The Five Coolest Trailers From The 2022 Game Awards

The Game Awards is turning into more of a trailer show than an awards ceremony, but that’s fine with us. Getting another E3 for Christmas is a nice present. Over 20 trailers premiered for the first time at last night’s event, but here’s the best of what we saw.

We’re getting a sequel to the smash-hit action roguelike Hades! This time you play as Melinoë (pronounced Melly-noy), Princess of the Underworld and sister to Zagreus (the guy you played as in the original game). She looks cool as hell (or hades, wherever) in all her gleaming crescent moon-themed battle gear. But her goal won’t be a simple one: It’s to slay Chronos, God of Time, and as someone points out “he is time itself, and time cannot be stopped.”

Another game everybody loved is Celeste, and we finally got confirmation of a follow-up from the same indie studio today. Earthblade looks very similar in gameplay to its predecessor, except you are a creature with horns in a fantasy world, not a girl climbing a mountain.

Who knew we’d get more Bayonetta so soon, but a spinoff game was revealed at TGA and it looks more relaxed both in style and presentation. You play as Bayonetta before she was Bayonetta, searching a mystical forest for her lost mother. Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon will be released on Switch March 17, 2023.

Ken Levine, creator of Bioshock, left the studio that makes those games quite a while ago. We didn’t know what he was up to until now. Judas looks similar to Bioshock in gameplay concepts, but we doubt it’s as simple as a rehash. Most people guessed correctly that “Judas” is the name of the main character here, and we’re probably right that she has to choose whether or not to betray people (because Levine is never subtle with his metaphors). This one may not be out for a while as no release date was mentioned.

Death Stranding 2 was announced last night, and Kojima himself appeared to introduce it (and then Animal from the Muppets called him out by name!) The cast members who survived the first game will return for this one (Norman Reedus, Léa Seydoux, Troy Baker) plus some new folks (Elle Fanning and Shioli Kutsuna). We can’t predict which way the story will twist next, we just know it’ll be confusing.