The Sport Awards 2024 ceremony (Dec. 12) was the most effective in years, mixing tons of surprises with welcome updates on video video games that we have all been questioning about. This additionally meant studying extra about upcoming area video games and being shocked by new reveals that made our sci-fi-loving hearts very, very completely happy. These are the initiatives it is best to hold tabs on in 2025 and past.
On high of recent sport reveals and contemporary appears to be like at ongoing initiatives, we additionally received updates on Mech Break forward of its spring 2025 launch (a web-based mech-based motion sport which had a fairly strong beta) – and on Helldivers 2‘s long-awaited third enemy faction and new batch of content material (all free), which shadow-dropped simply because the trailer arrived. Democracy will not unfold itself throughout the cosmos, so get to work.
‘Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet’ (Naughty Canine)
Naughty Canine’s return to sci-fi marked the top of the ceremony, and was arguably one of many largest reveals of the night time. After being caught within the universes of The Final of Us and Uncharted for nearly twenty years, a brand new IP has entered the chat (with 4 years of improvement below its belt). Sadly, no launch window was revealed.
The Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet story follows “a harmful bounty hunter” named Jordan A. Mun. The essential pitch? She finally ends up stranded and alone on the distant, enigmatic planet of Sempiria, a world “whose communication with the skin universe went darkish a whole bunch of years in the past.”
‘Venture: Robotic’ (genDESIGN)
When you’d been questioning about Fumito Ueda (Ico, Shadow of the Colossus) and his group, who’d been absent since 2016’s The Final Guardian, we acquired an intriguing reply final night time. We had been all handled to an evocative teaser trailer depicting a cloaked particular person climbing what appears to be like like a mech as some type of pure catastrophe approaches on a barren world.
Little else is understood at this level, however we’re all excited to be taught extra about what’s subsequent from considered one of gaming’s best minds. No launch window for this sport both. In truth, Venture: Robotic is a placeholder title, so do not count on this one to launch anytime quickly.
‘Turok: Origins’ (Saber Interactive)
Whereas Nightdive Studios’ remasters of the OG trilogy have been implausible, Turok has been in a bizarre spot on the subject of getting new entries for an extended whereas. You would possibly nonetheless keep in mind 2008’s grounded reboot, which was moderately profitable however did not spawn a brand new saga. Out of nowhere, a third-person shooter reboot from Common and Saber Interactive has arrived, and it appears to be like moderately attention-grabbing.
The sport is being described as a co-op journey that will also be performed solo and options “superior weaponry” and “powers that evolve your swimsuit.” It is one more full reboot of the canon (or so it appears). After a lot time away, it could be simply what the franchise wants. There are dinosaurs to battle and an alien invasion that looms on the horizon. What extra do you want at this stage? We’re prepared to guess on this one after Saber’s spectacular work on Warhammer 40K: Area Marine 2. Count on it to reach in 2025.
‘The Outer Worlds 2’ (Obsidian Leisure)
After it was introduced again in 2021, we hadn’t heard something in regards to the follow-up to 2019’s first-person RPG The Outer Worlds. Effectively, do we have now some excellent news for you! The Sport Awards gave us our second-ever take a look at the sport with precise gameplay, and even promised a 2025 launch window.
It appears to be like fittingly humorous, colourful, and thrilling. No particulars but on the crew that shall be accompanying us on our journey throughout the celebs this time round although. Regardless of the surface-level similarities, this is not a riff on Starfield’s method, however it could possibly be a pleasant different for these on the lookout for one thing extra centered on deeper role-playing.
‘Borderlands 4’ (Gearbox Software program)
After the dreadful Borderlands film, followers had been dying for information on the fourth installment within the long-running ‘looter shooter’ Borderlands sport sequence to scrub away the dangerous style.
Regardless of the preliminary CG intro sporting a barely completely different visible fashion, the precise in-game footage reveals a Borderlands sport that appears adequately Borderlands-y. Thoughts you, the brand new vault hunters do not precisely wow with their designs, however we have not even met them but; so much might change between now and its unspecified 2025 launch date.
‘Metal Hunters’ (Wargaming Group)
After a short CG intro, a fairly explosive trailer for Metal Hunters was launched. It has been reported that alpha assessments have been occurring for some time, however not a lot had been revealed publicly. Now we all know it’s going to be a free-to-play PvPvE shooter with huge mech battles that look each fast-paced and weighty.
The official Steam web page for Metal Hunters states that six ‘duo groups’ duke it out whereas attempting to extract from the ‘Looking Grounds’ of “a inexperienced however deserted Earth.” The sci-fi setting alone appears to be like engaging, and people mech designs are wanting superior and fairly diversified. If Wargaming is treating this undertaking with as a lot care as World of Warships and Tanks, we could possibly be one more entry in one of the best mech video games of all time listing.
