TGA actually felt like a real awards show this year |
Last night, I watched all three-and-a-half hours of 2025's The Game Awards, keeping track of all the winners and taking note of all the new game announcements that piqued my interest. But when voice actor Jennifer English took the stage to accept the Best Performance award for her role in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, I was shocked. No signs flashed telling her to "PLEASE WRAP IT UP." No music started blasting in an attempt to "play her off" the stage. By the time Clair Obscur developers from Sandfall Interactive took the stage to accept their Game of the Year Award a few hours later, I no longer felt like I was watching The Game Awards. I felt like I was watching a real awards show.
The last few years of TGA have had their share of rough moments. In 2022, Kratos actor Christopher Judge gave a rambling, eight-minute speech after winning Best Performance. Later that night, a stage crasher mysteriously managed to walk onto the stage with the creators of Elden Ring, making a bizarre statement about Bill Clinton while the........