2025 Game Announcement Shows!

[Selbaek]

Another year, another slew of presentations to show off upcoming games - whether they be updates to keep hype trains chugging along, or new announcements to delight and surprise! Let this thread continue the trend of being the hub of conversation regarding these shows and their announcements, while any threads made to list out the games shown in said shows will be closed and archived with a link for your viewing pleasure.

RGG Like a Dragon Direct (January 09, 9am PT / 12pm ET)
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Sega + Ryo Ga Gotoku Studio showcase "Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii." It looks as charmingly goofy as it sounds!

The New York Game Awards (January 21, 5pm PT / 8pm ET)
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Presented by the New York Videogame Critics Circle (NYVGCC), the awards’ 14th annual ceremony will will honor the critic-chosen best games of 2024. The event will take place at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan with Circle President Harold Goldberg and former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé set as co-hosts. (source)

Xbox Developer_Direct (January 23, 10am PT / 1pm ET)
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Microsoft is poised to showcase some of their upcoming highly anticipated titles, including South of Midnight, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, DOOM: The Dark Ages, and a visit to a surprise location to see another studio's brand new game. That game wound up being Ninja Gaiden 4, as well as a shadow-drop of an Unreal Engine 5 version of Ninja Gaiden 2: Black.

Capcom Spotlight + Monster Hunter Wilds Showcase (February 04, 2pm PT / 5pm ET)
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Bringing you back-to-back info about all that's coming from Capcom! First get the scoop on upcoming games from Capcom Spotlight, then tune in to the Monster Hunter Wilds Showcase for all the latest info! Both events will have subtitles available in 13 languages!

PlayStation State of Play (February 12, 2pm PT / 5pm ET)
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40+ minutes of "news and updates" for PS5 games. 35 games shown, and even a shadow-drop!

D.I.C.E. Awards (February 13, 8pm PT / 11pm ET)
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While not a spectacle of reveals like Geoff Keighley's "The Game Awards," it does highlight developers/producers and gives them a chance to speak longer than 3 minutes.

ID@Xbox Fan Fest Showcase 2025 (February 24, 10am PT / 1pm ET)
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ID@Xbox and IGN team up for a showcase as part of IGN's Fan Fest 2025 Day 1! Viewers can expect to get peeks at exclusive trailers, gameplay, and more from incredible indie studios, such as Raw Fury, Thunder Lotus, Team 17, Akupara, Cult Games, and many others.

Pokémon Presents (February 27, 6am PT / 9am ET)
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The annual Pokémon presentation that gives updates to ongoing announced projects and presents new announcements as well! This year is sure to show an update to Pokémon Legends Z-A, as well as potentially tease the next series of remakes, which at this point is up to Black/White versions.

R6 Seige X Showcase (March 13, 10am PT / 1pm ET)
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Rainbow Six Seige is celebrating 10 years! Siege's evolution comes in a new free-to-play game called "Rainbow Six Seige X." Here's the presentation that goes over all the exciting news and perks for continuing Siege players.

Silent Hill Transmission (March 13, 3pm PT / 6pm ET)
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The last Silent Hill Transmission was years ago, and showcased multiple Silent Hill projects. This one solely focuses on "Silent Hill f." It's looking great and I can't wait for more.

Nippon Ichi UNTITLED// (March 14, 4am PT, 7am ET)
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Nippon Ichi's presentation of upcoming announced and unannounced titles. This was all in Japanese without any official English translations. The first half was about new titles, highlighting both long awaited sequels and completely new stuff. The second half will be spent deep-diving into what was shown in the first half.

Assassin's Creed Shadows Launch Showcase (March 18, 9am PT / 12pm ET)
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A showcase for in-depth developer and cast interviews, as well as deep dives on combat, stealth, music, world design, characters, and more. Stay tuned after the showcase for live gameplay of AC Shadows.

Nintendo Direct 3.27.2025 (March 27, 7am PT / 10am ET)
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Tune in for a livestreamed Nintendo Direct, featuring around 30 minutes of upcoming games for Nintendo Switch. There will be no updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during this presentation.

