Last night marked the second annual Game Awards show, produced and hosted by well-known gaming personality Geoff Keighley. The show is meant to be a celebration of video games, honoring this past year’s accomplishments in many different ways, be it the best of a genre, best developer, or best performance from an actor in a game. However, the show also brings about numerous world premieres for new games, so here’s a list of everything that was announced during The Game Awards 2015.
- Before the show officially started, a few world premieres were shown, including a new DLC for Goat Simulator called “New Super Secret DLC”
- Also premiered was Dim Bulb Games’ first project, Where The Water Tastes Like Wine
- Kung Fury: Street Rage has been updated to include new content and characters, free update called “The Arcade Strikes Back”
- Rise of the Tomb Raider is getting its first DLC in January, called “Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch”
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End has a new trailer, with a new character introduced. You can read more here
- TRON RUN/r was announced and subsequently released on Steam Early Access. You can read more here
- Shaquille O’Neal came on stage to debut a new trailer for Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn, as well as debuting a new esports league
- Telltale revealed that their next big project is based on DC Comics’ Batman, actual title pending
- A gameplay trailer for Farcry Primal was premiered
- I never thought I’d see the day: Psychonauts 2 was announced and is being crowdfunded on fig
- New trailer was shown for Quantum Break
- Rock Band VR was announced in collaboration with Oculus
- Shadow Complex Remastered was revealed and is coming to Xbox One and PS4, available right now for PC and free for the holidays
- Rocket League is making its way to Xbox One in February 2016, complete with exclusive Gears of War and Halo themed battle-cars
- A teaser for the next Halo 5: Guardians update was shown
- Also shown was a new trailer for Star Citizen
- Standalone 3-episode mini-series, The Walking Dead: Michonne, received a trailer and was delayed to February 2016
In addition to all of the announcements and awards (of which, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt hit big with 3 awards, including Game of the Year), there were several big moments of interest, such as Westwood Studios receiving the Industry Icon Award, a heartfelt speech given by Greg Miller (thanks IGN), a performance of “Quiet’s Theme” from Stefanie Joosten (following some major Konami hate), and a moving tribute to the late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. If you’d like to watch the entire show, be sure to check out the video below.
Winners:
- Game of the Year – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Developer of the Year – CD Projekt Red
- Best Independent Game – Rocket League
- Best Handheld/Mobile Game – Lara Croft GO
- Best Narrative – Her Story
- Best Score/Soundtrack – Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Best Performance – Viva Seifert,
The Witcher 3: Wild HuntHer Story - Best Shooter – Splatoon
- Best Action/Adventure – Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Best RPG – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Best Fighting Game – Mortal Kombat X
- Best Family Game – Super Mario Maker
- Best Sports/Racing Game – Rocket League
- Best Multiplayer – Splatoon
- Best Art Direction – Ori and the Blind Forest
- Games for Change – Life is Strange
- Most Anticipated Game – No Man’s Sky
- Trending Gamer – Greg Miller
- Best Fan Creation – Portal Stories: Mel
- ESports Game of the Year – Counter Strike: Global Offensive
- ESports Team of the Year – OpTic Gaming
- ESports Player of the Year – Kenny “KennyS” Schrub, Team EnVyUs
