The Game Awards 2024 line-up confirmed with Borderlands 4, Mafia & Hideo Kojima
The first games have been confirmed for The Game Awards 2024, with hopefully at least one Kojima project to join them.
With this year’s The Game Awards edging closer and closer, gamers are beginning to get an idea of some of the big reveals that will be taking place on Friday.
There’s naturally a lot of speculation concerning what sort of games will be shown off, but only so much is actually confirmed to appear, with the especially major announcements being a closely guarded secret.
As for what is slated to appear during the event, we’ve compiled all the confirmed titles you can expect to see after the show kicks off at 12.30am on December 13.
Who is in the line-up for The Game Awards 2024?
So far, Bandai Namco has promised to announce its next DLC fighter for Tekken 8 and a strong rumour points to It Takes Two developer Hazelight showing off its next project.
Although the rest is shrouded in secrecy, a few other games are now confirmed to be in attendance, including Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country.
Both games were announced at Gamescom back in August, but only with the briefest of teaser trailers. Fortunately for Borderlands fans, series creator Randy Pitchford has promised its new trailer will feature gameplay.
He’s keen to hype it up, promising a lot of new footage as well as a ‘sick, never-before-seen original cinematic sequence’ set after the events of Borderlands 3.
As for Mafia: The Old Country, it’s unclear whether its trailer will feature any gameplay, with developer Hangar 13 only asking fans to tune into The Game Awards. Both games are coming out in 2025, so if Borderlands 4 can show off gameplay, you’d think the new Mafia would be in a similar state.
Hideo Kojima will also be attending as a guest presenter, as confirmed by host Geoff Keighley, but that’s hardly surprising as they’re both friends.
With any luck, he’ll have something new to show for either his Death Stranding sequel (which is slated for 2025) or his OD horror game for Xbox, both of which have featured at past Games Awards shows.
Given the show goes on for three hours these are clearly not going to be the only games featured and none of them are likely to be the mic drop at the end either.
What other, currently unannounced, games might debut at the show are currently a mystery though, with rumours of Xbox making a big announcement, a possible new GTA 6 trailer, and Resident Evil 9 and/or Tomb Raider currently having no evidence to back them up.
As for other rumours, it was claimed Xbox exclusive South Of Midnight will not only get a new trailer but a release date too. However, Windows Central’s Jez Corden has disputed the claim, leaving it unclear whether he means the game won’t get a release date or not have a new trailer at all.
Palworld developer Pocketpair seems to be teasing a new announcement for the show as well, clearly trying to appear unfazed by its current legal trouble with Nintendo.
The studio also thanked its fans for supporting it in the Player’s Voice category for The Game Awards (the one category entirely decided by a public vote) despite failing to make it to the final round.
As for what did, the five nominees are, perhaps unsurprisingly, Black Myth: Wukong, Genshin Impact, Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree, Wuthering Waves, and Zenless Zone Zero.
As a reminder, Black Myth: Wukong and Shadow Of The Erdtree are also up for Game of the Year, so they seem to be the running favourites among fans. In fact, the former already won Ultimate Game of the Year at The Golden Joysticks, which was also decided by public vote.
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