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Every new PC trailer from The Game Awards 2022A grand overview of what’s in store for PC games next year
A grand overview of what’s in store for PC games next year
Oh look, it’s the end of the year. I’m very much not looking forward to those first few months where I must train myself to write out the year with a 3 at the end, but thanks to tonight’s much-awaitedThe Game Awards2022, I’m left feeling about 33% more hyped for all the games we’re gonna get to play next year.
All the Game Awards trailers and announcements for PC
In addition to the spate of customary awards given out throughout the night, this year’s Game Awards was also host to a sizeable number of new game announcements and trailers. Taken together, the night offered us a pretty well-rounded look at what to expect of PC gaming in 2023 and beyond. Take a look!
Dead Cells is getting a Return to Castlevania DLC
Dead Cells Return to Castlevania - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
Dead Cells Return to Castlevania - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
The Game Awards 2022 pre-show kicked off with a trailer for a newDead Cellsdlc based on Castlevania, appropriately titled Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania. It was a cartoon animation, so we didn’t actually see any gameplay of what to expect when it rises in 2023, but we did see plenty of popular characters pop up - including Dracula. Speaking of vampires…
Vampire Survivors has made a very logical jump to mobile
Vampire Survivors - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
Vampire Survivors - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
Oh look at that!Vampire Survivorsis out on mobile. Yep, that sounds like an extremely smart move. The simple-but-satisfying reverse-bullet hell has utterly captivated the WASD fingers of a great many players since it released early in the year, and there’s really no reason why those four WASD fingers can’t be condensed down into just one or two touchscreen digits.
Returnal is coming to PC early next year
Returnal - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
Returnal - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
Returnalis one of my favourite PS5 games, and now we can experience it with even more frames when it comes to PC in 2023. It follows Selene, a pilot who crashed on the mysterious planet known as Atropos and got trapped in a time loop. That’s a nice plot-friendly way of saying this is a roguelike, so you’ll make multiple runs through Atropos while powering up and battling bullet hell baddies. Combat arenas tend to get filled with heaps of colourful orb projectiles, and it makes for an experience that’s both incredibly gorgeous and intense. If you’ve not already played it on PS5, then make sure to keep an eye out for Returnal when it comes to PC in early 2023.
A Plague Tale: Requiem has lots of emotions and rats
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A Plague Tale: Requiem - The Game Awards 2022 Spotlight
Liquid-like swarms of rats herald a suitably cinematic trailer forA Plague Tale: Requiem, the sequel to the very highly regardedA Plague Tale: Innocencefrom… goodness, 2019 is a long time ago now. Horrific. Anyway, it looks like a smashing game. The trailer focuses hard on three things: emotional monologues, rats, and lots and lots of 4 and 5-star reviews. Pretty strong formula for a trailer.
Hellboy: Web Of Wyrd is a roguelite action-adventure with a rad comic book art style
Hellboy Web of Wyrd - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
Hellboy Web of Wyrd - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
New horror game Post Trauma has some very interestingly adorned walls
Post Trauma - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
Post Trauma - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
Well, this certainly looks creepy. Post Trauma is a new horror game from Red Soul Games which harkens back to the era of fixed camera angles. I may be way off with this perspective, but from the trailer it looks like some of the key selling points of the game include wading through a pool of blood, contemplating a pulsating plant, contemplating a wall of marble sculptures, contemplating a wall of alien vines, contemplating a wall of monitors, contemplating a wall of clocks… Basically lots of looking at walls filled with weird shit. Looks pretty interesting!
Bombastic FPS Atomic Heart gets a new trailer
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Atomic Heart - The Game Awards 2022 “Arlekino” Gameplay Trailer (CN subs)
Soviet-themed FPS Atomic Heart ripped up the pre-show with a violent new trailer. The action here looks exquisite, with big electro balls, lots of explosions, and some truly terrifying tentacle monsters leaping at the player. As a reminder, it’s set to drop on February 21st 2023.
Third-person shooter Scars Above has some excellent monsters, and you can play the demo now
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Scars Above – Gameplay Trailer
The trailer certainly makes the game look fairly promising. It’s a third-person shooter in the vein of something like Control, but with a load of flashy-looking weapon-crafting, and some pretty intimidating creatures to shoot those freshly crafted guns at. I particularly liked the bit where the player shot the ice so that it would break and the creature would fall into the water below. The game is releasing on 28th February, but you can play the demo right now on Steam.
