Jonathan Blow has simply “introduced an announcement,” teasing he simply could also be getting on a airplane at this time to affix a “gaming trade occasion arising.”
Blow — maybe greatest recognized for 2008’s Braid and 2016’s The Witness — popped up on his YouTube channel with a short video, revealing {that a} undertaking that has probably taken “9 or 10 years to make” is “lastly get[ting] out to individuals.” And whereas it is in all probability not “a trailer for like an RPG the place you combat monsters from hell” — “nothing mistaken with that,” he rapidly added — no matter it’s appears prone to be exhibiting up at 2025’s The Game Awards.
“We have been working onerous on tasks for a really very long time. We’ve got all kinds of issues that we have been creating. They’re very difficult. Typically they take some time to return to fruition. Can we hand over? No, we don’t. We maintain going, and we get them carried out as a result of in the end, even when one thing took 9 years or 10 years to make, in case you work onerous for a very long time, you possibly can produce one thing that’s tremendously good, significantly better than you ever anticipated to start with, and then you possibly can lastly get it out to individuals.
“I am talking in generalities proper now,” Blow teased. “I can not truly say something particular as a result of this isn’t the announcement, okay? That is the announcement of the announcement, and due to this fact, I can not relay any precise info which are being reserved for the precise announcement. However I’m asserting that this announcement will happen someday quickly. Perhaps very quickly. Perhaps, you recognize, I do not know if there’s any gaming trade occasions arising this week the place stuff about upcoming tasks would possibly get proven. I do not know, if there’s one thing like that, you would possibly maintain a watch out, proper? You would possibly simply wish to look, and you would possibly see, you recognize, a trailer for like an RPG the place you combat monsters from hell.”
“That is in all probability not what we’re asserting,” he rapidly added. “Nothing mistaken with that, however that is not what we’re asserting. You would possibly see another issues. So, that’s the announcement of the announcement. If there’s any recreation trade occasions, comparable to one thing taking place in Los Angeles — which I would not even learn about as a result of I’ve to get on a airplane tomorrow morning to go to some present — if there’s one thing like that, some Game Awards. I do not suppose we’re getting an award tomorrow, but when there’s one thing like that that additionally has info in it apart from like awards, then simply maintain your eyes peeled…”
“Yeah. Simply maintain a watch out, as a result of at such a spot — if I have been to make an precise announcement that conveyed the precise info that I needed to offer that individuals typically ask about — that might be a very good place to do it, to have the precise announcement that we’re asserting at this time. All proper. Thanks.”
Questioning what the brand new recreation might be? Nicely, in response to one commenter, the sport is anticipated to be referred to as Order of the Sinking Star. “The recreation has been referred to as that for over a yr, and there’s even a subreddit for it,” they pointed out.
Blow’s most up-to-date recreation, The Witness, secured a formidable 10/10 from us. In IGN’s The Witness overview, we referred to as it “a phenomenal, highly effective, and cleverly designed puzzle recreation with a wealth of mysteries to unravel.”
We have been retaining tabs on what’s been confirmed to make an look thus far, what’s been teased, and a number of the pie-in-the-sky dream video games we all know deep down in our brains gained’t be there, however our coronary heart tells us there would possibly simply be an opportunity. Don’t fear, we’re not going to be fairly as far-fetched as to say GTA 6 will likely be at The Game Awards, nor The Witcher 4, which CD Projekt Crimson has already confirmed gained’t be. However that’s sufficient of that. For extra, take a look at our round-up of what you possibly can anticipate from The Game Awards 2025.
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Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and marketing consultant with 15+ years expertise working with a number of the world’s greatest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.