Game Awards Winners 2024 List

The 2024 Sport Awards are within the books and a tiny little robotic has come out on prime of the large awards present.

Hosted by gaming {industry} star Geoff Keighley out of the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, the occasion lined 29 aggressive classes, together with Sport of the 12 months. The video games that have been up for that prime honor embody “Astro Bot” (which took house the prize), “Balatro,” “Black Fable: Wukong,” “Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree,” “Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth,” and “Metaphor: ReFantazio.”

This yr marks the tenth anniversary of the awards present, and Keighley and the Sport Awards group promise huge surprises to return in the course of the night time, together with bulletins about video games coming in 2025 and past.

High reveals included new Naughty Canine sport franchise “Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet,” an “Okami” sequel, “It Takes Two” creator Hazelight Studios’ new sport “Cut up Fiction” and the brand new teaser trailer for “Borderlands 4.” Among the many different notable moments have been a primary have a look at “Mafia: The Outdated Nation,” the reveal of Warner Bros. cell sport “Sport of Thrones: Kingsroad,” the trailer for “The Witcher IV,” Wargaming’s announcement of contemporary IP “Metal Hunters,” and FromSoftware teasing new “Elden Ring” sport “Elden Ring Nightreign” coming in 2025.

Through the ceremony, Tencent’s Amir Satvat was honored with the present’s first-ever Gamechanger award for his effort in serving to builders hit by the gaming industry-wide layoffs this yr discover new work. Satvat mentioned in his acceptance speech there was a “staggering quantity of sport expertise eradicated” in 2024, estimating 34,000 jobs have been misplaced. “You possibly can’t make nice video games with out nice folks,” he mentioned.

The Gamers’ Voice award (which is chosen by way of open on-line vote vs. the greater than 130 media shops that select the Sport Awards winners) went to “Black Fable: Wukong.”

The 2024 Sport Awards are going down amid an ongoing strike by actors’ union SAG-AFTRA towards main online game publishers. SAG-AFTRA’s previous contract with the mega firms has expired they usually have but to return to phrases on a brand new take care of the key sticking level being the usage of generative AI.

See beneath for the winners listing, which Selection will likely be updating dwell all through the present.

Sport of the 12 months

ASTRO BOT (Crew Asobi/SIE) (WINNER)

Balatro (LocalThunk/Playstack)

Black Fable: Wukong (Sport Science)

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth (Sq. Enix)

Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega)

Finest Sport Course

ASTRO BOT (Crew Asobi/SIE) (WINNER)

Balatro (LocalThunk/Playstack)

Black Fable: Wukong (Sport Science)

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth (Sq. Enix)

Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega)

Finest Narrative

Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth (Sq. Enix)

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio/Sega)

Metaphor: ReFantanzio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega) (WINNER)

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II (Ninja Principle/Xbox Sport Studios)

Silent Hill 2 (Bloober Crew/Konami)

Finest Artwork Course

ASTRO BOT (Crew Asobi/SIE)

Black Fable: Wukong (Sport Science)

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega) (WINNER)

Neva (Nomada Studio/Devolver)

Finest Rating and Music

ASTRO BOT (Crew Asobi/SIE)

Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth (Sq. Enix) (WINNER)

Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega)

Silent Hill 2 (Bloober Crew/Konami)

Stellar Blade (Shift Up/SIE)

Finest Audio Design

ASTRO BOT (Crew Asobi/SIE)

Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch/Raven/Activision/Xbox)

Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth (Sq. Enix)

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (Ninja Principle/Xbox Sport Studios) (WINNER)

Silent Hill 2 (Bloober Crew/Konami)

Finest Efficiency

Briana White, Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth

Hannah Telle, Life is Unusual: Double Publicity

Humberly González, Star Wars Outlaws

Luke Roberts, Silent Hill 2

Melina Juergens, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (WINNER)

Innovation in Accessibility

Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch/Raven/Activision/Xbox)

Diablo IV (Blizzard/Xbox)

Dragon Age: The Veilguard (BioWare/EA)

Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft) (WINNER)

Star Wars Outlaws (Huge Leisure/Ubisoft)

Video games for Affect

Nearer the Distance (Osmotic Studios/Skybound Video games)

Indika (Odd Meter/11 Bit Studios)

Neva (Nomada Studio/Devolver) (WINNER)

Life is Unusual: Double Publicity (Deck 9/Sq. Enix)

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II (Ninja Principle/Xbox Sport Studios)

Tales of Kenzera: Zau (Surgent Studios/EA)

Finest Ongoing Sport

Future 2 (Bungie/SIE)

Diablo IV (Blizzard/Xbox)

Closing Fantasy XIV (Sq. Enix)

Fortnite (Epic Video games)

Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Sport Studios/SIE) (WINNER)

Finest Neighborhood Help

Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian) (WINNER)

Closing Fantasy XIV (Sq. Enix)

Fortnite (Epic Video games)

Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Sport Studios/SIE)

No Man’s Sky (Hiya Video games)

Finest Unbiased Sport

Animal Nicely (Shared Reminiscence/Bigmode)

Balatro (LocalThunk/Playstack) (WINNER)

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (Simogo/Annapurna Interactive)

