GameCentral recaps the new reveals from The Game Awards 2025, from the two new Star Wars games to a new crime thriller from the creator of Yakuza.
Well, that’s another year of The Game Awards wrapped up, and it certainly wasn’t short of new game announcements.
When it comes to the awards, the biggest winner was, unsurprisingly, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, but in-between its multiple victories, there were plenty of new and intriguing reveals alongside updates to already announced games.
If you want to be fully caught up on what was shown, but don’t want to sit through the whole three hour show, we’ve recapped the biggest and most noteworthy announcements for your perusal.
Tankrat
TankRat comes from Canadian studio Alpha Channel, though this technically isn’t a new game but a revamped version of the studio’s last project, TankHead, a single-player vehicular action game.
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TankHead only launched last year on PC, via the Epic Games Store, and sees you control a miniature tank, blasting away enemies and then salvaging them for new parts with which to customise your vehicle.
This new version launches in spring 2026 for PlayStation 5 and PC, including Steam this time, but anyone who owns TankHead on Epic Games Store can get TankRat for free.
Pragmata
After so many delays, it’s kind of crazy that Capcom’s Pragmata has an actual release date now, with Capcom locking it in for April 24, 2026.
Not only that, but aside from PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, the game is also coming to Nintendo Switch 2 as well, complete with an amiibo figure of little robot girl Diana.
Pre-orders are already live and if you’re still on the fence about it, Capcom has released a playable demo, although only on Steam at the time of writing. Hopefully, it’ll arrive on other platforms in the near future.
Bradley The Badger
The debut title from Day 4 Night – an indie studio co-founded by Mario + Rabbids director Davide Soliani – Bradley The Badger looks like an old school mascot platformer, but with a very meta twist to it.
The premise sees the titular badger find himself travelling through unfinished video games unsubtly based on famous franchises (including Bloodborne and The Last Of Us), equipped with a tool that lets him interact with and modify in-game assets.
It’s currently only scheduled for a Steam release and lacks any sort of release date.
Stupid Never Dies
Stupid Never Dies is an action role-playing game from new studio GPTRACK50 Inc., a NetEase subsidiary founded by Hiroyuki Kobayashi, who mostly served as a producer at Capcom on the Sengoku Basara games (think Dynasty Warriors but based on Japanese history instead of Chinese history).
The combat is very hack ‘n’ slash, with zombie protagonist Davy slashing and thrashing hordes of enemies with his bare hands, weapons, his own vomit, and a werewolf transformation.
The plot sees Davy journey through a dungeon to find and rescue human love interest Julia, with the game scheduled for a 2026 release on PlayStation 5, and PC.
Control Resonant
Remedy’s Control sequel finally made its debut, starring a new protagonist and some very impressive looking Force powers.
Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic and Star Wars: Galactic Racer
The Game Awards saw two Star Wars game announcements, with the first being Fate Of The Old Republic, a new role-playing game from Mass Effect director Casey Hudson.
The second is, even more surprisingly, Galactic Racer, a pod-racing game from Fuse Games, a new studio comprised of former Burnout and Need For Speed developers.
Divinity
Larian Studios is returning to the Divinity franchise for its next role-playing game, although it’s unclear if it will feature turn-based or real-time action gameplay.
4:Loop
This had technically been announced about a week ago, but Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth is teaming up with Sony and filmmaker J.J. Abrams to release a new co-op shooter for PlayStation 5 and PC.
Instead of zombies, you’re fighting alien machines to save the world and although it’s billed as a tactical shooter, it looks like it may have some rougelike elements in how you’re brought back to life upon death.
4:Loop will also be the first game to be made internally within Bad Robot, Abrams’ production company. It has no release date.
Coven Of The Chicken Foot
Naughty Dog may have been MIA at the show, but the debut title of Wildflower Interactive comes from Bruce Stanley, game director on the first Last Of Us and Uncharted 4.
Coven Of The Chicken Foot is a very different beast to his previous work, being a puzzle platformer boasting some lovely cartoon graphics and stars an old woman with chicken feet called Gertie and a large dog-like monster companion.
