Nintendo won quite a few accolades at The Game Awards tonight, and its crowning achievement was the Game of the Year Award for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Breath of the Wild also won the Best Game Direction Award and the Best Action/Adventure Game Award. It was nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Score/Music but lost out to Studio MDHR’s Cuphead and Platinum Games’s Nier: Automata respectively.
Below are all the awards and winners that were announced at tonight’s award show.
Industry Icon
- Carol Shaw
Game of the Year
- Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Persona 5 (Atlus)
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corp.)
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Best Game Direction
- Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games)
- Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Capcom)
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD)
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (MachineGames/Bethesda)
Best Narrative
- Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Tameem Antoniades, Elizabeth Ashman-Rowe/Ninja Theory)
- Horizon: Zero Dawn (John Gonzalez/Ninja Theory)
- Nier: Automata (Yoko Taro, Hana Kikuchi, Yoshiho Akabane/Platinum Games)
- What Remains of Edith Finch (Ian Dallas/Giant Sparrow)
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Jen Matthies, Tommy Tordsson Bjork/MachineGames)
Best Art Direction
- Cuphead (Studio MDHR Entertainment)
- Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision)
- Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Persona 5 (Atlus)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Best Score/Music
- Cuphead (Kristofer Maddigan)
- Destiny 2 (Mike Salvatori, Skye Lewin, C Paul Johnson)
- Nier: Automata (Keiichi Okabe, Keigo Hoashi)
- Persona 5 (Shoji Meguro)
- Super Mario Odyssey (Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii, Koji Kondo)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata)
Best Performance
- Ashly Burch, Horizon: Zero Dawn (As Aloy)
- Brian Bloom, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (as BJ Blazkowicz)
- Claudia Black, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (as Chloe Frazer)
- Laura Bailey, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (as Nadine Ross)
- Melina Juergens, Hellblade (as Senua)
Games for Impact
- Bury Me, My Love (The Pixel Hunt/Figs/ARTE / Playdius)
- Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory)
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Deck Nine/Square Enix)
- Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
- Please Knock on My Door (Levall Games AB)
- What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow/Annapurna Interactive)
Best Ongoing Game
- Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision)
- Grand Theft Auto Online (Rockstar Games)
- Overwatch (Blizzard)
- Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG. Corp)
- Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
- Warframe (Digital Extremes)
Best Mobile Game
- Fire Emblem Heroes (Intelligent Systems / Nintendo)
- Hidden Folks (Adriaan de Jongh/Sylvain Tegroeg)
- Monument Valley 2 (ustwo games)
- Old Man’s Journey (Broken Rules)
- Super Mario Run (Nintendo)
Best Handheld Game
- Ever Oasis (Grezzo/Nintendo)
- Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)
- Metroid: Samus Returns (MercurySteam/Nintendo)
- Monster Hunter Stories (Marvelous / Capcom/Nintendo)
- Poochy and Yoshi’s Woolly World (Good-Feel/Nintendo)
Best VR/AR Game
- Farpoint (Impulse Gear/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Lone Echo (Ready at Dawn/Oculus Studios)
- Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Capcom)
- Star Trek: Bridge Crew (Red Storm Entertainment/Ubisoft)
- Superhot VR (Superhot Team)
Most Anticipated Game
- God of War (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Monster Hunter: World (Capcom)
- Red Dead Redemption II (Rockstar Games)
- The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best Esports Game
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
- DOTA2 (Valve)
- League of Legends (Riot)
- Overwatch (Blizzard)
- Rocket League (Psyonix)
Best Esports Player
- Lee Sang-hyeok “Faker” (SK Telecom 1, League of Legends)
- Marcelo “coldzera” David (SK Gaming, Counter-Strike: GO)
- Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovac (FaZe Clan, Counter-Strike: GO)
- Je-hong “ryujehong” Ryu (Seoul Dynasty, Overwatch)
- Kuro “KuroKy” Salehi Takhasomi (Team Liquid, DOTA 2)
Best Esports Team (organization)
- Cloud 9
- FaZe Clan
- Lunatic-Hai
- SK Telecom T1
- Team Liquid
Student Game Award
- Falling Sky (Jonathan Nielssen, Nikolay Savoy, Mohsen Shah / National Film & TV School)
- From Light (Faffinabout / USC)
- Hollowed (Erin Marek, Jerrick Flores, Charley Choucard / University of Central Florida)
- Impulsion (Hugo Verger, Remi Bertrand, Maxime Lupinski / IIM)
- Level Squared (Kip Brennan, Stephen Scoglio, Dane Perry Svendsen / Swinburne University)
- Meaning (Hariz Yet / DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore)
Chinese Fan Game Award
- Honor of Kings《王者荣耀》 (Timi Studio Group)
- ICEY《艾希》(FantaBlade Network)
- Gumballs & Dungeons《不思议迷宫》(QcPlay Limited)
- jx3 HD《剑网3》重制版 (Kingsoft Corporation)
- Monument Valley 2《纪念碑谷2》(ustwo games)
Trending Gamer
- Guy Beahm (Dr. Disrepect)
- Steven Spohn (AbleGamers)
- Mike Grzesiek (Shroud)
- Clint Lexa (“Halfcoordinated”)
- Andrea Rene (What’s Good Games)
Best Sports/Racing Game
- Forza Motorsport 7 (Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Studios)
- FIFA 18 (EA Vancouver/EA)
- GT Sport (Polyphony Digital/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- NBA 2K18 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports)
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 (PES Productions/Konami)
- Project Cars (Slightly Mad Studios / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Best Action Game
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (MachineGames / Bethesda)
- Cuphead (Studio MDHR Entertainment)
- Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
- Nioh (Team Ninja / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Prey (Arkane / Bethesda)
Best Debut Indie Game
- Slime Rancher (Monomi Park)
- Mr. Shifty (Team Shifty)
- Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
- Golf Story (Sidebar Games)
- Hollow Knight (Team Cherry)
Best Role-Playing Game
- Persona 5 (Atlus)
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole (Ubisoft San Francisco / Ubisoft)
- Final Fantasy XV (Square-Enix Business Division 2 / Square-Enix)
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 (Larian Studios)
- NieR: Automata (Platinum Games / Square Enix)
Best Action/Adventure Game
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
- Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Assassin’s Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
- Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best Family Game
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
- Splatoon 2 (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
- Sonic Mania (PagodaWest Games + Headcannon / Sega)
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris + Milan / Ubisoft)
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
Best Strategy Game
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris + Milan / Ubisoft)
- XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (Firaxis Games / 2K)
- Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games)
- Total War: Warhammer II (Creative Assembly / Sega)
- Halo Wars 2 (Creative Assembly + 343 / Microsoft Studios)
