As long as you know someone who has purchased A Way Out, you can download the trial and play “the entire co-op experience” with that person without paying for it, said EA. The co-op trial will be available at launch. For more on A Way Out, watch the new trailer above from The Game Awards, which introduces protagonists Vincent and Leo. Update: You can now watch the new trailer for A Way Out from The Game Awards at the top of this article. And in debuting the trailer, game director Josef Fares wen

As long as you know someone who has purchased A Way Out, you can download the trial and play “the entire co-op experience” with that person without paying for it, said EA. The co-op trial will be available at launch. For more on A Way Out, watch the new trailer above from The Game Awards, which introduces protagonists Vincent and Leo. Update: You can now watch the new trailer for A Way Out from The Game Awards at the top of this article. And in debuting the trailer, game director Josef Fares wen

The development team behind The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, The Astronauts, announced a new game at The Game Awards tonight called Witchfire. Witchfire takes place in a gritty, dark world, full of monsters and zombies running rampant as you try to survive. Based on the trailer we saw, the first-person game will allow players to explore different gothic areas. The game, which is being developed in Unreal Engine, does not have a release date at this time. Prior to founding the new studio, the three

The development team behind The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, The Astronauts, announced a new game at The Game Awards tonight called Witchfire. Witchfire takes place in a gritty, dark world, full of monsters and zombies running rampant as you try to survive. Based on the trailer we saw, the first-person game will allow players to explore different gothic areas. The game, which is being developed in Unreal Engine, does not have a release date at this time. Prior to founding the new studio, the three

Dreams, the ambitious game project from Media Molecule, showed of a lengthy trailer tonight at The Game Awards. It showed more of the game’s main character, as well as its unique content creation system. Media Molecule is best known for LittleBigPlanet, and Dreams is a likewise a game about creating. The trailer showed off elements of many different game genres, all of which can be built by players using its proprietary in-game tools. The main character appears to be a man in a three-piece suit

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, the multiplayer survival shooter that has dominated both Steam and Twitch throughout 2017, is coming out of Early Access on Dec. 20, fulfilling promises from its developer that it would reach full release status before the end of the year. It’s called Miramar, and it was shown in motion for the first time Thursday night during The Game Awards. Miramar is supposedly smaller than Erandel, Battlegrounds’ original map. Miramar is rolling out to the Battlegrounds public

The designer of Payday and Payday 2 has launched a new studio called 10 Chambers Collective. The studio announced a new game called, no joke, GTFO during the Game Awards tonight. You can watch the game’s announcement trailer above, and it looks pretty damned great based on the footage shown. “GTFO is a terrifying 4 player co-op game for hardcore FPS players, brought to you by the game designer behind the Payday franchise,” the trailer’s description reads. GTFO is set to be released 2018.”While t

The designer of Payday and Payday 2 has launched a new studio called 10 Chambers Collective. The studio announced a new game called, no joke, GTFO during the Game Awards tonight. You can watch the game’s announcement trailer above, and it looks pretty damned great based on the footage shown. “GTFO is a terrifying 4 player co-op game for hardcore FPS players, brought to you by the game designer behind the Payday franchise,” the trailer’s description reads. GTFO is set to be released 2018.”While t

Six months after debuting the first gameplay footage at E3, developer 4A Games brought a brand new trailer of its upcoming Metro game, Metro Exodus, to The Game Awards. Metro Exodus is the most ambitious Metro game the studio has ever worked on, producer John Bloch said during a gameplay demo session on Twitch during E3. Bloch confirmed at the time that Metro Exodus begins in Moscow, and characters will play as Artyom. Players will eventually leave Moscow and explore new regions in Metro Exodus,

Josef Fares put himself on the map in 2012 with a heartfelt narrative-driven adventure game called Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. But the developer has a reputation for not keeping his opinions to himself, and he lived up to it at The Game Awards tonight, going off-script with a lengthy, scatterbrained rant that left everyone pulling their collars. Fares, the co-founder of Swedish indie studio Hazelight, appeared at The Game Awards to introduce a new trailer for his next project, A Way Out. Fuck

