20 Video Game Reveals That Shocked the World
The video game announcements that broke the Internet.
The marketing machine behind the games industry is a behemoth unto itself, with publishers potentially spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to sell their biggest AAA blockbusters to the masses.
And first impressions sure count for a lot, so it's important for games to hit hard from the jump with an initial reveal that keeps everyone talking.
While many games are known to be in development long before they're formally unveiled, sometimes a game's announcement comes so shockingly out of left-field that it leaves us all scrambling to pick our jaws up off the floor.
With games development being as secretive as it is, publishers are often able to keep the lid firmly shut on a game's existence until they're ready to stun the world with it.
And that was certainly the case with these 20 games, whose reveals shocked everyone, in turn causing a major stir online and resulting in industry moments that might even be iconic in their own right.
Whether the final game lived up to that mesmerising initial reveal is another story altogether, but they absolutely got the PR cycle off to a hot start...
20. Silent Hills
In August 2014, a survival horror demo for a game called P.T. was released on the PlayStation Store for free from an apparently new developer called 7780s Studio.
However, players who made it to the end of the demo discovered that P.T. actually stood for Playable Teaser, and that it was a prelude to a new Silent Hill game, Silent Hills.
More to the point, the closing cinematic revealed that this new franchise installment was to be co-directed by the legendary Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro, with 7780s Studios actually being a pseudonym for Kojima Productions.
Oh, and the game would also star The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus as its protagonist.
Though the reveal damn-near broke the Internet, by April 2015 Konami announced that Silent Hills had been cancelled, largely due to the faltering relationship between Kojima and Konami during development of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which ultimately prompted him to part ways with them.
There was a small measure of solace, though, when Kojima reunited with both Reedus and Del Toro for his next original project, Death Stranding.