The Game Awards 2022 had A LOT of trailers, as always, and I’ve got them all here in one article for you to check out.
PRE-SHOW
Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania [Motion Twin]
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We are starting off the pre-show with a great 2D animated trailer showing a crossover for Castlevania.
Vampire Survivors Mobile Port
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A port of the highly successful game is OUT NOW on iOS and Android — this is the original version of the game, however.
Valiant Hearts is coming home
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The game is coming to mobile, exclusively to Netflix games.
Returnal to PC
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Coming Soon. (As someone without a PS5) I’m hyped!
IT TAKES TWO MERCH
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My Christmas is sorted
Hellboy Game – Web of Wyrd [Upstream Arcade]
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This game has a sick art style, and it’s a third-person actions game
Coming to everything.
Horizon Call of the Mountain
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22/02/2023 – Another look at the combat and some robot dinos
Post Trauma – World Premiere [Red soul Game/Raw fury]
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Creepy Atmosphere, weird body horror. Coming soon, PC and Console
Viewfinder – World Premiere [Thunderful]
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Interesting visual puzzles in this new game.
Atomic heart [Mundfish]
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This is looking massive; very combat-focused trailer
Scars Above [Mad Head/Prime Matter]
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February 28 announced release date for Scars Above.
Relic Hunters Legend
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The fun art style isometric style, Relic Hunters Legends with an ARPG Loot in a cartoon style, is getting a closed beta soon.
Among Us – New Mode
Hide and seek, new game mode.
After Us – World Premiere [Piccolo/Private Division]
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Interesting post-apocalyptic flow-runner
Spring 2023
Replaced [Sad Cat Studios/Thunderful]
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Stunning pixel art style. 2D movement in a 3D world. Coming in 2023.
Street Fighter 6 – Pre-order Trailer World Premiere
Fight!
MAIN SHOW
Hades 2 [Supergiant Games]
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Music hitting very similar notes to hades. Another Greek Mythology game. Death to Kronos Early Access, like Hades was.
Judas [Ghost Story Games]
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Looks Awesome. From the creator of Bioshock.
Bayonetta Origins – Ceraza and the lost demon [Platinum/Nintendo]
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An Isometric, very artful game about Bayonetta as a kid. It’s coming to the Nintendo Switch on March 17.
Destiny 2 Lightfall Gameplay Trailer [Bungie]
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I know nothing about Destiny, but the change in visual style makes this look very intriguing.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League – Batman Reveal [Rocksteady/Warner Brothers]
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A Batman-focused trailer shows that he might have loosened his morals a little bit under the influence. Thank you, Kevin Conroy, who recorded his lines before passing away. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is releasing May 26.
Party Animals
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Hilarious new trailer for the game, which is coming out in 2023.
The Last of Us: Part 1 – PC
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The game will arrive on PC on March 3, 2023.
Star Wars: Jedi Survivor Gameplay Trailer [Respawn/EA]
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Looking very good and has shown off a lot of new enemies, fight animations, and locations.
Earthblade
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From the makers of Celeste comes another visually stunning 2D Platformer. Coming 2024.
Dune Awakening [Funcom/Private division]
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The survival MMO gets a new cinematic trailer, and you can sign up for the Beta now.
Forspoken
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Forspoken is getting a ps5 Demo today. It still looks excellent, with a funnily quiet protagonist in the trailer.
Genshin Impact
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A new character in Genshin Impact was revealed.
Death Stranding 2 (working title) – Reveal trailer [Kojima Productions]
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It seems as weird as you would expect. What’s with Death Stranding and babies? Anyway, Norman Reedus is back too.
Immortals of Aveum – Reveal trailer [EA Originals]
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A new triple AAA studio is making a single-player magic shooter set in a new world. Out in 2023, looks promising.
Tekken 8 Gameplay and story trailer
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A quick but action-heavy trailer showcasing the upcoming eighth game.
Colossal Cave Remake
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The remake of the game is launching on January 19.
Nightingale [Inflexion Games]
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Umbrella floating? This is going to be excellent. Intel is giving away copies of the game.
Baldur’s Gate 3 – 1.0 Trailer [Larian]
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Version 1.0 is coming out in August 2023.
Wayfinder [Airship Syndicate]
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Character-based online action RPG. It looks very warcraft in a visual style but is also very colourful. Beta is coming next week. Playstation and Steam.
Fire Emblem Engage
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Introducing the upcoming DLC & season pass.
Diablo IV [Blizzard]
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A very moody trailer cinematic confirming the leaked 6/6/23 release. Preorder to get open beta access.
Horizon Burning Shores DLC
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Aloy flew around a lot and went to Hollywood, only on PS5 (not PS4)
19/04/2023.
Blue Protocol [Bandai Namco and Amazon Games]
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Online multiplayer ARPG. Looking quite Genshin Impacty?
Remnant 2
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Looking good, though I had no idea what it was until the title card.
Company of Heroes 3
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Confirming coming to Consoles as well as PC.
Transformers Reactivate
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A closed beta is coming next year for this Transformer multiplayer game.
Behemoth
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An interesting-looking VR game.
Fall Guys
Ski Costume and Christmas event. And SPONGEbob
Super Mario Brothers Movie
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A very cute clip was shown featuring Toads. In theatres on April 7.
Banishers – Ghosts of New Eden [Dontnot/Focus entertainment]
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End of 2023. Looking a bit grim, dark, witch fantasy. Plus ghosts.
Warhammer Space Marine 2
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Looking like a worthy successor to the original.
Meet your Maker
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Design a base, and then raid other people’s bases. Done this before, but the visual style and first-person combat do look interesting in this one.
Bloodbowl 3
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This is always one of those games that seem right up my alley, but I have never checked out—coming to you on February 23, an already stacked month.
Crash Team Rumble
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Team vs Team rumble. A Moba-looking thing?
The Lords of the Fallen
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I haven’t played the first one, but this one looks like taking a more interesting and unique approach to its art and visual design.
Crime Boss Rockay City [505 Games]
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A big cast is coming to this one. 28/03/2023. Chuck Norris and more. Looking forward to the Chuck Norris jokes coming back into style.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Raiding Time
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A raid is coming to Call of Duty for the first time ever. It’s called ‘Episode 1: Atomgrad’ and will be released on December 14.
Cyperpunk 2077 Phantom LibertY
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An interesting story trailer looking at what is in store for the DLC, featuring Idris Elba
Armoured Core 6: Fires of Rubicon [Bandai Namco/From Software]
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This is a franchise I have never played, but Geoff looked like he was holding back tears.
Final Fantasy 16 – Revenge
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You can pat the dog. Also, you transform into a summon? Wild game! It’s releasing on June 22, 2023, on PS5.
Let me know your favourite reveal, moment or trailer from The Game Awards 2022 in the comments.
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