of

the Fallout show but who knows who knows

well Todd Howard is presenting alak at

the top of the show you were saying

you're hoping to see uh Resident Evil 9

yeah uh Resident Evil 9 I mean we just

uh I want to know what happened to so

the winter Saga officially ended with

the DLC for res resent Evil 8 Village

and there's been a lot of rumors lot of

rumors online about what the characters

will be for this new Resident Evil 9

there was a confirmation from the

director that the game was officially

happening five months ago um I want to

see a a a release date for this game and

I want to see who the main characters

will be will it be Leon will Jill and

Leon be teaming up together for the

first time in Resident Evil 9 and how

will Rose Winters be involved if she

even will be I'm just I love horror

games and Resident Evil is one of those

that I absolutely need to see in the

game awards yeah well based on capcom's

pattern since you know the remake of two

right they go back and forth between

doing a remake and now it's time for the

new numbered entry in the series Nick

what do you think about s you have I got

one one thing the chat popped up with

our last couple seconds and I know Nick

will be hyped for Kingdom Hearts 4 no

way oh man I didn't even think about

Kingdom Hearts but yeah there's a

there's a good likelihood we see that so

I'm right there with you chat I want to

see Sora in shabuya let's make it

happen anime is real 2025 let's make it

happen all right the show is starting

everybody enjoy and we'll see you on the

other side half life three baby let's go

half life three

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what's up everyone I'm Sydney Goodman

and welcome to the 2024 game awards

opening act presented by State Farm we

are counting down to the main event our

10th anniversary show but I promise you

we are more than a pre-show we are the

extension of a program so packed that we

need to start it early tonight we are

coming to you live from the peacock

theater in Los Angeles to celebrate the

best in gaming from the past year with

special performances from Snoop Dog 21

Pilots surprise guests and World

premieres that will blow your mind

including Mafia the old country

Borderlands 4 and More in fact I have

one ready to reveal right now and it's a

very special one to kick off our 10th

anniversary

foreign foreign

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there it is ninja guide and rage bound

coming in summer 2025 it's the new title

from do U the publisher behind Streets

of Rage 4 and TMNT shredders Revenge

that announcement makes a killer segue

into our first award category tonight

best fighting game here are the

nominees Dragon Ball sparking

zero Grand blue Fantasy Versus Rising

Marvel versus Capcom fighting collection

arcade Classics

multiverses and Tekken 8

the game award goes

to oh look at that Tekken

eight

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congratulations uh thank you to all

gaming commune and uh te community and

uh thank you to my development team and

uh marketing team in all regions and we

will continue to update and to improve

de eight uh so stay stay tuned and don't

ask me

for thank you thank Youk you

congratulations and now a new kind of

cozy game that is unlike anything you've

played before

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on the

road I've been away for far too

long but now I'm on my way back

home I hear the West Winds

calling won't be long

I'm there before the Setting

Sun for you to fall into my arms a place

I call my

home I was looking to belong when I'd

already know that you be there when the

Rain G like a light in the night

you on the floor like a home covered in

blood titled top ways to conquer the

Spire you find this manuscript highly

suspicious because it's covered in blood

you read the

book covering your hands in blood

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oh

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yes

that was the first look at the gameplay

of slay the Spire 2 I'm thrilled because

there's a new slay the Spire but also

terrified because I just got over my

crippling addiction to the first so the

cycle continues anyway after the show be

sure to head over to Tik Tok and share

your best gaming highlights from 2024

with # gaming on Tik Tok and now it's

time for our next Award Best VR AR game

and the nominees are Arizona Sunshine

remake

asgard's wrath 2 Batman Arkham Shadow

metal hell singer VR and Metro

Awakening the game award goes

to Batman Arkham

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Shadow I just want to accept uh this

award on behalf of my colleagues at

camouflage you guys did some of the best

work of your careers and I have a

feeling that The Best Is Yet To Come uh

to our uh the company work for meta has

been a great place to work and for

Oculus Studios all the support that you

provided to us to help us get the game

Over The Line including our sister

Studio over at senaro that developed the

incredible asgard's wrath 2 that was a

big uh made this this category very

competitive this year uh I also want to

thank Warner Brothers and DC for

entrusting that incredible Arkham

franchise allowing us to build a sequel

to those that incred Foundation that

rock steady and Warner Brothers Montreal

provided to us and then lastly to the

amazing crew uh in cast to this game

Roger Craig Smith Troy Baker Elijah Wood

Tara Strong Carrie krie pton you guys

crush it you guys are award winning as

far as we're concerned thank you for

what you brought to our

game congratulations thank you thank

you since 2018 the TGA Global gaming

citizen program has recognized

individual ual doing their part to

better the world through games this

year's recipient makes games that

protect nature and fight climate change

here's the story of Laura Carter CEO and

founder of trees please

games I've worked in games for the best

part of 20 years PlayStation Disney Us 2

games Square enx I loved working there I

loved working on such massive games but

I actually had a sense of of guilt in

parallel with my games career I've

always had a passion or actually don't

like to call it a passion I like to

think of it more as a a sort of a

purpose for making a difference in the

world nice tree it's comfy we're less

than 20 years away from climate collapse

one and for me that's that's incredibly

scary both for our future but for my

children's future it struck me that

there was such an opportunity to use

these games that were reaching hundreds

of millions of people to to create

awareness Ness about what's happening in

the

world so when you play longle Valley

you're restoring and saving a national

park and then as you're playing you're

actually collecting tree tokens to plant

a real tree our players together have

planted over 1.6 million trees now but

it's amazing to know that together we

are making a real difference

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I watch people running around 100 miles

an

hour trying to keep up with the Jon on a

quest for

power got to have a fancy car the fancy

cloes and the diamond range

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don't you judge cuz we're all s last's a

game nobody's winning you redes are

forgetting and we all live on bar

minutes

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hey welcome back to the game awards

opening act presented by State Farm

we're counting down to the Big Show with

more World premieres and Awards in fact

the game awards brings so many different

gaming communities together to celebrate

if you want to see everything State Farm

is doing in gaming head to their website

right now at statefarm.com gaming

because like a good neighbor State Farm

is there and now we have our next World

premiere from the legendary creator of

Dex Warren Spectre this is thick as

thieves

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there knows a night on the

town let's see what Razo has for

me nice of you to turn up oh the mucu

state this one's always fun you're not

the only one who fake

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son just to stay nice and quiet

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but keep your wits about you who's

there you never know what's around the

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corner these could go many different

ways it was like our

side each weake

themselves

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it's love it cannot wait to get that on

my wish list okay next up are our three

Esports categories the first is best

Esports game presented by Old Spice and

the nominees are counter- strike 2 Dota

2 League of Legends mobile Legends bang

bang and ballerin the game award goes

to League of

Legends next up for best Esports athlete

the nominees are

33 Alexi B chuvi Faker zyu and Kong Kong

the game award goes to

Baker and finally for best Esports team

the nominees are Billy Billy gaming

geni na'vi T1 and Team Liquid the game

award goes to

T1 congratulations to all the winners of

our Esports

categories all right the game awards

opening act presented by State Farm is

moving forward as we reveal two more

World premieres this first one is an

alternate take on a legendary series

from Bandai Namco

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f

oh

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that was steel paw a brand new world

from a gaming Legend U Suzuki known for

virtue of fighter and shenmu our next

award is one of my favorites games for

impact it showcases thought-provoking

games with a positive social message

here are the nominees closer the

distance

Inda

neeva life is strange double exposure

senua Saga hellblade 2 and tales of Kera

Zhao the game award goes

to

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neeva well it is such an honor to

receive this award um well first I would

like to thank the Yuri and basically

everyone who voted for us

uh this award belongs to the enti team

at nomada Studio berlinist our friends

and family and basically everyone who

help us to bring Nea to life uh I would

like to thank as well the wver digital

they were the first one they believed in

us since the beginning and they gave us

the opportunity to make two wonderful

games I'm looking forward to making many

more in the future and finally I would

like to thank the players um it's

amazing to see how our story resonates

with them and we love to see how they

enjoy our game so thank you so much

congratulations thank

you and now another cozy game and to

introduce it is someone who knows a

thing or two about them cozy

K thanks Sydney hey game awards I'm

really excited to share one of my most

anticipated cozy games with

you tales of the

Shire there's so much to Marvel at in

the Shire I love how it feels feels like

I'm inside the

books I love spending endless hours in

my IRL garden and this game captures

that feeling so

well and then inside it gets real cozy

you can do a ton of decorating in your

own style you can really customize every

nook and cranny now I'll hop inside the

kitchen and start

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cooking oo the guests have arrived time

to

eat thank you for taking this journey

through the Shire and I hope it was as

much of a triat for you as it was for me

join me in playing tales of the Shire

March 25th

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my

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welcome to the midnight Murder Club One

flashlight

one gun use your senses and become the

Shadows let's go stay quiet okay do you

know where we're going toward Lo come

on hello oh hello no no no no no

oh you killed the

piano oh no came in from

behind double kills oh

oh my god did you get there one more one

more come out here

no join the

club and die

[Laughter]

trying

play welcome back to the game awards

opening act we are so close to the Big

Show

which oh my gosh thank you so much I

love you too um which by the way is

freaking stacked this year let's hear

for the 10th anniversary of the game

awards but until then enough I'm kidding

um I still have some incredible Awards

and World premieres to share with you so

let's get back into it with our next

award Innovation and

accessibility these nominees have all

made strides to make their games as

playable as possible by as many gamers

as possible and they are Call of Duty

Black Ops

6 Diablo

4 Dragon Age The Veil

guard Prince of Persia the Lost

crown and Star Wars

Outlaws the game award goes

to Prince of Persia the Lost crown

congratulations thank you meru we are

truly honored to receive this award as

from the beginning of the project we a

to create a fun and challenging game but

a game as accessible as possible and it

pro that accessibility doesn't delute

but rather reinforce the cor of a game

more player enjoy the thrill of

exploration thanks to our screenshot

marker system more player experience the

intens and expressivity of our combat

thanks to the option it was a passion

project made by an incredible team big

congratulations to the team I know

you're watching from fication keep and a

warm thank work thank you to everyone

who supported us uh Ubisoft Global

accessibility team Yan or families

friend and of course you the players

thank you congratulations

and now it's the next game from pug

storm the Swedish team behind the Indie

hit ceper

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oh

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love it and that is the perfect way to

get into our next award best family game

here are your

nominees

astrobot Princess Peach

Showtime Super Mario Party jamere

The Legend of Zelda echo of

wisdom and the Plucky

Squire wow a lot of us are excited about

best family game uh the game award goes

to

astrobot congratulations thank you so

much thank you so much uh it's a massive

honor for us to be getting uh the family

game award because something we've been

working hard on for many many years at

teamobi so first thing I want to thank

te Asobi over in Japan all 65 of you

thank you so much it's your heart and

soul that went into this game you know

really trying to please and put smiles

on people's faces so this is really for

you uh thank you so much you know making

a a family game is important because it

it's reforming the first gaming memories

of of people we all have first gaming

memories right and so it's both a

privilege big responsibility as well but

it's one we take very much at heart so

this award you know it's for the kids

and the parents out there we love you

very much thank you very

much

congratulations okay the theater is

filling up like I can see heads all the

way back there the energy is huge with

our main show only minutes

away but I still have two more World

premieres for you first up a new and

very unexpected game from a studio that

was nominated for three awards at the

game awards 2022

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okay would you believe me if I said I

only have one more incredible World

premiere for you get ready to have all

your senses overloaded in the best way

possible of course this is solasta too

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how dare you come alone shadowin for

many years you've sent waves of stone

soldiers we've

decimated what can you achieve with your

Solitude that thousands couldn't not

thousands millions

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that was is the announcement of sasat 2

from the paris-based Tactical

adventures all right my friends that is

it for our opening act but the 10th

anniversary show is just getting started

the game awards main event is about to

begin with tons of big Awards big new

game announcements and amazing

performances by the TGA Orchestra 21

Pilots Snoop Dog

and more this is a game awards you

definitely do not want to miss all right

the countdown is over the 2024 game

awards Starts

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Now welcome to the game awards

2024 now here's your host the creator of

the game awards Jeff key

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good evening

everybody Welcome to the game awards the

biggest Global of celebration of video

games out there and you have joined us

on a very special night our 10th

anniversary welcome

you know when we started TGA in 2014 we

had no idea it would become as big as it

is around the world but I felt like so

many of you that games and the people

who make them and the fans deserve a

Moment Like This you watch this show

because games are part of your identity

they mean something to you and tonight

is a tribute to just how far games have

come and despite the challenges our

industry faces where they are going in

the future

and let me just tell you you have tuned

in and joined us on a very special night

our industry is constantly evolving this

year four of our game of the year

nominees were developed in Japan one in

China China's first ever nomination for

Game of the Year and one batro was made

by a single guy local thunk who's here

in the audience tonight in my home

country of Canada isn't that

amazing now tonight for our anniversary

show we are joined by many special

guests first it is a tremendous

privilege to have this man with us back

in the 1990s he convinced Sony to enter

the video game industry with the

PlayStation which this month celebrates

its 30th Anniversary please join me and

welcoming the father of the PlayStation

the great Ken karagi

also tonight we welcome a double nominee

who's competing against herself in best

adaptation she stars in both Fallout and

Arcane the amazingly talented Ella

Pernell welcome

Ella and finally we announced his Studio

at the first TGA and in 2021 he won game

of the year and tonight despite our

better judgment he's going to have the

stage all to himself to reveal his next

game a little bit later Joseph Ferris

welcome back

buddy now as always we're recognizing an

outstanding year in gaming while looking

at hey Waldorf what is it

Stadler how long's this bozo going to go

on well that's what I've been asking for

the last 10

years hey hey guys yeah up here

host yeah we're we're you know we could

hear you oh good can you hear this boo

yeah please wrap it

up Statler and Waldorf everybody it's

the last thing we need tonight listen

fellas if you don't mind we have a lot

of people here in the audience waiting

to see the show yeah yeah speaking of a

lot of people why isn't this theater

full huh yeah we heard you always sell

out oh got him

all right let's keep the show rolling

it's already rolling off a

cliff yeah they're here all night

stotler and Waldorf I don't know what we

signed up for all right well in any case

let's get this anniversary started and

to present tonight's first award I

couldn't think of a better Duo he's one

of our industry's greatest creative

forces alongside one of our most

talented performers and they've teamed

up for the newly released Indiana Jones

and the great Circle please join me in

welcoming Bethesda Todd Howard and actor

Troy

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Baker thank you Jeff thank you everyone

for being here now as you know the game

awards for the last decade has

celebrated the best performances in

games by honoring some of my peers some

my friends like Nolan North Roger Clark

yes Laura

Bailey actually Troy have you ever won

this

award look they they they do give an

award for best indie game and I think

everybody here can agree you make a

great case for best Indie performance

oh well thank I don't I don't know about

that thank you though

there was there was another guy though

you mean the other guy he's pretty good

pretty pretty good absolutely I wonder

what he thinks

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thank

you thank

you thank you very much thank

you while you're on your feet let's give

a big round of applause to these two

guys for the great

circle thank you

I think this guy did a great

job if I'd known he was so

good I would have done it

myself

Skip and

now we're here to present the award

Award for best performance here are the

nominees best

performance wow just look at it all it's

still going strong I should cross over

and start asking questions I think she's

going to need her help this job it's a

death wish I'm going to finish it I know

what you

are I don't need you anymore the shadow

will always hang over me

what will I

become and the winner

is Melinda Jurgens

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oh my God this is an incredible honor

