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  "description": "Four categories, a lot of games",
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    "Celebrating the 2025 Xbox Excellence Awards - Xbox WireJoin us in celebrating the year’s most outstanding games and the teams behind them with the 2025 Xbox Excellence Awards. Check out the full list and winners here: #url#Xbox WireMike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor",
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  "textContent": "Xbox does it's best to honor the many great games that graces the platform. This year, there are 55 games coming from 46 developers in the running for awards, just a stellar number. Check it all out below, including the full award delivery on Xbox Wire.\n\nCelebrating the 2025 Xbox Excellence Awards - Xbox WireJoin us in celebrating the year’s most outstanding games and the teams behind them with the 2025 Xbox Excellence Awards. Check out the full list and winners here: #url#Xbox WireMike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor\n\n> Today, we’re celebrating the 2025 Xbox Excellence Awards, recognizing the games and the teams behind them that Xbox players embraced across console, PC, handheld, and cloud over the past year.\n>\n> Introduced last year, the Xbox Excellence Awards celebrate games – and the teams behind them – based on how players engaged with Xbox throughout 2025. Honorees were selected across these four categories that reflect players’ enthusiasm, passion, engagement, and love for these experiences: Store Rating, Player Engagement, Daily Active Users, and Units Sold.\n>\n> This year’s list features **55 total games, with 16 currently available through Xbox Game Pass.** It features **48 unique developers hailing from 13 countries** , and brought to you by **24 publishers, alongside 19 self-published titles.** Taken as a whole, it’s an encapsulation of development on Xbox – we want gaming to reach players wherever they are, and for the teams making those games to find players from wherever _they_ are.\n>\n> To see the full list of winners across the Store Rating, Player Engagement, Daily Active Users, and Units Sold categories, please see our Xbox Wire post.\n\n**Stay tuned to GamingTrend for more Xbox news and info!**",
  "title": "Xbox 2025 Excellence Awards highlight top games on platform",
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