The Game Awards 2025: Announcements & Winners

This year at The Game Awards, if your game wasn’t melodramatic, mechanically innovative, beautifully presented and aggressively French, it didn’t stand a chance. The game Awards 2025 wrapped up on the evening of Thursday,December 11 with a record-breaking showing by Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33 from Sandfall Interactive. The game received the most nominations and wins in the show’s 12-year history.

But, we certainly know that’s not really why you’re here. Between the award presentations and musical numbers, there were heaps of new game trailers, announcements and updates, and we’ve collected them all for you right here. The award winners are also there.

News

Award winners

Best family game: Donkey Kong Bananza

Innovation in accessibility: Doom: The Dark Ages

Best esports game: Counter-Strike 2

Best esports athlete: Breeding

Best esports team: Team Vitality

best mobile game: Umamasume: Pretty Derby

Best indie game: Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33

Best adaptation: The Last of Us season 2

Best action game: Hades II

Best performance: jennifer English, Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33

Games for impact: South of Midnight

Game of the year: Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33

Trailers

pragmatic by Capcom

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic by arcanaut Studios and Lucasfilm Games

Divinity by Larian Studios

coven of the Chicken Foot by Wildflower Interactive

ONTOS by Frictional Games

4:LOOP by Bad Robot Games

resident Evil Requiem by Capcom

Order of the Sinking Star by Thekla

Exodus by Archetype Entertainment

WARLOCK by Invoke Studios and Wizards of the Coast

Control Resonant by Remedy Entertainment

Gang of Dragon by Nagoshi studio

Street Fighter movie sneak peak

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight by Warner Bros. Games

tomb Raider: Catalyst by Crystal Dynamics

Tomb Raider: legacy of Atlantis by Crystal Dynamics and Flying Wild Hog

Invincible VS by Skybound Games

Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred by Blizzard Entertainment