{"id":145442,"date":"2025-11-18T00:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145442\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T00:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:15:07","slug":"game-awards-2025-nominations-clair-obscur-expedition-33-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145442\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Awards 2025 Nominations: \u2018Clair Obscur: Expedition 33\u2019 Leads"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Game Awards<\/a>, which celebrates achievements in the video game industry, revealed its 2025 nominees on Monday (Nov. 17). Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the way with 12 nominations, making it the most nominated game in the show\u2019s 12-year history.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis year\u2019s game of the year nominees are Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 from Sandfall Interactive; Death Stranding 2: On the Beach from Kojima Productions; Donkey Kong Bananza from Nintendo; Hades II from Supergiant Games; Hollow Knight: Silksong from Team Cherry; and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II from Warhorse Studios.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the past year, several popular video games<\/a> and franchises have crossed over into television and film. The following films and streaming shows are nominated for best adaptation: A Minecraft Movie, Devil May Cry, The Last of Us: Season 2, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch and Until Dawn.<\/p>\n

\n\tSony Interactive Entertainment is The Game Awards\u2019 most nominated publisher in 2025 with 19 nominations across its combined portfolio, followed by Kepler Interactive with 13 nods, and Electronic Arts and Microsoft, each with 10. The nominees for The Game Awards are selected by a global jury of more than 150 media publications and creator outlets.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom today through Dec. 10 at 6 p.m. PT, fans will be able to help choose the winners in all categories via authenticated online voting on the Game Awards site<\/a>.\u00a0 In China, fans can vote for their favorites on a variety of platforms including Bilibili.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Game Awards will air live from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday, Dec. 11, with awards, world premiere new game announcements, and musical performances by The Game Awards Orchestra, conducted by Lorne Balfe. The Scottish composer, 49, won a Grammy three years ago for best compilation soundtrack for visual media for Top Gun: Maverick and has been nominated for two Primetime Emmys.<\/p>\n

\n\tTickets to attend The Game Awards in-person can be purchased on the AXS site<\/a>. At press time, available tickets ranged from $251 in the upper mezzanine to $1,506 for loge seats.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis year\u2019s show will stream live on Prime Video for the first time and will once again stream for free across more than 30 digital video platforms including Twitch, YouTube, Steam, X (formerly known as Twitter), Facebook and TikTok Live. The Game Awards 2024 broke viewership records with an reported 154 million global livestreams, up 31% over 2023\u2019s record-setting showcase, which reached 118 million livestreams. In addition, more than 15,000 individual content creators and online influencers co-streamed the show to their audiences, according to show organizers.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Game Awards is executive produced by Geoff Keighley and Kimmie Kim. Richard Preuss is the director, LeRoy Bennett is the creative director, and Michael E. Peter is \u00a0co-executive producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere are nominees in seven key categories for the 2025 Game Awards. For the full list of nominees, visit the Game Awards site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\t\tGame of the Year\t<\/p>\n

\n\tClair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive\/Kepler Interactive)<\/p>\n

\n\tDeath Stranding 2: On The Beach (Kojima Productions\/Sony Interactive Entertainment)<\/p>\n

\n\tDonkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD\/Nintendo)<\/p>\n

\n\tHades II (Supergiant Games)<\/p>\n

\n\tHollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)<\/p>\n

\n\tKingdom Come: Deliverance II (Warhorse Studios\/Deep Silver)<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Score and Music\t<\/p>\n

\n\tChristopher Larkin, Hollow Knight: Silksong<\/p>\n

\n\tDarren Korb, Hades II<\/p>\n

\n\tLorien Testard, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/p>\n

\n\tToma Otowa, Ghost of Y\u014dtei<\/p>\n

\n\tWoodkid and Ludvig Forssell, Death Stranding 2: On The Beach<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Audio Design\t<\/p>\n

\n\tBattlefield 6 (Battlefield Studios\/EA)<\/p>\n

\n\tClair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive\/Kepler Interactive)<\/p>\n

\n\tDeath Stranding 2: On the Beach (Kojima Productions\/Sony Interactive Entertainment)<\/p>\n

\n\tGhost of Y\u014dtei (Sucker Punch Productions\/Sony Interactive Entertainment)<\/p>\n

\n\tSilent Hill f (NeoBards Entertainment\/KONAMI)<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Performance\t<\/p>\n

\n\tBen Starr, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/p>\n

\n\tCharlie Cox, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/p>\n

\n\tErika Ishii, Ghost of Y\u014dtei<\/p>\n

\n\tJennifer English, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/p>\n

\n\tKonatsu Kato, Silent Hill f<\/p>\n

\n\tTroy Baker, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Family\t<\/p>\n

\n\tDonkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD\/Nintendo)<\/p>\n

\n\tLEGO Party! (SMG Studio\/Fictions)<\/p>\n

\n\tLEGO Voyagers (Light Brick Studios\/Annapurna Interactive)<\/p>\n

\n\tMario Kart World (Nintendo EPD\/Nintendo)<\/p>\n

\n\tSonic Racing: CrossWorlds (Sonic Team\/Sega)<\/p>\n

\n\tSplit Fiction (Hazelight Studios\/EA)<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Adaptation\t<\/p>\n

\n\tA Minecraft Movie (Legendary Pictures\/Mojang\/Warner Bros)<\/p>\n

\n\tDevil May Cry (Studio Mir\/Capcom\/Netflix)<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Last of Us: Season 2 (HBO\/PlayStation Productions)<\/p>\n

\n\tSplinter Cell: Deathwatch (FOST Studio\/Ubisoft\/Netflix)<\/p>\n

\n\tUntil Dawn (Screen Gems\/PlayStation Productions)<\/p>\n

\t\tContent Creator of the Year\t<\/p>\n

\n\tCaedrel<\/p>\n

\n\tKai Cenat<\/p>\n

\n\tMoistCr1TiKaL<\/p>\n

\n\tSakura Miko<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Burnt Peanut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Game Awards, which celebrates achievements in the video game industry, revealed its 2025 nominees on Monday (Nov.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6971,61,60,633,80,14799],"class_list":{"0":"post-145442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music-news","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-video-games"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}