Wildflower promises that it’s ‘crafted a non-playable ally unlike any other’ that ‘reacts and evolves its abilities and motivations throughout the player’s experience,’ but we’ll have to see how that pans out when the game launches on PC. It has no release date.
Ontos
Soma developer Frictional Games is back with another existential horror game dubbed Ontos, which sees you exploring a hotel on the moon and come face to face with twisted experiments that make you question the very nature of existence.
It certainly looks grim in places, with Frictional Games describing the experiments as ‘provocations’ rather than puzzles. There’s no one solution to them and you will be forced to make moral decisions.
Despite some cliches, we enjoyed Soma’s script so we’re confident Ontos will deliver an equally interesting, and horrific, experience when it launches for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S in 2026.
Resident Evil Requiem
Capcom finally admitted to what we all knew: Leon S. Kennedy is back for Resident Evil Requiem.
Order Of The Sinking Star
Braid and The Witness creator Jonathan Blow debuted his first new game since 2016: puzzle title Order Of The Sinking Star.
Exodus
Announced at 2023’s Game Awards, Exodus is the first game from Archetype Entertainment, a studio under Dungeons & Dragons company Wizards Of The Coast.
This is more Mass Effect (specifically Mass Effect: Andromeda, based on the snarky dialogue) than Baldur’s Gate 3, though, with a sci-fi setting and third person shooter gameplay (it does have a space bear but we don’t think you can romance this one).
The new trailer doesn’t show much role-playing, but the developer promises multiple weapons and abilities, synergies with companions, and the freedom to approach challenges stealthily or with all guns blazing. It launches early 2027 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons
Wizards Of The Coast immediately followed up with a second game reveal and, no, it’s not Baldur’s Gate 4. Instead, it’s a third person action adventure by Invoke Studios, the Canadian developer behind the woeful Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance (back when it was called Tuque Games).
There’s no gameplay, but aside from a sword, protagonist Kaatri (played by Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer) will wield various magic spells in combat that promises to be ‘both tactical and visceral.’
The game launches in 2027 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, but you won’t get to see gameplay until summer 2026.
Gang Of Dragon
Yakuza series director Toshihiro Nagoshi left Sega four years ago to set up his own studio, Nagoshi Studio, at NetEase, and that studio’s first game… sure looks a lot like Yakuza.
Titled Gang Of Dragon, it’s even set in Kabukicho, the Japanese entertainment district that Yakuza’s Kamurocho is based on, although its protagonist (played by South Korean actor Ma Dong-seok) is a high-ranking member of a Korean crime syndicate instead of the Yakuza.
Screenshots from its Steam page show it having some third person gunplay, but you will also fight enemies with your fists and bladed weapons. It’s so far only slated for a PC release.
Street Fighter movie
Capcom’s latest crack at a live action Street Fighter movie saw its first trailer during the show and it certainly looks like Street Fighter, with a lot of game accurate costumes and a release date of 2026.
Lego Batman: Legacy Of The Dark Knight
The new Lego Batman game is already taking gameplay inspirations from the Arkham games, but that’s not all it’s borrowing, as the new trailer opened with a recreation of the beginning of Arkham Asylum.
This means we should see plenty more references to various Batman media, not just the movies, with a brief glimpse at a classic 70s blue comicbook style outfit.
The big announcement is the game’s release date of May 29, 2026, but that’s only for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. The Switch 2 version will come at a later, undisclosed date.
Tomb Raider: Catalyst and Legacy Of Atlantis
Crystal Dynamics and Amazon had a Tomb Raider double bill. Not only will there be a brand new game in 2027, with Tomb Raider: Catalyst, but also a reimagining of the original Tomb Raider for the franchise’s 30th anniversary in 2026.
Invincible VS
Fighting game Invincible VS made a brief appearance to debut a new playable character. Interestingly, she’s an entirely original creation not seen in either the comic or the TV show.
Named Ella Mental, she’s basically the avatar (the Nickelodeon one, not the James Cameron one), with fire, water, wind, and earth powers. She’s voiced by rapper Tierra Whack, making this her first ever voice credit.
