I don’t know about you, but I didn’t have a lot of good video games to play this year. I promised myself at the start of the year that I wouldn’t spend too much money on gaming…and I succeeded. I think I only bought one full-priced game this year, and maybe one or two on sale. But that means I spent most of this year not playing new and exciting video games.

That is definitely going to change in the years ahead, according to the trailers from the Video Game Awards a few nights ago, among others. Today we’re gonna check out a bunch of really cool video game trailers from the past few days/weeks!

First up is the big one: The Witcher IV! After the failure/success of Cyberpunk, CDProjektRed has decided to go back to the franchise that made them famous.

This was a super fun cinematic in the Witcher universe and I’m very much looking forward to this game. Very excited to see how they make the franchise in a post-Cyberpunk, post-Witcher 3 world. Of course, since this trailer came out, the internet commentary has been horrendous. It should hopefully go without saying that I’m not part of that nonsense. Ciri looks great and having her as the protagonist is the natural progression of this series after The Witcher III.

Anyone complaining about the looks of this CGI woman is everything I hate about society.

As for this game, we’re likely not going not going to see The Witcher IV for several years…but it’s nice to know it might exist someday.

Next up is a new Naughty Dog trailer called Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. This is another largely cinematic trailer, but it looks like we’re going to play an intergalactic bounty hunter with traces of 20th century technology in the future.

Looks awesome, as far as cinematic teases go. I’ve always slept on Naughty Dog games for some reason, despite all of them being popular and beloved. So unless this comes out the same weekend as Grand Theft Auto VI (for which we did not get a new trailer!), I’ll probably try this one out right away.

Though again, no release date.

Here’s another trailer I found over the weekend: Dispatch, from the former TellTale Games people. You play a dispatcher for a team of superheroes, mostly told through a point and click narrative.

I think it looks neat! I enjoyed the TellTale games I played, even if I never got around to finishing some of those franchises. I never played the second Batman game, and I never finished up saving Clementine in The Walking Dead! That’s on me. But they make good games, and Dispatch looks to have an interesting story to tell.

Dispatch will supposedly come out sometime next year, so awesome.

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