Like any awards show, the Game Awards are nominally about honoring the best video games to come out in a given year. But the reason the events draw a large audience is that they regularly reveals new information about upcoming games. This year was no different, with a flood of new announcements. Sometimes the Game Awards can be a bit underwhelming, but this year’s show was filled to the brim with big news and bigger surprises. Here are some of the most notable reveals to come out of the 2022 Game Awards
Mike Mignola’s Hellboy: Web of Wyrd
This game was announced with a short trailer showing Hellboy in beat ’em up style combat with a werewolf. The visuals appear to perfectly capture Mignola’s signature art style. Mike Mignola’s Hellboy: Web of Wyrd is coming to all major platforms besides mobile, with a release date yet to be announced.
Street Fighter 6
A new trailer for the fighter focused on the game’s robust single player mode, a key distinction from the previous entry in the series, and revealed the release date. Street Fighter 6 arrives on June 2 and will be available on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.
Hades 2
Supergiant Games has been a successful indie studio since its first release, Bastion, but Hades took them to a whole new level, so it’s not a huge surprise that they decided to make a sequel. Like the original, Hades 2 will debut in Early Access. Supergiant will share more information in 2023.
New Ken Levine game
A new game from the Ken Levine, the creator of Bioshock, is a very big deal. The first game from his new studio Ghost Story Games is a single-player shooter named Judas. It’s coming to next gen consoles and PC, with a release date TBD.
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon tells the story of Bayonetta before she became the deadly Umbra witch players are familiar with. Fans had to wait a long time for Bayonetta 3, so they’re sure to be pleased to get another game starring the character so soon. However, based on the trailer, Cereza and the Lost Demon looks to be a very different type of game than the combat-heavy action-adventure titles developed by Platinum Games. It arrives on Nintendo Switch on March 17.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
The Game Awards included a new trailer for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, the new game from Rocksteady, the studio behind the Batman Arkham trilogy. It shows the team of super villains going toe to toe against Batman and ends with a tribute to Kevin Conroy, who plays the caped crusader in a video game one last time in Kill the Justice League. The game releases on next gen consoles and PC on May 26.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
A new trailer for the sequel to Jedi: Fallen Order shows the first-ever look at its gameplay. It features Cal Kestus, now comfortable in his role as a Jedi, taking on the Empire every way he can. Jedi: Survivor releases on next gen consoles and PC on March 15.
Earthblade
A new game from the team behind indie darling Celeste! Scheduled for 2024.
Dune Awakening
This game set in the world of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert is described as an open world survival MMO.
DS2
The sequel to Hideo Kojima‘s 2019 action-adventure Death Stranding stars a new female character. The protagonist of the first game, Sam Bridges, played by Norman Reedus, appears to have a supporting role. No release date, but the game will release on PlayStation 5 and PC.
Tekken 8
The Game Awards was home to the first-ever look at gameplay in Tekken 8. The fighter doesn’t have a release date but is coming to next gen consoles and PC.
Wayfinder
Comic book artist Joe Mad‘s studio Airship Syndicateis collaborating with Digital Extremes, the developer behind the extremely popular live service title Warframe, to create Wayfinder, a new mutliplayer game. Wayfinder is coming to PlayStation and PC, with the release date TBD
Diablo IV
The highly-anticipated Blizzard title received a new trailer and a performance from Halsey, who’s collaborated on the music for the game. The game comes out on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC on June 6.
Horizon: Forbidden West: Burning Shores
The DLC for the second Horizon game sees main character Alloy pursue a dangerous threat through a future Los Angeles. It releases on April 19.
Blue Protocol
A collaboration between Platinum Games and Amazon, combining a beautiful anime art style with Platinum’s signature frenetic combat. Blue Protocol is set to release in 2023.
Transformers: Reactivate
The Transformers franchise is returning to video games with a game that based on the trailer must have several times the budget of any previous Transformers titles.
Super Mario Bros. movie clip
Keegan Michael Key, the voice of Toad, showed up at the Game Awards with a clip from the Super Mario Bros. animated film, which hits theaters on April 9.
Crash Team Rumble
Crash Bandicoot makes his return with Crash Team Rumble, a “team vs. team rumble” developed by Toys 4 Bob, the studio behind Crash 4: It’s About Time. Nice to see Activision make a game that’s not Call of Duty. The game
Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty
CD Projekt Red must have been happy with their casting of Keanu Reeves in Cyberpunk 2077, because they have another A-List actor signed up for the DLC. Idris Elba will star in the Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty expansion, which is coming to next gen consoles and PC in 2023.
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
The next game from Elden Ring developer From Software is a return to one of the studio’s earliest IPs, Armored Core. We’ll have to see how much the gameplay will be updated to reflect From’s current style of game design. It’s coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and PC sometime in 2023.
Final Fantasy XVI
Game director Naoki Yoshida made his first appearance at the Game Awards to present a world premiere of a new trailer for Final Fantasy XVI. The trailer reinforces that the game takes a lot of cues from Game of Thrones, but infused with Final Fantasy’s signature style. The trailer included a release date for the game: it comes out on June 22 for PlayStation 5 and P
