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Game Awards 2025: Predictions, Surprises, and Snubs
Abu and Aaron dive into the 2025 Game Awards, discussing nominees, making predictions, and debating potential winners. They cover the Game of the Year contenders, and highlight notable categories like Best Art Direction, Best Score and Music, and Best Performance. Along the way, they discuss Charlie Cox’s washboard abs and the difficulty in defining what counts as an indie game.
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(00:00) Intro
(01:02) Game of the Year
(15:49) Which category is most competitive?
(21:23) The nominees we're happy to see
(24:06) The nominees we're annoyed to see
(29:58) What even is an indie game anymore?
(37:49) Is Expedition 33 an indie game?
(39:15) Where will we see major upsets?
(45:30) The biggest snubs of the year
(49:59) The most underrated games of 2025
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