While also a celebration of the video game industry’s accomplishments each year, The Game Awards is a popular place for publishers to show off end-of-year announcements for upcoming content. The Game Awards 2020 was no different, with many new game and DLC reveal trailers coming alongside its industry accolades.
Prior to TGA 2020, several video game publishers teased new reveals. The news that Smash Bros. Ultimate‘s next character reveal would arrive at the award show caused several character names to trend on Twitter, from Kingdom Hearts‘ Sora to Devil May Cry‘s Dante. Smash Bros. Ultimate‘s seemingly limitless crossover potential meant fans were particularly hyped for its new DLC announcement, but other popular games also hinted at new reveals. Fortnite teased its “next bounty hunter,” following the recent addition of The Mandalorian‘s Din Djarin.
Although host Geoff Keighley confirmed the show would include more than a dozen game reveals – and the aforementioned teases promised a few exciting announcements – Microsoft, for one, urged Xbox fans to lower their expectations. Last year’s show played host to the Xbox Series X’s reveal, but the company said it would have a much less prominent presence in 2020 than some fans were speculating. Xbox ended up delivering a few significant surprises of its own, but The Game Awards 2020 was also generally packed with reveals bound to excite fans of franchises like The Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age, Among Us, and more.
The Game Awards 2020: All Trailers, Reveals, & Announcements
Below is a list of every game announcement and trailer at The Game Awards 2020 and its pre-show. Bolded titles indicate brand new game, expansion, or show announcements. Follow any hyperlinked text for more details on those particular reveals. The Game Awards’ YouTube stream archive is also embedded below, for those who’d rather watch the show.
- Loop Hero (Four Corners)
- Tchia (Awaceb)
- Sea of Solitude: The Director’s Cut (Jo-Mei)
- Shady Part of Me trailer (Focus Home Interactive)
- Myst VR trailer (Cyan)
- NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… gameplay (Square Enix)
- Century: Age of Ashes (Playwing)
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Sephiroth DLC (Nintendo)
- Perfect Dark (The Initiative)
- Back 4 Blood gameplay (Turtle Rock Studios)
- Scavengers closed beta (Midwinter Entertainment)
- Hood: Outlaws & Legends release date (Focus Home Interactive)
- Forza Horizon 4 & Cyberpunk 2077 crossover (Turn 10 Studios)
- The Callisto Protocol (Striking Distance Studios)
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide gameplay (Fatshark)
- Open Roads (Fullbright)
- Disco Elysium – The Final Cut (ZA/UM)
- Untitled Dragon Age game (BioWare)
- Endless Dungeon (Amplitude Studios)
- Crimson Desert gameplay (Pearl Abyss)
- Overcooked: All You Can Eat Swedish Chef DLC (Ghost Town Games)
- Warframe & Unreal Tournament crossover (Digital Extremes)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Season One (Treyarch)
- Season (Scavengers Studios)
- ARK 2 starring Vin Diesel (Studio Wildcard)
- ARK: The Animated Series (Studio Wildcard)
- Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout Season 3 (Mediatonic)
- Elite Dangerous: Odyssey gameplay (Frontier Developments)
- Evil Dead The Game (StudioCanal)
- Ghosts ‘N Goblins Resurrection (Capcom)
- Capcom Arcade Stadium (Capcom)
- Microsoft Flight Simulator Xbox port (Asobo Studio)
- Returnal release date (Housemarque)
- It Takes Two gameplay (Hazelight)
- The Elder Scrolls Online: Gates Of Oblivion (Zenimax Online Studios)
- Monster Hunter Rise trailer (Capcom)
- Evil West (Flying Wild Hog)
- Scarlet Nexus trailer (Bandai Namco)
- Among Us The Airship map (InnerSloth)
- Fortnite & Halo Master Chief crossover (Epic Games)
- Fortnite & The Walking Dead crossover (Epic Games)
- Ruined King: A League of Legends Story gameplay (Airship Syndicate)
- Untitled Mass Effect game (BioWare)
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate‘s new character announcement was one of the show’s most anticipated reveals. For those expecting a brand new crossover, Final Fantasy 7‘s Sephiroth may be a disappointment, especially after unexpected crossovers like Banjo and Kazooie and Minecraft‘s Steve. Still, the iconic villain will likely have many fans of both franchises excited.
The surprise of a Perfect Dark reboot announcement showed Microsoft was fibbing a bit when it told fans not much was coming, as the return of the long-dormant franchise will likely have many fans excited. It also marks another important Xbox console exclusive in the company’s relatively small library of first-party titles, and the game’s “eco sci-fi” theme looks to deliver and interesting angle on Perfect Dark‘s futuristic universe.
The Game Awards 2020’s reveals closed out with the announcement of a new Mass Effect game, teasing a return to the Milky Way galaxy, as well as a return of beloved character Liara from the original trilogy. The show concluded with the Game of the Year award, going to Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part 2.
