All winners and biggest reveals : NPR

All winners and biggest reveals : NPR

The titular Astro Bot looms over an orchestra enjoying a medley from the soundtracks to the six Sport of the 12 months nominees.

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The Sport Awards

For a spherical up of our favorites of 2024, try NPR’s Video games We Love.

Astro Bot claimed 4 wins, together with Sport of the 12 months, on the 2024 Sport Awards.

The PlayStation 5 unique has gamers run, hover-jump, and rocket-blast to gather stranded robots throughout a cartoony galaxy. Whereas the sport celebrates three a long time of Sony’s console historical past, Studio Director Nicolas Doucet credited Nintendo in a misty-eyed acceptance speech (although he prevented mentioning the competitor by title):

“I used to be a child in 1989, I obtained a grey field and there was a sport packed in — it was referred to as Tremendous Mario Brothers and it was actually, actually nice,” stated Doucet. “I wish to pay tribute to the corporate who actually confirmed us innovation and high quality persistently, and impressed us to make the sport that we made.”

Nintendo, in the meantime, went house empty-handed after an evening outlined by sweeps, shock reveals, fourth-wall breaks and movie star appearances from the likes of Harrison Ford and Snoop Dogg.

Only a sampling of the various Jokers of Balatro, winner of three prizes at The Sport Awards.

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Balatro, a poker-style sport from solo-developer LocalThunk, received “Greatest Debut Indie,” “Greatest Impartial Sport” and “Greatest Cell Sport.” Regardless of this dominance, the consultant who accepted awards on LocalThunk’s behalf tried to shout out the indie scene extra broadly, calling out pixel western Arco by title.

Massive-budget video games in any other case stole the highlight. The ceremony started with an official reveal trailer for The Witcher 4 and the shock announcement of Elden Ring: Nightreign, a co-op spinoff to the 2022 hit. The studio head behind 2021 Sport of the 12 months winner It Takes Two additionally unveiled the two-player journey Break up Fiction, out subsequent March.

Breaking Unhealthy‘s Aaron Paul and famend voice actor Laura Bailey confirmed off the following sport they carried out in: a tongue-in-cheek superhero story named Dispatch. And simply when the present appeared recent out of revelations, The Final of Us developer Naughty Canine dropped a cinematic trailer for a completely new franchise, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

Host Geoff Keighley additionally acknowledged mass layoffs within the trade — one thing critics lambasted him for ignoring in 2023’s ceremony. He even introduced a brand new “Gamechanger Award,” which went to Amir Satvat, an worker of gaming tycoon Tencent who additionally runs a pro-bono help website for builders searching for work.

Muppet critics Statler and Waldorf mock the proceedings at The Sport Awards.

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Nevertheless it would not be The Sport Awards with out the Muppets. Garrulous grumps Statler and Waldorf co-opted frequent criticisms of the awards in a sequence of working gags. After one rapid-fire battery of bulletins, they jabbed that “it was like the sport commercials with award interruptions!”. However as the published stretched towards its fourth hour, in addition they expressed the exhaustion many within the viewers appeared to be feeling, “my Ultimate Fantasy is for this present to be over.”

Most embellished video games

Astro Bot — 4 wins (together with Sport of the 12 months), 7 nominations

Metaphor: ReFantazio — 3 wins, 6 nominations

Balatro — 3 wins, 5 nominations

Black Fable: Wukong — 2 wins, 5 nominations

Helldivers 2 — 2 wins, 4 nominations

Senua’s Sage: Hellblade 2 — 2 wins (together with lead actor Melina Juergens’ win for Greatest Efficiency), 4 nominations

A screenshot from Elden Ring: Nightreign — shock introduced at The Sport Awards.

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A fast observe earlier than itemizing the total winners: NPR is likely one of the greater than 130 retailers that contributed ballots to The Sport Awards, which picked winners based mostly on these tallies and an open on-line voting system.

Full Winners

Sport of the 12 months

  • WINNER: Astro Bot
  • Balatro
  • Black Fable: Wukong
  • Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
  • Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio

Greatest Sport Course

  • WINNER: Astro Bot 
  • Balatro
  • Black Fable: Wukong
  • Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
  • Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio

Greatest Narrative

  • WINNER: Metaphor: ReFantanzio
  • Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth
  • Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
  • Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
  • Silent Hill 2

Greatest Artwork Course

  • WINNER: Metaphor: ReFantazio
  • Astro Bot
  • Black Fable: Wukong
  • Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
  • Neva

Greatest Rating and Music

  • WINNER: Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth 
  • Astro Bot
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio
  • Silent Hill 2
  • Stellar Blade

