Archive · 12 Dec 2025
The Game Awards 2025: Accessibility and Nominees
The Game Awards 2025 is a big event where the best games and developers are honored.
It's like the Oscars for video games!
You can watch it on many platforms like IGN, YouTube, and Twitch.
There are lots of categories, like Game of the Year, Best Art Direction, and Best Performance.
Some of the nominated games are Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hades II, and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
The awards also recognize esports and content creators.
It's a fun night where everyone can celebrate the amazing games and people who make them.
The Game Awards 2025 will be broadcast on multiple platforms, including IGN, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, Humble, Eurogamer, VG247, and Rock Paper Shotgun.
Game of the Year nominees include Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Donkey Kong Bananza, Hades II, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II.
Other notable categories include Best Game Direction, Best Adaptation, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, and Best Score and Music.
The awards also recognize innovation in accessibility, games for impact, and best community support.
Esports and content creators are highlighted with categories like Best Esports Game, Best Esports Athlete, Best Esports Team, and Content Creator of the Year.
- Who
- Game developers, nominated studios, and fans
- What
- The Game Awards 2025, featuring nominations and streaming information
- When
- The Game Awards 2025
- Where
- Peacock Theater
- Why
- To celebrate global gaming excellence and honor the best games of the year
- Event
- The Game Awards 2025
- Streaming Platforms
- IGN, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, Humble, Eurogamer, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun
- Game of the Year Nominees
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Donkey Kong Bananza, Hades II, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Best Game Direction Nominees
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, Ghost of Yōtei, Hades II, Split Fiction
- Best Adaptation Nominees
- A Minecraft Movie, Devil May Cry, The Last of Us: Season 2
- Best Narrative Nominees
- Silent Hill f, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Best Art Direction Nominees
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hades II
- Best Score and Music Nominees
- Hollow Knight: Silksong, Ghost of Yōtei
- Best Audio Design Nominees
- Battlefield 6, Silent Hill f
- Best Performance Nominees
- Ben Starr, Charlie Cox, Erika Ishii, Jennifer English, Konatsu Kato, Troy Baker
- Innovation in Accessibility Nominees
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Doom: The Dark Ages, South of Midnight
- Games for Impact Nominees
- Consume Me, Wanderstop
- Best Community Support Nominees
- Final Fantasy XIV, Fortnite, Helldivers 2
- Best Independent Game Nominees
- Absolum, Blue Prince, Hades II, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best Debut Indie Game Nominees
- Blue Prince, Dispatch, Despelote, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best Action Game Nominees
- Doom: The Dark Ages, Ninja Gaiden 4
- Best Action-Adventure Nominees
- Death Stranding 2, Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Best RPG Nominees
- Avowed, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, The Outer Worlds 2, Monster Hunter Wilds
- Best Fighting Game Nominees
- 2XKO, Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
- Best Family Game Nominees
- Donkey Kong Bananza, LEGO Voyagers, Mario Kart World
- Best Sim/Strategy Nominees
- Civilization VII, FINAL FANTASY TACTICS – The Ivalice Chronicles, Jurassic World Evolution 3
- Best Sports/Racing Nominees
- EA Sports FC 26, F1 25, Rematch
- Best Multiplayer Nominees
- Elden Ring Nightreign, Split Fiction, Battlefield 6
- Most Anticipated Game Nominees
- 007 First Light, Grand Theft Auto VI, Marvel’s Wolverine, Resident Evil Requiem, The Witcher IV
- Best Esports Game Nominees
- Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, League of Legends, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Valorant
- Best Esports Athlete Nominees
- Chovy, MenaRD, Zyw0o
- Best Esports Team Nominees
- Gen.G, Team Falcons, NRG, Team Vitality
- Content Creator of the Year Nominees
- Caedrel, Kai Cenat, MoistCr1TiKaL, Sakura Miko, The Burnt Peanut
- Players’ Voice Nominees
- Expedition 33, Genshin Impact, Dispatch, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Wuthering Waves, Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yōtei, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Silent Hill f
Sources
Developers reveal they can’t attend Game Awards as high prices, few free passes and seat-filler policies limit access
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