By some means, the tip of the yr has returned, and it is time as soon as once more for a parade of award nominations and exhibits, together with this yr’s The Sport Awards. Forward of its early December present, The Sport Awards has launched an inventory of this yr’s nominees, revealing that everybody actually, actually, actually favored Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Expedition 33 has gathered up a whopping 12 nominations, essentially the most ever collected by a single sport in The Sport Awards’ historical past. Along with Sport of the Yr, it is also up for Finest Course, Finest Narrative, Finest Artwork Course, Finest Rating and Music, Finest Audio, Finest Impartial Sport, Finest Debut Impartial Sport, Finest RPG, and three of its actors are nominated for Finest Efficiency.
Plenty of different video games even have earned fairly a number of nominations, equivalent to Demise Stranding 2 (seven nominations) Hades II (six), Hole Knight: Silksong (5), and Ghost of Yōtei (seven).
The Sport Awards ceremony shall be broadcast digitally on December 11, 2025 at 5pm PT/8pm ET, once we’ll discover out all of the winners in addition to see the standard parade of online game trailers, commercials, musical friends, presumably Muppets, and extra.
Listed here are all of the nominees for The Sport Awards 2025:
Sport of the Yr
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Death Stranding 2: On the BeachDonkey Kong BananzaHades IIHollow Knight: SilksongKingdom Come: Deliverance II
Finest Sport Course
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Death Stranding 2: On the BeachGhost of YōteiHades IISplit Fiction
Finest Narrative
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Death Stranding 2: On the BeachGhost of YōteiKingdom Come: Deliverance IISilent Hill f
Finest Artwork Course
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Death Stranding 2: On the BeachGhost of YōteiHades IIHollow Knight: Silksong
Finest Rating and Music
Christopher Larkin – Hole Knight: SilksongDarren Korb – Hades IILorien Testard – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Toma Otowa – Ghost of YōteiWoodkid and Ludvig Forssell – Demise Stranding 2: On the Seaside
Finest Audio Design
Battlefield 6Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Death Stranding 2: On the BeachGhost of YōteiSilent Hill f
Finest Efficiency
Ben Starr – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Charlie Cox – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Erika Ishii – Ghost of YōteiJennifer English – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Konatsu Kato – Silent Hill fTroy Baker – Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle
Innovation in Accessibility
Murderer’s Creed: ShadowsAtomfallDoom: The Darkish AgesEA Sports activities FC 26South of Midnight
Video games for Affect
Eat MeDespeloteLost Data: Bloom & RageSouth of MidnightWanderstop
Finest Ongoing
Ultimate Fantasy XIVFortniteHelldivers 2Marvel RivalsNo Man’s Sky
Finest Neighborhood Help
Baldur’s Gate 3Final Fantasy XIVFortniteHelldivers 2No Man’s Sky
Finest Impartial Sport
AbsolumBall x PitBlue PrinceClair Obscur: Expedition 33Hades IIHollow Knight: Silksong
Finest Debut Indie Sport
Blue PrinceClair Obscur: Expedition 33DespeloteDispatchMegabonk
Finest Cellular Sport
Future: RisingPersona 5: The Phantom XSonic RumbleUmamusume: Fairly DerbyWuthering Waves
Finest VR/AR
Alien: Rogue IncursionArken AgeGhost TownMarvel’s Deadpool VRThe Midnight Stroll
Finest Motion Sport
Battlefield 6Doom: The Darkish AgesHades IINinja Gaiden 4Shinobi: Artwork of Vengeance
Finest Motion/Journey
Demise Stranding 2: On the BeachGhost of YōteiHollow Knight: SilksongIndiana Jones and the Nice CircleSplit Fiction
Finest RPG
AvowedClair Obscur: Expedition 33Kingdom Come: Deliverance IIMonster Hunter WildsThe Outer Worlds 2
Finest Preventing
2XKOCapcom Preventing Assortment 2Fatal Fury: Metropolis of WolvesMortal Kombat: Legacy KollectionVirtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O World Stage
Finest Household
Donkey Kong BananzaLego Occasion!Lego VoyagersMario Kart WorldSonic Racing: CrossworldsSplit Fiction
Finest Sim/Technique
Ultimate Fantasy Ways – The Ivalice ChroniclesJurassic World Evolution 3Sid Meier’s Civilization VIITempest RisingThe AltersTwo Level Museum
Finest Sports activities/Racing
EA Sports activities FC 26F1 25Mario Kart WorldRematchSonic Racing: Crossworlds
Finest Multiplayer
Arc RaidersBattlefield 6Elden Ring NightreignPeakSplit Fiction
Finest Adaptation
A Minecraft MovieDevil Might CrySplinter Cell: DeathwatchThe Final of Us: Season 2Until Daybreak
Most Anticipated Sport
007 First LightGrand Theft Auto VIMarvel’s WolverineResident Evil RequiemThe Witcher IV
Content material Creator of the Yr
CaedrelKai CenatMoistCr1TiKaLSakura MikoThe Burnt Peanut
Finest Esports Sport
Counter-Strike 2Dota 2League of LegendsMobile Legends: Bang BangValorant
Finest Esports Athlete
brawk – Brock SomerhalderChovy – Jeong Ji-Hoonf0rsakeN – Jason SusantoKakeru – Kakeru WatanabeMenaRD – Saul LeonardoZyw0o – Mathieu Herbaut
Finest Esports Workforce
Gen.G – League of LegendsNRG – ValorantTeam Falcons – Dota 2Team Liquid PH – Cellular Legends: Bang BangTeam Vitality: Counter-Strike 2
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