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Everything announced and all the winners at The Game Awards 2025

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 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 from Sandfall Interactive. The game received the most nominations and […]

Housemarque’s Saros is delayed to April 30

PlayStation had said on X that it would have news about Saros at The Game Awards, and unfortunately, fans excited for the new Housemarque project will need to wait a little longer to get their hands on it. The game has been delayed from its planned March release. But there’s only a short time until […]

4:LOOP is a co-op shooter from the creator of Left 4 Dead and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot

The next game from Left 4 Dead designer Mike Booth is putting a sci-fi spin on his last game’s co-op action, based on a trailer Booth and producer JJ Abrams shared at The Game Awards 2025. The new game is called 4:LOOP, and it’s the first project entirely developed by Bad Robot Games, film production […]

Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a podracing game set for 2026

Why have one Star Wars game announcement at an edition of The Game Awards when you can have two? Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a podracing (and speeder racing) game from Fuse Games, a studio established in 2023 by former Burnout and Need for Speed developers. It’s scheduled to hit PS5, Xbox Series X/S and […]

Exodus is delayed to early 2027

So there’s good news and bad news about the highly anticipated Exodus coming out of The Game Awards this year. The good news is that there’s a fresh trailer showcasing more of the game. The bad news is that the game won’t be out until early 2027. The game was originally announced two years ago […]

Lara Croft will return in Tomb Raider: Catalyst and a new remake

The last mainline Tomb Raider game was 2018’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and after spending a few years in video game purgatory, Lara Croft is coming back in two new games. At The Game Awards 2025, Amazon Game Studios announced that Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis will reimagine of one of the hero’s early […]

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight swoops onto PC and consoles on May 29

It didn’t take too long for a game that a whole bunch of people are excited about to swoop into Grand Theft Auto VI’s old release week. Or maybe Rockstar had an idea of was what was coming and delayed its blockbuster by six months to get out of the way of Lego Batman: Legacy […]

South of Midnight is coming to PS5 and Switch 2 next spring

South of Midnight is heading to PlayStation 5 and Switch 2 in Spring 2026, developer Compulsion Games announced on X. The third-person action-adventure game launched as an Xbox and PC exclusive, but like plenty of Microsoft’s other first-party games, it’s heading to competitors’ consoles.Mixing platforming with magic-infused combat in a unique setting inspired by the […]

Trump orders creation of litigation task force to challenge state AI laws

On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for a single, nationwide regulatory framework governing artificial intelligence at the expense of the ability of different states to regulate the nascent technology. “To win, United States AI companies must be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation,” the order states. “But excessive State regulation […]

The devs of SOMA are back with a spiritual successor called Ontos

Frictional Games is back with a new game that looks primed to carry on the studio’s tradition of excellence in horror. It’s called Ontos, and it’s slated to launch on PC, PlayStation and Xbox next year. The trailer debuted during The Game Awards 2025.The company’s past projects include Amnesia: The Dark Descent and SOMA, and […]