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Battlefield 6

First-person shooter by Battlefield Studios

Gaming Sweden Hall No. 73
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Battlefield 6 won Best Audio Design at The Game Awards 2025, the category that measures how a game sounds from the cockpit of a jet to the floor of a collapsing apartment block. Built by the four-studio Battlefield group across Stockholm, Guildford, Gothenburg and Bucharest, it returned the series to all-out warfare after a decade of experimental detours, and its sound team rebuilt everything from the ground up: real explosive recordings, dynamic occlusion for every wall, and gunfeels that players compared to studio-grade film mixes. It became the biggest launch in Battlefield history with over seven million copies sold in three days.

Developer
Battlefield Studios (DICE, Criterion, Motive, Ripple Effect)
Nationality
Sweden / United Kingdom / Canada / United States
Released
October 10, 2025
Best Audio Design
The Game Awards 2025
Launch sales
7+ million copies in three days
Setting
NATO vs. Pax Armata, near-future global war
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The Game Award for Best Audio Design badge

The Game Award for Best Audio Design

2025 · Dec 12, 2025
Peacock Theater, Los Angeles

Battlefield 6 won Best Audio Design at The Game Awards 2025 for a soundfield that tracked every bullet, collapse and footstep in real time. The win recognized a full rebuild of the series' audio pipeline by a team spread across four countries.