like I'm going to I'm going to

cry um I don't know where to start I

want to um big shout out to my fellow

nominees you are all incredible um I

want to thank our incredibly talented

team at Ninja Theory who are just so

amazing um our cast our through our stun

team like they're just all they've done

just such a great job um our

collaborators and especially our fans

who have been so supportive of us thank

you so much and um also congratulations

to the game awards for 10 incredible

Years thank you

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congratulations Molina our first

two-time winner uh for best performance

she won back in 2017 for the first hell

blade all right we have lots more Awards

to come but are you guys ready to get a

glimpse of what's

next yes it is World premiere time for

our 10th anniversary I traveled the

world to ask developers what could you

share with fans that will give a glimpse

not just of what's coming in 2025 that

we have lots of that too but what lies

beyond for the next decade of gaming

tonight's first game announcement is an

absolute honor to share with you it

comes from a game of thee winning Studio

whose immersive storytelling has

thrilled players with every Twist and

Turn so without further Ado here's a

look at the unexpected

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dearest

daughter I've watched ye grow from a

devilishly curious

child into a remarkably young lass with

much grace

wisdom and

kindness take the easy times what

Shapers

nay Is How We rise to face the the are

times what does that for

us even art of

gold leave the spirit to overcome

adversities of

Plenty

darling

sweeten today the

day you fill out your destiny

forgive me

daughter were my only choice I shall

I shall be the bringer of

Salvation a Witcher Witcher whose coin

did he

take nay nay you can't his tradition

chosen she is by the gods

no you chose her

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fore

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van back to the Village go now nay I

must save them Save The Village save

yourself run to shelter to your

father run

the here your men kill

us the

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Fain cannot be ch

you can't change anything

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save the disconnected I

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pleas she went to go to the woods the

chosen one it's

tradition oh no no no

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it's all we wanted for to go to the

woods to go to the god

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Gods there are no Gods

here there are only

monsters time for a new

saga see you on the path

there you have it the very first trailer

for The Witcher four from CD project red

and yes as you saw obviously Siri will

play the protagonist in that title we're

very excited to hear more about it you

ready to have more fun because tonight

trust me the surprises just keep coming

all night long right now I am proud to

present a brand new Standalone game

please watch

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Seekers of redemp

you were

chosen thrown together by forces beyond

our control

tragedy must be

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averted and for that I need your help

Stand

Tall the night is far from

over little

Pillager vent on stacking the ls of

gold I will SWAT away any and all who

dare approach

band together and prepare to

qu the life of the night Lord

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now you know why I was so excited there

you have it Elden ring night raate is a

new co-op action adventure game from

band damco entertainment and from

software the only Studio that's won game

of the year twice before here at the

game awards and it is coming next year

2025 now trust me when I say we are just

getting started some of the biggest

surprises believe it or not are still to

come as well as performances by Snoop

Dogg and 21 pilots and awards presented

by previous winners like cadeo kajima

and Sam Blake but right now here's news

on a new platform for one of this year's

Game of the Year

nominees time to kick it up a notch

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the time has come

SE at last our long awaited

reunion let us hurry there is nothing to

fear here

that's what scares

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me you're messing with powers beyond

your control I'm always in

contor are you sure about this don't

worry I do that this all the

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time find a way out before a

crust a gun and a

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whip you'd be surprised how often it

comes in handy

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no

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welcome back I made it to the main show

you couldn't get rid of me that easily

for a limited time only Prime members in

the US can go to amazon.com themegame

Awards to get up to 50% off select

nominees Final Fantasy 7 rebirth Silent

Hill 2 and Star Wars Outlaws

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from HBO's House of the dragon please

welcome Abu bakar

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Salen thank you thank you don't worry

I'm not going to cry about my dead diet

this time but I'm here to present an

award that celebrates Victory the thrill

of conquering your foes in a battle

where physical and mental prowess

Collide in a struggle that feels like

the most important fight of your life

and no I'm not talking about Twitter but

I am talking about the best action game

here are your

nominees best action game

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and the game award goes

to black myth wukar

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uh

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thank you everyone uh we are deeply

honored to receive this Awards uh a

heartfelt thanks to every player it's

you who brought the tale of uh wisdom

and courage

uh rooted in eastern mythology to life

on this stage and uh of course uh

sincere gratitude to the game of words

for not placing any invisible words on

my way up here

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this award belongs to every single

member of our team as well as our family

and friends who have supported us behind

the scene um without you I'd be like

sitting at home and testing the Boss

Rush mode and buffing along instead of

standing here representing our team

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Lastly lastly I want to say this our

game isn't hard at all

uh it's perfect for players new to

action games trust me on this thank you

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congratulations game science at the game

awards our aspiration is to create

moments that define our medium and

remind us all why we became fans in the

first place five years ago I had the

pleasure of having lunch with one of our

industry's most treasured game makers

and just recently he finally shared an

ambitious vision for his next project

tonight as a very special gift for our

10th anniversary I am beyond honored to

reveal this stunning new project for the

first time anywhere with an early look

at real gameplay footage of this

Studio's highly anticipated upcoming

title let's take a look at this

announcement trailer that I'm sure will

capture your imagination

if I do it go very Swift and much 5 K

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seconds 55

seconds 50

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be

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that was your early first look at the

Untitled next project from tumit aasan a

Creator who pushes our medium forward

with each of his incredible Creations

you can just feel the emotional depth of

that game in that beautiful piece aasan

and gen design thank you so much for

this announcement

reveal next February marks the release

of Sid Meers civilization the latest

installment one of our industry's

longest running and most successful

franchises tonight we are honored to

welcome the game awards Orchestra

conducted by Lauren Bal to World

premiere the stunning theme to civ7

composed by Grammy award-winning

composer Christopher tin who joins us

tonight I think you're going to love

this Maestro take it away

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we

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so

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we

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great

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absolutely incredible thank you to the

TGA Orchestra and Lauren there's much

more to come from them throughout the

night including our signature Game of

the Year medley you can look forward to

that right now it's time to get the

first look at gameplay of a project from

a studio that has previously been

nominated for Game of the

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Year from the studio that brought you

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic

part

two never winter Nights part two

and Fallout 3 part two New

Vegas comes a completely Original Part

Two and like all good sequels we've

included everything that should have

been in the first

game more

action more weapons

and

more

Graphics get ready for an

adventure that took three times longer

to make but will almost certainly be two

times

bigger

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yet

yet something that you're never going to

forget

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in

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2025 Welcome Back to the

Future Try Not To Break It

Again the outer

worlds

yet I'm not interested in hiring any

more idiots I'm looking for people of

tact and vision and

perspicacity Seen Nothing

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Yet please welcome the director of Haz

Light Studios winner of game of the year

for it takes two Joseph

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FZ all right I can't tell you how pumped

and excited I am to be here today to

show you our next thing I mean I'm

telling you at Haz light we have a say

where we say we [ __ ] [ __ ] up without

[ __ ] up and no no no listen listen

this time it's some Next Level [ __ ] I'm

telling you I mean no no no what we're

going to show you is going to be I know

I sound cocky but it's really hard not

to be cocky when you have a game like

this are you

ready all right let's roll Haz light's

next Co-op Adventure go

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you know we sure cause a lot of

explosions okay you better get ready

because I'm about to show you hazelight

it next Co-op Adventure called split

fiction let me tell you this get ready

for a

ride you play as Mio and Zoe two

aspiring writers that H to get published

by a new tech company that can simulate

their stories to

life I can't do this please calm down

it's time you can't no accidentally they

end up in the same simulation what are

you doing in my story something bad is

going on here and there they find out

that their stories are about to get

stolen no one escaped my

simulation and in order to save them

they have to escape back to reality

through the very worlds that they

created hands above your heads but the

thing is they're strangers and Mi writes

sci-fi while Zoe writes fantasy so you

will for every level in the game jump

between a Sci-Fi

world and if fantasy

world we his light love variation and

you'll have a unique mechanic for every

level let me give you some examples in

this level you start out by finding

dragon eggs that hatch hey stop

licking and then they become a little

bit bigger dragons with new

abilities but in the end they grow up to

be full ass dragons crap and now you can

fly around and kick

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ass in another level you play these ball

Droids that can magnetize and shift the

different

forms and then the droids become your

exos

suits and you can now attack and hack

different

objects here's another one you play as

pigs and they later

become anyway let's not talk about that

level for now and as always with the

friends pass you only need to buy one

copy of the game to play it with your

friend online that's what hazelight is

about no root boxes no microtransactions

and no bull you just get the

game you have unpaid parking tickets

time to die excuse me run

and and and the good look look look wait

the good part with this this game is

coming out March 6th so you will be

playing it in two months so that's

nothing one more thing just want to say

in the trailer they called me and Zoey

that my daughters it's their name

they're also in the audience put the

camera let them show how cute they are

there there hello

hey

papa yeah of course my my wife is

beautiful too I don't forget to of

course uh yes and I want to say one last

thing my team hazla is watching at home

my beautiful team I just want to say

thank you your eler and thank you

everybody I love you so much I'm looking

forward to be part of this industry I

love everybody

goodbye Joseph what a guy I spent some

time with him in this summer and played

a few hours of split fiction it really

is everything you'd want it to be a

great follow-up to it takes two that

Joseph won for game of the year it's

been so amazing to have so many Game of

the Year winners back with us again

tonight revealing new projects all right

we have much more game awards to come

during the show those of you in the US

can head to tgal leg. for a chance to

win one of 20 glacier white Lenovo

Legion 7i laptops which have the power

to handle the latest

games this Lenova Legion 7i has the

power need to finally beat the

impossible

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level sprs are so high I can see every

NPC except that

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one reach your the NOA Legion

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w the world's best gaming processor

Advanced by AMD

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it appears Mor's little project is as

real as they

say let's start the party

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all right we're back here at the game

awards and we have so much more to share

with you now when we created the TGA in

2014 I wanted to celebrate the people

who devote their lives to entertaining

and sometimes comforting or affecting us

through video games in fact 25 years ago

back in college I started writing a

series of Articles called behind the

game chronicling the development of

games like halflife and Metal Gear Solid

2 because I knew games were nothing

without the people behind them now the

sad reality is that over the past few

years the gaming industry has suffered

significant and unprecedented

industrywide layoffs those affect the

games we get to play and even more

importantly the people who make the

games we love we can debate and

certainly disagree with the reasons why

and honestly as a show we we kind of

struggle with how to address these

Topics in a destructive way but this

year inside of these challenges we found

greatness I'm proud to share with you

the story of a single individual who saw

developers in need and did something

truly extraordinary meet tga's first

ever game

changer starting in early

2023 significant waves of layoffs

started in the games industry it strikes

you it it hurts right it's like a ton of

bricks what what am I supposed to do

tens of thousands of Gamers have been

laid off at a level that is

unprecedented in the industry's history

I love this brand I love this company oh

my goodness what am I going to do I

actually started in games relatively

late even though I've loved the industry

ever since I was a little child because

there weren't games jobs around here I

stayed passionate about it and broke

through in basically my late

30s I had seen a few two friends get

laid off before Thanksgiving and I said

to my wife Jess like this is

unacceptable hi everybody it's Amir and

I'm here to help support you as you look

for your next opportunity in video games

I can't imagine what it must feel like

for someone have to go to their family

around the holidays and say I don't have

a job I don't know what's going to

happen I had a robust background in

things like data analysis and I said

well I can do something with this I

started a community with one resource we

just started putting together a list of

all the job openings out there and over

iteration after iteration and ended up

becoming a suite of several different

resources we have 2300 coaching

volunteers who've given people over

50,000 Community coaching conversations

for free his pure pro bono Amir there is

no payment he doesn't take anything back

from the community I'm proud to say

we've helped Place nearly 3,000 people

in jobs Amir is like

career Santa Claus if it worked for Amir

and for this community I wouldn't have

even known m j was here he has created

this like Beacon of

light please join me in welcoming a man

who has the well-being of the game

develop community in his heart on behalf

of the game awards I'm honored to

present the first ever TGA Game Changer

Amir sapot

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thank you thank

you thank

you than

thank you so

much thank you so much no you're

breathtaking thank you Jeff and the game

awards for this extraordinary honor I

can't help but say that I love video

games with all my

heart to all game makers everywhere you

are seen and treasured and our community

will always be there to help you over

the last 3 years we've lost more than

34,000 jobs a staggering amount of games

experience eliminated this has

consequences you can't make great games

without great

people I'm proud of so many of you who

have already joined me to make an impact

and I really have to thank everyone in

our community who gave all their time

and commitment to build

it as We Gather here tonight for this

amazing celebration I challenge everyone

to ask themselves what more can we each

do to make our industry

better I dedicate this to my

grandparents in heaven and to our game

awards watch party back home my wife our

Three Sons

and my

parents

who

really devoted their lives to me and

taught me that my value lies in how I

treat other

people growing up all I ever wanted was

to be a part of the video game industry

as a kid from Farmington Connecticut it

felt a world away not anymore thank you

very very much thank you thank you

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Omega day

2067 we witnessed the end of the old

world and the beginning of an

unimaginable

power it unleashed the promise of our

civilized

ation forging Souls into

steel turning hope into a

hunt for the fate of

humanity for sta

rise partner our hunt for

Starfall

begins Raise Hell exert control for

mankind depends on our

Victory you will face a new power and

devastating

enemies but this is your

time unleash the Hun then

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that was the announcement of Steel

Hunters which you can play test tonight

I played that back in the summer and it

plays as good as it looks definitely has

a Transformers vibe to it as you can see

really fun game all right and now I'm

Pride proud to reveal one of the most

beautiful games I've seen in a long time

developed by an incredible team up in

Canada

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is

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I'm

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please welcome to the stage the founder

of gearbox Randy pitchburg

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Borderland fans know why I'm here right

this this is the moment everybody at

gearbox is watching right now and I'm

I'm kind of freaking

out uh listen this is the thing you fans

of Borderlands you're why we fight every

pixel of Borderlands is made with heart

and soul handcrafted by the gearbox team

we're all giving it everything we got

you guys we're putting everything we

have into this game and listen I can go

on talking about Borderlands 4 or I

could just show you Borderlands 4 who

who wants me to keep talking

anybody and who wants me to roll the

trailer for borderland's mother fluffing

far as you wish the world premiere first

look at Borderlands 4

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what

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I want to see you alone I want to sh

