All of The Video Game Trailers From The Game Awards 2022

The Game Awards happened last night, and a lot of announcements were made and trailers were shown off. I’ve done my best to compile a list of all the games and trailers below, but let us know in the comments if I missed anything. Some of the ones that made me the most excited were Judas from Ghost Story Games, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League from Rocksteady with Kevin Conroy voicing Batman, and Hades II. What has you the most excited?

• Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania

  • Developer: Motion Twin

  • Publisher: Evil Empire

  • Platform: Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, Xbox (affiliate link)

  • Release: Early 2023

The coming DLC unfolds a new storyline in which The Beheaded is approached by Richter Belmont following the appearance of a strange, malevolent castle. Drawn by the promise of new loot more so than an ethical sense of duty, players will need to harness their utmost undead fighting skills to defeat the evil within. Packed with new loot, creative-but-deadly new weapons, loads of enemies begging for a stake through the heart and more, this is the largest and most ambitious DLC for Dead Cells yet.

• Scars Above

  • Developer: Mad Head Games

  • Publisher: Prime Matter

  • Platform: PC, PS4/5, Xbox (affiliate link)

  • Release: February 28, 2023

  • Demo Available on Steam

Scars Above puts players into the space-boots of astronaut and scientist Dr. Kate Ward, who is sent to explore a colossal and enigmatic alien structure, the Metahedron, which suddenly appeared in the Earth’s orbit.

Things don’t go as planned, and the Metahedron hurls Kate and her team across space and onto a mysterious extrasolar planet. Waking up alone on the strange, hostile world and determined to survive, Kate sets out to find her crew and unravel the mystery of how they arrived on this alien world and where exactly they are.

Kate will investigate her surroundings by scanning and analyzing the alien fauna and flora of the dangerous planet, then use her gained knowledge to create various elemental weapons, gadgets, and consumables to survive.

As she hunts for her team, Kate will have to rely on her creations and skill as she uses the environment to her advantage to defeat the monstrous creatures inhabiting this strange world. Nevertheless, she persists, all the while trying to unlock the mystery of an ancient alien civilization and uncover the truth about what happened to her and her team.

• Relic Hunters Legend

  • Developer: Rogue Snail

  • Publisher: Gearbox Publishing

  • Platform: PC

  • Sign Up for Beta on Steam

Relic Hunters Legend is an in-development online looter-shooter RPG featuring exciting, fast-paced gameplay, a ton of powerful gear and weapons with tons more customizable options, and a cast of rowdy rebels with different skills and abilities that you can fine tune to match your playing style.

• After Us

  • Developer: Piccolo Studio

  • Publisher: Private Division

  • Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S

  • Release: Spring 2023

After Us features Piccolo Studio’s signature style of delivering impactful storytelling and combines it with compelling exploration and adventure. Players take on the role of Gaia, the Spirit of Life, as she must jump, glide, dash, wallride, and swim to evade deadly obstacles and enemies. As the embodiment of life, she has the power to help restore and reconstitute the planet. By emitting bursts of light, Gaia sparks new plant growth revealing new paths for traversal.

• Street Fighter 6

  • Developer: Capcom

  • Publisher: Capcom

  • Platform: PC, PS4/5, Xbox Series X|S (affiliate link)

  • Release: June 2, 2023

• Judas

  • Developer: Ghost Story Games

  • Publisher: Ghost Story Games

  • Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S

A disintegrating starship. A desperate escape plan.

You are the mysterious and troubled Judas. Your only hope for survival is to make or break alliances with your worst enemies. Will you work together to fix what you broke – or will you leave it to burn?

• Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord

  • Developer: nDreams

  • Publisher: Sony Pictures Virtual Reality

  • Platform: Meta Quest 2, PSVR2

  • Release: 2023

• Destiny 2: Lightfall

  • Developer: Bungie

  • Publisher: Bungie

  • Platform: PC, PS4/5, Xbox (affiliate link)

  • Release: February 28, 2023

• Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

  • Developer: Rocksteady Studios

  • Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

  • Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S

  • Release: May 26, 2023

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is an original genre-defying, action-adventure, third-person shooter where players take on the roles of Harley Quinn (a.k.a. Dr. Harleen Quinzel), Deadshot (a.k.a. Floyd Lawton), Captain Boomerang (a.k.a. Digger Harkness) and King Shark (a.k.a. Nanaue), who must join forces to take down the World’s Greatest DC Super Heroes, the Justice League.

• Forspoken

  • Developer: Luminous Productions

  • Publisher: Square Enix

  • Platform: PS5

  • Release: January 24, 2023

  • Demo Now Available

• Dune: Awakening

  • Developer: Funcom

  • Publisher: Funcom

  • Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S

In Dune: Awakening you strive to survive the countless dangers of Arrakis alongside thousands of other players. Explore your role and identity while experiencing an epic personal journey, from searching for water and building shelters against storms to controlling the flow of spice in the top echelons of the planet.