Invincible VS launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on April 30, 2026.
Orbitals
After the success of It Takes Two, it was only a matter of time before other studios started pumping out their own co-op adventures. To its credit, Orbitals is distinguishing itself with a very charming, 80s anime art style.
Developed by Japanese studio Shapefarm, Orbitals sees two explorers journeying through space to save their colony home from a cosmic storm, with the trailer promising plenty of asymmetrical puzzle solving and some spaceship combat.
It launches in 2026 as a Switch 2 exclusive, although the console’s GameShare feature means anyone who has a Switch 1 can join in and play as well.
Forest 3
Following The Forest and Sons Of The Forest, developer Endnight Games is taking this three-quel in a new direction by stranding you on an alien planet instead of a cannibal-ridden island.
Despite the genre shift, Forest 3 is very much another survival horror adventure. The trailer shows off a handful of creepy looking monsters as well as a grabber arm, which we can see being used for puzzle solving.
Forest 3 has no release date nor any release platforms, but it’ll no doubt launch on PC, like the previous two games.
Diablo 4: Lord Of Hatred
That mystery statue may have had nothing to do with Diablo 4, but Blizzard’s action role-player still made an appearance, with a hellish trailer for its next DLC expansion: Lord Of Hatred.
It launches on April 28 and adds a new story campaign and region to explore, as well as two new classes. One is being kept a mystery, but the trailer shows off the Paladin class, which you can play as already if you pre-purchase the DLC.
Blizzard is also promising a major update to character progression alongside it and if you don’t own it already, purchasing Lord Of Hatred also nets you the previous expansion, Vessel Of Hatred.
Marvel Rivals
Marvel Rivals has only just added X-Men member Rogue to its roster and it’s already revealed two more characters that will become playable as part of season 6, which begins on January 16, 2026.
The first, unsurprisingly, is fan favourite Deadpool (who was leaked back in February), with the animated trailer showing him fighting werewolf Captain America, frog Thor (or Throg as he’s properly called), Devil Dinosaur, and a Sentinel.
None of them are the new second season 6 character (though werewolf Cap is a new skin you can now buy). That honour goes to the more obscure Elsa Bloodstone, a monster hunter who you may recognise from the Werewolf By Night Disney+ show or other Marvel video games like Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3.
007 First Light
A world premiere that was accidentally uploaded too early, the new 007 First Light trailer introduces musician Lenny Kravitz as new villain Bawma.
Hitman
IO Interactive also had an update for its Hitman game; namely that another celebrity guest will arrive as a new assassination target.
Hitman has only just added rapper Eminem and then, in February 2026, you’ll be able to go up against Milla Jovovich, star of husband Paul W. S. Anderson’s cheesy live action Resident Evil movies.
Warframe/Soulframe
Free-to-play shooter Warframe popped up to remind everyone that its newest expansion, The Old Peace, launched this week, but it did so via a confusing looking trailer featuring award-winning filmmaker Werner Herzog.
Developer Digital Extremes says Herzog is the personification of The Indifference, but we don’t know enough about Warframe lore to know what that means or if he’ll be lending his voice to the game itself.
There was also a short cinematic for Digital Extremes’ upcoming fantasy free-to-play game Soulframe, which features another celebrity guest: Jennifer English of Clair Obscur and Baldur’s Gate 3 fame.
Lords Of The Fallen 2
We were not the biggest fans of Dark Souls clone Lords Of The Fallen, particularly for how lacking in originality it was, and the newest trailer for the sequel so far looks to offer more of the same gory action. It also has a terrible cover of the Pet Shop Boys’ It’s A Sin, or at least the trailer did.
The sequel is slated for 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC (but only via the Epic Games Store), buy fans can currently check out a 2.5 update for the first game, that adds new boss fights and a new difficulty mode.
Saros
We’ve said it before, but Returnal successor Saros remains our most anticipated game of 2026. The new trailer did drop the bad news that it’s been delayed out of March but fortunately we only need to wait an extra month until April 28.
