The Game Awards 2025 are once again playing host to the year-end celebration of gaming's past, present, and future, and for this year's show, it opened with a very powerful performance featuring some of the beloved music from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the most nominated game in the history of The Game Awards.

Players who enjoyed Expedition 33 often spoke highly of the music, so it's a great fit to kick off the show even before you start counting up all 12 of the game's nominations. You can watch the full performance below, which features the vocalists from the Game of the Year nominee.

What a beautiful performance of "Une vie à t'aimer" from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33! Fun Fact: the game is the most-nominated game in the history of #TheGameAwards. @lornebalfe @expedition33 @sandfallgames @kepler_interact pic.twitter.com/4EFgK0hRj4

After having won GameSpot's very own 2025 Game of the Year award, Clair Obscur is expected to win many awards during the show, and is considered the front-runner for the show's ultimate prize. Here's the full list of nominations it's up for at The Game Awards 2025:

This year's Game Awards didn't waste any time before dropping some news. Capcom's upcoming sci-fi title, Pragmata, finally has a release date: April 24, 2026. But if you want to get your hands on the game early, the Pragmata demo is available right now on Steam.

In addition to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, Pragmata will also be available on Nintendo Switch 2. Pragmata was originally announced in 2020, and it was subsequently delayed before it was dropped from Capcom's release calendar.

The game puts players in the role of Hugh, an astronaut in the near future who is accompanied by Diana, an android who appears as a little girl. The unlikely pair needs to work together as they attempt to survive on a lunar research station. While players primarily control Hugh, there will be times when Diana comes to the forefront.

Decrepit, a new dark fantasy game, has been unveiled at The Game Awards. Inspired by souls-like games, the first-person dungeon-crawler doesn't have a final release date yet, but it is in development for PC and is aiming to launch in 2026.

Like several other souls-likes, Decrepit is built around stamina-based combat. Developer Jämmerdal Games says players will need to master the space around them to overcome the monsters that stand in their way, and while hidden secrets can provide permanent bonuses, they are no substitute for knowledge and the perfect execution of moves. Each weapon in Decrepit has distinct attack patterns, and spells can be used to deal heavy damage when a window of opportunity opens up.

Games like Hexen and Eye of the Beholder are some of the influences cited by the developer, but with a modern souls-like inspiration at its core, you'll need to study enemy attack patterns and strike quickly at the right time. Every death drags you back to the starting dungeons--and stripped of all equipment--so knowledge truly is power in this game. Players can choose from several equipment-based classes--Mage, Warrior, Rogue, or Shaman--and finding the right gear to match your archetype will unlock set bonuses and unique abilities.

Time Magazine named AI's architects as Person of the Year for 2025, but if these "thinking computers" are exemplified by the artificial intelligence used by Amazon Prime Video, then they aren't really thinking at all. Prime Video posted an AI recap video for Fallout Season 1 that's so egregious and wrong that it almost played like a parody--at least until it was pulled.

Until earlier today, Prime Video subscribers were able to witness it for themselves by visiting Fallout Season 2's page and clicking on Fallout - Season 1 recap. However, the video has since been pulled. The AI tones of the narrator's voice were a dead giveaway about the video's origin. But it soon became clear that the video wasn't even proofed by anyone connected to the show. The most glaring example of that was the video's description of the flashback scenes, which it states are the 1950s instead of the retro future of 2077.

The video was also cut and edited in a haphazard way that almost seemed random. Near the end of the video, the narration even implied that the Ghoul threatened to kill Lucy to coerce her to go to New Vegas with him. This video has trouble getting even the basic facts correct, and it could almost be believable as a brilliant joke if the show had more in-universe AI-related material to work with.

In 2023, Final Fantasy Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida indicated his distaste for the term JRPG, saying that Square Enix doesn't go into its games trying to make a JRPG. "We go into them thinking we're going to create RPGs," he explained.

Before this, Nintendo producer Hitoshi Yamagami, who worked with MonolithSoft on Xenoblade Chronicles X, echoed similar sentiments, saying, "I feel like we just make RPGs, I don't need anyone to add the 'J', personally."

In these two instances, there is both a direct and an implied acknowledgement that although there can be positive connotations attached to the label, "JRPG" can also feel limiting and discriminatory.

Another great Xbox exclusive, South of Midnight, is heading to rival platforms. Developer Compulsion Games has announced that the action-adventure game is coming to PS5 and Switch 2 in Spring 2026.

South of Midnight launched in April for PC and Xbox Series X|S, meaning it'll be coming to different systems after about a period of a year, depending on when exactly it hits PS5 and Switch 2.

South of Midnight is set in the American Deep South. The game follows the character Hazel, who, along with her mother, are preparing for a huge hurricane.