Elden Ring Wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards

 

Now that the dust has settled on this year’s The Game Awards, which delivered a bunch of world premieres in between actual awards, it’s time to take a look at who took home the top honors. In addition to revealing a much-requested new entry in the Armored Core series, FromSoftware ended the night with the biggest of them all, as Elden Ring nabbed Game of the Year along with some other awards.

 

Forgetting that whole “kid taking the stage to say some nonsense and get arrested” thing, Hidetaka Miyazaki and his team were also honored with Best Game Direction, Best Art Direction and Best RPG for Elden Ring.

 

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God of War Ragnarök took home a ton of awards throughout the night—including Best Performance for Christopher Judge’s return as Kratos, Best Audio Design, Best Score/Music, Best Narrative, Innovation in Accessibility and Best Action/Adventure—but Nintendo did pretty well for itself, too. Here’s a look at the Switch games that got the spotlight:

 

• Most Anticipated Game – The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Best Multiplayer Game – Splatoon 3
• Best SIM/Strategy Game – Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
• Best Family Game – Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• Best Action Game – Bayonetta 3

 

Final Fantasy XIV Online won both Best Community Support and Best Ongoing Game.

 

Best Sports/Racing Game went to Gran Turismo 7 and Best Fighting Game went to MultiVersus, which knocked out contenders like The King of Fighters XV, DNF Duel, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R and Sifu.

 

As for best adaptation, Arcane: League of Legends edged out TRIGGER’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

 

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The remaining wins:

 

• Games for Impact – As Dusk Falls
• Best Indie Game – Stray
• Best Debut Indie Game – Stray
• Best Mobile Game – Marvel Snap
• Best VR/AR Game – Moss: Book II
• Content Creator of the Year – Ludwig
• Best Esports Athlete – Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker
• Best Esports Coach – Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi
• Best Esports Event – 2022 League of Legends World Championship
• Best Esports Game – VALORANT
• Best Esports Team – LOUD

 

Did you watch this year’s event? What did you think?

 

Source: The Game Awards

 

 

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his comics at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.