All The Winners From The 2025 Game Awards
Plus some of the biggest announcements from the event
The Game Awards for 2025 took place last week, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won a record nine awards. See the full list of winners below. Also, check out some of the new games announced at the ceremony. All this and more. Let’s go!
The Game Awards 2025 winners are…
The Game Awards took place last week. One of the more notable award shows for video games, the winners are chosen by a jury of games journalists and influencers.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took home Game of the Year, along with eight other awards. Here is a full list of the 2025 winners:
- Game of the Year: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best Game Direction: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best Narrative: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best Art Direction: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best Score & Music: Lorien Testard, Clair Obscur: Expédition 33
- Best Audio Design: Battlefield 6
- Best Performance: Jennifer English as Maelle, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best Independent Game: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best Debut Indie Game: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Games For Impact: South of Midnight
- Best Action Game: Hades II
- Best Action/Adventure Game: Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Best Role-Playing Game: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best Sim/Strategy Game: Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles
- Best Fighting Game: Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
- Best Family Game: Donkey Kong Bananza
- Best Sports/Racing Game: Mario Kart World
- Best Multiplayer: ARC Raiders
- Best Ongoing Game: No Man’s Sky
- Best Community Support: Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best VR/AR Game: The Midnight Walk
- Best Mobile Game: Umamusume Pretty Derby
- Wuthering Waves: Doom: The Dark Ages
- Best Adaptation: The Last of Us Season 2
- Best Esports Game: Counter-Strike 2
- Best Esports Athlete: Chovy
- Best Esports Team: Team Vitality (Counter-Strike 2)
- Content Creator of the Year: MoistCr1TiKaL
- Most Anticipated Game: Grand Theft Auto VI
- Player's Voice: Wuthering Waves
New year, new games!
Apart from accolades, The Game Awards is about showing off new and upcoming game trailers. You can check out all the gaming announcements here, but these are our favorites:
Divinity
Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios goes back to their roots with a new game in their Divinity franchise. The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley says it will be the studio’s “biggest game ever.”
Control Resonant
The return of Remedy Entertainment’s weird and wild government agency, Control Resonant arrives in 2026.
Megaman Dual Override
Capcom announced a new Megaman game is in development, and arriving in 2027.
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic
Not to be confused with Star Wars: Galactic Racer (which was also announced), Fate of the Old Republic is described as the “spiritual successor” to the early 2000s Knights of the Old Republic.
Warlock
A new Dungeons & Dragons game from the creator of Dark Alliance that will feature the voice acting of Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer.
Other announcements include a new expansion for Diablo 4, new Tomb Raider games, a new game from the creator of Braid and much more. What are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments.
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Side Quests (more stories worth reading)
🇫🇷 French president Emmanuel Macron congratulated French developer Sandfall Interactive for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s big win at The Game Awards.
🎮 Independent gaming organization Day of the Devs had their own preview of upcoming games. Check out everything announced.
🚁 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is getting free Stranger Things DLC, which lets players fly around the fictional town of Hawkins.
👾 Over 19,000 games launched on Steam this year, but over half have less than 10 reviews.
🔫 Activision announced future Call of Duty releases will no longer include back-to-back launches of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games.
📽️ Netflix said the company “didn't attribute any value” to Warner Bros’s game studios, because “they're relatively minor compared to the grand scheme of things.”
✊🏽 The staff of Id Software, makers of the Doom franchise, voted to unionize.
📅 Deus Ex Remastered has been delayed, with no new release date planned.
🤝🏿 Take-Two hired the lead developers from the recently-cancelled Perfect Dark game.
New Releases this week:
Check out our article on 10 New Games to Play in December.
12/16: Pioner (PC)
12/16: Pure Badminton (PC)
12/19: PBA Pro Bowling 2026 (PC)
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