The Game Awards are both an awards ceremony and a trailer spectacle where game studios and publishers present their upcoming games. Some of these trailers are for games that have already been announced. others TGA presenter Geoff Keighley calls “world firsts”. We already know what will be confirmed from official announcements, but we also have some educated guesses about what titles and franchises they will be could Get trailers, release date announcements, or other updates – and some wide-ranging wishes about what’s coming.

What we know: Mecha break will receive “a special announcement.” Bandai Namco will introduce a new fighter Tekken 8. Borderlands 4 will get its first real trailer, along with Mafia: The Old Country. Also, some kind of update is coming Warframe: 1999.

Now it’s time for some educated guesses and some slightly less likely hopes and dreams. Share your own predictions in the comments.

Hideo Kojima will show up with things to actually show off

We already knew Kojima would be making an appearance before the Game Awards were confirmed last week. Kojima will always show up. The only question that remains is which of Kojima’s three projects is most likely to receive a major, eye-catching presentation this year. There are Death Stranding 2: On the Beach And O.Dbut there is also Physintdescribed as a spiritual successor to Metal Gear. I suspect so Death Stranding 2 will be the main event here, as it requires an actual release date along with “2025.” Why not announce this date at TGAs? —Maddy Myers

It won’t be “world premieres,” but we’ll probably see it upcoming games in 2025 at the show – specifically the February 2025 lineup, which includes: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Civilization 7, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Explained, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in HawaiiAnd Monster Hunter Wilds. With all of these release dates getting closer and closer, these games will probably get some final trailers to get people thinking about playing them in two months. —MM

Max Payne 1 and 2 remakes

All in all, Remedy Entertainment had a solid year. In 2024 Alan Wake 2 became the fastest-selling game in company history; the game’s physical Deluxe Edition, released in October alongside the game’s second and final expansion; and in between all this excitement Remedy announced FBC: Firebreakthe company’s first multiplayer game in the universe of control.

But there is another elephant in the room. In 2022, Remedy announced a remake Max Payne And Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne as a combined experience in partnership with Rockstar Games. We haven’t heard much about the project since, aside from a brief mention in the company’s annual report earlier this year that the game was about this far along in development Code name Condor – which is what it turned out to be FBC: Firebreak.

A Max Payne remake trailer debut at the Game Awards would be a major coup for the company and an excellent end to an all-around successful year. It would also likely be a very emotional moment, as James McCaffrey, the voice of Max Payne and long-time friend and studio collaborator, died in December 2023. –Toussaint Egan

Secretly announced on social media in January 2024, Dawnwalker is a “AAA action role-playing game set in medieval Europe” developed by Rebel Wolves, the studio co-founded in 2022 by Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, the director of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

In October, Bandai Namco released a statement announcing that the company had agreed to a deal with Rebel Wolves to publish the game, which is expected to be the first in a series of titles set in the so-called “Dawnwalker Saga.” . Not much else is known about the title, other than that the game will be built using Unreal Engine 5 and that the company is expected to release more information about the project “in the coming months.” Sounds like prime TGA announcement material to me. –TE

It’s been four years since IO Entertainment announced that it was working on a standalone 007 game in collaboration with MGM. Since then, we haven’t heard a peep or a squeak from the developer about the game’s progress… Until October, when CEO Hakan Abrak spoke briefly but enthusiastically about Project 007’s development to IGN. That’s not much, but be careful: developers usually don’t talk publicly about projects in development unless they have something to say or they are preparing to say something. The floor is all yours, IO Interactive. –TE

After releasing in 2019 and a full reboot in 2021, Rare will be an Xbox exclusive Always wild remained in action for years – until Phil Spencer visited the studio in October 2024 and confirmed in a post on Threads that the game actually existed (“Great day at Rare, hanging out with the developers at their desks and playing Everwild”). When the team announced in 2021 that the game would be getting a reboot, 2024 was the planned release date, but that obviously didn’t happen. However, this seems like exactly the kind of Game Awards surprise that could emerge. Seems more likely than Silk Song. —MM