Breaking 9 Biggest No-shows At The Game Awards 2025

In terms of new game announcements, this was one of the most exciting Game Awards we've seen in a minute. Divinity and Fate of the Old Republic were the highlights for me, and I'm liking what we're seeing from Exodus. But there were some notable absences: Studios we haven't heard from in awhile, announced projects due for a check-in, even rumored games that seemed a shoo-in for an official reveal. These are the nine biggest MIA games and studios from The Game Awards 2025.

Copium Status: Blade is probably just getting some beauty sleep in his coffin.

If you tuned in to this year's PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted on December 4 (and you should have!), you may recall a devilishly handsome and well-informed games journalist explaining why Arkane's Blade adaptation is our 16th most anticipated upcoming game.

We're about due for more details, even a gameplay trailer⁠—we last got official word from Arkane Lyon at the 2023 Game Awards with Blade's debut teaser. No reason to panic, though: While I was expecting a repeat TGA appearance, we might see Blade at Xbox's summer showcase, or even sooner if it does another January stream like it did this year.

Woof, what do you even say? The KotOR Remake was first announced in 2021, then appropriated from its original developer, Aspyr. We got the announcement of (basically) KotOR 3, a game I thought would never exist, before further word on the remake.

Our latest update comes courtesy of a Game File report on court documents related to a lawsuit against Aspyr over planned restored content DLC in its Switch version of Knights of the Old Republic 2. Apparently, publisher Saber Interactive is planning a separate remake of KotOR 2, codenamed Juliet, and development of the KotOR 1 remake is in the hands of its subsidiary, Mad Head Games.

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On the one hand, that seems wildly ambitious given how turbulent development of the KotOR 1 remake has been. But in the best of all worlds, you could see a "sister games" situation: The original games shared a game engine and assets, and released within a year of each other. Theoretically, development of a KotOR 2 remake would be significantly easier with all the work done on the first game. Whatever the case, I wish Mad Head the best of luck with this seemingly-cursed project.

FromSoft has actually been on an insanely productive tear, one relatively unheard of in the modern games industry:

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