With the year coming to an end, The Game Awards were held on 1 December, 2016 to recognise the best in gaming for this year. The awards were streamed live over and will be broadcast live on PSN, Twitch, Twitter, Steam, YouTube, Xbox Live.
Clearly, Blizzard’s character based shooter, Overwatch ruled all the major categories as they took home the trophy and bragging rights for ‘Game of the Year’, ‘Best Game Direction’, ‘Best multiplayer’ and ‘Best eSports Game’. Other prominent winners were id Software and Bethesda Softwork’s Doom and Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 4: A thief’s End.
Here’s the complete list of nominees and winners:
Game of the Year
Doom (id Software / Bethesda)
Inside (Playdead)
Winner: Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment)
Titanfall 2 (Respawn / Electronic Arts)
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best Studio/Game Direction
Winner: Blizzard (Overwatch)
DICE (Battlefield 1)
id Software (Doom)
Naughty Dog (Uncharted 4)
Respawn (Titanfall 2)
Best Narrative
Firewatch (Campo Santo)
Inside (Playdead)
Mafia 3 (Hangar 13/2K Games)
Oxenfree (Night School Studio)
Winner: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (Naughty Dog/Sony)
Best Art Direction
Abzu (Giant Squid/505 Games)
Firewatch (Campo Santo)
Winner: Inside (Playdead)
Overwatch (Blizzard)
Best Music/Sound Design
Battlefield 1 (DICE/EA)
Winner: Doom (id Software/Bethesda)
Inside (Playdead)
Rez Infinite (Enhance Games)
Thumper (Drool)
Best Performance
Alex Hernandez as Lincoln Clay (Mafia 3)
Cissy Jones as Delilah (Firewatch)
Emily Rose as Elena (Uncharted 4)
Winner: Nolan North as Nathan Drake (Uncharted 4)
Rich Summer as Henry (Firewatch)
Tory Baker as Sam Drake (Uncharted 4)
Games for Impact Award
1979 Revolution (iNK Stories)
Block’Hood (Plethora Project/Devolver Digital)
Orwell (Osmotic Studios/Surprise Attack)
Sea Hero Quest (Glitchers)
Winner: That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games)
Best Independent Game
Firewatch (Campo Santo)
Hyper Light Drifter (Heart Machine)
Winner: Inside (Playdead)
Stardew Valley (ConcernedApe/Chucklefish)
The Witness (Thekla)
Best Mobile/Handheld
Clash Royale (Supercell)
Fire Emblem Fates (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)
Monster Hunter Generations (Capcom)
Winner: Pokemon Go (Niantic)
Severed (Drinkbox Studios)
Best VR Game
Batman: Arkham VR (Rocksteady/Warner Bros.)
EVE: Valkyrie (CCP Games)
Job Simulator (Owlchemy Labs)
Winner: Rez Infinite (Enhance Games)
Thumper (Drool)
Best Action Game
Battlefield 1 (DICE/EA)
Winner: Doom (id Software/Bethesda)
Gears of War 4 (The Coalition/Microsoft)
Overwatch (Blizzard)
Titanfall 2 (Respawn/EA)
Best Action/Adventure Game
Winner: Dishonored 2 (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
Hitman (IO Interactive/Square Enix)
Hyper Light Drifter (Heart Machine)
Ratchet & Clank (Insomniac Games/Sony)
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (Naughty Dog /Sony)
Best RPG
Dark Souls 3 (From Software/Bandai Namco)
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Eidos Montreal/Square Enix)
Winner: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine (CD Projekt RED)
World of Warcraft: Legion (Blizzard)
Xenoblade Chronicles X (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)
Best Fighting Game
Killer Instinct Season 3 (Iron Galaxy Studios/Microsoft)
The King of Fighters XIV (SNK/Atlus USA)
Pokken Tournament (Bandai Namco Studios/The Pokemon Company)
Winner: Street Fighter V (Capcom)
Best Family Game
Dragon Quest Builders (Square Enix)
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens (TT Fusion/Warner Bros.)
Winner: Pokemon Go (Niantic)
Ratchet & Clank (Insomniac Games/Sony)
Skylanders: Imaginators (Toys for Bob/Activision)
Best Strategy Game
Winner: Civilization 6 (Firaxis Games/2K Games)
Fire Emblem Fates (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)
The Banner Saga 2 (Stoic Studio/Versus Evil)
Total War: Warhammer (The Creative Assembly/SEGA)
XCOM 2 (Firaxis Games/2K Games)
Best Sports / Racing Game
FIFA 17 (EA Canada/EA Sports)
Winner: Forza Horizon 3 (Playground Games/Microsoft)
MLB The Show 2016 (SIE San Diego Studio/Sony)
NBA 2K17 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 (PES Productions/Konami)
Best Multiplayer Game
Battlefield 1 (DICE/EA)
Gears of War 4 (The Coalition/Microsoft)
Overcooked (Ghost Town Games/Team17)
Winner: Overwatch (Blizzard)
Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
Titanfall 2 (Respawn/EA)
Most Anticipated Game
God of War (SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony)
Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony)
Mass Effect: Andromeda (BioWare/EAs)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar)
Winner: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo)
Best eSports Player
Faker – [Lee Sang-Hyeok] SK Telecom T1, League of Legends
Winner: Coldzera – [Marcelo David] SK Gaming, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Byun-Hyun Woo – Starcraft 2
Infiltrator – [Lee Seeon-woo] Team Razer, Street Fighter 5
Hungrybox – [Juan Debiedma] Team Liquid, Super Smash Bros.
Best eSports Team
SK Telecom T1 – Game: League of Legends
Wings Gaming – Game: DOTA 2
SK Gaming
ROX Tigers – Game: Leauge of Legends
Winner: Cloud 9
Best eSports Game
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
DOTA 2 (Valve)
League of Legends (Riot)
Winner: Overwatch (Blizzard)
Street Fighter 5 (Capcom)
Trending Gamer
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Winner: Boogie2988
Danny O’Dwyer
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Best Fan Creation
Brutal Doom 64
Endereal: The Shards of Order
(Two nominees were removed from this category and no winners were announced during the show.)