Stone I want to bounce around I want to

mess with it I want to let it a a real I

want the prach I want to with I want to

take on

it depends it how I feel I

feel

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to I'm going your business if it's

moment business I'm going it's your

business if it's moment every

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business that was Borderlands 4 and now

we have an exciting and unexpected

announcement from a legendary role

playing game

franchise on this My Sword I swear to

Shield the Firebirds flame forever

more Super you to me and

I for

Hope down

to let Stand Down the only festy here is

yours our Flames burn as one

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there you go Clive is joining teken 8

next week right now we want to recognize

more nominees and winners in some other

categories here at the game awards here

are the nominees for most anticipated

game death stranding 2 on the beach

ghost of yote Grand Theft Auto 6 Metroid

Prime 4 Beyond and Monster Hunter Wilds

and this year the game award goes to

Grand Theft Auto 6 congratulations

Rockstar here are your nominees for best

multiplayer game Call of Duty Black Ops

6 hell divers 2 Super Mario Party jamere

Tekken 8 and Warhammer 40K Space Marine

2 this year the game award goes to hell

divers 2 congratulations

aad now the nominees for best community

support balers Gate 3 Final Fantasy 14

fortnite hell divers 2 and no man's Sky

the game award goes to balers Gate 3

congratulations lar now your nominees

for best art Direction astrobot black

myth Wukong elen ring shadow of the

earth tree metaphor ref fantasio and

neeva the game award goes to Metaphor

ref

Fantasia we have many more Awards to

come in the game awards but right now

here's a new look at splitgate 2 that

blends Gunplay movement and portals

coming in

2025

weop hey 3 2 doesn't matter to

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mebody

Z that's

my our bills

areow we could we live

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hey that's

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my events are weaving together quickly

now Rook the fate of the world shall be

dis decided

soon it will not be

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easy but you are this world's only hope

oh

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k v this is your one

shot get in in with the underworld's

most dangerous

syndicates and pull off the greatest

Heist the outer rim has ever seen

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nominated tonight for best adaptation

riots Arcane is a stunning animated

series based on the League of Legends

franchise anyone who's watched this show

will tell you the music it sits at the

emotional core of this game award

winning series here is a special tribute

to arcane's music and iconic characters

featuring Royal and the serpent David

and 21 Pilots with the game awards

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Orchestra I could just lay my head

down there was nothing to

fight maybe then I could finally be free

maybe death is like falling

SLE is

always nothing can grow I used to her

stength but I ran out of hope I know

it's my fault that I'm

here this world is a

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waste don't let me

go go go go go go go don't let me go

show

yourself show

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yourself

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not

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not no not

me not

me remember me remember me I'm on my own

remember me I'm too far gone I couldn't

see remember me remember me all the

times I cut so deep all my life I

couldn't breathe remember me remember me

remember me remember me W woo

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my body is on the line now I can't fight

this time now I can feel the light shine

on my face

did I disappoint you will still let me

over if I cross the

line take a seat but I would rather you

not be here for what could be my final

form stay a pretty eyes on

cour keep the memories of who I was

before so stay with me because my body

is on the line now pull the blanket

tight now I can

feel Shine On My

Face did I disappoint you will I still

let me

over if I cross the line

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please don't let them sing me sure

there's nothing left to try I can feel

the light shine on my

face did I this support you will I still

let me

over if I cross the

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line if I cross the

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L if I cross the line

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what a beautiful and emotional

performance thanks to Riot and those

artists for putting that together

incredible all right let's take a look

at this very exciting brand new game

announcement prepared just for the game

awards 10th anniversary

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h

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junor

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there that's right there's a new Full

entry in the legendary virtu a fighter

series now in development at se you can

find out more in that special direct

broadcast tonight we've got another

announcement for you check this one out

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ladies and

gentlemen tonight I've got a little

something special for you we're going to

try out a brand new

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T oh my your Ms your seven

gra let's see sing

together let's keep on

singing

with

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never let's keep on singing

night with a

morning

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the that's right rgg Studio nominated

tonight for four times for like a dragon

infinite wealth has not one but two

projects in the works and we honed to

reveal both of those titles for the

first time here tonight now to present

our next award please join me in

welcoming a dear friend who also happens

to be one of our industry's most

Innovative creative Spirits he's been

with us since the very beginning of TGA

in 2014 and is currently hard at work on

death stranding 2 on the beach and OD

please welcome an industry icon hideo

Kaja

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first and foremost congratulations on

tga's 10th anniversary

I've had the privilege of participating

since the very first TGA and I've

witnessed how the role of TGA has grown

every year not only does it celebrate

the achievements of those involved in

the gaming industry but it has also

evolved into an event that brings

together industry's professionals from

around the world focusing deeper

connections with the players TGA now

serves as a bridge not just within the

gaming industry but also between gaming

and other Digital entertainment such as

film television anime and music this

role will undoubtedly become even more

important in the next 20 30 years I'm

looking forward to supporting that too

game Direction plays an important role

in bringing together countless ideas and

uniting them into single cohesive work

tonight's nominees for this award

includes projects created by teams of

hundreds or even thousands as well as

those made by just a few people yet all

of them have a clear and unified Vision

whether it's a small boat a large cruise

ship or a fleet of boats a Helmsman is

required and that Helmsman is the

direction so someone involved in

Direction I'm honored to introduce the

nominees for best game

Direction best game

Direction cleans the world with

blood come now and travel to the realm

of

Shadow it's good to have you back

Cloud we shape our own destiny with our

own

hands and now the winner is asot

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what did you say wow thank you so much

we didn't have a speech ready for this

one um this is really amazing so thank

you so much timas SOI back home you know

all of you really this is for

you um you know game direction is of

course you know like as kiman said you

know like an emble of things and you

know but actually in our case it's it's

really like every single person on the

team coming and really bringing their

own vision and being responsible for

their own work so you are all game

directors back home and I really

dedicate this one to you thank you so

much

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congratulations Nico and teamobi uh and

now let's journey to another world for

our next announcement

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attention citizens across the Galaxy the

Valiant hell divers have fought to

protect our way of life but I am here

with grave Tidings managed democracy is

imperil like never before homes are

being ravaged families are being

abducted and you could be next that is

unless you direct your undivided

attention to the following announcement

and remember Freedom conquers

all they arrived without

warning laying waste to our peaceful

colonies crushing all

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resistance they stole our citizens hold

and their

minds and something much much

worse their

freedom but when our citizens are

attacked our greatest heroes

AR to set them free you

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together we will save our people from

this tortured

existence for we are those who stand in

the way of all

tyan who will give our lives today for a

Freer

tomorrow who will take back control of

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freedom and deliver peace to our

homes we are the hell

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diapers now please welcome the creative

director of Warframe Rebecca

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Ford hello everyone hi thank goodness

for waterproof mascara the music has

been a lot that's amazing um but hi

everyone I'm here on behalf of the

Warframe team uh we are here at the 10th

year of the game awards it was actually

12 years ago that we launched the alpha

build of Warframe and it changed the

lives of our team uh our Irreplaceable

Community has allowed us the privilege

to be up

on

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9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

1 that looks great and if you're

watching TGA on Twitch or steam you can

get a free Nicks Warframe tonight during

the show still to come Snoop Dog takes

the stage with World premiere new music

and the game awards Orchestra returns

but first earlier this year power took

over the internet and broke records for

the independent Studio pocket pair

tonight we have a first look at the

game's next update

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Rover one is curious about your choice

this

time follow the

two we have the answers we wanted

already I will not back

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evil

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be

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motivation don't let

go the moner T extend an invitation for

you to grace Runa with your esteemed

presence and partake in the

celebration

IO

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what sheep sheep who when I'm coming you

sleep

you the then of course the choice is

yours you this or you that this or you

that you with this or you that

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creativity unrivaled anywhere Advanced

by

AMD we're back with another deal for a

limited time only Prime members in the

US can go to

amazon.com theame Awards to get $50

inore credit when you buy medaquest

3S from yach Club games winner of Best

independent game at the first game

awards please welcome Celia Schilling

and sha

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Velasco 10 years ago we were called onto

the stage completely stunned as Shovel

Knight our first game took home the

first ever best independent game

award now thank

you and now Shovel Knight is getting old

enough to become vintage in its own

right this year a new set of developers

released their first game they're just

getting started yet they've already

created something

extraordinary we're excited to see how

their talents will shape the industry

for the next next 10

years these are the nominees for Best

debut indie

game Best debut indie

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deserve equal recognition so not only

wants he recognize all ninees tonight

but but also all indie games that were

launched this year that might have flown

under the radar now um what he would

like for you is to explore this world of

indie games and I think you'll find a

scene of extremely talented and

creational uh developers who are

crafting beautiful experience for you to

enjoy every single day now local th I

know you're probably thinking if you can

give this away to another team that you

think deserves it more but sorry Arco he

has to take this

home so local thong

um you have earned this and you deserve

this and everyone at play is just so

proud of you of what you've done and I

hope that at least tonight you get to

enjoy this thank

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you congratulations local Punk all right

as we've been saying all night long we

have some very special game

announcements tonight and this is

certainly one of those enjoy

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it feels like I'm getting less Human by

the

minute that was definitely a good one I

had a great time seeing that game this

summer out in Osaka I love that

franchise how it combined Sword Play and

a Japanese Dark Fantasy setting with

some amazing over-the-top enemies as you

saw saw in that announcement trailer

thank you to Capcom for that all right

now let's get an update on the first

Berserker

Kazan hey everyone I'm Joe Russo and I'm

Anthony Russo and we're thrilled to be

back on the game awards to introduce a

brand new trailer for the first

Berserker Kazan a game rooted in the

legendary dungeon and fighter Universe

our studio agbo collaborated closely

with our friends at neople and Nexon to

create this action-packed cinematic

trailer brought to life in agbo

signature style we're excited to unveil

it here at the game awards along with

the official launch date stay tuned

until the end and enjoy the reveal

per

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fire

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you

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oh

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that was the first Berserker Kazan

coming in March as you saw a great

hardcore action RPG and now we're

thrilled to show you another game set in

the dungeon and fighter Universe for the

first time anywhere a rod is an open

world action RPG developed in on real

Engine 5 it's coming to steam console

and mobile here's the first ever

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look I don't want to give up

everybody wants the tell me how you got

here oh no girl you know I need

this someone in

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love I

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oh bur me up and

out daisies

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to

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I wanted someone to

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love some

looks great all right next is the open

world Zombie Adventure Dying Light the

beast from techland we announced this at

Gamescom it's got combat parkour and

knights you may not survive here's a

brand new look at the game which is

coming in the summer of 2025

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it's not your fault

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Kyle I do not feel obliged to believe

that the same God who is endowed us with

sense reason and intellect has intended

us to forgo their use he has gifted us

the means to decipher the code of Nature

and it's our highest purpose we must

strive to accomplish I only answer to

this Divine

calling and you

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do you see who's the real Beast here

a

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now we'd like to honor some of tonight's

other nominees and winners here are the

nominees for best action adventure game

astrobot Prince of Persia the Lost Crown

Silent Hill 2 Star Wars Outlaws and The

Legend of Zelda Echoes of wisdom this

year the game award goes to astrobot

congratulations another win tonight

that's three here are the nominees for

best RPG dragons Dogma 2 Elden ring

shadow of the earth tree Final Fantasy 7

rebirth like a dragon infinite wealth

and metaphor ref fantasio and the game

award goes to Metaphor ref fantasio

congratulations here are the nominees

for content creator of the Year

queso Ilan techno Gamers typical gamer

and usada peka and the game award goes

to

queso congratulations here are the

nominees for best sports racing game

f124 EA Sports FC 25 NBA 2K 25 Top Spin

2K 25 and WWE 2K 24 gotcha and the game

award goes to EA Sports

fc25 now our ninees for best Sim

strategy game Age of Mythology retold

Frost Punk 2 kenit sugami path of the

Goddess manner Lords and unicorn

Overlord and the game award goes to

frost Punk 2 congratulations to all

those

winners did you catch all that no but I

wish the rest of the show went that fast

yeah it's like the game commercials with

award interruptions no

oh hey someone watching online saw us on

the show oh yeah what did they say oh

see riverrunner 445 said have you too

ever considered becoming developers uh

we're already developers we are Yeah by

watching this show we're developing an

immunity to bad

entertainment oh wait wait wait wait

there's Kojima look did you know that

Jeff Key's friends with him yeah but

does coima know

that oh

boy wow looky there apparently right now

a 100 million people around the world

are watching this show yeah and in the

other 8 billion people have better

sense yeah look JB Jade bot 6 is asking

why are Statler and Waldorf at the game

awards great question I've been asking

myself the same thing help yeah help us

Jade bot 6 your only hope yeah make the

commercials stop please please please

stop make it stop make it

stop it started in the

swamps moved to the

mountains everywhere corruption went

Hunters

follow but now there's something new on

the

move and things will never be the

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it handheld gaming revolutionized

Advanced by

AMD you like watching TV shows and

movies don't watch on that you want a

quest look at that it's a movie theater

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you remember gyms bring the gym to you

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about wa and do you want to play the

hero or be the hero wait I could be

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hello game awards I assume you are all

familiar with the squid game because not

everyone can physically experience the

games we have created a

simulation Unleashed will provide the

same

highs or for the

unskilled lows to all players watching

at home exess will be granted to

everyone on December 17th whether you're

a Netflix member or not be on the

lookout in the following weeks my team

will be unveiling the next round of the

games I have brought with me a special

preview of squid Game season

2 We Believe games can reflect and

improve Society whether we succeed will

be for you to

judge and to all the heads of the

studios and CEOs and attendance your

places already in our VIP

Suite please welcome the founders of

death row games Cordell brus and Snoop

Dog

this year my father and I launched death

row games with the dream of bringing

minority stories to the gaming

world we intend to create a hip-hop

gaming universe that can stand beside

some of these nominees tonight here we

are to present best ongoing

game you see back in the day if you

loved the game you wanted more but you

had to wait until the next game

or as I like to say chill to the next

episode but obviously y'all just

couldn't

chill today's players are treated to

regular updates to their favorite games

making sure the experience always stays

fresh here are the

nominees best ongoing game this place

it's reshaping reality into a perfect

Stillness the return of hatred has

pulled us back into the light our nation

is a fortress and its people the bricks

with which it is

built together they fight for Freedom

will

you them was some dope ass trailers

and the game award goes

to I don't have a game

cuz

yet Hil divers too

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[Applause]

