Game News Round-Up Special Edition — The Game Awards 2025

Game Award Winners

• Game of the Year - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Best Game Direction - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Best Adaptation - The Last of Us: Season 2
• Best Narrative - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Best Art Direction - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Best Score And Music - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Best Audio Design - Battlefield 6
• Best Performance - Jennifer English (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
• Innovation In Accessibility - Doom: The Dark Ages
• Games for Impact - South of Midnight
• Best Ongoing Game - No Man’s Sky
• Best Community Support - Baldur’s Gate 3
• Best Independent Game - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Best Debut Indie Game - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Best Mobile Game - Umamusume: Pretty Derby
• Best VR/AR Game - The Midnight Walk
• Best Action Game - Hades II
• Best Action Adventure Game - Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Best RPG - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Best Fighting Game - Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
• Best Family Game - Donkey Kong Bananza
• Best Sim/Strategy Game - Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles
• Best Sports/Racing - Mario Kart World
• Best Multiplayer - Arc Raiders
• Most Anticipated Game - Grand Theft Auto VI
• Content Creator of the Year - MoistCr1TiKaL
• Best Esports Game - Counter-Strike 2
• Best Esports Athlete - Chovy
• Best Esports Team - Team Vitality
• Players’ Voice - Wuthering Waves

A new Mega Man game is coming in 2027 - Mega Man Dual Override

Star Wars: Galactic Racer is the debut title from Fuse Games, the studio founded by former Criterion leads

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic Revealed with First Trailer - Directed by Casey Hudson, the director of the original Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Mass Effect trilogy

PlayStation 5 exclusive Saros has been delayed until April 20th 2026

Soma is getting a "spiritual successor" from the same studio, and it's set in a grim moon hotel on the edge of reality - titled Ontos. Releases 2026

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 Announced From Creative Assembly - Stars David Harbour

007 First Light trailer unveils villain played by Lenny Kravitz

Mario + Rabbids creator's next game spoofs Bloodborne and more, in a mascot platformer parody of the games industry starring a badger - titled Bradley the Badger and stars Evan Peters

The Game Awards’ mysterious statue was for a new Divinity game

Coven of the Chicken Foot is the debut game from Uncharted and Last of Us director Bruce Straley’s new studio

Capcom officially reveals that Leon Kennedy will be in Resident Evil Requiem - The game is split into two. Grace's part is survival horror and Leon's is action

A new trailer for Exodus shows more of Wizards of the Coast’s sci-fi action RPG starring Matthew McConaughey

Control Resonant, the sequel to Control, has been announced for next year - Story follows Dylan Faden, the brother of the first game's protagonist

The debut game from Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi’s new studio is Gang of Dragon

Two new Tomb Raider games, a remake (Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis) and a sequel (Tomb Raider: Catalyst), have been revealed. Remake is due 2026, Sequel is due 2027

Hogwarts Legacy is free on the Epic Games Store for the next week

No Law, the next game from the team behind The Ascent, is a UE5 cyberpunk FPS

The Game Awards 2025 Debuts Upcoming Shooter From Apex Legends Creators - Highguard launches Jan 26th

Veteran voice actor and voice of Ratchet & Clank's Captain Qwark (among many other beloved characters), Jim Ward, has died aged 66

Tencent sells Battalion maker Bulkhead to newly-formed consortium backed by Team 17 owner

Tencent exercising greater control in companies like Techland, Funcom and Sumo - “We 100% stay away from creative intervention. However, creative people do not always know how to do finance or production or hiring”