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The Game Awards 2025 | Summary - Moonface - Dec 12th, 2025 The Game Awards 2025 begins in just under ten minutes at 7:30pm ET / 4:30pm PT. All announcements and winners will be compiled into this post once the event begins. In the meantime, does anyone have anything they hope to see announced during the show or predictions for any winners? I'm expecting Expedition 33 to sweep a lot of the categories it got a nomination in myself. Winners Best Family Game - Donkey Kong Bananza Innovation in Accessibility - Doom: The Dark Ages Best eSports Game - Counter-Strike 2 Best Mobile Game - Umamusume: Pretty Derby Best Independent Game - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Best Adaptation - The Last of Us: Season 2 Best Action Game - Hades II Best Performance - Jennifer English (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33) Games for Impact - South of Midnight Best Ongoing Game - No Man's Sky Best Audio Design - Battlefield 6 Best Fighting Game - Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Most Anticipated Game - Grand Theft Auto VI Best Action-Adventure Game - Hollow Knight: Silksong Best Art Direction - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Best Sim/Strategy Game - Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles Best Debut Indie Game - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Best Score and Music - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Best Sports/Racing Game - Mario Kart World Best Community Support - Baldur's Gate 3 Best VR/AR Game - The Midnight Walk Best RPG - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Player's Voice - Wuthering Waves Best Narrative - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Best Multiplayer Game - Arc Raiders Best Game Direction - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Game of the Year - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Announcements The Free Shepherd Release Date: 2027 Decrepit Release Date: N/A Audio Mech Release Date: N/A Demo Available: December 12, 2025 Pragmata Release Date: April 24, 2026 Demo Available: Today Solasta II Release Date: March 12, 2026 Tank Rat Release Date: Spring 2026 Bradley the Badger Release Date: N/A Stupid Never Dies Release Date: 2026 Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic Release Date: N/A Divinity 3 Release Date: N/A 4 Loop Release Date: N/A Coven of the Chicken Foot Release Date: N/A Ontos Release Date: 2026 Zenless Zone Zero - Angels of Delusion Release Date: N/A Resident Evil Requiem LEON!! Release Date: February 27, 2026 Order of the Sinking Star Release Date: 2026 Exodus Release Date: Early 2027 Warlock Gameplay reveal coming in Summer 2026. Release Date: 2027 Screamer Release Date: March 26, 2026 Control: Resonant Release Date: 2026 Gang of Dragon Release Date: N/A Street Fighter: The Movie Release Date: 2026 Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Release Date: May 29, 2026 Tomb Raider: Catalyst Release Date: 2027 Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis Remake of Tomb Raider 1. Release Date: 2026 The Forest 3 Release Date: N/A Orbitals Release Date: 2026 Wuthering Waves - Version 3.0 Release Date: December 25, 2025 Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred Release Date: April 28, 2026 Marvel Rivals - Season 6 Release Date: 2026 007: First Light Release Date: March 27, 2026 Lords of the Fallen II Release Date: 2026 Saros Release Date: April 30, 2026 No Law Release Date: N/A Where Winds Meet - The Imperial Legacy Update Release Date: N/A Phasmophobia: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Release Date: 2026 Total War: Warhammer 40K Release Date: N/A Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve Release Date: 2026 Star Wars: Galactic Racers Now this is pod racing baby! Release Date: 2026 Out of Words Release Date: N/A Phantom Blade 0 Release Date: September 9, 2026 Mega Man: Dual Override Release Date: 2027 The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Release Date: April 2026 Nioh 3 Release Date: February 6, 2026 Demo Available: January 2026 High Guard Release Date: January 26, 2026 RE: The Game Awards 2025 | Summary - Dragon Lord - Dec 12th, 2025 >FFT winning a game award in 2025 >E33 taking out the trash Best year of TGA ever. Well, minus all the game announcements being complete slop and watching trash steal Player's Voice from E33. E33 deserved all that it got though. One of the absolute best games to ever be made, and the best all-around game released since NieR: Automata. For once the game that deserved to win everything did in fact win everything. I think the only other game up there that had a sliver of a chance would have been Silksong, but it's still nothing compared to E33 (let's not even talk about how much of a joke DK Bonanza being up there was LOL). I gotta add though, Genshin needs to be banned from being eligible for Player's Voice. I love the game, but man it's five years old now and has already won multiple awards. It's had its time and we need to let it just chill. Let newer games be allowed in there instead (maybe live service/gacha games just need to be banned from winning awards outside of their release year/first year of eligibility besides the "Best Ongoing" category). RE: The Game Awards 2025 | Summary - Moonface - Dec 13th, 2025 Yeah DK Bananza was the only game I felt didn't remotely deserve to be in the GotY category. By itself it isn't good enough to be there and against the rest of the nominees it doesn't even come close to them. I also think Sonic Racing Crossworlds should've won over MKW, but there's no way Mario isn't going to win an award whenever it has a nomination.