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well I did not expect that um all

right um I'm very honored to be

accepting this award on behalf of the

amazing amazing team over in Stockholm

Sweden that made this possible so please

a round of applause for our amazing devs

thank you so thanks the game awards for

this honor it's really it's an honor for

for all of us uh thank you PlayStation

and our partners for believing in us

over all of these years and also and

most importantly thanks to our amazing

players for the support over this last

year it's been super inspiring to see

everything that you've done with the

game since we launched it and we are

very committed to keep going with this

um game for many more years to come so

thanks a lot and for

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superar congratulations to Arrowhead and

thank you Snoop he's uh dropping like

it's hot right now in fortnite Festival

season 6 after an appearance in Chapter

2 remix and later tonight he will be

back live on stage premiering brand new

Snoop Dog music you are not going to

want to miss that performance but right

now we're thrilled to share the

announcement of a brand new game from a

beloved game

developer who never heard of them

oh that game you got way too playing

that that game turned you into a

psychopath what you threw a right

tantrum no I didn't you said if I tried

to pass you one more onion I told you a

thousand times we didn't need any more

onions okay yeah things did get a little

heated oh sorry excuse me what did I

miss shh it

started hey you're blocking the screen

rude what is going on back there

this looks PR good oh this looks Wicked

oh my oh it's a two

player and they're showing so much game

play oh oh no no no what's happening

Drew what was that did you feel

that I don't understand what's

happening this would never have happened

at

E3 what the heck is that

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that's a fun one stage fright is the

next Co-op game from the incredible team

at Ghost Town games the creators of

overcooked that I know we've all played

over the years and I am so thrilled to

share that with you tonight here on the

show and now it's time to head to a

familiar place the home of iconic novels

and television shows and now in upcoming

action adventure

game in the name of the warrior I charge

you to be

brave in the name of the father I charge

you to be

just in the name of the mother I charge

you to defend the innocent

arise a night of renan's

rest Castle black is the only thing

standing between the white walkers in

the Seven Kingdoms we could use your

help I'm nothing but a northern bastard

from a powerless

house don't underestimate Northern

bastards someone must gather the support

of the great

houses attaining your father's name will

be hard making your own will be harder

it is up to you to decide which is more

worth your

while modesty won't get you very far in

King's Landing do at least try to Fil A

little arrogance we find it far more

familiar you've seen the white walkers

yourself you know what they can do they

have to be

stopped John I will see it

done like it or

not winter

coming all right hunters get ready

Monster Hunter now brings the Monster

hunting action to mobile letting you

take down epic monsters on the go we're

excited to introduce season 4 Roars from

the Winter Wind introducing switch ax

Tundra habitat and even more monsters to

discover look there's one right now

tonight you'll get an exclusive bundle

to kick off your next adventure by using

the code TGA

2024 so grab your gear download Monster

Hunter now and prepare for the hunt now

here's the trailer for season 4 let's

check it

out go go go go go oh my God

y finally making its Monster Hunter Now

debut

TX lag gambi get ready to hunt them then

wield your own switch ax a new season

begins Monster Hunter

now it

begins another battle

let's get this

done it is time we settle this Shadow

surround

you let's go no time to

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waste feel the dragon's WRA t

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a let's end this

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you are all weak who is your ch

you

Cal are you the king of the

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humans arise

power your

dreams Advanced by AMD

longing

ambition

Vengeance powerful emotions that fuel

our

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lives but are they enough When Death

lurks around every

turn when fear and destruction consum

us again and

again and

again join my

tournament find out once and for all

what it takes to defy

death show me the strength of your will

Screamers

you all know the

drill run your

routes clear any infected you see you

run into anything you can't

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handle you come

back Dina

run this way hurry

I have to finish

it you killed my

friends you can't stop this

please welcome from The Last of Us Part

Two Shannon Woodward and from season 2

of HBO's The Last of Us Isabella

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mad

hello hi Dena oh hi Dina hey um so what

brings you here tonight well I'm just

really excited because we are out to

present the best adaptation and we were

a part of an adaptation in many ways and

there is no words right now for me to

read so this is all riffing and improv

um oh and it got me

thinking I know that while we both spent

a lot of time with Ellie we heard so so

many lame puns oh God so many lame puns

you know actually there was one did she

ever tell you the one about tripping

over your girlfriend's Brama no no not

this one again no yeah it was a real

booby trap oh M yeah hey but hey have

you ever heard the one about uh trying

to catch some fog I did but I missed it

o wow Guys these puns could not be worse

but uh Ellie Ellie is pretty great yeah

yeah she has her moments mhm okay but

last one did you hear about why the

Scarecrow won an award earlier in the

show Dina please he was outstanding in

his field much like these TV shows were

outstanding in their field of best

adaptation here are the

nominees best

adaptation wrath must be met with

wrath you look out at this Wasteland

looks like

chaos I am in a kid no

Warrior all I

wanted was to be a Dr

Dron I'm looking for something connected

to my past something

important and the award goes to the game

award goes

to Fallout

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uh I've spent most of the evening coming

up with ways to Heckle Ella for when she

won for Arcane so I don't really have a

speech but I want to thank Graham and

Geneva our extraordinary showrunners who

can't be here tonight because they're

too busy Make It season two

I want to thank Ella Walton Aon the rest

of our extraordinary cast and our

extraordinary crew uh Amazon kilter uh I

want to thank the fans of fall at New

Vegas for not burning my house to the

ground you'll be very happy you didn't

uh last but not least I want to I want

to thank Todd Todd and the extraordinary

team at Bethesda who were absolutely the

most incredible collaborators you could

possibly imagine thank

I too have to thank our uh cast and crew

Everybody involved in this show uh led

by my friend and the incredible Jon and

Nolan and really to everybody who's

worked on Fallout over the years

everybody at Bethesda that I've worked

with on Fallout for 20 years now it's

been incredible we are so blessed with

the best fans there are thank you all

for supporting everything we do thank

you

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[Applause]

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congratulations to Fallout next up we

head to the year

2097 and a co-op Heist FPS den of wolves

from Ulf Anderson the creator of payday

1 and2 and GTFO here's your first look

at the game play

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Midway

City an unregulated corporate Haven in

the middle of the Pacific

Ocean the new land of

opportunity the only thing that matters

here is the bottom line industrial

Espionage sabotage assassinations

who gets into this line of

work it could be

you we compy it's

showtime keep

moving plant the explosives at the

window

open hang in there we're almost ready

dividing enemies line up one by one like

a for Soldier my ground when I st them

down they can't control

us diving in 3 2

1 up the system right let the people for

the real

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take this is new Aid deal

the last City on the

planet despite the seemingly hopeless

situation we've clung to a strange sense

of Joy enduring one wave after

another even if our destruction is

inevitable we'll confronted on our own

terms this is the

place Target detected prepare for action

I've never hesitated to fight for

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you I wield my blade only against

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evil take it easy I've got a lot to live

for it's all because of her let us to a

dead

end but you

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that's a new look at zenis Zone zero a

nominee tonight and the reveal of Astra

the most well-known celebrity in new

arido and now here's a new look at

version 3.0 of Hong Kai star rail coming

in January and a look at the upcoming

adventures in

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all right here we go last month Snoop

Dog simultaneously took over fortnite

and Time Square with one performance

well tonight he's here at the game

awards to finish the fight to help us

celebrate our 10th anniversary like no

one else can debuting a brand new song

from his new album missionary with Dr

Dre that drops

tonight game awards give it up for Snoop

doll I need you on your feet right now

everybody on your feet you at a party y'

one more thing I want to say to

y'all thank you for let me be

myself can we get high please excuse me

but I kiss the sky thank you for let me

be

myself can we get high please excuse me

one my K the just ain't the same

gangsters time to change it young homies

is dangerous Rich sham do anything to be

famous if you're talking about the

stripping and you speaking my language

that's how you feel when you never put

the word up under you I'm roll toe up so

comfortable I'm up my I'm

unil I made

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what I want to do I just want to say

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thank you for let me

be if you having a good time tonight

Make Some

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Dog we going to get give it to you 1993

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funky ass hits like every single day May

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make a few ends as I breath through it's

2 in the morning and the party still

jumping cuz my mom ain't home I got some

freaks in the living room getting it on

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morning so what you want to do look I

got a pocket full of rubs in my home

boys do too so turn off the lights and

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street we smoking in sipping on ch ch

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cultiva and music that be captivating

hate who listen to the words that I

speak as I take me a drink to the middle

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streak named s she used to be my homeboy

lady now it was 8 de when I told that

freak please raise off and you te cuz

you get none of these at ease as I with

your dog P feel the breeze and now you

know I'm

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just L back with my mind on my money

yeah my money on my mind rolling down

the street we smoking in sipping

on laid back with my mind on my money

and my money on my mind thank

you Snoop Dogg the legend what an

amazing performance thank you Snoop his

new album with Dr Dre missionary comes

out tonight and snoop's now in fortnite

as a season 6 Festival icon and starting

today you can also grab Platinum

Festival icons the weekend Lady Gaga

Billy ish and Carol G also this year

once again we had the game awards vote

in fortnite island where the fortnite

community picked murder mystery as their

favorite island of the year you can head

to the TGA Island right now to check out

all the nominees and meet metahuman Jeff

yes that's actually a thing stick around

much more game awards ahead including

more surprise new game reveals that's

right we are far from done and awards

like best narrative and of course Game

of the Year with the game awards

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Zelda's adventure begins with monsters

she can learn Echoes of pots meat and

even enemies h a delicious distraction

uh-oh Plan

B time to fly

Zelda with so many Echoes to learn how

you use them is up to you the Legend of

Zelda Echoes of wisdom available now

only on Nintendo

switch hey you're in the PC game pass ad

want new games on day one yeah bet we

got

you what the cool safe house next how

about a new career with EA play ribs got

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this is my kind of office party I want

to play with all the League of Legends

Champions Riot benefits say Les we got

you I met the ones in the game hey PC

game pass we got

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you this rat cult spreads through Gotham

like a

plague I have to stop it even if it

consumes

me we repress our rage

it feeds the shadow deep inside

us I'm done holding

back welcome back we still have a few

big Awards to hand out but first for a

limited time only Prime members in the

US can go to

amazon.com theame Awards to get up to

50% off select gaming accessories from

Brands Turtle Beach PDP steel series and

Razer now please welcome singer

songwriter

khed music and score in video games

isn't just the soundtrack of our journey

the racing heartbeat of every battle The

Haunting echo of every failure and the

soul of every Victory from soaring

orchestral pieces to intimate Melodies

that break our

hearts the right music makes games

Unforgettable here are the nominees for

best score and

music best score and music

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[Applause]

and the game award goes

to Final Fantasy

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[Laughter]

thank you so much everyone I'm so

excited I have no words

[Applause]

it's truly an honor to receive this

award here at the game awards and I'd

like to take this moment to express my

sincere thanks to our development team

that helped create this wonderful game

together

[Applause]

this is my very first time attending the

game awards here today and I'm so

honored and pleased to receive this

award

[Applause]

and I'm equally pleased today to be able

to finally announce the PC version of

the

game with this I am delighted to be able

to bring the Beautiful music of this

game to even more fans around the

world go thank you

[Applause]

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congratulations to Final Fantasy and now

it's time for a tease of what's next

from a legendary gaming franchise

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yeah that's all you get there will be

much more to sure about Sonic racing

crossworld in 2025 I've had the pleasure

of playing it and trust me it is a ton

of fun next year fans will get to

experience the mafia franchise like

never before in Mafia the old country An

Origin story said in the brutal criminal

underworld of 1900 Sicily tonight we

have the world's first look at this

cinematic narrative action

game all of the men in this

room are Bound by Blood this is a

family and in this family we follow a

code of

honor it is not forgiving

to betray

one is to betray

all do you wish to

commit

yourself your life to this

family I do

do become a man of

Honor repeat these

words I swear my

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loyalty this a

family my

flesh must burn like this

saint if I do not keep my out

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welcome

H summer 2025 now more winners tonight

at the game awards here are the nominees

for best independent game animal wellth

vatro lur Li in the laser eyes neeva and

UFO 50 and the game award goes to batro

congratulations again now the nominees

for best mobile game AFK Journey balatro

Pokemon Trading Card Game pocket

wethering waves and zenis Zone zero and

the game award goes to batro

congratulations again local

fund here are the nominees for best

audio design astrobot Call of Duty black

cops six Final Fantasy 7 rebirth Sena

Saga hellblade 2 and Silent Hill 2 and

the game award for audio design goes to

Sena Saga hell blade to congratulations

Ninja

Theory now the nominees for players

voice it started with 30 down to these

five black myth Wukong genin impact

Elden ring shadow of the earth tree

wethering waves and Zess Zone zero and

the game award 100% by the global

Community selected this goes to black

myth Wukong congratulations game science

all right there's still more game awards

to go and more game announcements ahead

but right now here's a look at Infinity

Nikki which is already achieved 20

million downloads and a look at the new

shooting star scene for the first time

anywhere

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explor and fze Pi out for all this R

trying out all styles and don't leave

any friendships behind add a final touch

snap a so Ventures can rewind the world

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picking up it's time to R

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the will be your fun tonight the dress

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together

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done I've done for my

family family and who you're born

with is who you die for

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go go go go

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go

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go go

welcome back you've seen the trailers

now you get to play the games wethering

waves and solo leveling arise are

available on Google Play games on PC for

both Android and iPhone users the best

part with Google play games you can

seamlessly sync your favorite titles

across mobile and PC check it out and go

play please welcome previous game awards

winner Laura Bailey and Emmy Award

winner Aaron

Paul wow oh my god um it is just so

awesome to be here at the game awards

with Laura Bailey an absolute voice

acting

Legend right I mean Last of Us

Spider-Man critical

role I'm honored to say that I I got to

work with you on dispatch the game that

we're actually announcing tonight yeah

but I haven't actually worked with you

you know we never recorded at the same

time no I I know but you know

technically we never shared the booth

but it is cool if I tell people our

friends out there that we you know we

work together wait no let me get this

straight you're you are asking if it's

okay to tell people you worked with

me yeah

yeah

no no this is just a flat no flat no

yeah listen

Evan that's that's that's funny but it's

actually Aaron not not Evan but yeah

look I get it you were in like the

greatest show of all time and yeah

everybody loved the wire but

listen Okay that's TV right and this is

video games okay yeah this is

Art Plus I find it kind of strange that

we've been backstage the whole time and

you're only asking me this now so well

you told me not to speak to you

backstage when I came up to you no I

told you not to look at me okay oh

listen Evan uh acting is listening okay

we're back there night you jump on me

with this now I mean look I guess I was

just a little star stru meeting you you

know let's be honest so I know we're

just reading off the prompter but it

still felt really good to hear you say

that yeah yeah yeah what I say about

looking at me though sorry all right

here is the world premiere trailer for

the game Laura and I worked on

separately together

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man you're dead I

thought just on the

inside my suit was destroyed you have a

lot left to give I would like to make

you an

offer this is sdn how can we help you

you want me to sit in an office and

dispatch Heros

in exchange we can make you Mecha man

again FL step dad B superhero with no

superpowers can't

wait it is the night whenever there's a

crisis in the area we get a call and

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easy oh you shouldn't have done that

what are you doing in

vial is that your car I don't have a car

that's going to be a weird weird

Insurance

claim you're right at home behind that

desk cuz you're no hero you're a nerd

playing a video game in a suit your

daddy

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P you going to eat those twinks that's

not what they're you know what help

yourself

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oh what's your name little guy my name's

beef and I'm nakan oh no I refuse to

believe that's what he sounds

like that was dispatch and now to

present our next award please welcome a

game Award winner from last year he's a

Visionary Creator Sam Lake from remedy

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[Applause]

