Every Damn Commercial That Ran During The Game Awards 2025

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The Game Awards 2025 celebrated the best in gaming for about 20 minutes tonight, surrounded by two hours of ads that cost millions of dollars

Published Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:12:04 -0600

by Gavin Sheehan

Last updated Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:15:04 -0600

Article Summary

Full rundown of every commercial and game trailer featured during The Game Awards 2025, in broadcast order
The Game Awards puts its focus on big-budget advertising with only limited time for actual award presentations
Links provided for each showcased title, from AAA blockbusters to new indies revealed at the show
Honest take on the hype, fatigue, and commercialization dominating gaming’s biggest annual event

The Game Awards 2025 took place this evening, and we’re not splitting hairs about how we feel about it this year: We watched over two hours of overpriced commercials. At this point, it’s no secret what’s going on, as it has been reported that the show is charging six figures per ad, around what we timed out to be roughly 20 minutes of actual awards time between the pre-show and main show combined. It’s one giant infomercial for average gamers, a night of excitement for hardcore gamers, and a hype machine for studios.

This is the final act of 2025, in a month filled with several other one to three-hour video game commercial livestreams. And let’s be real, it’s not that we hate the awards or Geoff Keighley, we get what they’re doing. However, the market has become oversaturated with this kind of format, filled with dozens of other companies and organizations centering their shows around big tentpole events like this… It’s hard not to clown on it or be exhausted with it. Which we are very, very, very tired of the format after years of them.

We will eventually tell you who won awards in a separate post tomorrow, but let’s be honest, you’re not here to read about the award winners. You wanna know what commercials ran in order so you can determine if it’s worth going back and skimming through the YouTube video above to see them. (Or seeking out the ones you like individually.) We have the full list of games for you here, and because we’re nice, we linked everything we could (except the games that are so new they don’t even have a landing page, let alone a Steam page).