The Game Awards for 2015 went down last night with quite a few surprises. Some of the award winners were no surprise at all as they are fantastic games that were very well deserving. Others, whilst deserving, were quite the surprise though., such as Splatoon for Best Multiplayer and Rocket League for Best Racing Game.
You can check out the winners of all categories below:
Game of the Year
Winner: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red / Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment)
Bloodborne (FromSoftware / Sony Computer Entertainment)
Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios / Bethesda Softworks)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions / Konami)
Super Mario Maker (Nintendo)
Developer of the Year
Winner: CD Projekt Red
Bethesda Game Studios
FromSoftware
Kojima Productions
Nintendo
Best Independent Game
Winner: Rocket League (Psyonix)
Axiom Verge (Tom Happ)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios)
Undertale (tobyfox)
Best Mobile/Handheld Game
Winner: Lara Croft GO (Square Enix Montreal / Square Enix)
Downwell (Moppin / Devolver Digital)
Fallout Shelter (Bethesda Game Studios | Behaviour Interactive / Bethesda Softworks)
Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate (Capcom)
Pac-Man 256 (Hipster Whale / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Best Narrative
Winner: Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Life Is Strange (DONTNOD Entertainment / Square Enix)
Tales From The Borderlands (TellTale Games)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red / Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment)
Until Dawn (Supermassive Games / Sony Computer Entertainment)
Best Art Direction
Winner: Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios / Microsoft Studios)
Batman: Arkham Knight (Rocksteady Studios / Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment)
Bloodborne (FromSoftware / Sony Computer Entertainment)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions / Konami)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red / Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment)
Best Score/Soundtrack
Winner: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions / Konami)
Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios / Bethesda Softworks)
Halo 5: Guardians (343 Industries / Microsoft Studios)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios / Microsoft Studios)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/ Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment)
Best Performance
Winner: Viva Seifert (Her Story)
Ashly Burch as Chloe Price (Life is Strange)
Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft (Rise of the Tomb Raider)
Doug Cockle as Geralt (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)
Mark Hamill as The Joker (Batman: Arkham Knight)
Games for Change Award
Winner: Life Is Strange (DONTNOD Entertainment / Square Enix)
Cibele (Nina Freeman)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Sunset (Tale of Tales)
Undertale (tobyfox)
Best Shooter
Winner: Splatoon (Nintendo)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (Treyarch / Activision)
Destiny: The Taken King (Bungie / Activision)
Halo 5: Guardians (343 Industries / Microsoft Studios)
Star Wars Battlefront (DICE / Electronic Arts)
Best Action/Adventure Game
Winner: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions / Konami)
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (Ubisoft Quebec / Ubisoft)
Batman: Arkham Knight (Rocksteady Studios / Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios / Microsoft Studios)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics / Microsoft Studios)
Best Role-Playing Game
Winner: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/ Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment)
Bloodborne (FromSoftware / Sony Computer Entertainment)
Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios / Bethesda Softworks)
Pillars of Eternity (Obsidian Entertainment / Paradox Interactive)
Undertale (tobyfox)
Best Fighting Game
Winner: Mortal Kombat X (NetherRealm Studios / Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment)
Guilty Gear Xrd –SIGN– (Arc System Works / Aksys Games)
Rise of Incarnates (Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Rising Thunder (Radiant Entertainment)
Best Family Game
Winner: Super Mario Maker (Nintendo)
Disney Infinity 3.0 (Avalanche Studios / Disney Interactive Studios)
LEGO Dimensions (Traveller’s Tales / Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment)
Skylanders: SuperChargers (Vicarious Visions | Beenox Studios / Activision)
Splatoon (Nintendo)
Best Sports/Racing Game
Winner: Rocket League (Psyonix)
FIFA 16 (EA Canada / Electronic Arts)
Forza Motorsport 6 (Turn 10 Studios / Microsoft Studios)
NBA 2K16 (Visual Concepts / 2K Sports)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 (PES Productions / Konami)
Best Multiplayer
Winner: Splatoon (Nintendo)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (Treyarch / Activision)
Destiny: The Taken King (Bungie / Activision)
Halo 5: Guardians (343 Industries / Microsoft Studios)
Rocket League (Psyonix)
Most Anticipated Game
Winner: No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Computer Entertainment)
Quantum Break (Remedy Entertainment / Microsoft Studios)
The Last Guardian (GenDesign/ Sony Computer Entertainment)
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (Naughty Dog / Sony Computer Entertainment)
eSports Player of the Year
Winner: Kenny “KennyS” Schrub (Counter-Strike Global Offensive / Team EnVyUs)
Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok (League of Legends / SK Telecom T1)
Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer (Counter-Strike Global Offensive / Fnatic)
Peter “ppd” Dager (Dota 2 / Evil Geniuses)
Syed Sumail “Suma1L” Hassan (Dota 2 / Evil Geniuses)
eSports Team of the Year
Winner: Optic Gaming
Evil Geniuses
Fnatic
SK Telecom T1 Team SoloMid
eSports Game of the Year
Winner: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Sledgehammer Games / Activision)
Dota 2 (Valve)
Hearthstone (Blizzard Entertainment)
League of Legends (Riot Games)
Trending Gamer
Winner: Greg Miller
Total Biscuit
Christopher “MonteCristo” Mykles
Markiplier
PewDiePie
Best Fan Creation
Winner: Portal Stories: Mel (Prism Studios)
GTA V – Targets (Hoodoo Operator)
Real GTA (Corridor Digital)
Super Mario Maker e-Reader Levels (Baddboy78 / theycallmeshaky)
Twitch Plays Dark Souls (Twitch Community)