Relic Hunters Legend - The Game Awards Closed Beta TrailerWatch on YouTube
Relic Hunters Legend - The Game Awards Closed Beta Trailer
Relic Hunters Legend is a cartoon top-down shooter about beating up evil ducks and hunting for loot. I guess that is the job of the titular Relic Hunters, and it seems like up to four players can squad up for the thrill of looting and shooting. No word on a release date just yet, but you can sign up for the playtest now over on Steam.
Among Us gets a brand new Hide N Seek mode today
Among Us Hide N Seek - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
Among Us Hide N Seek - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
A new game mode is arriving more or less immediately to Among Us: Hide And Seek! Or rather, Hide N Seek. Just to be cool. Or kewl.
The trailer switches between cinematic animation and in-game moments of the big-toothed long-tongued Amongster hunting down and slaughtering the other crew members with gusto, while the others attempt to complete tasks about the ship in familiar fashion. It does seem like a blast.
Upcoming adventure game After Us gives off creepy Journey vibes
After Us - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
After Us - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
Sombre platformer Replaced is still set for a 2023 release, still looks awesome
REPLACED - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
REPLACED - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
Sad Cat Studios brings us a very stylish and sombre new look at their upcoming game, Replaced. It’s not the first we’ve heard of the game, but itisthe first I’ve heard of it. Is this what pixel art games look like now? Man. Amazing what good lighting can do, eh?
Per the Steam page, Replaced puts you in charge of R.E.A.C.H., an AI trapped in a human body, trapped in an alternate 1980s America. The fighting in the trailer looks particularly cool. Very stylish. Some put a lot of time and love into those execution animations.
Street Fighter 6 brings crisp combat and chaotic minigames when it launches on June 2nd 2023
Street Fighter 6 - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
Street Fighter 6 - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
Going hands on with Street Fighter 6 was one of my favourite parts of EGX, but this new trailer shows off something quite different. We get a look at lots of the weird minigames that you can expect between fights, with some dancing, slapping bottles, and, of course, beating up some grunts. It then cut to some vibrant 1v1 matches, showcasing the range of characters available in Street Fighter 6. Thankfully, we also got word on when we can all hop into Street Fighter 6, as it’s set to launch on June 2nd 2023.
Oh my fricking god, it’s Hades 2
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Hades II - Reveal Trailer
After a “brief" intro from Geoff Keighley, the first trailer of the main show treated us to a look at Hades 2, a sequel to the smash-hit from Supergiant Games. The gameplay looks familiar to what you already know and love, but the brief story snippets we got revealed that the protagonist will seemingly hunt for Chronos, the God of Time. No release date for this one, but rest easy folks. Hades 2 does exist.
Bioshock devs set fire to your hands again in Judas
Judas Official Reveal Trailer | Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
Judas Official Reveal Trailer | Game Awards 2022
From the creators of Bioshock (you can tell from the first-person “ARGHH LOOK AT THIS THING I JUST WILLINGLY DID TO MY HAND" animations) comes the world premiere of Judas. Take a look at the trailer above, and then tell me you didn’t like the bit where the big friendly robot dinosaur laid down and became a ship that the player then boarded.
From the sheer number of good-looking characters talking into a first-person player camera, it looks like they’re trying to capture some of that immersive next-gen feel of Cyberpunk 2077, with its seamless first-person cinematics. According to Geoff, everything we saw in the trailer was in-engine. It sure does look promising, though can’t say we know much more about it so far.
Destiny 2: Lightfall shows off the new Strand subclass, and it has a grappling hook
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Destiny 2’s next expansion, Lightfall, is nearly upon us, and a gameplay trailer shows us what we can look forward to. Lots of shooting aliens and robots in space, but I think we also need to talk about that grappling hook ability for a moment. A Guardian thwips out a green tendril whip and uses it to pull themselves towards an enemy, arcing through the air in a wonderful little crest. I love a grappling hook, and I really love Destiny 2’s movement, so this seems like a winner to me. Fortunately, there’s not much longer to wait, as Destiny 2: Lightfall is set to launch on February 28th 2023.
