Another Game Awards has come and past and with it, another slew of updates and premieres for every type of game imaginable. Show creator and host Geoff Keighley typically lands some big reveals for any show he is affiliated with since most developers and publishers know the size of the audience watching those shows.
2025’s iteration easily had some of the biggest reveals and announcements in the show’s history, and plenty of head turning trailers to accompany them. Five, in particular, caught my eye and immediately shot to the top of my personal interested list, regardless of how long the wait could end up being.
1. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic
What else could it have been?
It has been roughly 22 years since Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic originally released, but the desire to return to that era of Star Wars has not faded. While it remains to be seen if the Knights of the Old Republic remake ever sees the light of day, The Game Awards treated players to something arguably even better – a new game set in the Old Republic.
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic will send players back to the Old Republic to take the role of a Force user exploring a galaxy “on the edge of rebirth,” according to the official Star Wars website.
The debut trailer didn’t give much, if anything, away for fans to dissect short of a crashed Sith cruiser. All that was clear is that it is a brand new story set in the Old Republic Era, and that’s it.
Something that is definitely worth getting excited about this early, though, is who will be leading up development on this new game – Casey Hudson.
A veteran of the industry, Hudson is best known for his tenure at BioWare where he served as the project director on Knights of the Old Republic and game director on the Mass Effect trilogy. Hudson will oversee the project developed by his new studio, Arcanaut Games, as part of its partnership with Lucasfilm Games.
With not even a target year provided in the announcement trailer, Fate of the Old Republic is still a long way out.
2. Divinity
Directly following Fate of the Old Republic, both in the countdown and in the show, is the next game from acclaimed developers Larian Studio, Divinity.
The studio had been quiet about its next project after the sweeping critical and commercial success of Baldur’s Gate 3 in 2023. The first teases of what was to come appeared on Nov. 28 courtesy of Geoff Keighley when he posted a picture of a strange statue to X. Speculation immediately began running wild as to what this could be, with the only thing most agreed on was the game was going to be set in an extremely dark fantasy world.
Larian Studios lifted the veil on Divinity at the Game Awards with a trailer clearly designed to get people talking. It portrayed a village partaking in ritualistic displays of sex, gluttony, and self-mutilation in front of a sacrificial pyre, with a man chained up inside a wooden statue burning alive. The ritual turns chaotic, though, as sacrifice’s blood bursts from his back and seemingly consumes the village, leaving a statue made of the village people in its wake.
The name of the statue was revealed as the Hell Stone.
Like Fate of the Old Republic, Divinity did not provide even a hint of a release date.
3. Total War: Warhammer 40,000
Next is Creative Assembly’s next entry in the long-running and extremely popular RTS series Total War – Total War: Warhammer 40,000.
While the studio has ventured into the fantasy-side of Warhammer in previous Total War entries, this will be the first to take the series to the grimdark future of the 42nd Millennia. The game will have players to take command of either the Space Marines, Astra Militarum, Orks, or Aeldari, assemble their fleet and resources, and finally set out to conquer the stars and their foes in epic battles across the Imperium.
The trailer offered a very brief glimpse at gameplay at the end to give players a quick tease of the game’s scale and how it will bring the epic, planet consuming battles of 40k to life.
As with Divinity and Fate of the Old Republic, Creative Assembly did not provide even a release year. This may not surprise some, though, as the studio is also working a sequel to Alien: Isolation.
It isn’t the only real-time strategy game on the way set in the 40k universe, either. As of December 2025, Dawn of War 4 was planned for a 2026 release to provide 40k fans that RTS fix until Total War is released.
4. Star Wars: Galactic Racer
Fourth on the list is Star Wars: Galactic Racer. And to get this out of the way now – no, no release window was announced for it.
The newest racing game set in the Star Wars universe also serves as the debut title for Fuse Games located in Guildford, England. Fuse was founded in 2023 by five former-Burnout and Need for Speed developers who, in partnership with Lucasfilm Games, will take their skills from the blacktop to a galaxy far, far away.
Star Wars’ doesn’t have a deep catalogue of racing games, but it still has a few.
The most popular and recognizable of those games is arguably 1999’s Star Wars Episode 1: Racer. Serving as a direct tie-in to The Phantom Menace, the game centered solely on the galaxy’s popular and dangerous pod-racing scene.
Star Wars: Racer Revenge and Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing are the other two notable racing games made, though neither proved particularly memorable.
The debut trailer for Galactic Racer confirmed players will be racing across Jakku and various other planets as the racer, Shade. It will also feature a wider selection of vehicles for players to choose from including speeder bikes, speeders, and what appear to be smaller pod-racers. It even revealed that Sebulba, a rival pod-racer from Anakin Skywalker’s childhood on Tatooine, will be making his return to the circuits.
5. Saros
While not a reveal, the latest trailer for Saros offered another look at the mind-bending world created by developer Housemarque for its next shooter.
Introduced by the game’s lead actor Rahul Kohli, the trailer offered a new look at the world of Carcosa and Soltari Enforcer Arjun Devraj’s mission to uncover the fate of the planet’s lost colony. What Devraj and his team walk into, though, is a bizarre world teeming with strange and dangerous Lovecraftian-style creatures Devraj will have to gun his way through to uncover the truth.
Anyone who played Returnal will immediately recognize the bullet hell-style gameplay on display in Saros, with players having to blend gunplay, abilities, and movement to survive the many dangers awaiting on Carcosa.
And players won’t have to wait too much longer for Saros as the game is scheduled to release on April 30, 2026, exclusively on PlayStation. It is part of what is already a crowded 2026 release calendar alongside major titles including Resident Evil: Requiem, Marvel’s Wolverine, Fable, 007: First Light, and as of this writing, Grand Theft Auto VI.
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