[STEAM] Braid and The Witness Creator Jonathan Blow Teases The Game Awards Announcement

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Jonathan Blow has just "announced an announcement," teasing he just may be getting on a plane today to join a "gaming industry event coming up."

Blow — perhaps best known for 2008's

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and 2016's

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— popped up on his

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with a brief video, revealing that a project that has likely taken "nine or 10 years to make" is "finally get[ting] out to people." And while it's probably not "a trailer for like an RPG where you fight monsters from hell" — "nothing wrong with that," he hastily added — whatever it is seems likely to be showing up at 2025's The Game Awards.

"We've been working hard on projects for a very long time. We have a wide variety of things that we've been developing. They're very complicated. Sometimes they take a while to come to fruition. Do we give up? No, we do not. We keep going, and we get them done because ultimately, even if something took nine years or 10 years to make, if you work hard for a long time, you can produce something that is tremendously good, much better than you ever expected in the beginning, and then you can finally get it out to people.

"I'm speaking in generalities right now," Blow teased. "I cannot actually say anything specific because this is not the announcement, okay? This is the announcement of the announcement, and therefore, I cannot relay any actual facts that are being reserved for the actual announcement. But I am announcing that this announcement will occur sometime soon. Maybe very soon. Maybe, you know, I don't know if there's any gaming industry events coming up this week where stuff about upcoming projects might get shown. I don't know, if there's something like that, you might keep an eye out, right? You might just want to look, and you might see, you know, a trailer for like an RPG where you fight monsters from hell."

"That's probably not what we're announcing," he hastily added. "Nothing wrong with that, but that's not what we're announcing. You might see some other things. So, that is the announcement of the announcement. If there's any game industry events, such as something happening in Los Angeles — which I wouldn't even know about because I have to get on a plane tomorrow morning to go to some show — if there's something like that, some Game Awards. I don't think we're getting an award tomorrow, but if there's something like that that also has information in it besides like awards, then just keep your eyes peeled…"

"Yeah. Just keep an eye out, because at such a place — if I were to make an actual announcement that conveyed the actual facts that I wanted to provide that people often ask about — that would be a good place to do it, to have the actual announcement that we are announcing today. All right. Thank you."

Wondering what the new game could be? Well, according to one commenter, the game is expected to be called Order of the Sinking Star. "The game has been called that for over a year, and there's even a

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Blow's most recent game, The Witness, secured an impressive 10/10 from us. In

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, we called it "a beautiful, powerful, and cleverly designed puzzle game with a wealth of mysteries to unravel."

We've been keeping tabs on what's been confirmed to make an appearance so far, what's been teased, and some of the pie-in-the-sky dream games we know deep down in our brains won’t be there, but our heart tells us there might just be a chance. Don’t worry, we’re not going to be quite as far-fetched as to say

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will be at The Game Awards, nor

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, which

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Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images.

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at

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