This year’s Game Awards was a pretty big improvement over last year’s event. It finally some acknowledged the layoffs that have torn the industry apart over the last two years. Award winners were given ample time to thank their loved ones and colleagues without being rushed off stage. And perhaps most important to the more than 100 million viewers who tuned in, there were some genuine earth-shattering reveals, including Naughty Dog’s next project, The Witcher 4, and an Okami sequel (with Hideki Kamiya at the helm no less) that no one saw coming.
In a night so chockfull of highlights, however, one lower-profile reveal has remained buzzing in the back of my skull. Sloclap, the developer of the award-winning Sifu, announced that its next project isn’t a sequel or another action-packed rogue-like. Weirdly, it decided to make an arcade soccer game with stylized characters and a Rocket League-like presentation.
