The controversy surrounding the presence of Highguard as the final trailer at The Game Awards 2025 has heated up with new facts emerging. As a highly prestigious gaming event, The Game Awards 2025 caught significant attention last year. The abundance of trailers showcased during the gaming award ceremony, even overshadowing the award presentations, led to TGA 2025 receiving a rating of D from its audience. However, another controversy that remains hot until now is the appearance of the Highguard trailer as the final trailer there.
Typically, the final trailer at TGA is prepared as a reveal trailer for a highly special game title, generating hype for the following year. However, the trailer at TGA 2025 left a major disappointment among its audience, as the game was perceived as too ordinary and not different from generic hero shooters with a short lifespan like Concord. Furthermore, the position of the final trailer is undoubtedly costly, as reported by Kotaku, indicating that TGA requested $1 million to broadcast a 3-minute trailer.
Surprisingly, Paul Tassi, a journalist from Forbes, shared on social media a new fact that Highguard did not pay TGA at all to appear in the final trailer. As a result, assumptions arose that Geoff Keighley liked the game so much that he granted the prestigious position for free to Wildlight Entertainment, the game’s developer. Unfortunately, this act of kindness has backfired on the game itself, as it now carries a negative perception just before its release. So, what do you think about this surprising revelation?