Greatest Audio Design

  • WINNER: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2  
  • Astro Bot
  • Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6
  • Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth
  • Silent Hill 2

Greatest Efficiency

  • WINNER: Melina Juergens, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
  • Hannah Telle, Life is Unusual: Double Publicity
  • Briana White, Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth
  • Humberly González, Star Wars Outlaws
  • Luke Roberts, Silent Hill 2

Innovation in Accessibility

  • WINNER: Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown
  • Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6
  • Diablo 4
  • Dragon Age: The Veilguard
  • Star Wars Outlaws

Video games for Affect

  • WINNER: Neva
  • Nearer the Distance
  • Indika
  • Life is Unusual: Double Publicity
  • Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
  • Tales of Kenzera: Zau

Greatest Ongoing Sport

  • WINNER: Helldivers 2
  • Future 2
  • Diablo 4
  • Ultimate Fantasy 14
  • Fortnite

Greatest Neighborhood Assist

  • WINNER: Baldur’s Gate 3
  • Ultimate Fantasy 14
  • Fortnite
  • Helldivers 2
  • No Man’s Sky

Greatest Impartial Sport

  • WINNER: Balatro
  • Animal Effectively
  • Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
  • Neva
  • UFO 50

Greatest Debut Indie Sport

  • WINNER: Balatro
  • Animal Effectively
  • Manor Lords
  • Pacific Drive
  • The Plucky Squire

Greatest Cell Sport

  • WINNER: Balatro
  • AFK Journey
  • Pokémon Buying and selling Card Sport Pocket
  • Wuthering Waves
  • Zenless Zone Zero

Greatest VR/AR Sport

  • WINNER: Batman: Arkham Shadow 
  • Arizona Sunshine Remake
  • Asgard’s Wrath 2
  • Steel: Hellsinger VR
  • Metro Awakening

Greatest Motion Sport

  • WINNER: Black Fable: Wukong
  • Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6
  • Helldivers 2
  • Stellar Blade
  • Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine 2

Greatest Motion/Journey Sport

  • WINNER: Astro Bot
  • Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown
  • Silent Hill 2
  • Star Wars Outlaws
  • The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge

Greatest RPG

  • WINNER: Metaphor: ReFantazio
  • Dragon’s Dogma 2
  • Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
  • Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth
  • Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Greatest Preventing Sport

  • WINNER: Tekken 8 
  • Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
  • Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO 
  • Marvel vs Capcom Preventing Assortment: Arcade Classics 
  • MultiVersus 

Greatest Household Sport

  • WINNER: Astro Bot
  • Princess Peach: Showtime!
  • Tremendous Mario Social gathering Jamboree
  • The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge
  • The Plucky Squire

Greatest Sim/Technique Sport

  • WINNER: Frostpunk 2 
  • Age of Mythology: Retold 
  • Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess 
  • Manor Lords 
  • Unicorn Overlord

Greatest Sports activities/Racing Sport

  • WINNER: EA Sports activities FC 25
  • F1 24
  • NBA 2K25
  • Prime Spin 2K25
  • WWE 2K24

Greatest Multiplayer Sport

  • WINNER: Helldivers 2
  • Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6
  • Tremendous Mario Social gathering Jamboree
  • Tekken 8
  • Warhammer 40K: Area Marine 2

Greatest Adaptation

  • WINNER: Fallout
  • Arcane
  • Knuckles
  • Like a Dragon: Yakuza
  • Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft

Most Anticipated Sport

  • WINNER: Grand Theft Auto 6
  • Demise Stranding 2: On the Seaside
  • Ghost of Yotei
  • Metroid Prime 4: Past
  • Monster Hunter Wilds

Content material Creator of the 12 months

  • WINNER: CaseOh
  • IlloJuan
  • Techno Gamerz
  • TypicalGamer
  • Usada Pekora

Greatest Esports Sport

  • WINNER: League of Legends
  • DOTA 2
  • Counter-Strike 2
  • Cell Legends: Bang Bang
  • Valorant

Greatest Esports Athlete

  • WINNER: Faker – Lee Sang-hyeok
  • 33 – Neta Shapira
  • Aleksib – Aleksi Virolainen
  • Chovy – Jeong Ji-hoon
  • ZyWoO – Mathieu Herbaut
  • ZmjjKk – Zheng Yongkang

Greatest Esports Crew

  • WINNER: T1 (League of Legends)
  • Bilibili Gaming (League of Legends)
  • Gen.G (League of Legends)
  • NAVI (Counter-Strike)
  • Crew Liquid (DOTA 2)

Participant’s Voice

  • WINNER: Black Fable: Wukong
  • Genshin Affect
  • Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
  • Wuthering Waves
  • Zenless Zone Zero