This year at The Game Awards, if your game wasn’t melodramatic, mechanically innovative, beautifully presented and aggressively French, it didn’t stand a chance. The Game Awards 2025 wrapped up on the evening of Thursday, December 11 with a record-breaking showing by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 from Sandfall Interactive. The game received the most nominations and wins in the show’s 12-year history.

But, we know that’s not really why you’re here. Between the award presentations and musical numbers, there were heaps of new game trailers, announcements and updates, and we’ve collected them all for you right here. The award winners are also there.

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Award winners

Best family game: Donkey Kong Bananza

Innovation in accessibility: Doom: The Dark Ages

Best esports game: Counter-Strike 2

Best esports athlete: Chovy

Best esports team: Team Vitality

Best mobile game: Umamasume: Pretty Derby

Best indie game: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Best adaptation: The Last of Us season 2

Best action game: Hades II

Best performance: Jennifer English, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Games for impact: South of Midnight

Best ongoing game: No Man’s Sky

Best audio design: Battlefield 6

Content creator of the year: MoistCr1TiKaL

Best fighting game: Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves

Most anticipated game: Grand Theft Auto VI

Best action/adventure game: Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best art direction: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Best sim/strategy game: Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles

Best debut indie game: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Best score and music: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Best sports/racing game: Mario Kart World

Best community support: Baldur’s Gate 3

Best VR/AR game: The Midnight Walk

Best RPG: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Players’ voice: Wuthering Waves

Best narrative: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Best multiplayer game: Arc Raiders

Best game direction: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Game of the year: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Trailers

Pragmata by Capcom

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic by Arcanaut Studios and Lucasfilm Games

Divinity by Larian Studios

Coven of the Chicken Foot by Wildflower Interactive

ONTOS by Frictional Games

4:LOOP by Bad Robot Games

Resident Evil Requiem by Capcom

Order of the Sinking Star by Thekla

Exodus by Archetype Entertainment

WARLOCK by Invoke Studios and Wizards of the Coast

Control Resonant by Remedy Enterainment

Gang of Dragon by Nagoshi Studio

Street Fighter movie sneak peak

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight by Warner Bros. Games

Tomb Raider: Catalyst by Crystal Dynamics

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis by Crystal Dynamics and Flying Wild Hog

Invincible VS by Skybound Games

Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred by Blizzard Entertainment

Deadpool is coming to Marvel Rivals

007 First Light – Lenny Kravitz Announcement

Saros by Housemarque

Warframe featuring Werner Herzog for some reason

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 by Creative Assembly

Hitman World of Assassination by IO Interactive

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve by Bandai Namco

Star Wars Galactic Racer by Fuse and Lucasfilm Games

Out of Words by Kong Orange and WiredFly

Phantom Blade Zero by S-GAME

Mega Man Dual Override by Capcom

Super Mario Galaxy movie trailer

Highguard by Wildlight Entertainment

Don’t forget to check out our Day of the Devs: The Game Awards 2025 roundup, which included six world premieres, three release date announcements and a whole bunch of awesome indie goodness. The Women-Led Games and Latin American Games showcases tied to the awards were also downright delightful.

Disney announced a billion dollar agreement with OpenAI this morning over use of its characters, and Google’s going to have to pray it doesn’t alter the deal any further.

Alongside the decision to offer up its most iconic imagery and characters for use with Sora — OpenAI’s cross between an AI video generation tool and a social network — Disney is going after Google’s own use of its IP in its own genAI tools. As reported by Ars Technica, Disney issued a cease-and-desist letter to Google on Wednesday evening, hours before the Sora agreement was made official, accusing the company of copyright infringement and requesting an immediate end to using these characters for both training data and within apps like YouTube.

