Key Takeaways
- Mafia: The Old Country will be showcased at the 2024 Game Awards on December 12.
- It’s likely that the trailer will include gameplay, and it may even feature a release date, but that remains to be seen.
Publisher 2K Games has confirmed that Mafia: The Old Country will appear at the 2024 Game Awards on December 12. Going live later this week, the tenth annual Geoff Keighley-hosted Game Awards is looking to celebrate this past year of video games with a number of prestigious awards, including the grand prize, Game of the Year. The Game Awards is also a stage for big new game reveals. Aside from the freshly confirmed Mafia: The Old Country, fellow 2K title Borderlands 4 will also show face at the big event later this week.
After the reveal of Borderlands 4 opened, 2K’s announcement of Mafia: The Old Country served as the closer to this year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live back in August. A short cinematic teaser, the trailer conveyed to fans that Mafia is going back to the origins of the Italian mob in early 1900s Sicily. While little else is known about the prequel, fans have been abuzz wondering whether characters from past games, like Don Salieri or Don Morello from the original Mafia, will be involved in The Old Country as their younger selves. Since its reveal, Mafia: The Old Country has become one of the most highly anticipated games of 2025.
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With over three months having passed since its initial reveal, and with only a few days left until the 2024 Game Awards, Mafia took to Twitter to urge fans to tune in to the show on December 12. 2K made it clear to mention Mafia: The Old Country specifically, both in a hashtag and in the attached graphic, as some fans have been wishing for news of a Mafia 2 remake after 2020’s Mafia: Definitive Edition was so well received. A Mafia: The Old Country appearance at this year’s Game Awards was to be expected after the original reveal trailer ended with “See more December 2024.”
Mafia: The Old Country Will Show Up At The Game Awards on December 12
As for exactly what 2K will have in store for Mafia: The Old Country, since the game has already been stamped with a 2025 release window, it’s easy to imagine it getting a full-blown gameplay reveal at The Game Awards, potentially followed by a release date. With the early months of 2025 already so packed, particularly February, it would be wise to expect Mafia: The Old Country to aim for later in the spring or perhaps even summer. However, it’s hard to see 2K looking at a Fall 2025 release with Grand Theft Auto 6 reportedly circling that part of the calendar. Nevertheless, this will surely be a big moment for Mafia fans.
The Game Awards are set to go live on Thursday, December 12 at 7:30 PM Eastern time and will be viewable via YouTube, Twitch, and Twitter. Conversations are swirling around the coveted Game of the Year category, which is home to six nominees: Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, Astro Bot, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Black Myth: Wukong, Balatro, and even Elden Ring‘s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. Many are debating whether DLC should be able to be nominated for the award; gamers will need to wait until Thursday to see whether it takes home the prize.
Mafia: Trilogy
Uncover the origins of organized crime in Mafia: The Old Country, a gritty mob story set in the brutal underworld of 1900s Sicily.
Mafia: Definitive Edition
Re-made from the ground up, rise through the ranks of the mafia during the Prohibition-era. After an inadvertent brush with the mob, Tommy Angelo is reluctantly thrust into the world of organized crime. Initially uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, the rewards become too big to ignore.
Mafia II: Definitive Edition
Remastered in HD, live the life of a gangster during the Golden-era of organized crime. War hero Vito Scaletta becomes entangled with the mob in hopes of paying his father’s debts. Alongside his buddy Joe, Vito works to prove himself, climbing the family ladder with crimes of larger reward, status and consequence.
Mafia III: Definitive Edition
After years of combat in Vietnam, Lincoln Clay’s surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and killed by the Italian Mafia. Lincoln builds a new family on the ashes of the old, blazing a path of revenge through the Mafioso responsible.