I was back at the game awards it felt

like a loop I'd lost track of how many

times I've been here how many awards I'd

won something kept nagging at me forcing

me to snap out on my revery I was here

to do a job hand out the award for best

narrative the nominees were each

incredible frankly I was so impressed by

the storytelling genius I was overcome

by a nasty fit of

jealousy but they would never need to

know that play it

cool on the stage I felt an urge to

dance that's what they all wanted hm

I'd save it for another time keep this

short here are the nominees for best

narrative best narrative you here to

pick a fight why not take us on it's

upon us I'm sending you to Hawaii

someone there who wants to meet you you

ready for this kasuga this is a way of

the real world scard I will show you a

world with honor the heartbeat of The

Lost Ones

I can feel them on my skin Mary died of

that damn disease 3 years ago so then

why am I looking for

her and the game award goes

to Metaphor re

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fantasio e

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uh so first of all I think it's

fantastic I feel so happy and so honored

to be up here on stage at this

incredible show um I think storytelling

is a really important part of games and

I think uh knowing that we were we we

focused on making stories throughout our

career and knowing that we've been

honored here in this way today is really

honoring so additionally I'd like to

thank everybody at the studio who has

helped make this game it without their

help we could not have done this so

thank you guys so

much thank you thank you very much

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congratulations Hino Shima that's uh

really amazing metaphor reantaso um I

love these moments where we're able to

pass the torch from a previous winner to

a brand new honory thanks to Sam Lake as

well for coming out for that all right

well before we get to game of the year

we do have one last very special

announcement to share with you this year

the stars align for some very magical

things to happen at our anniversary show

things that might not have ever seemed a

possib ility if you truly love video

games like I do this

moment is for all of us

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oh my God what an amazing moment

together again takui son and Kamia son

and his new studio that we're also

announcing Clover's production is just

about to begin on the Okami Sequel and I

am beyond honored we could share this

very special announcement here at our

10th anniversary celebration thank you

to Capcom and the tuoto family for this

anniversary gift still to come game of

the year but right now here's some much

awaited news on the release timing for

Crimson Desert from

pear the continent of

pywell a land soaked in Blood by the

battles of those who seek

peace and those who seek to shatter

it here begins The Saga of the

greenes there are beings who brought

chaos to

problems the Rifts they have created

will return everything to

nothingness we seek to correct

this I have my own mission

seeking out my gming

comets what I can tell you now is that

this Mission will restore the disrupted

Providence

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for those who have

died for those who have

survived and for those who will live

on this is our

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mission the world's best gaming

processor Advanced by AMD

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Time Walk

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my

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we Waldorf you old fool what a nightmare

I was having I dreamed we were still at

the game award

we are no

yep and even worse I heard a Final

Fantasy game is up for Game of the Year

H well my final fantasy is for this show

to be over yeah right and I also heard

they nominated DLC for Game of the

Year that's like living a giving a

liftime Achievement Award to pre-order

bonuses hey hey look I think the show is

about to get better oh yeah time to

watch key make a fool of himself again

exactly I love this show more Jeff key

yeah what a [ __ ] look at him give it

bring it to us look at him B in there

what a

maroon ah The Muppets all right welcome

back to the game awards everyone before

we present game of the year I just

wanted to come out here and reflect on

the moments we've shared over the past

decade and tonight there have been so

many incredible announcements I can't

believe the show that we're able to put

together and thanks to all the studios

and Developers for helping us make it

happen uh so I just want to say thank

you to so many of you here in the person

who have believed in me along the way

and trusted our team to create this

event and thank you to the fans around

the world for taking your time to watch

this show every year Gaming's greatest

days are ahead and I can't even begin to

imagine where this industry will be for

our 20th anniversary and we're going to

keep working as hard as we can to keep

the game awards and the game industry

growing around the

world now because tonight is such a

special

show we do have one more

thing one of our industry's most

celebrated developers has been hard at

work in complete secrecy building a

brand new original World unlike anything

they've done before what you're about to

see is captured entirely in the game

engine we're happy to share with you

tonight's final world premiere at the

10th anniversary of the game awards

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there you have it that was Intergalactic

the heretic Prophet a brand new

franchise from Naughty Dog and

Playstation directed by Neil Duckman and

starring tati Gabrielle as Jordan mun

I'm also happy to share the trailer you

just saw and the full game will feature

a new original score from Trent resner

and attakus

Ross the game has been in development

since 2020 and we can't wait to learn

more thanks to naughty dog and

Playstation for that special

announcement and now to present the

biggest honor of the night over the past

decade 10 distinguished titles have been

recognized as game of the year please

welcome last year's winner from laran

Sven vinka

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I realize you guys have been sitting

here for over 3 hours but I still have

some time credits from last year to cash

in so so it turns out that not only will

I be the one who will know as first

which game wins tonight they actually

also know which game is going to win

next year the year after and the year

after now how do I know this well an

oracle told me she said change is coming

it's a modern Oracle so they made me

sign an NDA but I trust all of you I

know you can keep a secret you will

never leak it the Oracle told me that

the game of the year 2025 was going to

be made by a studio studio who found the

formula to make it up here on stage it's

stupidly simple but somehow it keeps on

getting lost Studio made their game

because they wanted to make a game that

they wanted to play themselves they

created it because it hadn't been

created before they didn't make it to

increase market share they didn't make

it to serve as a brand they didn't have

to meet arbitrary sales targets or fear

being laid off if they me didn't meet

those targets and furthermore the people

in charge forbade them from cramming the

game with anything whose only purpose

was to increase revenue and didn't serve

the game design they didn't treat their

developers like numbers on a spreadsheet

they didn't treat their players as users

to

exploit and they didn't make decisions

they knew were shortsighted in function

of a bonus or politics they knew that if

you put the game and the team first the

revenue will follow they were driven by

idealism and wanted players to have fun

and they realized that if the developers

didn't have fun nobody was going to have

any fun they understood the value of

respect that if they treated their

developers and players well those same

developers and players would forgive

them when things didn't go as planned

but above all they cared about their

game because they loved G games it's

really that simple said the Oracle

winning game of the earth turned out to

be a lifechanging event for us it was an

amazing thing to those who will win game

of the year 2024 you have no idea what's

waiting for you it's an incredible honor

and you're in for a heck of a ride now

remember should you be told to wrap it

up for tonight you can always come back

next here and chat for three minutes

okay so now to pay tribute to the nomin

NES for game of the year once again Lura

Bal and the TJ Orchestra

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and the game of the year

is astrobot

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what did you say your name was

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wow nothing I'm prepare you for that

thank you so much I'm thinking once

again to all the ases back in Japan you

know all 65 of them right now they're

crying so please a round of applause for

them thank you

it's you guys

as um you know when I thought about you

know why this game you know give people

joy and smiles on their faces I think it

came down to the people every day making

the game and doing exactly that I think

you know the when I think of the team is

the amount of generosity they gave they

put the user first always you know never

thought about any you know any

calculation it was just about the kids

especially because we had this huge huge

privilege to be potentially the first

game to be in the hands of children and

we know what it means very much um so

timas will be really uh from the bottom

of our heart you know well done and

thank you so much now thank

you I have to thank a few more people

because a lot of people contributed to

this game of course in si and

Playstation or F Min you know Herman who

give you know the studio a chance and

Scott Roy who really believe in Astro

even before we

did Ken Channel marketing and many many

other people that I'm not mentioning you

know astrobot is full of 30 years of

PlayStation history and actually a lot

of people in this room tonight gave

their characters their IP without asking

anything in return just because they

cared about celebrating 30 years so to

them as well you know from the bottom of

our heart thank you so

much and then last and not least and you

want to stay for this one because I

didn't plan to say it but I'm going to

say it anyway you know

Platformers you know PlayStation 30

years and we made a platformer which is

great it's very nostalgic and and fresh

at the same time but let's not forget

that even before PlayStation there were

people making Platformers I remember I

was a kid in 1989 Christmas and I got a

gray box there was a game packed in he

was Co Super Mario Brothers and it was

really really great so

we are in Japan we're in Tokyo they are

in Kyoto but I want to pay tribute to

the company who really put like

Platformers and showed us Innovation and

quality consistently and inspired us to

actually make the game that we made so

that's also and I've managed not to

mention them have you

noticed but you all know who they are

and many other companies have been

inspired over the years so that's very

very important and we want to Tri you

know pay tribute to them um tonight so

from the bottom of thank you so much

it's amazing and uh we'll see you again

thank you so

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much congratulations astrobot and that

is going to do it for our 10th

anniversary of the game awards more than

anything thing I hope tonight made you

believe the future of our medium is

brighter and greater than ever

congratulations to the winners and

thanks to all the incredible teams

around the world who shared their

upcoming work with us today putting

together this show has been so special

to our team personally and

professionally thanks to all of you for

showing up and believing in me and the

game awards we'll see you back here at

the peacock theater for the game awards

2025 our 12th show live on Thursday

December 11th 2025 thank you happy

holidays have a good night

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hello and welcome to 's TJ post show I'm