Nintendo Direct - Nintendo Switch 2 (April 02, 6am PT / 9am ET)
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Announced during the teaser video unveiling of the new system's look and name on January 16th, This Nintendo Direct will have all the details we're wondering about the hardware, software, backwards compatibility, etc. It's the big presentation!

[Selbaek]

There's really not much else to say about LaD: Pirate Yakuza than this picture:

[Selbaek]

The NY Game Awards crowns Astro Bot as game of the year.

The Xbox direct was actually really good! Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 and South of Midnight are very on my radar, and likely day 1 purchases!

Capcom just recently announced a showcase to show off the Capcom fighting collections they have coming out, the new Onimusha game, and will have some dedicated time to showcase Monster Hunter Wilds coming up on Feb 4th.

[The Grimace]

I'm near the end of Astro Bot right now. Big recommend to people with a PS5 and people on the fence.

Monster Hunter Wilds is gonna be huge.

[Selbaek]

The PlayStation State of Play for Feb was last night, and there are a few titles that have really hit my radar!

I was happy to see Split Fiction. I've loved all the games from that studio and this one seems like the next step in those types of co-op games.
Directive 8020 looks to be a really good sci-fi fit for that Dark Pictures developed horror genre.
I got really pulled in by the trailer to Tides of Annihilation. It'll be a while yet, but I'll be excited to learn more.
And finally, Saros. Housemarque has made some great games, with Returnal being their last one. This looks to be an evolution of the Returnal style of game, and I am absolutely ready to learn more.

[Selbaek]

Nippon Ichi slipped under my radar, as did Silent Hill f.

Nippon Ichi held a showcase this morning with 5 new projects. The presentation (YouTube link in the OP) is all in Japanese, but Gematsu wrote up an article of everything shown.

Silent Hill f takes place in a 1960s Japan. Weird, considering I though Silent Hill was the name of an actual town that just happened to be linked to this alternate/parallel hellscape. In any case, it's looking good!

[Sarah Valentine]

I feel like it's a good idea to explore Silent Hill's phenomena happening in others places and times, but as you say the series is called Silent Hill. On one hand, the phenomena are so strongly tied to the town that it doesn't seem right to call the game Silent Hill at all, but on the other hand the phenomena are so distinctive to the Silent Hill brand that if they tried to make a new IP out of it everyone would say "eh it's just Silent Hill under a different name". Sticking with the brand recognition is, in my opinion, the lesser of two evils.

[Selbaek]

Nintendo surprised us with an announcement for what might be the very last Switch 1-centric Direct presentation this morning, slated for tomorrow morning. This comes less than a week before the Switch 2 blowout Direct next Wednesday. Interesting times!

[Random Encounter]

The Switch really is the most special thing Nintendo has made since the Wii and is right up there among their greatest consoles. What they've managed to squeeze out of it is unreal. The fact that the Switch 2 is alleged to just be an iterative update on the current hardware is also telling.

[Selbaek]

The fact that the Switch 2 is alleged to just be an iterative update on the current hardware is also telling.

I've always seen Nintendo to take an Innovative to Iterative approach to their generations. They innovated with NES and iterated on that with SNES. Innovated with N64 and iterated on that with GameCube. Innovated with Wii and iterated with the Wii U by trying (and failing) to incorporate their other successful hardware with multiple screens. Now they've innovated with the Switch and are iterating with the Switch 2. The same goes for their handhelds. They Innovated with the Gameboy and iterated with the Gameboy Advance (I know some consider Gameboy Color to be a different generation, but I don't sit in that camp. I consider GBC more like the DS to DSi kind of upgrade). Innovated with the DS and iterated with the 3DS.

There were some pretty innovative things thrown in with some of those iterations, to be sure, but they still came across as more of an iteration of what came before rather than an entirely new take on "entertain and delight" in my opinion.

While it fits the mold of my perception, however, I do agree that they had the right idea to focus on the same form factor and beef up the specs to handle more intense games graphically. I honestly think they've put themselves in a position that that probably can't do an innovative generation beyond the Switch 2 as the pattern would go, and instead have pigeon-holed themselves into a successful niche that may or may not sustain as the generations move on. I guess we'll see in 8-10 years!