The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards

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Nintendo won quite a few accolades at The Game Awards tonight, and its crowning achievement was the Game of the Year Award for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Breath of the Wild also won the Best Game Direction Award and the Best Action/Adventure Game Award. It was nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Score/Music but lost out to Studio MDHR’s Cuphead and Platinum Games’s Nier: Automata respectively.

Below are all the awards and winners that were announced at tonight’s award show.

Industry Icon

• Carol Shaw

 Game of the Year

• Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Persona 5 (Atlus)
• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corp.)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Best Game Direction

• Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games)
• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Capcom)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD)
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (MachineGames/Bethesda)

Best Narrative

• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Tameem Antoniades, Elizabeth Ashman-Rowe/Ninja Theory)
• Horizon: Zero Dawn (John Gonzalez/Ninja Theory)
• Nier: Automata (Yoko Taro, Hana Kikuchi, Yoshiho Akabane/Platinum Games)
• What Remains of Edith Finch (Ian Dallas/Giant Sparrow)
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Jen Matthies, Tommy Tordsson Bjork/MachineGames)

Best Art Direction

• Cuphead (Studio MDHR Entertainment)
• Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision)
• Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Persona 5 (Atlus)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Best Score/Music

• Cuphead (Kristofer Maddigan)
• Destiny 2 (Mike Salvatori, Skye Lewin, C Paul Johnson)
• Nier: Automata (Keiichi Okabe, Keigo Hoashi)
• Persona 5 (Shoji Meguro)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii, Koji Kondo)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata)

Best Performance

• Ashly Burch, Horizon: Zero Dawn (As Aloy)
• Brian Bloom, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (as BJ Blazkowicz)
• Claudia Black, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (as Chloe Frazer)
• Laura Bailey, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (as Nadine Ross)
• Melina Juergens, Hellblade (as Senua)

Games for Impact

• Bury Me, My Love (The Pixel Hunt/Figs/ARTE / Playdius)
• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory)
• Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Deck Nine/Square Enix)
• Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
• Please Knock on My Door (Levall Games AB)
• What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow/Annapurna Interactive)

Best Ongoing Game

• Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision)
• Grand Theft Auto Online (Rockstar Games)
• Overwatch (Blizzard)
• Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG. Corp)
• Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• Warframe (Digital Extremes)

Best Mobile Game

• Fire Emblem Heroes (Intelligent Systems / Nintendo)
• Hidden Folks (Adriaan de Jongh/Sylvain Tegroeg)
• Monument Valley 2 (ustwo games)
• Old Man’s Journey (Broken Rules)
• Super Mario Run (Nintendo)

Best Handheld Game

• Ever Oasis (Grezzo/Nintendo)
• Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)
• Metroid: Samus Returns (MercurySteam/Nintendo)
• Monster Hunter Stories (Marvelous / Capcom/Nintendo)
• Poochy and Yoshi’s Woolly World (Good-Feel/Nintendo)

Best VR/AR Game

• Farpoint (Impulse Gear/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Lone Echo (Ready at Dawn/Oculus Studios)
• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Capcom)
• Star Trek: Bridge Crew (Red Storm Entertainment/Ubisoft)
• Superhot VR (Superhot Team)

Most Anticipated Game

• God of War (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Monster Hunter: World (Capcom)
• Red Dead Redemption II (Rockstar Games)
• The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Esports Game

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
• DOTA2 (Valve)
• League of Legends (Riot)
• Overwatch (Blizzard)
• Rocket League (Psyonix)

Best Esports Player

• Lee Sang-hyeok “Faker” (SK Telecom 1, League of Legends)
• Marcelo “coldzera” David (SK Gaming, Counter-Strike: GO)
• Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovac (FaZe Clan, Counter-Strike: GO)
• Je-hong “ryujehong” Ryu (Seoul Dynasty, Overwatch)
• Kuro “KuroKy” Salehi Takhasomi (Team Liquid, DOTA 2)

Best Esports Team (organization)

• Cloud 9
• FaZe Clan
• Lunatic-Hai
• SK Telecom T1
• Team Liquid

Student Game Award

• Falling Sky (Jonathan Nielssen, Nikolay Savoy, Mohsen Shah / National Film & TV School)
• From Light (Faffinabout / USC)
• Hollowed (Erin Marek, Jerrick Flores, Charley Choucard / University of Central Florida)
• Impulsion (Hugo Verger, Remi Bertrand, Maxime Lupinski / IIM)
• Level Squared (Kip Brennan, Stephen Scoglio, Dane Perry Svendsen / Swinburne University)
• Meaning (Hariz Yet / DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore)

Chinese Fan Game Award

• Honor of Kings《王者荣耀》 (Timi Studio Group)
• ICEY《艾希》(FantaBlade Network)
• Gumballs & Dungeons《不思议迷宫》(QcPlay Limited)
• jx3 HD《剑网3》重制版 (Kingsoft Corporation)
• Monument Valley 2《纪念碑谷2》(ustwo games)

Trending Gamer

• Guy Beahm (Dr. Disrepect)
• Steven Spohn (AbleGamers)
• Mike Grzesiek (Shroud)
• Clint Lexa (“Halfcoordinated”)
• Andrea Rene (What’s Good Games)

Best Sports/Racing Game

• Forza Motorsport 7 (Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Studios)
• FIFA 18 (EA Vancouver/EA)
• GT Sport (Polyphony Digital/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• NBA 2K18 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports)
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 (PES Productions/Konami)
• Project Cars (Slightly Mad Studios / Bandai Namco Entertainment)

Best Action Game

• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (MachineGames / Bethesda)
• Cuphead (Studio MDHR Entertainment)
• Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
• Nioh (Team Ninja / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Prey (Arkane / Bethesda)

Best Debut Indie Game

• Slime Rancher (Monomi Park)
• Mr. Shifty (Team Shifty)
• Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
• Golf Story (Sidebar Games)
• Hollow Knight (Team Cherry)

Best Role-Playing Game

• Persona 5 (Atlus)
• South Park: The Fractured But Whole (Ubisoft San Francisco / Ubisoft)
• Final Fantasy XV (Square-Enix Business Division 2 / Square-Enix)
• Divinity: Original Sin 2 (Larian Studios)
• NieR: Automata (Platinum Games / Square Enix)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Assassin’s Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Family Game

• Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• Splatoon 2 (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
• Sonic Mania (PagodaWest Games + Headcannon / Sega)
• Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris + Milan / Ubisoft)
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)

Best Strategy Game

• Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris + Milan / Ubisoft)
• XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (Firaxis Games / 2K)
• Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games)
• Total War: Warhammer II (Creative Assembly / Sega)
• Halo Wars 2 (Creative Assembly + 343 / Microsoft Studios)

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