The Game Awards 2025’s live show is happening this week, on December 11 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. For those of us watching from home, we’ve listed the start times and what you can expect from the long-awaited event here.
This year, we’re hoping for a breezier mix of winner reveals, live performances, and big trailers for both AAA games and smaller projects. It’s admittedly a hard balance to nail down, but we’re still crossing fingers that Geoff Keighley and the organizers have taken notes. The Game Awards’ quality has been uneven over time, but instead of going all doomer, we’d rather just enjoy a nice show which doesn’t forget about the games industry’s ongoing struggles.
The Game Awards 2025 Start Times & Where to Watch
As usual, The Game Awards are happening late-ish into the day (American time), which is bad news for European folks wanting to tune in. If you’re affected by this, it’s time to start thinking whether you want to watch all the reveals live or just go through a recap in the morning after a good night’s sleep.
- The Game Awards 2025 start times: Thursday, December 11, at 7:30P ET / 4:30P PT / 12:30A+1 GMT
If that isn’t clear enough: If you’re on European or Asian time zones, The Game Awards’ ceremony will be happening on the following day: December 12, Friday.
This year, you can watch through YouTube and Twitch as always, but Steam, X/Twitter, and other platforms are huge official partners too. The biggest addition is Amazon’s Prime Video platform, which is making big moves into the streaming space too.
The Game Awards 2025 Expected Game Announcements
Let’s get biggies out of the way first: We know for a fact The Witcher IV (confirmed by CDPR) won’t be at the event, and the chances of GTA VI showing up aren’t zero, but Rockstar traditionally just breaks the Internet on random days, since the property’s size is massive enough not to need to board large shows.
Past this point, everything seems possible, but we also have to read the room and be as realistic as possible before getting our hopes up.
First, we have to address the current hot talk of town: The mysterious (and menacing) monolith located in the Mojave Desert which seemingly isn’t related to God of War, Diablo IV, or The Elder Scrolls VI (at least that’s what we’ve been told by both devs and big insiders). Lords of the Fallen II also seemed like a good possibility, but nope. So, could this be a new FromSoftware game or something else? Whatever it ends up being, the dark fantasy theming is plain as day.
Meanwhile, we can look to big releases which are nearby as safe bets for a number of reasons: Resident Evil Requiem is confirmed to show up, and ex-AAA devs’ sci-fi RPG Exodus will be making an appearance after being offline for a while.
Three other confirmed reveals will come from Invincible VS (a fighter based on the famous animated show & comics), the next Total War game (will it be the rumored Star Wars game?), and Phantom Blade Zero, a new punishing action game from Chinese developer S-Game.
Likely but unconfirmed news could come from frontrunners Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (a free content update is due, plus… a Switch 2 port would be awesome) and Hades 2 (it’s not on PS5 or Xbox yet). If we look at hot upcoming releases set to release next year, 007: First Light (coming in March) could debut its big theme song there, as it feels like the perfect opportunity to go classy.
Last but not least, we can dream of updates for more distant heavy hitters like Fable, Forza Horizon 6, Gears of War: E-Day, Hideo Kojima’s OD, or the long-in-the-works BioShock-inspired shooter Judas from Ghost Story Games. Of course, let’s hope for new original game reveals from developers big and small. We’d love to add more indies to our huge wishlists!
Okay, I’m done here, but what if… Half-Life 3? What better way to make the Steam Machine and all of Valve’s upcoming hardware more enticing? Ha, just kidding… unless?
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