The Game Awards 2025: Will we get an Elder Scrolls 6 or God of War announcement?
The 2025 Game Awards could well be the most hotly-contested in recent memory.
Us gamers have been well and truly spoiled in 2025, from sprawling RPGs like Kingdom Come Deliverance II, to family-friendly platformers like Donkey Kong Bonanza and the giant-killing indie games such as Blue Prince and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Even the much-belittled first-person shooter genre has seen a resurgence this year, thanks to the success of Battlefield 6.
While Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the favourite to win the official game of the year title, it’s genuinely still anyone’s game - and overall, the players are the true winners this year.
The awards themselves will take centre stage for the evening on December 11, but it’s highly likely that we’ll get an announcement for a big blockbuster game at some point in the night.
In fact, the host of The Game Awards, Geoff Keighley, has teased that something is on the way via a cryptic post on social media.
Posting on X, the presenter posted an image - which appears to be taken in Unreal Engine Six - along with the caption: “Regal.Inspiring.Thickness.”
On WhatThreeWords, this code takes you to the Mojave Desert in California, USA. This post has sent fans into a frenzy, with speculation rife as to what it all means.
The setting of the Mojave Desert would appear to indicate a new entry into the Fallout franchise, whether that is a brand new game or a remake of the beloved Fallout: New Vegas. The latter would be well-timed, given that the second series of the Amazon TV show will be set in the same city.
But the game screenshot, which appears to show a carving with medieval armour, skeletons and monsters, suggests something more fantastical.
Staying with Bethesda, we could finally be getting news on the Elder Scrolls Six, seven years since the game was first teased. Fun fact - the gap between now and the teaser is the same as the gap between the teaser and the original launch of Skyrim... feel old yet?
Meanwhile, other fans are speculating that this could be a new entry in the God of War series, with the games taking Kratos and his son to ancient Egypt.