Disney’s letter calls out specific franchises, including Frozen, The Lion King, Moana, The Little Mermaid, Lilo and Stitch, Toy Story, Star Wars, and the MCU, as the IP Google’s AI tools are currently capable of generating. The company’s lawyers are requesting Google “immediately cease further copying, publicly displaying, publicly performing, distributing, and creating derivative works of Disney’s copyrighted characters,” specifically but not necessarily limited to YouTube and its various off-shoots, like Shorts.

As reported by Variety, which published portions of the letter, Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed his company had held “conversations” with Google for months prior to beginning legal action, but felt Google hadn’t made any in-roads into making changes over its own internal policies. Despite Nano Banana not being specified in today’s cease-and-desist, Disney did include AI-generated figurine images in its claim, arguing Sundar Pichai taking part in an associated viral trend encouraged further drove copyright infringement by users.

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Google shared the following statement with Ars Technica:

We have a longstanding and mutually beneficial relationship with Disney, and will continue to engage with them. More generally, we use public data from the open web to build our AI and have built additional innovative copyright controls like Google-extended and Content ID for YouTube, which give sites and copyright holders control over their content.

Today’s news is just the latest chapter in the ongoing cold war between Google and Disney, just about a month after settling their dispute over YouTube TV carriage fees.

OpenAI’s “code red” response to Google’s Gemini 3 Pro has arrived. On the same day the company announced a Sora licensing pact with Disney, it took the wraps off GPT-5.2. OpenAI is touting the new model as its best yet for real-world, professional use. “It’s better at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long contexts, using tools, and handling complex, multi-step projects,” said OpenAI.

In a series of 10 benchmarks highlighted by OpenAI, GPT-5.2 Thinking, the most advanced version of the model, outperformed its GPT-5.1 counterpart, sometimes by a significant margin. For example, in AIME 2025, a test that involves 30 challenging mathematics problems, the model earned a perfect 100 percent score, beating out GPT-5.1’s already state-of-the-art score of 94 perfect. It also achieved that feat without turning to tools like web search. Meanwhile, in ARC-AGI-1, a benchmark that tests an AI system’s ability to reason abstractly like a human being would, the new system beat GPT-5.1’s score by more than 10 percentage points.

OpenAI says GPT-5.2 Thinking is better at answering questions factually, with the company finding it produces errors 30 percent less frequently. “For professionals, this means fewer mistakes when using the model for research, writing, analysis, and decision support — making the model more dependable for everyday knowledge work,” the company said.

The new model should be better in conversation too. Of the version of the system most users are likely to encounter, OpenAI says “GPT‑5.2 Instant is a fast, capable workhorse for everyday work and learning, with clear improvements in info-seeking questions, how-tos and walk-throughs, technical writing, and translation, building on the warmer conversational tone introduced in GPT‑5.1 Instant.“

While it’s probably overstating things to suggest this is a make or break release for OpenAI, it is fair to say the company does have a lot riding on GPT 5.2. Its big release of 2025, GPT-5, didn’t meet expectations. Users complained of a system that generated surprisingly dumb answers and had a boring personality. The disappointment with GPT-5 was such that people began demanding OpenAI bring back GPT-4o.

Then came Gemini 3 Pro — which jumped to the top of LMArena, a website where humans rate outputs from AI systems to vote on the best one. Following Google’s announcement, Sam Altman reportedly called for a “code red” effort to improve ChatGPT. Before today, the company’s previous model, GPT-5.1, was ranked sixth on LMArena, with systems from Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI occupying the spots between OpenAI between Google.

For a company that recently signed more than $1.4 trillion worth of infrastructure deals in a bid to outscale the competition, that was not a good position for OpenAI to be in. In his memo to staff, Altman said GPT-5.2 would be the equal of Gemini 3 Pro. With the new system rolling out now, we’ll see whether that’s true, and what it might mean for the company if it can’t at least match Google’s best.   

OpenAI is offering three different versions of GPT-5.2: Instant, Thinking and Pro. All three models will be first available to users on the company’s paid plans. Notably, the company plans to keep GPT-5.1 around, at least for a little while. Paid users can continue to use the older model for the next three months by selecting it from the legacy models section.