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League trailer turns Batman into a menacing enemy
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Official Batman Reveal - “Shadows”
Party Animals somehow makes violence against animals look cute
Party Animals 2023 Official TrailerWatch on YouTube
Party Animals 2023 Official Trailer
There wasn’t much new on Party Animals here, but it’s very worth mentioning because it had a corgi scratching its butt. Other than cute animals scritching their behinds, this is a chaotic multiplayer indie that looks a bit like Gang Beasts, but with cuter skins and more physics. Seriously, the skins are very cute. A corgi! Scratching its bum! Party Animals also has a slightly revised, very vague release date of early 2023.
The Last Of Us is coming to PC on March 3rd 2023
The Last of Us Part I - Pre-Purchase Trailer | PCWatch on YouTube
The Last of Us Part I - Pre-Purchase Trailer | PC
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor trailer shows off a more experienced and rugged-looking Cal
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - Official Reveal Trailer
Cal Kestis and best droid bud BD-1 are back in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which debuted a new gameplay trailer at the Game Awards. It looks plenty familiar to what we already know from Fallen Order, with Cal swinging a lightsaber around and chopping up droids, but there are also some very cool snippets of newness. Traversal seemed to be a particular improvement, with footage of Cal sliding down walls using his lightsaber, or hanging from a bird while gliding high in the sky. Cal also seems much less static in fights, with more mobile and athletic animations as he dukes it out in various snippets of combat. As previously revealed, Jedi: Survivor launches on March 15th, 2023.
Earthblade is an action-platformer from the creators of Celeste
Earthblade - Game Awards RevealWatch on YouTube
Earthblade - Game Awards Reveal
Intriguing survival MMO Dune Awakening will launch a beta soon
Dune Awakening - Pre-Alpha Teaser TrailerWatch on YouTube
Dune Awakening - Pre-Alpha Teaser Trailer
A new trailer for Dune Awakening, the upcoming survival MMO based on that book about lots of sand, gave us a fresh look at what to expect in Arrakis. The clip shows those awesome insect ships flittering about above the dunes, along with a big sandworm bursting out of the ground. Are the sand worms going to be reduced to mere world bosses that we slap hundreds of times for loot drops? That seems like a surefire way to ruin the mystique, but there’s little to show what it’ll actually look like when we get to play. A quick look at other info released on the Steam store page reveals some more details about the gameplay, hinting at battling other clans to control the spice trade. There’s no release date just yet, but the trailer did end with a brief mention of an upcoming beta.
You can play the Forspoken demo right now (on Playstation)
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Forspoken - Demo Announcement Trailer
Well how about that! You can play the Forspoken demo on PS right now, and find out once and for all whether the dialogue truly isthat bad. With each new trailer I see, I do feel a little more excited. And I’ll be honest, it’s almost entirely down to the lovely particle effects of the dozens of magical spells you can wield as Frey, the main character. But the movement also looks slick as hell. Good movement always helps.
Death Stranding 2 is coming, and looks as creepy and fascinating as you’d expect
DS2 - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
DS2 - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
Immortals Of Aveum is a very good-looking singleplayer first-person sorcery game
Immortals of Aveum – Official Teaser Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
Immortals of Aveum – Official Teaser Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
Immortals Of Aveum is coming in 2023, and brings with it a new chance to be an extremely badass wizard, which really is one of the main driving forces behind the games industry. From Ascendant Studios, this Unreal Engine 5-built singleplayer first-person shooter with a big slice of magic and spellcasting certainly looks swish, although the only bit of action I could make sense of was at the end, when the trailer pushed open a big set of double doors and immediately got to work erecting a magical shield to repel an onslaught from… something.
Tekken 8 will bring back Jin and Kazuya alongside several other original characters
TEKKEN 8 — Story & Gameplay Teaser TrailerWatch on YouTube
TEKKEN 8 — Story & Gameplay Teaser Trailer
Tekken 8 got a very quick trailer showing off plenty of characters that you can expect to master, and they’re all very muscular. Seriously, there are so many muscles in this trailer, just muscles popping out of biceps left, right, and centre. If anything, this trailer showed me that I don’t really understand Tekken, because there was a demon flying about. That threw me off, but if it excites the Tekken fans, then that’s all that matters! Tekken 8 doesn’t have a release date just yet, but that just means you’ve got plenty of time to admire all of those muscles in the trailer above.