Josef Fares put himself on the map in 2012 with a heartfelt narrative-driven adventure game called Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. But the developer has a reputation for not keeping his opinions to himself, and he lived up to it at The Game Awards tonight, going off-script with a lengthy, scatterbrained rant that left everyone pulling their collars. Fares, the co-founder of Swedish indie studio Hazelight, appeared at The Game Awards to introduce a new trailer for his next project, A Way Out. Fuck

Not only is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Nintendo’s highest rated Legend of Zelda game, it’s also the best game of 2017, according to The Game Awards. Host Geoff Keighley crowned Breath of the Wild the best game of the year, ushering the game’s producers on stage to accept the award. Breath of the Wild also won for Best Game Direction and Best Action/Adventure Game. With awards for the game and 12 total nominations, it’s been one one hell of a year for the publisher, which also saw th

Bethesda is talking to you directly, and it would like you to purchase its games. In an ad that ran during The Game Awards 2017 on Thursday night, Bethesda Softworks invoked the power of Lynda Carter (of classic Wonder Woman fame) to remind people that it made a lot of single-player games this year. In a year where studios like EA pivoted its upcoming Star Wars title away from a single-player adventure, and multiplayer experiences like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds dominate the conversation, it’

Players will still take the role of Link in The Champions’ Ballad, although the downloadable content will provide even more of Zelda’s story. The Champions’ Ballad will be available as part of Breath of the Wild’s Expansion Pass, which costs $19.99. The add-ons are not sold separately; if you want to play either of them, you must buy the full Expansion Pass. Update (Dec. 8): The Champions’ Ballad is now available — the DLC is now listed in the Nintendo eShop with a Dec. 7 release date. In additi

Amazon is currently running its 12 Days of Deals which started Dec. 3 and will last until Dec. 12. Today only, the retail giant’s deals are all about gaming and offer similar discounts as Black Friday. Highlights include $50 off Xbox One S bundles, big savings on PC gaming hardware and accessories, and 40 percent off board games. Note that these deals end at 3 a.m. EST on Dec. 8, so act fast if anything catches your eye. You can submit deals to tips@polygon.com and find more Deals here.

Publisher THQ Nordic just revealed (a little earlier than planned) a new survival game set in the “the cold and deadly world of an apocalyptic winter” called Fade to Silence. The game, developed by Black Forest Games, is set to come to Steam Early Access next week on Dec. 14. THQ Nordic says Fade to Silence will be a “complex, character-driven, group survival experience.” Players will have to decide which fellow survivors they’ll welcome into their refuge and who they’ll leave behind. The compan

Publisher THQ Nordic just revealed (a little earlier than planned) a new survival game set in the “the cold and deadly world of an apocalyptic winter” called Fade to Silence. The game, developed by Black Forest Games, is set to come to Steam Early Access next week on Dec. 14. THQ Nordic says Fade to Silence will be a “complex, character-driven, group survival experience.” Players will have to decide which fellow survivors they’ll welcome into their refuge and who they’ll leave behind. The compan

World War Z, the zombie apocalypse novel turned movie, is now becoming a video game. The game, simply titled World War Z, was revealed during today’s The Game Awards. Developed by Saber Interactive, the studio whose work includes shooters like Inversion, Timeshift and Quake Champions, World War Z is coming to PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. The trailer for World War Z featured some of the familiar zombie horde imagery seen in the film of the same name, namely hundreds of zombies filling

Vacation Simulator is the next project in the Job Simulator series. Owlchemy Labs premiered the game with a trailer shown during The Game Awards 2017 pre-show. Based on the first look at the game, it’s much the same as Job Simulator. Job Simulator served as a launch title for several virtual reality headsets, including PlayStation VR and HTC Vive. Vacation Simulator will come to all VR-capable platforms at an unspecified date, the team at Owlchemy Labs told host Geoff Keighley during the pre-sho

“The king is dead.”Squanch Games debuted the first trailer for the PlayStation VR version of its game, Accounting, which the studio is calling Accounting+, during The Game Awards 2017 pre-show. It marked the first game from Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland’s new VR-dedicated studio Squanch Games, which was named Squanchtendo originally. Crows Crows Crows, The Stanley Parable designer William Pugh’s studio, is collaborating with the development team on the project. Accounting is described