Damon that's Jada that's Nick and that's

all yet but enough about us let's get

right into it and talk about what we

just saw tonight lots of big

announcements to get to we'll be talking

about Witcher four we'll be talking

about Elden ring Night Guard no sorry

night rain we talking about Borderlands

4 and so much more but let's begin with

a big surprise from towards the end of

the show this is the newest game from

Naughty Dog it's called Intergalactic

the heretic profit I am so excited for

this I love naughty dog is a studio I

love pretty much every game they've made

uh so you know Color Me bias but man I

am so so excited for this game the just

everything you could see there's little

details from a bunch of other games her

the main character Jordan uh you saw

Ellie's tattoo on one of her arms there

was just so much Naughty Dog DNA just

sprinkled into this trailer and little

hidden bits like I'm I'm beyond hype for

this yeah it might not have been

halflife three but you know you shoot

for the moon and you even if you miss

you up Among the Stars right and I think

that's what we did here with

Intergalactic uh one thing that strikes

me right away is just the kind of outrun

Vapor wave uh atmosphere that it's kind

of evoking a lot of uh retro future

technology we see you know a Porsche in

space very cool I think the protagonist

is rocking Adidas we got a make a make

believe anime that looks very good and

even like the the video calling software

that we're seeing it just looks like a

just like an old vintage VHS and I just

love everything I'm seeing and a

Playstation blog post went up uh just

after the announcement and it looks like

our main character Jordan is Jordan a

Jordan aun is a bounty hunter and she

gets stranded on uh the planet I

presumably we see at the end of the

trailer chasing what looks like kumal n

Giani so who knows if this is going to

be a Metroid Prime situation but uh I'm

intrigued I just saw got a better look

at the tattoo it's actually like a like

an octopus or a squid on there not not

Ellie's tattoo I just absolutely love

that the game just looks so so real the

engine everything is in engines it just

looks great at first I thought this

looks like cyber Punk um it's it's it's

incredible I cannot wait to see more

gameplay of it and just the idea of

going from the ship into the planet I

hope we get to see and experience a

little bit of that um when loading into

the into the planet I just can't wait to

see more yeah we have a little bit more

information from Sony now on the

Playstation blog so this has been in

development since 2020 which makes sense

since that's when the last of was part

two came out so many years in

development now and uh our protagonist

here Jordan she's stranded on uh an

alien planet called ceria it's a Planet

whose communication with the outside

Universe went dark hundreds of years ago

in fact anyone who's flown to it hoping

to unravel its mysterious past has NE

was never heard from again Jordan will

have to use all her skills and wits if

she hopes to be the first person in over

600 years to leave its orbit so it's

this is like a a maroon you know try to

survive and try to escape sort of

scenario I dig it and one thing you know

based on the the track record that na

dogs had in its recent releases I'm

looking at you um Uncharted Lost Legacy

and even the last Last of Us Part Two

we've seen them kind of ditch the more

linear format that they've kind of

adopted with the earlier Uncharted games

and it's more open Hub style games and

I'm hoping that this game is going to

kind of elevate them to the next level

of potentially open world where we're

able to explore a fleshed out uh alien

world with a lot of interesting things

to see and do because their past couple

of games have really kind of set that

precedent M interesting you mentioned

aliens we got to see I think it was a

bot on the planet we didn't see yet to

see any animals or monsters in there so

I wonder what kind of beings exist in

the planet that she's exploring and she

had also a melee weapon looked pretty

cool yeah like kind kind of lightsaber

is sort of thing yeah and she kind of

charged like a it looked like an

automatic pistol type thing when she was

in her ship and then obviously we see a

transition over to the energy axe or

whatever it is on the planet side the

blog mentions some other like castmates

that we'll eventually meet that my one

of my biggest concerns is because na dog

is such a narrative driven company and

their games are so narrative driven and

being alone STR on a planet kind of goes

against what they're usually doing with

a lot of the sure but it just says that

this planet stopped communicating

hundreds of years ago so there's

probably other you know individuals

there that she'll encounter yeah yeah

something like that lots of branding in

this in this trailer you mentioned the

Porsche that she's flying the Sony is

you know expected they don't have to go

anywhere to use the Sony brand but then

they also show she's wearing Adidas

shoes and I just think it's an

interesting choice because in a big

reveal trailer like this everything you

see is very very intentional right so

they

they some there's some reason I think

that they're showing that they have

branding in this world but Intergalactic

the heretic profit so I mean a lot to

unpack there with those very select

words but again this is all just

speculation there's a prophet

potentially a heretic who

knows it's cool do you think uh any

guesses on you know in development for

four years now when are we going to play

this game I'd say at best early 20 or

late 25 but I'm guessing like a spring

2026 I'm saying spring 2026 as well 2025

is packed right now I would say 2026

almost every game shown tonight was 2025

but what does that mean for PlayStation

in terms of 2025 releases right well

there's um uh ghost of Y ghost of Y

we've got I'm sure we're going to see a

lot more hell diver support we still

have a couple things we're waiting to

hear from other Studios that haven't

announced things that may be close to

working on some Santa Monica I'm sure

there's other things they've got other

Studios have gotten the works as well we

also learned that the soundtrack for

Intergalactic is being done by Trent

Reser and attakus Ross so it's going to

be good great thing you know it's going

to be a great soundtrack yeah I'm

excited for this uh you know it's been a

long time it's been four years since

their NAU dog's last full game I like

pretty much everything they do I like

sci-fi settings so I'm definitely on

board with Intergalactic I'm glad they

uh used restraint and did not go with

the BC Boys in Intergalactic

in that would be very all too easy two

spot on yeah two spot on well let's talk

about some other uh big announcements

Witcher four we talked about this in our

pre-show it's it's we were we were right

got that one right yep I'm so excited

for Witcher four I think we all are I'm

pretty sure I screamed a little bit when

I I I expected this game to be announced

in the game awards I'm just so happy

that we actually got to see it that we

got confirmation that Siri is the main

protagonist that she has fully become a

Witcher we even got to see her

transformation in her eyes like she got

her cat eyes I just I just cannot wait

to see what this journey is going to

take on for her it's it's completely

different character than geralt oh 100%

we had um also incredible work to uh

Matt perso who is our IGN UK

correspondent who actually went to CD

project red and has a fully flushed out

um kind of uh interview with CD project

red diving into The Witcher 4 and one

thing that they touch on as you

mentioned she has the cat eyes um

following The Witcher 3 it looks like

Siri does undergo the trial of the

grasses which is the um kind of ritual

all uh willbe witchers undergo a lot of

them die she does not apparently and she

has become now a Witcher and one thing

that stood out to me about the interview

that Matt conducted was that um that

Siri is a more impassioned person

compared to geralt geralt's a lot more

logical and she lets her you know she

wears her heart on her sleeve it seems

and I'm really curious to see how that

is a different uh authored experience

from Geral but letting your emotions

control you is the path of the dark side

yeah true our chat is actually in this

is their biggest thing for the night

I've been polling our chat all night uh

I put our final poll up between the

biggest four which was Intergalactic

Witcher four Elden ring night rain and

Borderland 4 and currently as the votes

stand Witcher four is leading with 39%

of the votes so the the chat is seems

like they're very happy for what you're

for they're excited to see it I love

that we're getting Siri I think she's

GNA be a Fant fantastic protagonist I

just can't wait to see the different

abilities and skills that she brings to

the table and I don't think you know for

people who are sad that you're not going

to play as Galt if I I believe at the

end of the trailer we heard geralt speak

a little bital will be in the game I

imagine he's going to be a more vasir

like Mentor like I'm looking on but you

do Your Own Thing Siri so I'm excited

for that yeah and his voice actor had

said recently that you know he he was

going to be in the game but just not the

main character and then you had to walk

that back a little

bit slap on the I think it's pretty

clear that geralt's in in the game in

some capacity well one thing that's cool

too is in the trailer it looks like Siri

taking on um a kikim which is like an

arachnid style enemy which you've seen

in The Witcher at some point but I just

the witcher's so good at doing cinematic

like story scenes like this that are

probably not even going to be in the

game but are probably super important to

the story of the game um and one other

thing that stood out out to me about the

trailer is right at the very start it

did say that this game or this trailer

was rendered um using unidentified

NextGen NVIDIA GTX uh graphics processor

which means everyone's wallets are going

to be hurting because that's likely

running on like a 5090 or something

because I know Witcher 3 was marketed

with the 2080 if I'm not mistaken back

when it came out so this is going to

make PCS cry all across the land and I

can't wait yeah it looks visually

impressive this is definitely ue5 so

like we're going to I'm expecting great

quality out of this one I actually found

some information on the monster that we

got to see his name is Bach and he has

the ability B Bob maybe Bob Bach he has

the ability to smell your fear to be

able to play with your traumas to

paralyze you so that you can become easy

PR prey and an easy meal I wonder how

that's going to play in the game if if

there's going to be an interaction there

with with Siri and her abilities but it

was so cool to see this monster and in

in the game and the way she actually

defeats it too she seems to use her

unique Siri abilities to be able to save

herself mhm yeah I think that's what's

going to really set Siri apart from

geralt is her magical abilities like

obviously geralt has access to weaker

magic Allah signs but Siri can straight

up teleport and things like that so I'm

curious to see if there's going to be um

better traversal because let's be real

uh as as good as The Witcher 3 is

movement ain't among the top things

that's a about that game so I'm excited

to see not only Siri as a character but

also this is the first time CD project

Reds adopted ue5 um I believe cyber Punk

and Witcher 3 were on red engine which

was their proprietary in-house engine so

curious to see how they acclimate to ui5

and see uh if if it pays off in the long

run B unversal you didn't like roach

just running through the whole anywhere

time you called them I don't like geralt

dying from a 5 foot drop whenever he

jumps off of a little ledge are we get a

roach for Siri we've got to some she's

got to need her own M do you do you need

a mount if you can teleport though I

yeah yeah how far can she teleport she

teleports to like night City for all we

know well doesn't gett teleport to he

TPS from City to City true true but he

hates telor he hates teleporting it was

expected Siri would be the protagonist I

was a little surprised that it's called

The Witcher 4 same um just cuz it's been

under code name Polaris all this time

and we know that it's starting a new you

know a new Trilogy a new story geralt

story was ending so I thought maybe it'd

be like you know The Witcher colon

series big adventure or something like

that yeah yeah it feels like it almost

makes me think that geralt is in the

story in some way still woven into into

this new saga and that's why it's called

Witcher for it's still it's always been

Siri from the beginning but with geralt

is still woven in there I was surprised

by that too I thought there was going to

be a new name for this Saga but I I

don't mind it yeah I mean it all just

means unfortunately I I don't know

anything but he's definitely got a die

at some point then right wow I mean you

know it's like a mentor to mentee style

thing it has to happen it does happen

it's a it is a very popular Trope in a

lot of story stories in general and I

know um I believe Andre sapkowski the um

the the author of The Witcher novels I

believe he actually just put out a new

Witcher novel um I believe it just came

out in Poland but hasn't been localized

here uh just yet I was just I was

patrolling The Witcher 3 subred the

other day cuz I got back into the

Witcher always a good time to get back

into the Witcher I missed the end of

that trailer there uh how did you

interpret what happened to what the

maiden who was going to be sacrificed

did she uh do herself in or did someone

from her Village do that because she was

supposed to be sacrificed to the monster

right yeah I I kind of uh saw it as her

father presumably being the one to do it

because like a sense of politics that

The Witcher is known for its kind of

like um Grim's fairy tale style thing

where you know even though you might

have done the heroic thing people just

inherently awful and um I think that

there's a lot of politics at play

whether they be giant tiny Villages or

giant castle cities um and I think

that's very in line with what The

Witcher is known for it is dark fantasy

for a reason it's uh tough pills to

swallow the game to me it felt like

something a message for Siri and like

for her to learn that even though she

was trying to save this girl there are

consequences to changing the way this

Village had you know its practices and

she went in thinking that she could save

this girl and to take down the monster

cuz that's what witchers do but that had

a consequence and the girl would have

Pro probably died either way snaps all

around it a very good piece very good uh

debut trailer okay we have to take a

quick break but before that let's take a

look at the next installment in The

Killing Floor franchise Killing Floor 3

and when we return we're going to check

in with what you all thought of the game

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igf welcome back this is ain's live

coverage of the game awards saw so many

big games tonight Elden ring night rain

Borderlands 4 split fiction and more but

let's see what the folks online are

talking about using our Lenovo Le Legion

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display now our first tweet comes from