Nightingale will allow its players to glide from place to place using their umbrellas
Nightingale: Realmwalker’s Journey TrailerWatch on YouTube
Nightingale: Realmwalker’s Journey Trailer
Nightingale is probably the game I’m most looking forward to playing in 2023. The new trailer gave us an intriguing look at several new areas, including an indoor dungeon and some sort of thorny death spiral biome. I think the main thing people are gonna be talking about though are those new umbrellas. God, there’s just something wonderful about the idea of customising your perfect dapper Steampunk-esque Victorian-era character, and then watching them Mary Poppins their way across a ravine with their gravity-defying umbrella.
No word yet on a dedicated release date, but as before, you can sign up on the website for a potential chance to play the game early in a series of closed beta tests. Gwan, just look at those crazy creatures. Look at those top hats. This game’s gonna be great.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is launching in August 2023, and I can’t wait
Baldur’s Gate 3 - The Game Awards TrailerWatch on YouTube
Baldur’s Gate 3 - The Game Awards Trailer
Wayfinder is a new multiplayer action-RPG, and you can play the beta next week
Wayfinder - Official Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
Wayfinder - Official Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
Airship Syndicate, the devs behind Battle Chasers: Nightwar, are hoping this new trailer will get you raring to drop into the world of Evernor in their upcoming action-RPG, Wayfinder. The trailer shows off a bustling village or two, some very Torchlight-esque character designs, and a fight against a big hulking mechanical construct in a great hall. Apparently you can also buy and develop an apartment over time too, which sounds pretty swell.
Diablo IV gets a 6th June 2023 release date
Diablo IV - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
Diablo IV - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
After a brief performance from Halsey, who danced on stage with a cult, a new trailer for Diablo IV gave us a fresh look at some familiar demonic hellscapes. The demon hordes and a bunch of warriors gear up for a fight while Tyrael hovers overhead with angel wings spread, before he growls “Lilith" in a very moody voice. Tyrael’s clearly angry, and we can join in on the rampage when Diablo IV launches on June 6th 2023. There will also be an early access beta for those who preorder, but no date on that just yet. Hellish, I know.
Blue Protocol is Bandai Namco and Amazon Games’ answer to Genshin Impact
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Our very first look at Bandai Namco’s upcoming MMORPG Blue Protocol features some really marvellous staring out at vistas, in addition to all the larger-than-life fighting and ability effects that we expected. A pre-recorded pre-trailer vid also announced that Bamco were partnering with Amazon Games, presumably to help bring Blue Protocol to as many players as possible with a ginormous marketing budget.
A sequel to Remnant: From The Ashes is coming next year
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Remnant: From The Ashes is getting a sequel, in which you and up to two pals can shoot and slice through the demonic hordes. The soulslike combat returns from the original, and you should have plenty of ways to test your mettle as Remnant 2 will have procedurally generated dungeons. We can work our way through the infinite loot chambers when Remnant 2 drops in 2023.
TRANSFORMERS: REACTIVATE Official Announce Trailer | The Game AwardsWatch on YouTube
TRANSFORMERS: REACTIVATE Official Announce Trailer | The Game Awards
Company Of Heroes 3 is coming to consoles as well as PC, but we don’t know when
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Company of Heroes 3 - Console Reveal Trailer
Katharine has been hands-on with Company Of Heroes 3 recently, and a new trailer reveals that console players will also get to enjoy the dual campaigns offered in this wartime RTS. It’s a live-action trailer, so no gameplay showing what it’ll look like on console, but Company Of Heroes 3 Console Edition is set to launch in 2023. There’s no month attached, suggesting that it may not launch alongside the PC version. As a reminder, Company Of Heroes 3 comes to PC on February 23rd 2023.
Life Is Strange creators show off their new action-RPG, Banishers: Ghosts Of New Eden
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden - World Premiere Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
DontNod are up next with a new trailer for action-RPG Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. It’s a far-cry from their days on Life Is Strange, as we see a hunky lad smack some monsters around in a snowy landscape. It’s all very vague for now, but the characters do drop some lore while sat around a table. The baddies seem to be called Ghosts, and I suppose your job will be to banish them? Yes, yes that sounds right.
