- Trailer for Ninja Gaiden Ragebound – Developed by the same devs as Streets of Rage 4 – Trailer
- Best Fighting Game Winner: TEKKEN 8
- Trailer for One Move Away coming in 2025 – Trailer
- Trailer for Slay the Spire II – Coming in 2025 – Trailer
- Best VR/AR Game Winner: – Batman: Arkham Shadow
- Trailer for Dave the Diver DLC – In the Jungle – Coming late 2025 – Trailer
- Trailer for Thick as Thieves from the creators of Deus Ex – Trailer
- Best Esports Game: League of Legends
- Best Esports Athlete: Faker
- Best Esports Team: T1*
- Trailer for a new Pac-Man game by Bandai Namco – Shadow Labyrinth – Trailer
- Trailer for Steel Paws – Coming to Netflix in 2025 – Trailer
- Games for Impact Award: NEVA
- Trailer for Tales of the Shire – Releasing March 25th – Trailer
- Trailer for Stalcraft Operations – Coming in 2025 – Trailer
- Gameplay trailer for a murder party game – Midnight Murder Club – In Closed Beta – Trailer
- Innovation in Accessibility Award: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
- New game from the creator of Core Keeper – Kyora – Available to wishlist now – Trailer
- Best Family Game – Astro Bot
- New trailer from the studio who brought you Sifu – Rematch – 5-a-side soccer game – Trailer
- Trailer for Solasta 2 – Early Access coming in 2025 – Trailer
Main Show:
- Todd Howard and Troy Baker on stag to present the first award. Harrision Ford is also here. Harrision is clearly drunk.
- Best Performance Award – Melina Juergens for playing Senua in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
- First world premiere: Trailer from CD Projekt Red – The Witcher IV – Ciri is The Witcher – Trailer
- “New standalone game”: Trailer from Bandai Namco & FromSoftware – Elden Ring Nightreign – Co-op action game – Coming 2025 – Trailer
- Advert for FINAL FANTASY VII Rebirth – Releasing on PC on the 23rd January 2025. Trailer
- Advert for Indiana Jones & The Great Circle – Available now.
- Advert for Catly – Coming to Steam, Nintendo Switch, Apple i-Watch – Trailer
- Advert for Path of Exile 2 – Early Access is available now.
- Best Action Game – Black Myth: Wukong
- Trailer from the creators of ICO, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian – Project: Robot – Trailer
- The Game Awards orchestra performing the theme for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII – Releasing February 11th 2025 – Crossplay between PC and consoles.
- Trailer from Obsidian – The Outer Worlds 2 – Releasing in 2025 – For Xbox, Playstation and PC – Trailer
- Josef Fares on stage to announce Hazelights newest co-op game – Trailer for Split Fiction – Play one level in Si-Fi and the next in Fantasy – Releasing on March 6th – Trailer
- Advert for Fragpunk – Releasing March 6th Trailer
- Advert for Killing Floor 3 – Coming March 2025. Trailer
- Geoff talking about the layoffs in video games. – He introduces the first TGA Gamechanger award. – Amir Satvat who has helped people who have been laid off to find jobs in the industry.
- Advert from War Gaming – Steel Hunters – Beta now available. Trailer
- Blackfrost: The Long Dark II – Early Access coming in 2026 – Trailer
- Randy Pitchford with the trailer for Borderlands 4 – Coming 2025 – Trailer
- Clive Rosefield from Final Fantasy XVI is coming to Tekken 8 – Releasing December 16th – Trailer
- Most Anticipated Game – Grand Theft Auto VI
- Best Multiplayer Game – Helldivers 2
- Best Community Support – Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best Art Direction – Metaphor: ReFantazio
- Advert for Splitgate 2
- Advert for Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Advert for Mechabreak – Coming 2025
- Advert for Star Wars Outlaws
- Advert for Fortnite OG
- Live performance for Arcane by Twenty One Pilots
- Trailer for a new Virtua Fighter game from RGG Studio in development. – Trailer
- Trailer for another RGG Studio game. Project Century – Also in development. – Trailer
- Hideo Kojima is on stage talking about the last 10 years of TGA. He is here to announce the Best Game Direction Award.
- Best Game Direction Award – Astro Bot
- New trailer from Saber – Turok Origins – Trailer
- A guy on stage in a Helldivers suit introducing a new trailer for Helldivers II – Omen of Tyranny update trailer. Available now – Trailer
- New trailer and release date of Warframe: 1999 – Releasing tomorrow (13th December) – Trailer
- Advert for Wuthering Waves for PS5 – Available January 2nd 2025 – Trailer
- Adverts for Xbox.
- Creators of Shovel Knights on stage to introduce:
- Best Debut Indie Game: Balatro
- Trailer for a new Capcom game Onimusha: Way of the Sword – Coming 2026 – Trailer
- New trailer for The First Berserker: Khazan – Release date: March 27th 2025 – Trailer
- New trailer for a new gacha game from Nexon – Arad: Dungeon & Fighter – Trailer
- New trailer for Dying Light: The Beast coming out in the summer – Trailer
- Best Action Adventure Game: Astro Bot
- Best RPG: Metaphor: Refantazio
- Content Creator of the Year: Caseoh
- Best Sports/Racing Game: EA Sports FC 25
- Best Sim/Strategy Game: Frostpunk 2
- Ad for “Post Malone’s Murder Circus” update for Hunt: Showdown – Trailer
- Trailer for Squid Game: Unleashed available on December 17th on Netflix Games – Squid Game Season 2 is out on December 26th – Trailer
- Snoop Dogg on stage to introduce Best ongoing game.
- Best Ongoing Game: Helldivers 2
- Trailer for a brand new game from the creators of Overcooked – A new co-op game Stage Fright – Trailer
- Trailer for a HBO/Warner Bros game – Game of Thrones: Kingsroad – Trailer
- Ad for Double Dragon: Revive – Releasing October 23rd 2025. Trailer
- Ad for Screamer coming 2026 – Trailer
- Trailer from Naughty Dog – The Last of Us Part II Remastered coming to PC on April 3rd 2025.
- Both the voice actress and actual actress for Ellie from The Last of Us game and HBO show on stage to introduce:
- Best Adaptation Award: Fallout
- Gameplay trailer for Den of Wolves – Trailer
- New trailer for Zenless Zone Zero – New character
- New trailer for Honkai: Star Rail Version 3.0 update – Trailer: Trailer
- Snoop Dogg performing a song from his new album which releases tonight
- Ad for LEGO Fornite Odyssey
- Ad for Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
- Khalid introducing:
- Best Score/Music: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Teaser trailer for Sonic Racing: Crossworlds – Trailer: Trailer
- Trailer for Mafia: The Old Country – Releasing this summer – Trailer
- Best Independent Game: Balatro
- Best Mobile Game: Balatro
- Best Audio Design: Senu’s Saga: Hellblade II
- Players’ Voice: Black Myth: Wukong
- Trailer for Infinity Nikki which has had 20 million downloads
- Laura Bailey and Aaron Paul on stage introducing a game that they have worked on together – Dispatch – Releasing in 2025 – Trailer
- Sam Lake on stage for:
- Best Narrative Award: Metaphor: Refantazio
- Live performance to introduce Okami sequel from Capcom and Hideki Kamiya – Trailer
- Trailer for the Pearl Abyss title Crimson Desert – Releasing later 2025 – Trailer
- ONE MORE THING:
- From Naughty Dog & PlayStation: Intergalatic: The Heretic Prophet – Trailer
- Swen Vincke from Larian Game to present
- Game of the Year Award: Astro Bot
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