The Game Awards is now the video game industry’s big annual award show, and the December event always has plenty of announcements and surprises to make any fan happy. Tonight’s event was hosted again by Geoff Keighley to hand out numerous accolades to studios and creators in the industry.
While this year’s awards show couldn’t have a live audience, the producers still made sure to create an engaging experience through interactive programming, airing on multiple platforms, and promoting co-streams of the event. The Game Awards also featuredpresenters such as Gal Gadot, Keanu Reeves, Reggie Fils-Aimé, and other entertainment industry professionals to give fans a memorable show.
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Arguably, the most anticipated award of the night is that of Game of the Year. Quite a variety of genres were up for the award this year, and if any of the games had won, they would have been in good company with winners such as last year’sSekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Going into the night,TheLast of Us Part IIled the pack with nine nominations, including Game of the Year. Other games such asHades,Ghost of Tsushima, andFinal Fantasy VII Remakealso received multiple nominations.
For fans who didn’t have a chance to watch the awards show live,here are all the Game Awards nomineesand winners for the 30 categories celebrated this year.
Best Narrative
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rimwritten by George Kamitani
Final Fantasy VII Remakewritten by Kazushige Nojima, Motomu Toriyama, Hiroaki Iwaki and Sachie Hirano
Ghost of Tsushimawritten by Ian Ryan, Liz Albl, Patrick Downs, Jordan Lemos and Nate Fox
Hadeswritten by Greg Kasavin
The Last of Us Part IIwritten by Neil Druckmann and Halley Gross (WINNER)
Ghost of Tsushimafrom Sucker Punch/SIE (WINNER)
Hadesfrom Supergiant Games
Ori and the Will of the Wispsfrom Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios
Best Score and Music
Doom Eternalcomposed by Mick Gordon
Final Fantasy VII Remakecomposed by Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu and Mitsuto Suzuki (WINNER)
Hadescomposed by Darren Korb
Ori and the Will of the Wispscomposed by Gareth Coker
The Last of Us Part IIcomposed by Gustavo Santaolalla, additional music by Mac Quayle
