The Game Awards 2025: all the news and announcements – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2025-12-12T18:57:43+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/841973 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Ash Parrish <![CDATA[Tomb Raider announces two new games]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=843260 2025-12-12T13:57:43-05:00 2025-12-11T22:11:15-05:00 Screenshot from Tomb Raider: Catalyst featuring a close up on Lara Croft climbing a mountain.

While Geoff Keighley had already announced that Tomb Raider would be making a Game Awards appearance, the surprise was that instead of one game announcement there's two. Crystal Dynamics and Amazon Game Studios are releasing two Tomb Raider games back-to-back in 2026 and 2027. First up, coming in 2026 is Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. Don't let the fancy name fool you though, Legacy of Atlantis is the Unreal Engine 5 version of the first Tomb Raider game, a remake similar to Tomb Raider Anniversary which updated the 1997 original PlayStation game for the PS2.

But that's not all. In 2027, the Tomb Raider team will release another game, To …

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]]> Andrew Webster <![CDATA[Control’s action-RPG sequel launches in 2026]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=841950 2025-12-11T21:05:26-05:00 2025-12-11T21:05:26-05:00

Remedy Entertainment is finally showing off the much-anticipated sequel to Control. The new game, dubbed Control Resonant, expands on the original with a new action-RPG framework. It takes place seven years later and shifts the setting from the unsettling Oldest House of the original to a more open Manhattan, while putting players in the role of Dylan Faden, brother of Control protagonist Jesse. It's expected to launch in 2026.

Here's the basic setup, per Remedy:

After years in confinement at the hands of the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), Dylan Faden's former captors are deploying him at the peak of a supernatural crisis. Charged with …

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]]> Ash Parrish <![CDATA[The next Star Wars game is the spiritual successor to Knights of the Old Republic]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=843188 2025-12-11T20:48:01-05:00 2025-12-11T20:48:01-05:00

The next Star Wars game is coming from the director of Mass Effect and Knights of the Old Republic.

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic was revealed during The Game Awards with a brief trailer that got Geoff Keighley so excited his voice started cracking. Like any announcement trailer, it was brief, featuring a spaceship landing on a rainy planet and a woman in white robes staring into the camera as a lightsaber zhooms to life. According to the trailer's YouTube description, Fate of the Old Republic is a single-player narrative game and the spiritual successor to the KOTOR series.

Developed by Arcanaut Studios in collaboration with Lucasf …

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]]> Ash Parrish <![CDATA[The Game Awards are losing their luster]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=841710 2025-12-11T12:16:39-05:00 2025-12-11T08:00:00-05:00
The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley.

It's Game Awards season, y'all. That special time of the year when we gather together to celebrate video games and the people who make them… by watching expensive commercials briefly punctuated by the odd awards speech or musical performance. For better or worse, The Game Awards is the biggest night on the video game event calendar. But with the way things have been going, lately it's been more "worse" than it has been "better."

Between host and industry hypeman Geoff Keighley's two video game vanity projects, The Game Awards is older and ostensibly more mature than Summer Game Fest. Conceived in 2014 as a way to celebrate both the people w …

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