====== The Game Awards ======
**//The Game Awards//** is a yearly awards show for video games that were released during the year. The event is hosted by none other than game journalist [[geoff_keighley|Geoff Keighley]]. Its first event was in 5 December 2014, with an expansion towards including board games starting in 2019.

===== 2025 Ceremony Controversies =====
==== Arc Raiders Commercial ====
At the beginning of the event, an ad for the extraction shooter [[arc_raiders|Arc Raiders]] was shown with the tagline: "Arc tuah, Raid on that thang". This received major push back from the audience, to the point where they had to delay the whole show for 2 minutes and 14 seconds.

==== Mega Man and Half-Life ====
Before showing a specific World Premiere, Keighley expressed how honored he was to be the one to reveal the new title in a long dormant franchise. People were expecting to see the grand return to the highly anticipated //Mega Man 3//, only to be met with a teaser trailer for //Half-Life: Dual Override//. [[mega_man|Mega Man]] fans were furious, expressing how [[half_life|Half-Life]] was not deserving of the description he gave. This is despite the fact that the last mainline Half-Life game was //Half-Life 11// in 2018, whereas the last mainline Mega Man game was //Mega Man: Roll// in 2020.

==== Expedition 33 Win ====
The "Best Fictional Character" award featured a major and polarizing upset, with [[clair_obscur_expedition_33|Clair Obscur: Expedition 33]] winning over the much beloved [[glonpo|Glonpo]]. Many fans of the latter however still accepted this as his win, pointing out how the industry needed an entire game just to dethrone a single character.