No, Arc Raiders wasn’t robbed from a Game Awards’ GOTY nomination

There’s no question that 2025 has been the year of multiplayer. Split Fiction was an instant addition to the co-op canon. Battlefield 6 reinvigorated interest in a once-great first-person shooter.Arc Raiders has come in hot, with the same momentum that Helldivers 2 had last year. Games like Peak and R.E.P.O. have helped popularize an emerging breed of small-scale co-op hits. Hell, even FromSoftware made a pretty solid multiplayer game! All of those examples come together to form the defining trend in video games this year.