Overwatch won top honors at this year’s The Game Awards.
This year’s The Game Awards had some really cool stuff, like a live action performance of the Doom soundtrack and some exclusive new gameplay footage, but it is, of course, an awards show, and every awards show has a winner. This year, Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch took top honors, beating out Doom, Inside, Titanfall 2, and Uncharted 4.
Here’s the full list of winners:
- Best Mobile and Handheld Game: Pokemon GO
- Best Family Game: Pokemon GO
- Games For Impact Award: That Dragon Cancer
- Best Independent Game: Inside
- Best Multiplayer Game: Overwatch
- Best Esports Game: Overwatch
- Best Action-Adventure Game: Dishonored 2
- Best Action Game: Doom
- Best VR Game: Rez Infinite
- Best Fighting Game: Street Fighter V
- Best RPG: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood & Wine
- Best Strategy Game: Civilization VI
- Best Sports/Racing Game: Forza Horizon 3
- Best Game Direction: Overwatch
- Best Art Direction: Inside
- Best Narrative: Uncharted 4
- Best Esports Team: Cloud9
- Best Esports player: Marcelo “Coldzera” David (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
- Best Performance: Nolan North, Uncharted 4
- Best Music/Sound Design: Doom
- Trending Gamer: Boogie2988
- Most Anticipated Game: The Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
“While we’ve been very happy with how the game has been received, we’re also extremely proud that this game and the world that we’re building has a message and it’s a message about heroism. It’s a message about diversity. It’s a message about a bright and positive and hopeful future. And these are all things that we really believe everyone needs a little bit of right now,” said Blizzard’s Ray Gresko.