Spice lies at the center of conflict, advancement, and power in Dune: Awakening. Where spice blows appear, players converge. Fights can range from quick skirmishes to large-scale battles with infantry, ground vehicles, and ornithopters each providing an essential role.

The deserts hold a multitude of choices to make and paths to discover. Jump into an ornithopter to scout the deep deserts; equip advanced armor and weaponry to become a deadly mercenary; execute an efficient spice harvesting operation; gain influence among Great Houses — do all these things and more.

• Immortals of Aveum

  • Developer: Ascendant Studios

  • Publisher: EA

  • Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S

  • Release: 2023

Immortals of Aveum is a groundbreaking new single-player, first-person magic shooter that delivers a visceral, cinematic campaign experience. The game is set in an original fantasy universe engulfed in magic, rife with conflict, and on the verge of oblivion.

• Nightingale

  • Developer: Inflexion Games

  • Publisher: Inflexion Games

  • Platform: PC

  • Release: Early Access 2023

• Remnant II

  • Developer: Gunfire Games

  • Publisher: Gearbox Publishing

  • Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S

  • Release: 2023

Remnant II plunges players deeper into a devastated world requiring a mix of methodical and frenetic ranged and melee combat against cunning enemies and punishing boss battles. Enter the fray as a lone-wolf or even the odds by teaming up with two friends to overcome daunting challenges. Each time players start a new playthrough of Remnant II they will be brought into a new world built from a wide pool of locations, enemies, NPCs, bosses, and weapons. These dynamically built levels allow for unique experiences as elements are woven organically into the world and narrative.

• Blue Protocol

  • Developer: Bandai Namco Online & Bandai Namco Studios

  • Publisher: Amazon Games

  • Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S (affiliate link)

  • Release: Second Half 2023

Blue Protocol, co-developed by Bandai Namco Online Inc. and Bandai Namco Studios, takes players on a heroic journey through Regnas, a world teetering on the brink of destruction after millennia of conflict and technology overuse. Players must unite and harness the mysterious light called Flux to defeat powerful foes. Players can fully customize their character, and choose from five unique classes at launch: the sturdy Blade Warden, the valiant Twin Striker, the versatile Keen Strider, the multifaceted Spell Weaver, or the damage-dealing Foe Breaker. Aided by Echoes, mystical summoned creatures with powerful attacks, players will unlock their memories and fight to save the world.

• Transformers: Reactivate

  • Developer: Splash Damage

  • Publisher: Splash Damage

  • Platform: PC, Console

  • Release: Closed Beta in 2023

TRANSFORMERS: REACTIVATE will offer players a chance to immerse themselves in the TRANSFORMERS universe like never before. They will get to play as some of their favourite characters; unique, weighty, and powerful, seamlessly converting between vehicle and bot form as they battle The Legion; the greatest threat the Autobots have ever faced.

• Wild Hearts

  • Developer: Koei Tecmo

  • Publisher: EA

  • Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S (affiliate link)

  • Release: February 17, 2023

Causing a real threat to Azuma’s fantasy landscape, Kemono are giant beasts that have fused with their environments, wielding the power of nature to reshape their surroundings to suit their needs and battle for territory. Players will encounter all types of Kemono in WILD HEARTSTM - from plant-infused squirrels to the massive Kingtusk wild boar and many more - as they traverse the world. The new trailer showcases three of the most powerful Kemono players will take on, including Deathstalker the savage wolf, Amaterasu the giant hawk, and for the first time Golden Tempest, the ferocious, unforgiving tiger and its tornado of sand and gold.

• Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

  • Developer: CD Projekt Red

  • Publisher: CD Projekt Red

  • Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S (affiliate link)

  • Release: 2023

Played by actor Idris Elba (Luther, Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, The Suicide Squad), who’s joining the cast of Phantom Liberty alongside Keanu Reeves as Johnny Silverhand, Reed is a veteran New United States of America agent, and apparently the only person players can trust to help them fulfill an impossible mission of espionage and survival. Following the teaser’s climax, the actor appeared in a special video message directed at the audience and gamers worldwide, commenting on the character of Reed and his role in Phantom Liberty's story.

• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

  • Developer: Respawn Entertainment

  • Publisher: EA

  • Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S (affiliate link)

  • Release: March 17, 2023

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor picks up five years after the events of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order™, as Cal continues to grow as a Jedi and evade the Empire’s constant pursuit. With trusty companion BD-1 by his side, he joins forces with new and old allies to aid him on his quest, including the mercenary Bode Akuna (Noshir Dalal) and former crew member Cere Junda (Debra Wilson). With new traversal options such as an ascension cable to reach new heights and the ability to tame and ride creatures, Cal has many ways to navigate the perils he will face as he explores both familiar and new worlds across the galaxy.

• The Lords of the Fallen

  • Developer: HEXWORKS

  • Publisher: CI Games

  • Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S (affiliate link)

  • Release: 2023

Taking place over a thousand years after the events of the first game, The Lords of the Fallen will take players on an all-new epic adventure through a vast and sprawling world, split at its very core between the realm of the living and the dead. An expansive RPG experience, players will need to traverse between the two fully interconnected worlds, each offering its own unique pathways, side quests, NPCs, enemies and treasures.