Neva (Nomada Studio/Devolver)

UFO 50 (Mossmouth)

Finest Debut Indie Sport

Animal Nicely (Shared Reminiscence/Bigmode)

Balatro (LocalThunk/Playstack) (WINNER)

Manor Lords (Slavic Magic/Hooded Horse)

Pacific Drive (Ironwood Studios/Kepler Interactive)

The Plucky Squire (All Doable Futures/Devolver)

Finest Cellular Sport

AFK Journey (FARLIGHT/Lilith Video games)

Balatro (LocalThunk/Playstack) (WINNER)

Pokémon Buying and selling Card Sport Pocket (Creatures Inc/TPCI)

Wuthering Waves (Kuro Video games)

Zenless Zone Zero (miHoYo)

Finest VR/AR Sport

Arizona Sunshine Remake (Vertigo Video games)

Asgard’s Wrath 2 (Sanzaru Video games/Oculus Studios)

Batman: Arkham Shadow (Camouflaj/Oculus Studios) (WINNER)

Metallic: Hellsinger VR (Lab 42/The Outsiders/Funcom)

Metro Awakening (Vertigo Video games)

Finest Motion Sport 

Black Fable: Wukong (Sport Science) (WINNER)

Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch/Raven/Activision/Xbox)

Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Sport Studios/SIE)

Stellar Blade (Shift Up/SIE)

Warhammer 40,000: House Marine 2 (Saber Interactive/Focus Leisure)

Finest Motion/Journey Sport

ASTRO BOT (Crew Asobi/SIE) (WINNER)

Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft)

Silent Hill 2 (Bloober Crew/Konami)

Star Wars Outlaws (Huge Leisure/Ubisoft)

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge (Grezzo/Nintendo)

Finest RPG

Dragon’s Dogma 2 (Capcom)

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth (Sq. Enix)

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio/Sega)

Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega) (WINNER)

Finest Preventing Sport

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO (Spike Chunsoft/Bandai Namco)

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising (Arc System Works/Cygames)

Marvel vs Capcom Preventing Assortment: Arcade Classics (Capcom)

MultiVersus (Participant First Video games/WB Video games)

Tekken 8 (Bandai Namco) (WINNER)

Finest Household Sport

ASTRO BOT (Crew Asobi/SIE) (WINNER)

Princess Peach: Showtime! (Good-Really feel/Nintendo)

Tremendous Mario Celebration Jamboree (Nintendo Dice/Nintendo)

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge (Grezzo/Nintendo)

The Plucky Squire (All Doable Futures/Devolver)

Finest Sim/Technique Sport

Age of Mythology: Retold (World’s Edge/Forgotten Empires/Xbox Sport Studios)

Frostpunk 2 (11 Bit Studios) (WINNER)

Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (Capcom)

Manor Lords (Slavic Magic/Hooded Horse)

Unicorn Overlord (Vanillaware/Sega/Atlus)

Finest Sports activities/Racing Sport

F1 24 (Codemasters/EA Sports activities)

EA Sports activities FC 25 (EA Vancouver/EA Romania/EA Sports activities) (WINNER)

NBA 2K25 (Visible Ideas/2K)

High Spin 2K25 (Hangar 13/2K)

WWE 2K24 (Visible Ideas/2K)

Finest Multiplayer Sport

Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch/Raven/Activision/Xbox)

Helldivers 2 (Arrow Sport Studios/SIE) (WINNER)

Tremendous Mario Celebration Jamboree (Nintendo Dice/Nintendo)

Tekken 8 (Bandai Namco)

Warhammer 40,000: House Marine 2 (Saber Interactive/Focus Leisure)

Finest Adaptation

Arcane (Riot/Fortiche/Netflix) 

Fallout (Bethesda/Kilter Movies/Amazon MGM Studios) (WINNER)

Knuckles (Sega/Paramount)

Like a Dragon: Yakuza (Sega/Amazon MGM Studios)

Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft (Crystal Dynamics/Legendary/Netflix)

Most Anticipated Sport

Demise Stranding 2: On the Seaside (Kojima Productions/SIE)

Ghost of Yōtei (Sucker Punch Productions/SIE)

Grand Theft Auto VI (Rockstar Video games) (WINNER)

Metroid Prime 4: Past (Retro Studios/Nintendo)

Monster Hunter Wilds (Capcom)

Content material Creator of the 12 months

CaseOh (WINNER)

IlloJuan 

Techno Gamerz

TypicalGamer

Usada Pekora

Finest Esports Sport

Counter-Strike 2 (Valve)

DOTA 2 (Valve)

League of Legends (Riot Video games) (WINNER)

Cellular Legends: Bang Bang (Moonton)

Valorant (Riot Video games)

Finest Esports Athlete

33 – Neta Shapira

Aleksib – Aleksi Virolainen

Chovy – Jeong Ji-hoon

Faker – Lee Sang-hyeok (WINNER)

ZyWoO – Mathieu Herbaut

ZmjjKk – Zheng Yongkang

Finest Esports Crew

Bilibili Gaming (League of Legends)

Gen.G (League of Legends)

NAVI (Counter-Strike)

T1 (League of Legends) (WINNER)

Crew Liquid (DOTA 2)