The Game Awards 2025 on Thursday brought the biggest night of gaming back. Alongside celebrating different genres of games and recognizing the vaunted game of the year, the awards are a huge stage for showing off trailers for upcoming games.
Competition for this year's awards was fierce (just check out our own CNET Group Game of the Year picks), from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to Hades 2 to Silksong to Donkey Kong Bananza and more. While the ultimate winner of The Game Awards' own Game of the Year wasn't too surprising, with Clair Obscur cleaning up many of the earlier awards already, it was well-deserved -- and they capped off their GOTY speech by announcing their previously announced patch 1.5 would be dropping tonight.
As we close out 2025, we look ahead to the next year or two. The new games shown off included several rumored debuts, including of Baldur's Gate 3 maker Larian's next project -- another entry in the company's Divinity series of RPGs. Combined with a return of Lara Croft, a new Star Wars game, the latest Jonathan Blow game since 2016's The Witness, a new Remedy game and more, the show packed in a ton of reveals.
The best trailers at The Game Awards 2025
Resident Evil Requiem
While we got a taste of Capcom's next big horror game, Resident Evil Requiem, at Summer Game Fest, we only got a tease of Grace Ashcroft's more terrifying gameplay being pursued by powerful monsters. But this trailer gave us a peek at the other half of the game, and series favorite Leon Kennedy is indeed returning to kick some butt.
Control Resonant
Control Resonant, the next game from Alan Wake creator Remedy, has been revealed. The protagonist from 2019's Control, Jesse Faden, is nowhere to be found -- and the mysterious Board behind the Federal Bureau of Control has tapped her brother, the antagonist of the first game, to head into an NYC overcome by the invading Hiss.
Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred
The second DLC for Diablo 4 was revealed at the awards, showcasing the titular lord of Hatred, Mephisto, one of the prime evils players first fought in Diablo 2. And they'll be able to challenge him with new tools, as the expansion features the Paladin class of holy warriors.
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