One announcement, many games I don’t want to encourage more publishers to create irrelevant, self-indulgent trailers for Geoff Keighley’s Advertganza, but I’ll cut Sega a break for their one. Sure, the first 52 seconds are some live-action skit, but the following 41 seconds announce no less than five games. Sega are returning to their glory days once again, with new games coming based onJet Set Radio,Crazy Taxi, Streets Of Rage,Golden Axe, Shinobi, “and more....

First of two new IPs from the Bloodhunt studio Do you like paragliding, exosuits, loot, and tornadoes? Do you like all of those things at once? Then you might enjoy the just-announcedExoborne, a tactical open worldshooterfrom Sharkmob, the Swedish studio behindVampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt. Running on Unreal Engine 5 and set in fictional, near-future Colton County, USA, it’s a PvPvE affair in which you roam a big ruined map either alone or as a team, fighting other players, NPCs and renegade “natural” elements....

The pre-announcement of another delay Here’s a new trailer to prove it. Skull And Bones initially seemed like it would be a knockabout multiplayer game based on the good Assassin’s Creed naval combat in that one game. It then was reborn as a live service giant, with seemingly plentiful other revisions along the way. Now it’s all about becoming a “pirate kingpin”,Ubisoft say, by doing quests, amassing resources, and growing your fleet of ships....

First trailer cuts through the Fog Supermassive Games have dropped the first trailer forThe Casting of Frank Stone, their single player Dead by Daylight spin-off, a collaboration with original developer Behavior Interactive that was announced earlier this year. The newhorrorgame combinesUntil Dawn’s branching storyline approach withDead by Daylight’s supporting fiction of a malevolent Entity, trapping people in fog-bound pocket dimensions with legendary killers, so as to feast on their fear....

“Turns out it is a real game. Kind of wish it wasn’t.” The good news is, The Day Before is not vapourware, demonstrated by the fact that itlaunched on Steamlast night and is available to purchase and play. The bad news, at least going by the game’s Steam reviews, is that it is utterly, categorically terrible. At the time of writing, The Day Before hadjust under 11,000 user reviewson Steam, which, wow, a lot of people are gagging to play a game that reeks like a zombie’s boxer shorts, huh?...

Destructive delight Destructive, team-based multiplayer shooterThe Finalshas launched. The release was announced during this evening’s Game Awards, but has been long expected. The Finals had a successful open beta last month, after which it became the most wishlisted game on Steam. The Finals is free-to-play and so you candownload it from Steam now. If you missed out on the open beta: The Finals pits teams of three against each other as they fight over vaults and cash boxes, seeking to be the first to deposit a certain amount of funds in a frantic first-person shooter that’s framed like a game show....

Asura’s Wrath vibes Nexon and Neople have announced The First Berserker: Khazan, a single-player action RPG from the Dungeon & Fighter universe. I’m not familiar with DNF, but going by The First Berserker’s trailer, it’s all about exceedingly grimdark blokes beating the paste out of each other. In this instalment, you play a once-proud general of the Pell Los Empire, who has been falsely accused of treason and sent into exile....

Well, hello there, sequel to excellent detective game,The Case Of The Golden Idol, didn’t expect to see you here. Announced during the pre-show of tonight’s Game Awards,The Rise Of The Golden Idolexists as little more than a brief teaser trailer right now, but to be honest, I’m sold already. Sign me up, please. As you can see from the trailer above, The Rise Of The Golden Idol has quite a different art style compared to the distinctive pixel art seen in Case, but given the teaser was prefaced by the Tuuuu-duunnnnnhhh of a Netflix logo, I suspect that’s probably because it’s been made with mobile devices in mind first - and we all know detailed pixel art doesn’t play quite so well with phones, does it?...

A new meaning to bullet hell, perhaps? Working hard or hardly working? It’s time to build your deck and upgrade your tower inHeretic’s Fork. Alice0:Time to log into your PC for another shift at your lousy job: stopping sinners from escaping Hell by building and upgrading defences. Ugh! As a tower defence game, Heretic’s Fork is a simple one. You can’t build mazes, you can’t even pick spots to place towers, you can only build and upgrade parts in the limited slots on your central tower, which sits at the centre of the escape portal....

Now we’re cooking. Terrific, demonic rhythm-basher THUMPER is getting a sequel of sorts called THRASHER, created by the first game’s artist and composer Brian Gibson. It’s a weirdo racer in which you use gesture controls to evolve the creature you’re controlling, in a “breakneck race for survival that begins at the dawn of time”. Which is certainly a concept. Will there be any flying hell triangles in this one? Will my thumbs be able to keep up, seven years after almost breaking them against the sneering face of THUMPER’s world 3?...

Fight off hordes of monsters as a crew member on a new map The upcoming crossover expansion brings nine bean-shaped crewmates from the sci-fi social deduction game to the bullet-hell monster-slayer, each with distinct strengths and weaknesses. You’ll be able to use those beans on a new Vampire Survivors map inspired by Among Us’ Polus map, fittingly titled PolusReplica. According to devs Poncle, the new map is crammed full of nods and secrets in tribute to Among Us, and features multiple biomes with unique enemies....

Not a goose in sight The creators ofUntitled Goose Gamehave unveiled their next, err, not goose game. Announced at tonight’s Game Awards,Big Walkis quite a different proposition from Goose Game, not least because we’ve moved from the quaint environs of a classic English village to the wilds of the Australian bushland. It’s also an online co-operative multiplayer game that will see and your friends solving all sorts of puzzles you find out in the wild....

Good news, Mana fans. After years of remakes and remasters, Square Enix have announced the first all-new Mana game in 15 years.Visions Of Manawill return to the series action-RPG roots, and pop you into the boots of Val, who - all right, deep breath - is a soul guard chosen to be the Alm Of Fire, and whose job it is to go and revive the mana flow at ye olde Mana Tree....