The Game Awards 2025 Nominees Include Clair Obscur, Hollow Knight: Silksong And Hades 2

We won't person to hold excessively overmuch longer to find retired which crippled will travel nan awesome Astro Bot's triumph astatine past year's version of The Game Awards. The 2025 ceremonial takes spot on December 11 astatine nan Peacock Theater successful Los Angeles. In betwixt a cavalcade of video crippled trailers and announcements, nan show will compression successful immoderate existent awards. We now cognize what nan contenders for The Game Awards 2025 are aft Monday's announcement of nan nominees.

Those vying for nan apical prize of crippled of nan twelvemonth are:

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive

• Death Stranding 2: On The Beach - Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment

• Donkey Kong Bananza - Nintendo EPD/Nintendo

• Hades II - Supergiant Games

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - Warhorse Studios/Deep Silver

Half of those are besides up for crippled of nan twelvemonth astatine nan Indie Game Awards. Those 3 games (Clair Obscur, Hades II and Hollow Knight: Silksong) are up for nan champion independent crippled grant astatine this ceremonial arsenic well, alongside Absolum, Ball x Pit and Blue Prince.

With 12 nods successful full — including 3 successful nan champion capacity class — Clair Obscur isn’t conscionable nan most-nominated crippled this year. It’s nan most-nominated crippled successful nan 12-year history of nan ceremony. Death Stranding 2 and Ghost of Yōtei person 8 nods each, Hades II has 7 and Silksong has five. Sony Interactive Entertainment leads nan measurement among publishers pinch 19 nominations.

A full bunch of high-profile games missed retired connected nominations for nan main award. However, nan likes of Arc Raiders, Indiana Jones and nan Great Circle, Mario Kart World, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Elden Ring: Nightreign, Battlefield 6, Split Fiction, Monster Hunter Wilds and Silent Hill f person picked up nods successful different categories. It’s neat to spot games for illustration Consume Me, Despelote, Rematch and Dispatch pick up nominations this twelvemonth too. Meanwhile, Marvel’s Deadpool VR, a crippled that isn’t moreover retired until tomorrow, picked up a nod.

Fan voting for this year's version of The Game Awards starts coming connected nan TGA website and societal platforms. Public ballots relationship for 10 percent of nan last vote, pinch a assemblage comprising dozens of media outlets accounting for nan remaining 90 percent. The nominees for nan players’ sound grant — nan only 1 wished wholly by fans — will beryllium announced connected December 1.

The Game Awards (which is under fire complete its handling of nan discontinued Future Class program) will beryllium streaming crossed a wide assortment of platforms, including Prime Video for nan first time. As ever, we'll beryllium connected apical of each of nan large news from nan event, truthful enactment tuned to Engadget for each nan juicy details. Place your bets now connected what will beryllium announced. Maybe, conscionable maybe, we'll get a glimpse of Half-Life 3?