It's time to play the music

It's time to light the lights

It's time to reveal our game awards tonight

It's time to put on makeup

It's time to dress up right

It's time to raise the curtain

On the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, XboxCastational

Game Awards tonight!

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Our final show of 2025, and as is custom, we bow out with our version of The Game Awards. But we do things differently. See, we don't judge games we've never played, we don't get paid to declare winners (but if you would like to try change our minds - get in contact!), and we don't award games just because they sold well. 

NO! Not us!

We nominate games that we've played this year only. Our hands on experience is what sets us apart from every other game award show. And not just because we're awarding games that came in 4 years ago either. 

By now you know the order of awards, but those that are new, our awards are: 

• The Biggest Surprise of 2025
  
  Something that made you audibly gasp.
  
  
  
  


• The Make This into a Movie Award
  
  Awarded for best story.
  
  
  
  


• The Time Sink / Can't Stop Won't Stop Award
  
  Awarded for that game that sucked up all your time and was worth every minute.
  
  
  
  


• The Eye Meltingly Best-Looking Award
  
  Awarded for gorgeous graphics, good looking characters and other things that showcase 4K.
  
  
  
  


• The Together-At-Last Multiplayer Award
  
  Awarded for that game best played with friends, near and far. 
  
  
  
  


• The Music to My Ears Award
  
  From soundtracks to soundscapes, this awards games that showcase the best audio.
  
  
  
  


• The Edge of Your Seat Award
  
  What we're most looking forward to seeing in 2026. Hopefully it involves a future with Xbox in it. 
  
  
  
  


• The Ones That Didn't Quite Make It Award
  
  Honourable mentions and games that didn't quite make the cut, but were so close, it hurts. 
  
  
  
  


• The One Leaves Anti-Game Award
  
  Awarded for the game that almost you give up on gaming entirely. Consider this your Do-Not-Play list. 
  
  
  
  


• and the big one - Our Personal Game of the Year Award!
  
  Any game we've played this year that was exceptional in all regards, our very own GotY!

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On a more serious note, The XboxCast does this because of you. Whether you tune in every week on our live stream, or listen when you can, you guys make it all worth it. We hope you enjoyed the laughs, the rants and just the general nonsense we get up on the podcast. 

Thank you for hanging out with us - on the podcast, in our Discord, near or far. 💚

From the whole XboxCast - Kyle, Lee, Simone and Producer Paul - have a Merry Christmas, and a blessed New Years. 

See you all in 2026 as we celebrate 10 years (!!!) of The XboxCast!

Will that be out last season? Will there even be Xbox to talk about? Tune in next year to find out... 

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