Gameplay-wise, there’s not much new, but you do get some more story hints – such as that the sun died at some point – and are introduced to a few supporting cast members. This includes Returnal star Jane Perry, but she’s playing a different character this time, as well as Ben Prendergast (Týr from God Of War Ragnarök).
Saros is now up for pre-order and while it’s normally £69.99, there’s a £79.99 digital deluxe edition that adds four sets of armour inspired by other PlayStation 5 games and 48 hours of early access.
No Law
When Neon Giant teased its next game would be announced at The Game Awards, it was hard to be excited when its last release was the pretty looking but shallow The Ascent.
For No Law, Neon Giant is sticking with a cyberpunk setting but opting for a traditional single-player shooter with branching story routes that so very clearly wants to be Cyberpunk 2077.
It lacks a release date, but is scheduled for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
Total War: Warhammer 40,000
As was suspected, Creative Assembly’s secret Total War project was not Star Wars related but is instead for Warhammer 40,000.
Ace Combat 8: Wings Of Theve
Six years after Ace Combat 7, Bandai Namco’s combat flight sim series is finally coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S (as well as PC) with Ace Combat 8: Wings Of Theve.
Details are slim, but it’s scheduled for 2026 and has you playing as ‘an ace pilot in an emotionally charged story of identity and duty, fighting for the survival of their homeland.’ Multiplayer modes will return too.
With it being built in Unreal Engine 5, it naturally has some stellar graphics and while nothing’s confirmed, we hope there’ll be VR support as well.
Out Of Words
The second It Takes Two expy of the show, Out Of Words was first shown off at Summer Game Fest earlier this year and stars two children who must work together but are unable to talk.
Just like Hazelight’s work, it offers asymmetrical puzzle platform gameplay, but it seems to be a strictly 2D adventure – although the stop motion visuals still look lovely.
It launches in 2026 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, and PC, but since Epic Games is publishing, PC owners will need to get it on the Epic Games Store.
Phantom Blade 0
Since that Black Myth: Wukong sequel is still years away, anyone hankering for another Chinese made Soulslike has Phantom Blade Zero to look forward to.
This had already been shown off at previous PlayStation showcases, but the trailer at The Game Awards had new cinematics and gameplay to demonstrate, which is noticeably much faster than the combat seen in FromSoftware’s games.
It also finally shared a firm release date of September 9, 2026, where it will become available for PlayStation 5 and PC.
Mega Man Dual Override
Just days after Capcom said it wanted to do more with Mega Man (among other neglected IPs), it has announced the series’ first traditional 2D platformer since 2018’s Mega Man 11.
It may lack a number in its name, but this very much looks like Mega Man 12. It seems to be a very traditional approach to the series, but the end does see Mega Man’s armour partially open up, no doubt hinting at a new gameplay mechanic.
Capcom is also running a contest for fans to submit their own designs for a boss fight that will appear in the game. Mega Man Dual Override is slated for all major platforms – PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Switch 2, Switch 1, and PC – but isn’t out until 2027.
Nioh 3
Capcom’s new Onimusha game was absent from the show, but 2026’s other samurai game, Nioh 3, saw a new, albeit short, trailer following its announcement back in the summer.
The game now has a release date of February 6, 2026, and it’ll also be getting a second demo (one that won’t only be available for a limited time) the week before on January 29. This is only for PlayStation 5, though, with no mention of a PC demo.
Pre-orders for the digital deluxe edition have also revealed that there’ll be a season pass of DLC, but Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo have yet to share concrete details.
Highguard
The final reveal of the show, some people mistook this for The Elder Scrolls 6. thanks to that introductory shot of some mountains, but it soon revealed itself to be yet another free-to-play multiplayer shooter, called Highguard.
This one does have some pedigree behind it, as it comes from the creators of Apex Legends and Titanfall. While there’s still traditional gunplay, Highguard has more of a fantasy edge, as you can cast magic spells and ride animal mounts to claim a sword called the Shieldbreaker, which is needed to storm and raid the enemy base.
It’s already scheduled to launch next month on January 26, 2026, across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via Steam.
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