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We’re excited to welcome Miss Piggy from @TheMuppets as a presenter for #TheGameAwards on Thursday night. pic.twitter.com/KuKBVsVgOjDecember 9, 2025
A quick reminder of the GOTY nominees
This year’s GOTY ballot is a decent spread of big-budget and indies. The favorite by far is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which is neat, because very few of us even knew what that game was a year ago.
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Donkey Kong Bananza
- Hades 2
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
I suppose Silksong is the natural runner-up, though once the dust settled on its highly-anticipated release, it seems like most agreed it was essentially more and better Hollow Knight. Ditto for Death Stranding 2 and Hades—perhaps the nature of additive sequels play against award odds.
Personally, I’m pulling for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, another sequel, but to a game that didn’t really break into the mainstream back in 2017. It’s sprawling RPG that feels like a modern Oblivion in a grounded historical setting, and I love it to bits.
The rumors and anticipated “surprises”
There’s a fair bit of buzz around a potential Control sequel, Diablo 4 happenings, and that Assassin’s Creed 4 remake that keeps leaking. Here’s what we’ve got for now:
- Death Stranding 2: On The Beach PC — A recent ESRB rating suggests this is coming sooner than later. And it’d be a good excuse for Geoff’s friend Hideo to make an appearance.
- Control: Resonant — A trademark filing has kicked off the buzz around the next chapter of Control.
- Diablo 4 expansion — Blizzard recently urged Diablo 4 players to watch The Game Awards in the same breath that it dodged questions about its next expansion, so do with that information what you will.
- Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag remake — The existence of a remake for the 2013 Assassin’s Creed game has leaked so many times at this point, it just feels correct that it was always the plan to wait for the biggest stage of the year.
- Max Payne Remake — If Control 2 is a thing, maybe Remedy will have updates about the Max Payne remake it announced years ago? Don’t worry, I forgot about it, too.
Statue mystery solved?
In case you missed the hullabaloo, Keighley tweeted out the coordinates of a mysterious statue placed in the California desert. Folks immediately got to work guessing what game it’s alluding to: God of War? Nope. Diablo? Not according to Blizzard. Elden Ring? Possible.
Then, another trademark-related leak seemed to spoil the mystery. A new listing for “Divinity” has appeared alongside a symbol that’s a dead ringer for the intimidating desert statue. So Larian’s next game might be at the show?
Good afternoon folks! Staff writer Morgan Park reporting for live blog duties. We’ll be updating this feed throughout the night with the biggest announcements from the awards, surprises, and obligatory celebrity appearances.
Everything that’s confirmed
- The future of Tomb Raider: Leaks indicate this could be a remake of the original Tomb Raider, a new Lara Croft adventure, or both
- A “terrifying new look” at Resident Evil Requiem: Leaked art suggests that Capcom is finally ready to tell us Leon Kennedy is in this game.
- Exodus: The third TGA appearance from the sci-fi RPG coming from ex-Bioware devs. This is the game that Matthew McConaughey introduced in 2023.
- The next game from Neon Giant, the studio that made that neat cyberpunk shooter The Ascent.