The Game Awards was founded in 2014 by media entrepreneur Geoff Keighley, who also hosts and produces the program. The sixth annual Game Awards was run and won today with social media going nuts with updates and congratulatory posts as we saw winners crowned in more than 25 different categories. There were also a heap of game announcements, world premiers of new games coming in 2020 and one of the bigger announcements of the day, the Xbox Series X coming next year!! I’ll cover those later in a more detailed Game Awards post later on.
Without further ado, here are the Game Awards 2019 Winners. Congratulations to all nominees and the eventual winners (in bold). If you’d like to watch the replay of the evening in full, head over to the official site.
Game of the Year
Control (Remedy / 505 Games)
Death Stranding (Kojima Productions / SIE)
Resident Evil 2 (Capcom)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software / Activision)
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Sora / Bandai Namco / Nintendo)
The Outer Worlds (Obsidian / Private Division)
Action Game
Apex Legends (Respawn / EA)
Astral Chain (Platinum Games / Nintendo)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward / Activision)
Devil May Cry 5 (Capcom)
Gears 5 (The Coalition / Xbox Game Studios)
Metro Exodus (4A Games / Deep Silver)
Action/Adventure Game
Borderlands 3 (Gearbox / 2K)
Control (Remedy / 505 Games)
Death Stranding (Kojima Productions / SIE)
Resident Evil 2 (Capcom)
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Grezzo / Nintendo)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software / Activision)
Art Direction
Control (Remedy / 505 Games)
Death Stranding (Kojima Productions / SIE)
GRIS (Nomada Studio / Devolver Digital)
Sayonara Wild Hearts (Simogo / Annapurna)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software / Activision)
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Grezzo / Nintendo)
Audio Design
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward / Activision)
Control (Remedy / 505 Games)
Death Stranding (Kojima Productions / SIE)
Gears 5 (The Coalition / Xbox Game Studios)
Resident Evil 2 (Capcom)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software / Activision)
Community Support
Apex Legends (Respawn / EA)
Destiny 2 (Bungie)
Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
Content Creator of the Year
Courage (Jack Dunlop)
Dr. Lupo (Benjamin Lupo)
Ewok (Soleil Wheeler)
Grefg (David Martínez)
Shroud (Michael Grzesiek)
Esports Coach
Eric ‘Adren’ Hoag (Team Liquid, CS:GO)
Nu-ri “Cain” Jang (Team Liquid, LOL)
Fabian ‘Grabbz’ Lohmann (G2 Esports, LOL)
Kim ‘Kkoma’ Jeong-Gyun (SK Telecom T1, LOL)
Titouan ‘Sockshka’ Merloz (OG, DOTA2
Danny ‘Zonic’ Sorensen (Astralis, CS:GO)
Esports Event
2019 Overwatch League Grand Finals
Evo 2019
Fortnite World Cup
IEM Katowice 2019
League of Legends World Championship 2019
The International 2019
Esports Game of the Year
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
DOTA2 (Valve)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
League of Legends (Riot Games)
Overwatch (Blizzard)
Esports Host
Esports Player
Kyle ‘Bugha’ Giersdorf (Sentinels, Fortnite)
Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-Hyeok (SK Telecon, League of Legends)
Luka ‘Perkz’ Perkovic (G2 Esports, League of Legends)
Oleksandr ‘S1mple’ Kostyliev (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)
Jay ‘Sinatraa’ Won (SF Shock, Overwatch)
Esports Team
Astralis (CS:GO)
G2 Esports (LOL)
OG (DOTA2)
San Francisco Shock (OWL)
Team Liquid (CS: GO)
Eefje “Sjokz” Depoortere
Alex “Machine” Richardson
Paul “Redeye” Chaloner
Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez
Duan “Candice” Yu-Shuang
Family Game
Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Next Level Games / Nintendo)
Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Sora / Bandai Namco / Nintendo)
Yoshi’s Crafted World (Good-Feel / Nintendo)
Fighting Game
Dead or Alive 6 (Team Ninja / Koei Tecmo)
Jump Force (Spike Chunsoft / Bandai Namco)
Mortal Kombat 11 (Netherrealm / WBIE)
Samurai Shodown (SNK / Athlon)
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Sora / Bandai Namco / Nintendo)
Fresh Indie Game
Disco Elysium (ZA/UM)
Gris (Nomada Studio)
My Friend Pedro (Deadtoast Entertainment)
Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital)
Slay the Spire (Mega Crit)
Untitled Goose Game (House House)
Game Direction
Control (Remedy / 505 Games)
Death Stranding (Kojima Productions / SIE)
Resident Evil 2 (Capcom)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software / Activision)
Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital / Annapurna)
Games for Impact
Concrete Genie (Pixelopus / SIE)
GRIS (Nomada Studio / Devolver Digital)
Kind Words (Popcannibal)
Life is Strange 2 (Dontnod / Square Enix)
Sea of Solitude (Jo-Mei Games / EA)
Independent Game
Baba is You (Hempuli)
Disco Elysium (ZA/UM)
Katana Zero (Askiisoft / Devolver Digital)
Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital / Annapurna)
Untitled Goose Game (House House / Panic)
Mobile Game
Call of Duty: Mobile (Timi Studios / Activision)
Grindstone (Capybara Games)
Sayonara Wild Hearts (Simogo / Annapurna)
Sky: Children of the Light (ThatGameCompany)
What the Golf? (Triband)
Multiplayer Game
Apex Legends (Respawn / EA)
Borderlands 3 (Gearbox / 2K)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/ Activision)
Tetris 99 (Arika / Nintendo)
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 (Massive Entertainment / Ubisoft)
Narrative
A Plague Tale: Innocence (Asobo / Focus Home)
Control (Remedy / 505 Games)
Death Stranding (Kojima Productions / SIE)
Disco Elysium (ZA/UM)
The Outer Worlds (Obsidian / Private Division)
Ongoing Game
Apex Legends (Respawn / EA)
Destiny 2 (Bungie)
Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
Performance
Ashly Burch as Parvati Holcomb (The Outer Worlds)
Courtney Hope as Jesse Faden (Control)
Laura Bailey as Kait Diaz (Gears 5)
Mads Mikkelsen as Cliff (Death Stranding)
Matthew Porretta as Dr. Casper Darling (Control)
Norman Reedus as Sam Porter Bridges (Death Stranding)
Roleplaying Game
Disco Elysium (ZA/UM)
Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
Kingdom Hearts III (Square Enix)
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne (Capcom)
The Outer Worlds (Obsidian / Private Division)
Score and Music
Cadence of Hyrule (Brace Yourself Games / Nintendo)
Death Stranding (Kojima Productions / SIE)
Devil May Cry 5 (Capcom)
Kingdom Hearts III (Square Enix)
Sayonara Wild Hearts (Simogo / Annapurna)
Sports/Racing Game
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (Beenox / Activision)
Dirt Rally 2.0 (Codemasters / Deep Silver)
eFootball Pro Evolution Soccer 2020 (PES Productions / Konami)
F1 2019 (Codemasters / Deep Silver)
FIFA 20 (EA Sports)
Strategy Game
Age of Wonders: Planetfall (Triumph Studios / Paradox)
ANNO 1800 (Blue Byte / Ubisoft)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Intelligent Systems / Koei Tecmo / Nintendo)
Total War: Three Kingdoms (Creative Assembly / SEGA)
Tropico 6 (Limbic Entertainment / Kalypso Media)
Wargroove (Chucklefish)
VR/AR Game
Asgard’s Wrath (Sanzaru Games / Oculus Studios)
Blood & Truth (SIE London Studio / SIE)
Beat Saber (Beat Games)
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
Trover Saves the Universe (Squanch Games)
So there you have it, it’s been an awesome year in gaming and 2020 is already looking to be chock full of amazing games. Keep an eye out for my post later covering some of the announcements made at the Game Awards 2019.
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