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 trailer kills a great many enemies in a short space of time
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 - Gameplay Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2022Watch on YouTube
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 - Gameplay Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2022
You can probably guess exactly what was shown in the trailer for Warhammer 40K: Space Marine. Yep, that’s right. Just tonnes and tonnes of cleaving your way through hundreds of alien creatures. It was rather a lot. There was also a nice shot of a big bell crashing down through some architecture, which provided a nice momentary change of pace. Anyway, God Of War Space Marine is coming out sometime in 2023.
Meet Your Maker is a new raid-based PvP game coming on 4th April
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Meet Your Maker I Release Date Trailer
Violent FPS Meet Your Maker got a new trailer, giving us an extended look at the building and raiding that you can look forward to at launch. Meet Your Maker splits your time between the two, tasking players with building fortresses before heading off to raid those of other players. It’s an interesting concept that relies on players being good level designers, and I’m certainly not that, so maybe this isn’t one for me. If you fancy yourself as a builder of interesting levels, then you can play Meet Your Maker when it launches on April 4th 2023.
Crash Team Rumble is a team-based competitive brawler about collecting Wumpa fruit
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Crash Team Rumble™ - Reveal Trailer
I know absolutely nothing about Crash Bandicoot except that I probably hate it. Alas, I’ll probably have to end up learning more about it, because apparently if there’s any way to make me interested in a franchise, it’s for them to release a competitive multiplayer brawler. Check out the trailer for Crash Team Rumble above.
The Lords Of The Fallen trailer shows off some gnarly bosses and even gnarlier combat moves
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The Lords of the Fallen - Gameplay Teaser Trailer | PS5 Games
The Lords Of The Fallen is up next, and cor it looks quite cool. There’s something about using the bones of a long-dead monster as a ramp that gets me excited, and this trailer certainly had lots of monsters that were big and dead. Or at least, one of its worlds did, as The Lords Of The Fallen lets you explore two parallel worlds while hunting Adyr, the villain set to return from the original. Along the way, you’ll get to kill plenty of big monsters yourself, and the new trailer also showed off plenty of its soulslike combat. Get a look at some of the bosses you’ll fight in the trailer above.
Crime Boss: Rockay City releases on 28th March with a star-studded cast
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Crime Boss: Rockay City - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
Very little was said about Crime Boss: Rackay City, but the trailer did reveal an interesting cast, at the very least. Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, Danny Glover, Michael Rooker, Vanilla Ice, and Chuck Norris are going to star, alongside Damion Poitier. I’ll use this as an opportunity to be a little MCU nerd and say that Damion Poitier played Thanos in his very first appearance back in the first Avengers movie. Isn’t that a fun fact! Back to Crime Boss, some further info found on the Epic Games Store reveals that it’s a heist FPS, so those familiar with the Payday series might want to keep an eye on it. You won’t need to wait long to start heisting, as Crime Boss: Rockay City launches on March 28th 2023.
Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty introduces Idris Elba as a new ally
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Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty — Official Teaser #2
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ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON – Reveal Trailer
Perhaps some people might not have been rather surprised when that FromSoft logo appeared halfway through a very un-Souls-like trailer, but I sure was. I know very little about the Armored Core series except that it’s more or less the main thing that FromSoftware was known for before they released a little-known game called Demon’s Souls.
Final Fantasy XVI is launching on June 22nd 2023, and has very cute chocobos
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FINAL FANTASY XVI “REVENGE”
To round out the show, we got a fresh look at Final Fantasy XVI. This medieval take on the franchise opens with a kid getting splattered with blood, before a nasty soldier seemingly guts him off camera. That sends our protagonist on a vengeful rampage against pretty much everything, as he dances around with his blade against massive demons and icy dragons. We also get a brief glimpse of some chocobos running across a desert, and they’re really the best part of any Final Fantasy game. I love chocobos, and I really wish they were real. We also see the protagonist pet a dog! You can pet the dog yourself when Final Fantasy XVI launches on June 22nd 2023 for PS5. There’s no official word on whether it’ll come to PC just yet, but there was a little box that said it can’t come to other platforms until December 31st 2023, so expect it in 2024 at the earliest.
And that’s everything! Whew. Look at that. It’s 5am. We’re gonna go sleep now.
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