• Final Fantasy XVI

  • Developer: Square Enix

  • Publisher: Square Enix

  • Platform: PS5

  • Release: June 22, 2023

FINAL FANTASY XVI introduces gamers to an all-new standalone story in the Final Fantasy universe, an epic dark fantasy world that takes place in the realm of Valisthea—a land blessed in the light of the Mothercrystals, and where peace falters as the spread of the Blight threatens to destroy their dominions. The fate of the land is decided by the Eikons, powerful and deadly creatures, and their Dominants, men and women who have been blessed with the ability to call upon and wield them. This is the tale of Clive Rosfield, a warrior granted the title “First Shield of Rosaria” and sworn to protect his younger brother Joshua, the Dominant of the Phoenix, Eikon of Fire. Before long, Clive will be caught up in a great tragedy and swear revenge on the Dark Eikon Ifrit, a mysterious entity that brings calamity in its wake.

• Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon

  • Developer: PlatinumGames

  • Publisher: Nintendo

  • Platform: Nintendo Switch

  • Release: March 17, 2023

In Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon, players take on the role of Cereza, a young apprentice witch, and start a fateful journey into a forbidden forest to gain the power to save her mother. In addition to sporting a striking and distinct storybook-inspired art style of its own, this new title also features gameplay never before seen in the Bayonetta series. Controlling both Cereza and her infernal demon partner, Cheshire, players will focus on exploration, combat and puzzle solving to help Cereza go deeper into the forest.

• Fire Emblem Engage Expansion Pass

  • Developer: Intelligent Systems

  • Publisher: Nintendo

  • Platform: Nintendo Switch

  • Release: January 20, 2023

The first of four waves of DLC will release when the game launches for Nintendo Switch on Jan. 20, 2023, and will add a variety of content, including Edelgard, Dimitri and Claude from Fire Emblem: Three Houses as one in-game Emblem, as well as Tiki from Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light as another Emblem. Emblems can be summoned in Fire Emblem Engage to fight alongside the main heroes, helping boost their stats and assisting them in combat.

• Meet Your Maker

  • Developer: Behaviour Interactive

  • Publisher: Behaviour Interactive

  • Platform: PC, PS4/5, Xbox

  • Release: April 4, 2023

  • Register for Beta Playtest

Meet Your Maker is a post-apocalyptic first-person building-and-raiding game where every level is designed by players for players. Gameplay revolves around the creation and infiltration of stand-alone levels called Outposts. Players will switch between roles as they mastermind devious maze-like Outposts filled with traps and guards, then gear up for methodical fast-paced combat raiding other players’ creations.

• Hades II

  • Developer: Supergiant Games

  • Publisher: Supergiant Games

  • Platform: PC, Console

  • Release: Early Access in 2023

Hades II is a direct sequel, set in and around the Underworld of Greek myth after the events of the original game. Chronos, the Titan of Time and the wicked father of Hades and his brothers, has escaped his imprisonment in the depths of the Underworld to wage war on Olympus. Can Time itself be stopped?

As Melinoë, the immortal Princess of the Underworld, you'll explore a bigger, deeper mythic world, vanquishing the Titan's forces with the full might of Olympus behind you, in a sweeping story that continually unfolds through your every setback and accomplishment.

• Tekken 8

  • Developer: Bandai Namco Studios

  • Publisher: Bandai Namco

  • Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S (affiliate link)

TEKKEN 8 will feature exciting new gameplay focused on “Aggressive” tactics. Retaining TEKKEN’s unique fighting game identity, the game will provide both players and spectators with the series‘ most thrilling experience yet with visceral screen-jarring attacks and environments that are both dynamic and destructible. The trailer highlights an all-new game mechanic called the “Heat System,” which triggers aggressive attacks with special moves and enhancements for each character’s abilities.

• Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon

  • Developer: Bandai Namco, FromSoftware

  • Publisher: Bandai Namco

  • Platform: PC, PS4/5, Xbox

  • Release: 2023

ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON will offer a game experience based on the mech game know-how FromSoftware cultivated over 25 years of developing games in the series, but now introducing groundbreaking gameplay found in the developer’s recent action games. The new ARMORED CORE title will combine these elements into thrilling action that only mechas can provide. The game promises to be a unique entry in the mech action game genre.

In ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON, players will be able to freely move through massive three-dimensional environments with rapid maneuverability while experiencing visceral vehicular combat. Signature to FromSoftware’s carefully crafted game design, the game will feature challenging and memorable battles along with a fulfilling progression system and deep gameplay, all of it now powered by assembling mechs and going into combat with massive bosses. Players will recognize the sense of satisfaction and achievement when they overcome a difficult situation and relish momentary victory, and perhaps a boost to their standing, before encountering the next challenge.