After a multi-year hiatus, popular battle royale Fortnite is now officially back on the Google Play Store.

If you were unaware, Epic and Google’s ongoing legal battles started all the way back in 2020. After being removed from Apple’s and Google’s storefronts due to in-game purchases and commission for those, new policy changes allow for other app stores to launch on the Play Store with external monetization controls.

Almost six months after Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney confirmed the move following the landmark court decision, Fortnite is now back on the Google Play Store as the year draws to a close. Season 7 of the popular battle royale title begins today, which is likely a reason for the app returning to the Play Store in such a quiet fashion.

Until recently, one of the only ways to get Fortnite on Android was via the Galaxy Store or by sideloading on non-Samsung Galaxy phones. The title was pulled from the Korean tech giant’s storefront over a year ago due to an ongoing dispute over Samsung’s sideloading policy.

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By returning to the Play Store, the good news here is that, at least in theory, you no longer require the Epic Games Launcher. This application was required to download the APK files needed to install the game, while also providing app updates and other information on Epic titles for mobile and desktop. Epic has yet to confirm whether all app updates will be handled via the Play Store or if players will still be able to use the launcher for future updates. We will update this information should the company confirm its plans.

What’s interesting is that this Play Store return also comes six months after Fortnite returned to the iOS App Store after a full five-year hiatus on the platform. That said, Android gamers have had a workaround at least until now.

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Indie game developer Edmund McMillen hosted a Reddit AMA today offering some more details about his upcoming game Mewgenics. For starters, the Steam release date for this turn-based cat-breeding RPG has been slightly delayed to February 10. The game was first announced all the way back in 2012 and had most recently been slated for a launch some time this year. Part of the long development cycle was so that McMillen could pause to launch Super Meat Boy Forever, the sequel to his Super Meat Boy platforming hit from 2010. Gamers may also know McMillen for The Binding of Isaac, which has had some notable crossovers with titles like Balatro in recent years.

Other tidbits from the AMA include the promise that McMillen already has DLC ideas, so expect to have additional content release after the base game is available. Although there doesn’t seem to be any lack of replayability in Mewgenics; McMillen said “I currently have 300+ hours across 2 saves and have only beaten the game on one save so far.” There is also a plan to have some console versions of the game, although likely not until much later next year at the soonest, the dev added.

After teasing in September, Google Chrome for iOS is now more widely rolling out a built-in Gemini experience.

Once available, the icon at the left of the address bar changes from the Google Lens camera to a page icon badged by the Gemini spark. The “Page tools” sheet that slides up has two options: “Search screen” (Lens) and “Ask Gemini.”

Tapping brings an “Ask Gemini” window with a four color glow for a few seconds with the URL of your current page attached. Tap the ‘x’ to stop sharing the page. There are also shortcuts like:

• Summarize page: Tap to get key takeaways and insights that help you understand any topic.
• Create FAQ about this topic: Tap to get FAQs based on info from this page and similar sites.

Other example queries include:

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• Explain a complex topic in a different way
• Help you test your knowledge of a new subject you’re learning
• Modify a recipe to meet dietary needs
• Compare information or make recommendations based on your preferences

The response floats above the page, which remains visible in the background. You can start a new chat from the top-right corner, while there’s an overflow menu that leverages Liquid Glass. Visually, Gemini in Chrome on iOS is basically the Android overlay design. There is no model picker.

At the moment, Gemini in Chrome on the iPhone and iPad is supported in the US when the browser’s language is set to English. You have to sign in to Chrome and this is not available in Incognito mode. 

Important: Gemini in Chrome is not available to all users at this time. We’re gradually releasing Gemini in Chrome, so it might not be available to you just yet.

We’re seeing it more widely available with Chrome 143 for iOS. The release notes also highlight:

• Easily checkout using your biometrics instead of a CVC code when you shop online.
• Get the most out of Chrome with helpful tips on the new tab page.
• Stability and performance improvements.