comes from yam yam iie I think is how I

said it right uh finally a brand new

game from nauy dog Intergalactic the

heretic profit I was low-key tired of

hearing the last of us all the time even

though it's my favorite game of all time

I definitely you know I love the last of

us as well but I am so happy to see

something new yeah I agreed I think it's

refreshing you know you it's always

remakes and sequels so it's nice to see

new things because people are creative

and like making new things it's been

over 10 years since it's their last new

game The Last of Us right Y in 2013 I

believe W 2013 you got it uh following

that up we've got at NK doomfist uh

Clover is back with a new Okami yeah

we're definitely going to get this one I

have no words Capcom is cooking tonight

Capcom was all over this showcase and

I'm very excited Capcom was all over the

Showcase no Resident Evil 9 no no

Resident Evil 9 other good stuff let's

let's talk about okam for a second here

this is a huge surprise unexpected to

say the least uh I mean I love Okami I

love Okami too it just nobody I feel

like nobody's thought about Okami since

Okami Den which was a DS prequel like

what um it looks like it's um kind of uh

based on what we saw in that visual

again the Okami sequel we don't know

what the real name is but it looks like

it's still leaning into the Japanese

like watercolor art style uh a great

news Hideki kamama is back everyone's

favorite dude to hate uh Masterpiece

Creator Resident Evil 2 uh yeah he's

back at Capcom I guess question mark at

least working with them on commission by

them but I'm excited to see what a dude

like Kamya can bring back to uh the

Okami Series yeah like you guys said PS2

and DS were the last times we really got

Okami obviously we've had remasters or

ports to like the wiii and other

consoles but with all the new technology

and how advanced technology is I am so

excited to see what they do with the art

in this one because I can do so much

more as someone who was not familiar

with Okami just watching the trailer for

the first time it looked beautiful the

waterc collar effects uh Nick here fill

me in on the character she's a princess

right a mov you were like what's Okami

about I was like well you play as like

this wolf the embodiment of the Moon God

amarazu and then she brings life to the

land by running around and making

flowers everywhere I think that about

that in the watercolor effect in when

when you go into the trailer I think

it's it's beautiful and it's definitely

something that seems interesting to me

and uh yeah I can't wait to see what all

the hype is about and gameplay Wise It's

a Zelda like it's a big like open world

Zelda game with Dungeons and stuff like

Arena style combat and just a really

cool like meta wall breaking uh gameplay

mechanic where you use a water brush to

like basically seals on demons and stuff

um one of my favorite things about Okami

as a series is that is very steeped in

Japanese like folklore so a lot of like

yo-kai that are available a lot of like

Japanese ancient myths and things like

that you might not be familiar with and

it's just fun to learn new things about

different cultures yeah yep fun fact

about Okami when they ported it to the

Wii this is true the box that the game

came in the cover the Box had the IGN

logo on it they had the watermark but

the watermark yeah cuz they grabbed

assets from IG an ignan site so at some

point so got to love that we're we're

part of Okami lore it's true okay what's

our next tweet next tweet is from at the

Ben star I'm in Tekken 8 Ben star we got

cly the voice actor the voice actor for

clyve Rosefield from Final Fantasy 16

not Tifa not Tifa I was so close on my

my guest but I'm happy we got we got a

Final Fantasy character and it fits with

their Trend like you said in the

pre-show where we got noctis last yeah I

mean it's the most recent Final Fantasy

and the game is basically a Devil May

Cry like so it makes sense that that a

fighting game character from a Final

Fantasy game is in a fighting game uh

also Clive an incredible character and

Ben star did a wonderful job voicing

Clive and bringing him to life fantastic

one day we'll get Master Chief in a

fighting game one day we did get a

Spartan back in Dead or Alive four that

was back in the day but wasn't Master

Chief so we're still waiting for he's

still waiting for his uh his Smash

Brothers letter to come in or invitation

uh next up we've got at Wing aide one

seamless Co-op Elden ring forget

GTA okay big fighting words those are

fighting words the wing of fide Came Out

Swinging uh I don't know if the the

grand community at large is uh going to

agree with that sentiment but a lot of

people are hyped for Elden ring uh night

rain Elden ring night rain should we get

into that one yeah let's get into it so

I I want to hear what Nick has to say

about this I know he's a big Elden ring

player but this is something pretty

different this is uh very different it

looks like it's way more focused around

Co-op though you do have the ability to

play this single player but not two

people but not two people yes it's meant

to be enjoyed with friends but one thing

that stands out to me is that this is

like um like it's it's Elden ring on

some sort of performance enhancing drug

because it is moving fast and it is

intended for you to do dungeon runs

within the of 8 to 10 minutes and

there's way faster means of traversal I

saw some wall climbing I saw some flying

and it looks like um I I like was

quickly able to glance through what we

had written uh I believe we have a big

thing up on the site about it but it

looks like there's a ring of fire

essentially all of fortnite that

CL and there's different bosses you can

take on I I do you have any more details

on it D yeah so Tristan in in Australia

he played the game for about six hours

so uh he describes it as you take the

cautious dungeon crawls of Elden ring

and turbocharge them into propulsive

slash and dash speedruns and your runs

are spread over three days and each day

is about 15 minutes long so your run is

going to be about 45 minutes long and

during each day yeah the map shrinks and

it's getting smaller and smaller until

you're enclosed in an area and you fight

a boss and then if you beat it you go on

to the next day and the the ring grows

big again you have another day and you

spend your day running around trying to

find the best equipment and leveling up

as much as you can before it's time to

fight the boss and everything is

randomized with each run so an Elden

ring battle royale well Rog like Rog

like closer to a Rog likee but yeah and

almost more extraction

shooter um one thing that stood out to

me about that same preview I saw that

you don't really build a character you

choose from like one of eight different

preconfigured classes that all have

their kind of unique um strengths and

weaknesses but one thing that sounds out

to me at first I thought this is just a

multiplayer only like there's no story

but what we saw that kind of looked like

Mel and that looked like a pissed off

Melina Allah the end of well well we

won't dive too far there but the game's

2 years old at this point if you haven't

beaten it it's your own fault uh but

from what I've seen uh in this trailer

it does look like it takes place post

game of Elden ring based on some of the

Arenas that we see here and also this

dude is that the um the secret boss in

Dark Souls 3i the uh what's his face the

uh oh the nameless king the namess king

is that the nameless King the dude who

is the son of the Gwyn from Dark Souls

one my lore mind is breaking how are

they crossing the streams I don't know

how they do this but I'm going to be

there day one I cannot wait for Elden

ring night rain night rain what who is

is there night King as in a rain of

Kings yeah not not as in rain falling

from the sky what if you fight your

Elden Lord that takes your save from

your previous Elden ring thing I don't

I'm just making stuff that would be F

but like there is there is a precedent

for taking your save data and using it

against you in previous from soft games

Allah the nameless Monk and um we see

the mimic tier in Elden ring so I'm very

excited I don't know if this one's for

me I'm more of a single player guy I

know you can play it by yourself but you

know uh games that are built for

multiplayer like hell ders 2 for

instance when you play them by

yourselves you're in it's just not

nearly as good as an experience so I

don't know if it's for me but Jada elak

what do you think I I mean this is right

at my alley I love Challenge and being

able to take these things on solo is

right up my alley uh I also did a lot of

Hell diver solo very lot of stealth runs

lot of stealth runs but yeah no this is

this looks great I I'm a little worried

about the kind of set preset builds and

such and how much variety you're going

to be able to build and how much

versatility you're going to be able to

actually make in these runs but I mean

fromsoft hasn't really let us down so

I'm not going to start doubting them yet

so yeah yeah I think on my end I just

absolutely love the traditional standard

ring experience that I got and that's

kind of what I look for when I'm playing

single player games I want to take my

time I want to explore I want to beat

difficult bosses I just want to take my

time and this one I might spend my time

better playing multiplayer Shooters when

it comes to a timed game um so on my end

I think it looks pretty exciting I'm

going to give it a try for sure because

I love Elden ring but I think

traditional Elden ring is probably more

my style yeah we can't confirm it's not

a live service game so once you buy it

you get access to the complete Game

there's no battle pass no

microtransactions or anything like that

so that's nice I could see them adding

more classes and stuff down the road

that seems like something up the up the

rally they could do down as time

progresses I'm curious how that's going

to like how long can you play this game

if there's no content that will be

coming to it um how how long will it

take for you to get tired of it until

the next game comes out and is there

permanent progression at all like you're

keeping anything from run to run you

know are you steadily getting more

powerful over time you know yeah very

curious I mean when you say the three

days that it's counting down to I can't

help but be reminded of something like

Dead Rising and some of the joy of a

game like Dead Rising is that you

memorize the locations you memorize

where things pop up and I think that's

part of the like you get kind of the the

tetris effect of you get locked in and

you just kind of lose yourself in the

game going through the motions and just

kind of dodging effortlessly and

figuring things out and having that be

um just like a a memory a mtic uh sort

of memory that is you figure out how the

game works and you get into the Flow

State and I'm excited for hopefully that

I don't know we we'll see how it goes

well Elden ring night rain is Du out in

2025 the same year that GTA 6 is due as

of right now so so we're going to have a

third year where Elden ring shows up as

a potential like in Awards categories

yeah gotta love it they're going for the

three Pete the dynasty yeah it's true um

let's move on to the next game

Borderlands 4 got got a big trailer for

this one Borderlands 4 what do we

think I really like the Vault Hunters

The Vault Hunters that they showed off

did not disappoint for me I know some

people online were not super excited but

I saw some really cool character designs

in there some really cool abilities that

they started to show off very little bit

of that but it looks great there's some

mysterious new antagonists that are y

you know building an army of Bandits I

don't know what to make of that yet but

it it's got my my attention mhm

I'm not a huge Borderlands guy but one

thing that stands out to me is it looks

like it's kind of adapting the

Borderlands art style for more Modern

Hardware I feel like it looks less

cartoony in terms of its proportions of

its art Direction and looks a lot more

um I I think just kind of doubling down

on the the the comic book art style

while still looking like more like hard

sci-fi I don't know it looks interesting

to me but ultimately I'm not a huge

Borderlands fan except guns go boom lots

of guns we had like what a billion gun

combinations and guns in Borderlands 3

so we'll see if we get that trillion

this time absolutely for me I need to

see loot I want loot I want it to be

enjoyable to get loot I want loot that

is exciting to go get um and I'm hoping

that battle uh I was going to say

Battlefield hopefully we'll see a

battlefield soon um Borderlands for will

will give that I I enjoy my loot

Shooters as well so it's it's cool to

see I also saw some weapons that looked

really cool in new Landscapes and yeah I

agree with you Nick like it it looks

very much like a more modern looking um

Borderlands 4 with still keeping a

little bit of the classic sty Damon you

going to be into this there's pod racing

there's pod there's a Pod racer in there

now this is Pod

racer um I don't know Borland uses a

like a stylized art style which works to

its benefit the older it gets but every

time a new game comes out it still look

it kind of just looks the same you know

so like I I doubt if if if you put if

you cut Borderlands 3 footage in here

alongside this I don't know that I would

be able to tell the difference you know

I did catch a glow on one of when

talking about loot um there was a one of

the legendary drops that was there in

that loot section had this kind of uh

magical kind of glow to it at the bottom

of it so looks like there could be a new

Rarity type of thing added to it or

modifiers that are added to those

legendary drops so I'm excited to see

what that looks like I'll always give a

new Borderlands a chance for sure mhm

until it disappoints and then then then

I'll wait until it's one too many bullet

sponges and I'm like all right go back

to Borderlands 2 yeah yeah that's right

thought one of the funniest trailers uh

This Game of Wars was for outer Worlds 2

that was great that was I love the outer

Worlds the first one that is Obsidian I

think at some of their best writing

their best companion creation uh Parvati

like that she is one of my favorite NPCs

so I'm very excited to see what type of

NPCs and companions we get in outer

Worlds 2 and you know I they just

they're not taking themselves too

seriously which I love yeah we'll talk

about more uh more about out Worlds 2 in

just a minute but first we have to take

another quick break before we go let's

take a closer look at Dying Light the

Beast stick

around hi my name is stimon smwa Dying

Light franchise director welcome to the

Dying Light the Beast trailer break down

where I will comment on some of the

details and secrets you might have

missed in our recent trailer from this

year's the game awards Dying Light the

Beast is a new Standalone Zombie

Adventure in the Dying Light Universe

featuring Kyle crane the legendary hero

of the first game The Game's narrative

connects the stories of Dying Light one

and Dying Light 2 stay human and it's

set in a moody desolate region called

Castor Woods on top of that Dying Light

the Beast offers the most evolved

version of our gameplay for formula

combining natural movement visceral and

Savage combat and night and day

experience so are you ready to dive deep

let's

go meet the baron the main antagonist of

dying like the Beast he's an emotionless

calculating yet brilliant scientist and

his real name is Marius Fisher he's the

Last Descendant of a noble big farmer

Dynasty from cter Woods if you dig deep

while playing the game you'll be able to

uncover a significant por of the

Fisher's family history to better

understand The Baron's background the

baron held Kyle captive for 13 years

performing dangerous and brutal

experiments on him why as you can guess

Kyle's blood which was exposed to the

virus when he was beaten in D one and

later to a mysterious substance in the

following makes him a very valuable

subject for the borrow the scene in the

trailer shows one of the experiments on

Kyle showcasing his incredible will to

survive as he refuses to be The Baron's

test subject we wanted to really

emphasize Kyle's suffering to better

explain his intense thirst for Revenge

by the way after working on this Grim

scene we wanted to lighten the mood a

little so we've hidden a few fun Easter

eggs in the medical monitors used in it

you will notice the baron surrounds

himself with luxurious items for him

these prestigious items symbolize his

superiority over others his perfect

perfectly tyed suit jewelry high-end

music equipment and authentic art from

Europe's greatest museums were all

carefully Chosen and transported to

Castor Woods at his demand of course the

paintings hold significant meaning

reflecting Baron's philosophy and

Outlook the same applies to his

monologue which references a famous

quote from Galileo about Humanity's

obligation to use intellect and

reason there are quite a few hidden

meanings in the trailer so I encourage

you to dig even deeper and try to catch

them all let's move on to the gameplay

portion of the trailer this scene takes

place in one of the streets of a tourist

town at the center of cter woods the

crossbow KY uses in this scene is part

of reach and varied arsenal of weapons

you'll have In Dying Light the Beast

even though Dying Light started as a

game focused on melee combat we have

consistently added new tools to the

pliers brutal Arsenal here we got a

glimpse of another new weapon the

grenade launcher what's cool about it is

that it supports different kinds of

ammunition including UV grenades which

give you at least some Advantage during

the terrifying Nights In Dying like the

Beast Dying Light the Beast is set in a

region unlike anything we've done before

it features a handcrafted High Fidelity

open world divided into distinct and

diverse areas or biomes as we call them

here you can see the swamps a new biome

with foggy weather and ankle high water

that creates a dark mysterious

atmosphere I think anyone can relate to

the fear of being alone in the woods at

night and that's exactly the kind of

experience Dying Light the Beast

delivers the Shadows from a flashlight

the many trees hiding zombies all of

this makes nighttime exploration truly

spooky exploration and Discovery are big

parts of the experience in addition to

the open World areas we have en closed

locations like this Example The Baron's

laboratory full of horror like

atmosphere it is the place where you

will encounter a new type of virus the

fast moving zombies that Baron is using

as soldiers two things we always strive

for while developing our games our

greater immersion and working closely

with the community to meet their

expectations here is an example of that

initially we planned for car driving to

be presented only in third person

perspective but based on player feedback

we decided to go the extra mile and add

a firstperson view as

well in Dying Light immersion is crucial

engaging with the game World relies on

realistic physicality in both the

environment and enemies see how a zombie

interacts with a wall when thrown

against it or how an enemy's body reacts

to being pushed onto a railing so you've

met the main antagonist the baron you

have learned more about ky's desire for

revenge and you have caught a glimpse of

some of gameplay improvements dying like

the Beast brings to the serious but

Castor Woods still holds many Mysteries

and we can't wait for you to discover

them all in summer

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guides welcome back now in this week's

episode of next gen conso watch I asked

our audience what they would pick for

three of the biggest categories in this

year's game awards I personally picked

asot his game of the year and look what

happened Bano white is aith for the

year's best performance and held Evers 2

as this year's best multiplayer title

but let's find out what you thought

turns out we agreed on all three

categories with 35% of the vote going to

astrobot 36% to Bro white and 30% to

Hell divers 2 was a very close race uh

so what do we you think about uh a

little bit of a surprise asot winning

game of the year it was not a surprise

to

me I was rooting for astrobot from the

beginning I was screaming astrobot sweep

although I will have to acknowledge that

there were incredible games in that um

in that category as well but astrobot I

just fell in love with astrobot the the

colors the way they took advantage of

the controller heptic feedback the Dual

sense controller no other game made the

PlayStation controller took advantage of

the PlayStation controller in that way

it just it was just the joy to play this

game and also watching the developers

create the game they really put a lot of

love and passion into it and they were

very specific about what they wanted to

put into it and it was a complete

success bringing the 3D platformer to

the modern world and into the hands of

new kids also who I've never touched 3D

platformer and it's just it's a perfect

game it's one of those franchises that I

think Sony is going to invest heavily in

in the in the coming years we've been

talking on numerous podcasts throughout

the years where Sony's mascot like

characters gone where's the Jack where's

the sly where's the ratchet like

ratchet's still around thankfully but a

lot of other mascots have just kind of

like been have disappeared for a while

and now Astro is here to kind of fill

that void and help help welcome the

younger audience into gaming in a I'd

say perfect way mhm mhm yeah I mean it

is really refreshing I'm I'm I am very

surprised that it won game of the year

but I am um refreshing it's refreshing

that it did because you know there's so

many selfs serious AAA gigantic games

that look just stunning and they have

like super serious story lines and

feature mature themes and it's so nice

to see that a game that is filled with

such pure joy uh walk away with the game

of the year because again this is a game

distilled down to its purest essence I

think it is you run you jump and you zap

things like it's it's pretty

straightforward but there's so much

there to discover and like going back to

the PlayStation Roots we saw a little

bit with Ash's playroom and now this it

feels like Sony is slowly starting to

like recognize like hey we used to do

weird stuff and uh maybe we should start

doing more weird stuff you know any game

that has a kid looking at their parent

and saying Dad what's Parappa I was like

that's a win in my book as far as I'm

concerned I mean the game one family

Game of the Year also and when you play

this game you also see Throwbacks to old

games that PlayStation had have launched

before so you can enjoy this game as a

parent and as a kid at the same time and

if you've never seen those characters

now you know about them now you can go

back and play them so I absolutely love

the Nostalgia that th they threw in as a

celebration for PlayStation as well it's

critical game yeah my 5-year-old son now

knows uh jumping flash he thinks jumping

flash is cool that's awesome yeah that's

a win that's a big win yeah I was

surprised I thought I thought Elder ring

shadow of the Ury was the favorite win

even though I think most people agree it

shouldn't be nominated for game of the

year but since enough people wanted it

to be nominated I thought well you give

people the option to vote for it and you

assume that they'd vote for it but I

don't maybe there was maybe because

there was push back for being nominated

maybe people Chang their mind okay well

for something else instead then yeah and

then I thought maybe blo was kind of

like a dark horse

got a great Underdog Story But then as

metaphor kept racking up wi I thought

well maybe we're going towards metaphor

yeah it's such a crazy that that

metaphor I honestly I thought metaphor

had it in the bag just because we saw it

win so many other Awards like you said

and it's such a fantastic game and it

came out late enough in the year to

where to stay relevant with it being a

big massive

RPG but it just wasn't its year Astro

Astro uh wins all yeah Astro King I

think it still had a pretty solid year

it did it definitely did

and best performance went to the lead

from uh Seno Saga hellblade 2 which I

know you're a big fan of yes I love the

hellblade franchise Molina Jurgens is a

fantastic actress her emotions her

performance in this it's Ninja Theory

has the one of the best map Studios I

think for gaming period and so it just

really takes full advantage of her her

Charisma and her performance and just

how great she is at per at portraying uh

CA and and although hellblade 2 was

shorter than a lot of people would have

liked that didn't take anything away

from the performance and the story it

told it was so powerful and poignant but

I I loved it yeah I'm not I don't think

u hellblade 2 is particularly like a

fantastic game per se but I do think

that its focus on telling a cinematic

story really did a lot to kind of point

at the incredible performance from our

lead so I think it just all helped come

together to uh basically be a five hour

long movie that was just hey look this

character rocks and is going through

some interesting things and from an AV

perspective just the things that they do

with audio in that game is nuts and the

stuff they do with ue5 just really

pushes your Hardware to the Limit yeah

like I dream the day when we have a a

game that's as fun as Indian Jones in

the great circle but has the facial

animation of hellblade 2o right like

that would be the entire package and

then multiplayer game went to hell dver

2ell not too surprising there a lot of

fans a lot of people have been very loud

they dropped the they announced the new

uh faction tonight the illuminate I

believe is what they're called it's been

a while since I've fought against them

since hellers won because they were

there in the original and uh yeah I'm

hyped to get back in this with the

friend group and uh put them on my back

once again yeah didn't we also see

vehicles in the trailer as well is this

the first time that we get vehicles this

is the first like team vehicle so there

was the armored mechs they had that they

dropped a couple months ago which if you

did it right with with your allies when

you you could get to like a rock face

and you could jump on top of the mech

and just ride it like Freestyle but uh

very dangerous I I don't know how much

I'm going to be using the Jeep it's all

going to depend on the armor of it

because I can just predict especially

against the uh automatons that a couple

Rockets are going to blow it up and just

wipe four off of your lifestock the the

new biome as well like the City Escape

that's new as well it looks like the

illuminate are very much like a zombie

horde style situation it well

tole and kind of getting tighted and try

to figure out how to escape I think of

nothing else I'm not a particularly big

multiplayer guy but even hell divers 2

was able to kind of pull me into the

fold and you know the the beautiful

thing about hell divers 2 as a

multiplayer game is that everyone walks

away with their own bespoke War stories

that were theirs and there's alone and

that alone is what makes a game like

this so special I think it created

something that we hadn't seen in a long

time like the sense of community and the

the memes that came out of it and

everybody was role playing in in as they

were hell drivers in online I thought I

thought it was incredible so I am not

surprised that it won a multiplayer game

of the year I I talked about it earlier

this year on previous game of the year

like watch shows and stuff that we did I

was like it's all going to depend on if

it can keep up that stream of content

and they've done a pretty good job of

it's had some ups and downs but I think

in general in general yeah they kept it

relevant yeah congratulations to the

winners let's get back to some of the

other uh announcements and reveals and

new trailers we were talking about

outter Worlds 2 earlier uh very amusing

latest trailer for that one uh what

struck me is that they said they they

spent three times as long making the

game but it'll be two times as long two

times as better two times as big I think

as the which is good cuz I loved outer

Wilds it but it was kind of you know it

was a bit smaller which is not bad you

know but the idea of you know spending

more time and getting more game out of

that is appealing to me I agree this the

first outer worlds also had like 500 or

600,000 words of dialogue that I'm sure

most people didn't see uh so I am very

curious to see how big that the word

count is going to be in this one for the

narrative and voice acting and such yeah

and I think obsidian really shines when

they are given like a more intimate

setting with a lot more like factions

that kind of feed into each other and I

think the decisions alone in the first

planet of the outer world really set the

tone for what the rest of that game

would be granted I do think that that

game starts way stronger than it ends uh

I'm I'm excited to see what obsidian

cooking up for outer worlds too because

uh bigger is better according to the

trailer and I and I agree true we were

just congratulating the winner of those

three game awards earlier also want to

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really nice surprise from tonight ninja

