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The Game Awards 2025: all the news and announcements

Published on December 19, 2025

The Game Awards are back once again to showcase a metric ton of commercials, provide the gaming public with their monthly dose of Muppets, and validate gamers’ opinions on which title should be named the Game of the Year. I don’t wanna say it’s a foregone conclusion what this year’s GOTY will be — Silksong may surprise us — but it’s pretty obvious that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the frontrunner and for good reason. It’s netted 12 nominations, the most out of this year’s contenders, including all five craft awards (Direction, Art, Music and Score, Narrative, and Audio Design).

On the announcements side, Crystal Dynamics and Amazon Games are planning something related to the Tomb Raider series. Keighley also probably had plans to reveal big news about Resident Evil: Requiem, but unfortunately it got spoiled early thanks to some leaked key art on the PlayStation Store. Here’s all the news, announcements, and trailers from The Game Awards 2025.

The best part of The Game Awards? The orchestra.
Even more Expedition 33.

Hot off its Game of the Year award, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is getting a “Thank You” update that’s rolling out now. It has a new playable area accessible from Act III, a photo mode, AMD FSR 4 support, Steam Deck and Xbox Ally certification, and a lot more.
Flute Guy, now with PVC pipes

It’s the time of the night where The Game Awards orchestra plays a medley of themes from all the nominees for Game of the Year. Of course, there’s Flute Guy, who was once again turnt the hell up playing the weirdest wind instruments you’ve ever seen including PVC pipes. Love that guy forever.
From the makers of Titanfall.

A new indie studio made up of former developers from Respawn showed off their new shooter Highguard, which mixes things up with fantasy armor and weapons in addition to guns. It’s also launching very soon: the free-to-play game hits Xbox, PS5, and PC on January 26th.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wins Game of the Year.

No surprise there. Incredible game.

Image: Sandfall Interactive
Mega Man is back.

Capcom is working on the 12th mainline entry in the series, titled Mega Man: Dual Override. The 2D platformer is set to launch in 2027.
An oh-so-brief taste of Super Mario Galaxy.

Here’s a blink-and-you’ll miss it clip from the next Super Mario movie.
The power of friendship and F15s.

The Ace Combat series is back and it’s lit. Ace Combat 8: Wing of Theve will launch next year on Xbox, PS5, and PC. Though having never played the game, Verge writer Jay Peters was unwittingly able to sum the series up succinctly and accurately: “Is it like fighter jet, the anime?” Yes, Jay, and it rules.
Now this is podracing?

Star Wars: Galactic Racer, which is launching in 2026, looks like the Star Wars Episode I: Racer successor I’ve always wanted. While it seems to focus more on various Star Wars vehicles than just podracers, the trailer includes a brief shot of Sebulba and the iconic sound of his podracer. I know my main already.
Tomb Raider announces two new games

While Geoff Keighley had already announced that Tomb Raider would be making a Game Awards appearance, the surprise was that instead of one game announcement there’s two. Crystal Dynamics and Amazon Game Studios are releasing two Tomb Raider games back-to-back in 2026 and 2027. First up, coming in 2026 is Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. Don’t let the fancy name fool you though, Legacy of Atlantis is the Unreal Engine 5 version of the first Tomb Raider game, a remake similar to Tomb Raider Anniversary which updated the 1997 original PlayStation game for the PS2.

But that’s not all. In 2027, the Tomb Raider team will release another game, Tomb Raider: Catalyst which is an all new adventure that looks like it features an all new Lara. Real Tomb Raider heads know that Lara Croft was originally envisioned as Laura Cruz, a South American woman, before she was British-ed her up to what we know today. The woman in Catalyst looks like a Lara paying homage to her origins as a woman of color. We don’t know much about either game, but hey, I’ll never be mad that I’m getting two new Tomb Raiders to play.

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Housemarque’s next game is getting a small delay.
Diablo IV’s next expansion is out in the spring.

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It’s called Lord of Hatred, and is described as “the climactic showdown with Mephisto himself.” It launches on April 28th.
Werner Herzog alert.

Why is he at The Game Awards? To narrate a Warframe trailer, of course.
What is going on here?

I have no idea, but I want to play it.
Here comes a new trailer.

Street Fighter…the movie (not that one) showed off its very first trailer at The Game Awards. We got a brief first-look at Ryu, Guile, Vega, and more including David Dastmalchian as M. Bison who looks kinda silly. Keighley also brought the cast out on stage, including Andrew Schulz (who’s playing Dan Hibiki) who decided troll Mortal Kombat fans and declare, “We care about money!” which is the most honest thing ever said on that stage.
Control’s action-RPG sequel launches in 2026

Remedy Entertainment is finally showing off the much-anticipated sequel to Control. The new game, dubbed Control Resonant, expands on the original with a new action-RPG framework. It takes place seven years later and shifts the setting from the unsettling Oldest House of the original to a more open Manhattan, while putting players in the role of Dylan Faden, brother of Control protagonist Jesse. It’s expected to launch in 2026.

Here’s the basic setup, per Remedy:

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Here comes Leon.

Capcom showed off a fresh (and gruesome) look at the next Resident Evil, including the reveal that Leon Kennedy will be part of the terror of Requiem when it launches in February.
The next Star Wars game is the spiritual successor to Knights of the Old Republic

The next Star Wars game is coming from the director of Mass Effect and Knights of the Old Republic.

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic was revealed during The Game Awards with a brief trailer that got Geoff Keighley so excited his voice started cracking. Like any announcement trailer, it was brief, featuring a spaceship landing on a rainy planet and a woman in white robes staring into the camera as a lightsaber zhooms to life. According to the trailer’s YouTube description, Fate of the Old Republic is a single-player narrative game and the spiritual successor to the KOTOR series.

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I think they’re ONTOS omething.

The team behind Soma revealed their next horror game, which is narrated by none other than Stellan Skarsgård. It’s described as “a sci-fi thriller taking you to the edge of existence” and is due out next year.
A loopy reveal.

Not long ago Bad Robot teased its first game from the designer of Left 4 Dead. Now you can see it in action: it’s called 4:Loop, and it’s a co-op shooter about, uh, 3D printing humans. It’s listed as “coming soon” for the PS5 and PC.
Up next from the team behind Baldur’s Gate 3.

Larian Studios’ new RPG is called Divinity, though we don’t have much else in the way of information, other than the fact it’s supposedly bigger than BG3 and the debut trailer is really gross.
Badger, badger, badger.

If there’s one thing these video game streets need is a good old-fashioned mascot platformer. Bradley The Badger is a mascot that seems to know he’s in a platforming game. In the trailer that debuted during The Game Awards pre-show, he’s transported from his colorful world to one much less fun…then it gets weird.
It’s a dog herd sheep world out there.

The first announcement of the night was extremely adorable with The Free Shepherd, which is launching on the PS5 and Steam in 2027. If you’re looking for some herding action in the meantime, be sure to check out Herdling.
Catfish and Crouton are goin’ on the road.

Ahead of The Game Awards, Compulsion Games has announced that South of Midnight is going multi-platform. The southern gothic action-adventure game, first released on Xbox earlier this year, is coming to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch 2 in spring 2026. Come for the incredibly cool southern folklore inspired narrative, but stay for your adorable companion Crouton and the yarn-spinnin’ Catfish.