The Game Awards 2017 was held yesterday, so we now know which game/team/personality got an award.

Geoff Keighley’s is filled with marketing (then again, the trailers themselves are considered as a promotion) – it originally launched in 2003 as Spike Video Game Awards, and it got renamed to its current form in 2014. Let’s see the categories and their respective winners:

 

Game of the Year: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Best Game Direction: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Best Narrative: What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow / Annapurna Interactive)

Best Art Direction: Cuphead (Studio MDHR)

Best Score / Music: NieR: Automata (Platinum Games / Square Enix)

Best Audio Design: Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory)

Best Performance: Melina Juergens as Senua in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

Games for Impact Award: Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory)

Best Ongoing Game: Overwatch (Blizzard)

Best Mobile Game: Monument Valley 2 (Ustwo Games)

Best Handheld Game: Metroid: Samus Returns (MercurySteam / Nintendo)

Best VR Game: Resident Evil 7: biohazard (Capcom)

Best Action Game: Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (MachineGames / Bethesda Softworks)

Best Action/Adventure Game: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Best RPG: Persona 5 (Atlus)

Best Fighting Game: Injustice 2 (NetherRealm Studios / Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

Best Family Game: Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Best Strategy Game: Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris + Milan / Ubisoft)

Best Sports / Racing Game: Forza Motorsport 7 (Turn 10 Studios / Microsoft Studios)

Best Multiplayer Game: apparently, no winner announced? (source: the event’s website (http://thegameawards.com/awards/))

Most Anticipated Game: The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Independent Game: Cuphead (Studio MDHR)

Best Student Game: Level Squared (Kip Brennan, Stephen Scoglio, Dane Perry Svendsen; Swinburne University of Technology)

Trending Gamer: Guy Beahm (Dr. Disrespect)

Best eSports Game: Overwatch (Blizzard)

Best eSports Player: Lee sang-hyeok „Faker” (SK Telecom 1, League of Legends)

Best eSports Team: Cloud 9

Best Debut Indie Game: Cuphead (Studio MDHR)

Best Chinese Game: Jx3 HD (Kingsoft Corporation)

 

Congratulations to the winners. Multiple games are either a PlayStation 4-exclusive or a console-exclusive on Sony’s platform, such as NieR: Automata, Persona 5 (although this one is out on PS3, too), and The Last of Us Part II.

Source: the event’s website