giden rage bound a new Ninja giden game

I am ecstatic and I know a classic 2D

pixel art ninja giden so you have to you

know they're they're more modern 3D

games that is fine by me I grew up with

the NES playing Shinobi and the original

Ninja guidens back then and or was it

just giden back then I can't remember

what it was it just ninja giden it was

Ninja giden right so yeah I loved those

back in the day they were very difficult

very challenging it's all it's all at my

alley and I'm just very eager to see

what this fully brings to the table yes

this comes from the uh the team behind

the Blasphemous games oh which already

has incredible pixel art right so

Blasphemous pixel art with Ninja giden

classic ninja giden gameplay that sounds

like a a good combination to me yeah I

unfortunately stepped away to use the

restroom when this was announced and I

came back and we were like ninja guide

and ninja guide was like no what did I

Miss so U but but again I got caught up

to speed that the little anime cut scene

here looks incredible and the fact that

it's coming from the dev behind

Blasphemous and blasphemous 2 music to

my ears Masters who know Metroid Vania

like the back of their hand and just

look at this gameplay this looks like

classic nin silky smooth and there just

platforming hell it looks like you're

juggling things acrobatic nonsense it

looks like it's going to be tough and

fun and I cannot wait to uh potentially

grip and break through controllers as I

make my way through the game I'm very

curious what IGN's Mitchell Saltzman is

thinking of this cuz he's been asking

for a new Ninja Guiden for I don't know

the last three or four like years and

it's it's finally coming yeah so the the

original NES games are just known for

being just brutally difficult the 3D

games went deeper with uh with uh Combos

and you know attacks it's just a deeper

a deeper combat system also unforgiving

yeah but they're saying they're sort of

marrying the they're bringing that

deeper combo or deeper combat system to

the classic 2D gameplay which could be

cool I'm okay with that also sounds like

we're not playing as Ryu because it says

this is the official description Our

Story begins when Rio hyabusa Journeys

to America to honor his father's will

while he is away the barrier between the

human and the Demon World suddenly

shatters unleashing a terrifying Army

upon the Hayabusa Village which now

faces an unprecedented threat in R's

absence to stand against this new threat

Kenji mozu a young ninja from the

Hayabusa Village Rises to the challenge

just shows that you just can't take

vacation in 2024 2025 this point you I

mean the good news is Kenji is sporting

a blue uh outfit which is always very

cool so very hype for the blue outfit

it's also reminiscent of the original

NES style if I remember

correctly alak what's your level of

interest in like retro style you know 2D

action games like this you'll catch me

in shovel KN that's about it is great

I'm happy for you

guys Shel n is great um a few of us are

already already ready to declare game of

the year 25 being slay the Spire 2 let's

go slay the Spire 2 looks incredible we

finally got gameplay of it um it I saw

like you got a party member uh in it

from what I saw and again it looks like

there's going to be a lot of those

branching paths where you have to decide

whether or not you want to take certain

things sacrifice certain things and

again the beauties of all things Rogue

like I cannot wait for slay the Spire to

it the original slay of spire has

claimed so much of my life already on

multiple platforms I buy the game on

every new platform avilable on and then

Pro proceed to spend hundreds of hours

every single time so uh please don't do

this to me but I'm also very excited I

love the updated design for the

characters like the silent that we've SE

that we've seen in the past I love that

we're getting a new Necromancer style

class I missed the name I think it's

like necrom or something like that that

looks really cool I a new automaton

style uh hero as well from what I saw

yeah I've got I don't know like 500

hours on this on PlayStation and PC and

this is EAS going to do the same thing

when it hits Early Access next year yep

Early Access next year please be excited

okay Haz Light Studios just announced

the new game split fiction and IGN got

to sit down with the game director

Joseph Ferris we'll have a snippet of

that interview for you live right here

you can catch the full interview on IGN

but first we've got an exclusive new

look at AI limit an upcoming Souls likee

RPG from developer sense games let's

check it out

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and we're back excuse us while uh sort

out some tech difficulties lots more

games to talk about though I just

mentioned split fiction let's talk about

that this is the new one from Haight

Studios and Joseph

the latest Cooperative action game and I

think it looks really cool it is such a

Marvel to see the evolution of Haz Light

Studios games I sat down with Joseph

Ferris way back in the day for a way out

and play that co-op with him for a short

while during an interview and I would I

walked away just excited to see how that

how it was going to grow and with it

takes 2's great design and just really

great use of different genres in

gameplay split fiction looks like it's

up the antie even further I I'm very

excited for this and it looks like it's

going to have a bunch of real crazy

things that we get to play as the two

protagonists two women who get stuck in

some sort of both no I believe okay

they're no but they're stuck in some

sort of like virtual reality like a

simulation yeah my my my my take on the

story from what I understood from the

trailer was they're going to the studio

to like kind of pitch this thing they're

supposed to each hop in their own VR

kind of VR bubble that like simulates it

and the studio tries to steal them

something happens they get popped in the

same bubble and now they're trying to

get back out yeah and one likes sci-fi

one likes fantasy so they're bouncing

back and forth between sci-fi and

fantasy worlds yeah I mean it takes to

kind of blew my mind with how generous

it was in terms of always giving you

something new to do the game shifted

genres dramatically one second you're

doing a platforming challenge the next

you're uh doing a street fighter style

fighting game and it's always fun it's

always entertaining the entire time and

I thought surely there's no way they

could do it again and it seems like they

are uh he seems to have doubled down on

his promise saying every single thing

will be new as you evolve from level to

level and right now it is very clear

that you go to a fantasy land you go to

a Sci-Fi land but something tells me

they're going to get mixed up along the

way so you might be a knight in a

cyberpunk city at some point which is

always going to be ripe for such a fun

setting so very stoked to see what he

does and dude he's funny I think he's

got a great sense of humor and I think

that the games really show I like how he

is sharing one level he says you starts

with two dragons hatching and they're

baby dragons at first but eventually

they'll become full ass dragons full ass

dragons so Damon you're a Metroid fan

right oh yeah how do you how do you feel

about the like the going into

morphball that that was my initial

thought with that too so yeah that looks

great split fiction okay we do have ai

limit and our interview ready to go so

I'm going to hand you over to them right

now enjoy

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hey life SS game was finally revealed

and the co-op mashup of fantasy and

sci-fi is set to take over your gaming

platform of choice early next year and

the founder of Haz light Joseph Ferris

is here with me to share more about what

we can expect you have unpaid parking

tickets time to die excuse me run we we

saw the trailer at the game awards for

split fiction so Joseph I need you just

tell us a story what what is a story

that we can experience as Gamers well

it's about uh two girls named named Mi

and Zoe like my daughters they're also

named me and Zoe it's not based on their

personalties because they're just four

and two it's just a nice thing to have

and these two uh strangers that they

don't know each others are two amateur

writers who uh gets to this new tech

company that can simulate your story to

life and they get there in hope of

getting published and like you know

releasing their story to to to the world

but when they you know go sideways and

and one of the characters Mo like

suspect something's not you know right

uh and accidentally she ends up in zo's

simulation like in the same pod because

they're totally different people

different strangers they end up in the

same simulation and they have to work

together to escape the simulation the

thing is though one right sci-fi on the

otherwise fantasy and you have to play

like a every sci-fi level and every

fanty for every for every level so it

changes all the time like from sci-fi to

Fantasy for every level and the thing is

like they're not a fan of each other's

genre every story of of the tells

something about them as characters as

well so they kind of like you know

criticize their stories and stuff like

that so it's going to be a really crazy

ride yeah so so the name kind of makes

sense then split fiction so we got

sci-fi elements and we got fantasy

elements now I'm someone who really I

love both of those aspects so um and

what you know looking at the the game

play it's quite the variety oh yeah it's

quite like it looks like there's some

sides scrolling elements as well that

that are thrown in there there man this

is what Haight is a b we love variety if

you look at our games I mean even like

the first one like brothers look at

there's always like been something that

I've been pushing for a lot like having

variety otherwise you know you need this

it feels very repetitive but we we have

pushed it to the next level with our

games I mean we did it it takes to this

one is even crazier I mean I'm telling

you it's crazy there's so much vary in

it I mean we have like we have first our

main levels then we have something like

we call like side stores that's kind of

side con you can miss and those are

literally 5 to 10 minutes of like new

worlds you know with set pieces bosses

sometimes like a total new crazy stuff

that that you experience and that's

something actually the player can miss

so make sure to play those as well I

want to walk back a little bit because I

want to talk about uh the inspiration

for this game um obviously it's it's

it's two writers who whose lives become

entwined um and they got to try to get

out of this so what what was the

inspiration what what you know because I

know you had like how many drafts of

this cuz you you teased this like the

the the draft on on Twitter a while back

I'm kind of curious what what was the

inspiration for this for this story well

look the inspiration always at is like

the pushing to the next like what can we

do stuff that we haven't done before

like trying to like uh you know

see the like creatively what can we take

to the next level and and and and really

in the beginning it was really cool and

I can't go into details exactly what the

first idea that popped in the head was

but what I can say is that it was

switching between the Sci-Fi and fancy

felt really appealing felt like oh

that's something that haven't really

been done before like this like how and

you're going to see listen to me like if

if you play the game I guarantee you and

come to the end and I can guarantee you

you will see stuff that you have never

seen in a video game before now I know I

sound cocky but I can guarantee you and

if not come to me

and I'm going to hold you to those words

my I I I'm going to hold you to that I

guarantee you will see stuff that you

haven't not seen before okay and if I

don't yeah if I don't I'm going to knock

on your door I'm going to find out where

you live I'm going to sit down with me

and play it with you until they

understand

wait about it okay cool no y'all heard

it here first this is this is being

recorded so we're going to we're going

to revisit this do year this camera this

one this one I'm in let's do it I got to

ask you though which one of your games

this is my final final question which

one of your games do you think would be

uh best for a movie to adapt into a

movie I I think a way out I think if you

if you if you take this script and like

a you know make it a really good feature

film I think it could be really nice you

know there are some talks that they want

to do but Hollywood is so much Bull and

talk we'll see if it ever happens but if

it happens I think it's going to be

great movies yeah I think I I I'd love

to see it yeah yeah yeah yeah well

Joseph I want to thank you so much for

your time make sure to play split

fiction and trust me when I say this in

the end you've seen some you been

playing something that you've never

played before I guarantee you this let's

shake on that yes I'm going to hold you

to that please do please do and and for

for everyone watching what's the release

date it's coming March 6th 2025 so it's

couple of months it's almost here y'all

yes I'm excited y'all better get

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podcast welcome back to 's coverage of

the game awards now we're winding down

here for the night but before we go

Wonder how we would how we would rate

this year's lineup of announcements on

the iGun scale because I think it was

pretty strong this year Jay how would

you rate it o I think I we were talking

about it beforehand I said I was I

was I believed it was going to be a

seven I think so yeah I think I'm going

to revise that to an eight I think it

was a very solid it was a very great

show there was a lot of things that I

liked there was a couple things I just

didn't really care for but overall I got

some of the things I wanted to see so

I'm happy mhm Nick you no we didn't get

halflife three uh this isn't going to be

a nine or a 10 out of 10 but I think I'd

have to stick with an eight I believe it

was a great show uh putting together

these giant things is uh very difficult

um it's hard to make it cohesive and

legible you know not everything appeals

to everyone but I think that Jeff and

his team did a fantastic job of making a

show with a little something for

everyone um I think it started

incredibly strong with Witcher 4 and

Elden ring back to back um and I think

it ended very strong with uh stuff likei

Sequel and Intergalactic but again it

even had some like strange things I

didn't expect to see like onam Musha

which we didn't even talk about onam

Musha oh man onam Musha and slay the

Spire too again I can't I can't sing the

Praises of slay the Spire 2 enough yeah

yeah I think I give it an eight right I

I don't remember what rating I gave up

before but I think I'm going to taking

it down to a seven on my end I I was it

started strong you know with Witcher I

absolutely expected to see Witcher we

got Elden ring um we also got Tac which

was a surprise to me I absolutely loved

T Roo so it's great that they're

bringing that back to

2025 um but then we didn't get death

stranding we didn't get any updates on

OD we didn't get to see Resident Evil 9

we also didn't get to see the 007 Hitman

project um so there's a few games that

were question marks that I truly believe

were going to show themselves here in

the game awards that I didn't get to see

so it's still strong show really cool

games that we got to see but I was

wishing for a little bit more yeah I

thought it was strong I'm going to go

old school IG and give it a 7.9 W just

to shake things up do you know what

pushed it up to an eight for me Damon

what's that it was flute guy and kear

man they they were great they were

fantastic guy can play anything if you

can if you can he can play a lot of

different instruments he was dual

wielding like he was hot the cool down

on the flute was kicking off so he

swapped to something else I don't know

how he does it

yeah um we mentioned Resident Evil 9 not

being there were there any other um

surprise surprising games that were not

there like Monster Hunter wild I was

really hoping to see more Monster Hunter

Wilds but we did just get this massive

beta that happened just a couple weeks

ago it's out in February into February

so I'm not mad I just I'm just greedy

and I wanted more Monster it's just it

was the greediness in me yeah I'm pretty

shocked we didn't like uh LX said I'm

really surprised we didn't get anything

from coima uh usually he takes up a lot

more age time uh I'm honestly kind of

baffled we didn't get a releasee for I

said during rehearsals there there is a

great chance we do not get a rehearsal

announc soon can mean anything do you

think do you think coima is afraid of

Grand Theft Auto 6 too oh yes oh man

yeah they're much smaller Studio than

that's true very true I thought we were

going to see some Doom I thought so too

see any Doom that's an early 2025 game

when is it when is it coming out we

don't have a release for it I wanted to

see Doom Slayer you know Doom guy

kicking some butt but no I was hoping

for a little more G of yote as well just

a little little more tease of that one

yep y would have been great to see a

little bit more of that uh but I mean we

got a great first trailer from them so

I'm not I'm not mad about not getting

more of it and I'd said I thought we

might see civ7 we got a musical

performance of it so it it appeared

participation award it it did get a

participation com soon enough though

yeah that's February as well February is

going to be a massive month for games

between Civ Monster Hunter Assassin's

Creed something else just got moved into

February as well that I cannot remember

jez but yeah uh surprise of the show for

me uh project Century the new RU game

set in like Tao era uh Japan that looks

sick how are they making so many games

and that's definitely not an asset

recycle they've got uh like a pirate

like a dragon pirat in pirates in Hawaii

inw yep and then they did this project

Century but then they also oh the other

one was Virtual Fighter they're doing a

virtual fighter game which I believe

they have a presentation on going right

now I think I think it might have just

ended it was like I think right at the

end for like 30 minutes or so but or

maybe it is going on right now but Tao

era Japan is not a setting we get to see

often um I think if for all the anime

fans out there Demon Slayer is set in

the TA show era Japan but a game set in

there that's really exciting what do you

think the game is is it a yaku it looks

like a akaku are like just set in a

different era of Japan which I

appreciate because that's such an

interesting setting yeah I was like

before they announced it I was like are

we getting a like throwback Sleeping Dog

somehow may maybe w i loved Sleeping

Dogs back in the day I was like this is

kind of kind of those vibes kind of just

kind of run going around through a city

I was like this would be a good time to

bring it back you mentioned uh he

mentioned uh interesting settings and it

just reminded me of Mafia did they did

they really say 1900s or yeah he said

1900s yeah so strange early 20th century

early 20th century uh 1900s Sicily which

I thought was really cool to be able to

see that like the beginnings or the

prequel of the criminal underworld there

in Italy like that's that's pretty cool

yeah I'm excited to explore that one too

and then you mentioned onimusha that was

one of the few games that was announced

for 2026 yeah deep teas not coming 2025

I actually never played onimusha tell me

why I should be excited uh onam Musha is

a ancient feudal Japan resident

um so if you like original Resident Evil

it was very much just Resident Evil set

in ancient Japan with cool demons and

puzzles um but this one looks like it's

borrowing a lot from the likes of

something like Neo um it looks a lot

more action oriented combo heavy um it

looks like you know I I would assume

it's taken a little bit more than some

inspiration from stuff like SEO Shadows

di twice and you know in an era where we

are seeing more action games set in um

like ancient Japan or China Alla Phantom

Blade zero uh I'm just excited to see

like a PS2 hardcore style action game uh

Beyond Modern Hardware uh granted the

original onusa wasn't quite that U but I

think it's definitely eeking towards

that direction more uh in a modern

setting all right well I look forward to

2026 yep and checking out the latest on

Musha and I think that about does it for

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