It’s definitely not God of War.
Game Awards host Geoff Keighley posted a cryptic image on X on Monday, showing a hellish monument in a desert locale, accompanied by the text regal.inspiring.thickness. If you plug those three words into a website called What3Words, a map appears showing a location somewhere near Joshua Tree in California. If you visit that location, you’ll see the viral artefact in question, just like YouTuber KingVision18 has done.
If you watch that video or visit the monument, you’ll see that Geoff’s initial image—posted above—doesn’t really capture the real scale of the thing. In reality it’s a large freestanding portal smothered in pained skeletons and the odd animal predator. Some kind of eye is pinned to this shuttered portal, or maybe it’s a dying flower.
Here’s what it looks like in full:
Speculation over what Game Awards announcement it’s designed to tease has been endless ever since, but we know at least one thing: it’s not the next God of War, as series director Cory Barlog confirmed himself.
