Hey Gang! I watched this live last night but was too tired by the end of it to make this thread. I also debated doing it live but decided to just sit back and watch it! Also, we might as well make this thread the weekly discussion thread since it falls on a Friday. So have at it! What are you playing this week? What announcement did you like the most? What winners surprised you the most?
Anyway, here are the results:
- Game of the Year - Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best Game Direction - Alan Wake 2
- Best Narrative - Alan Wake 2
- Best Art Direction - Alan Wake 2
- Best Score and Music - Final Fantasy XVI, Composer Masayoshi Soken
- Best Audio Design - Hi-Fi Rush
- Best Performance - Niel Newbon, Baldur’s Gate 3
- Innovation in Accessibility - Forza Motorsport
- Games for Impact - Tchia
- Best Ongoing - Cyberpunk 2077
- Best Community Support - Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best Independent Game - Sea of Stars
- Best Debut Indie Game - Cocoon
- Best Mobile Game - Honkai: Star Rail
- Best VR / AR - Resident Evil Village VR Mode
- Best Action Game - Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Best Action / Adventure - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Best RPG - Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best Fighting - Street Fighter 6
- Best Family - Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Best Sim / Strategy - Pikmin 4
- Best Sports / Racing - Forza Motorsport
- Best Multiplayer - Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best Adaptation - The Last of Us
- Most Anticipated Game - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Content Creator of the Year - IronMouse
- Best Esports Game - Valorant
- Best Esports Athlete - Lee “Faker” Sang-Hyeok
- Best Esports Team - JD Gaming
- Best Esports Coach - Christine “Potter” Chi
- Best Esports Event - 2023 League of Legends World Championship
Here are the announcements:
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (Remake)
- Pony Island 2 Panda Circus (Featuring SungWon Cho aka ProZD)
- The Rise of the Golden Idol
- Usual June
- Harmonium the Musical
- Windblown (From the creator of Dead cells)
- Thrasher (From the creator of Thumper)
- Dave the Diver Dredge
- World of Goo 2
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
- Exodus (featuring Matthew McConaughey)
- God of War Ragnarok Valhalla FREE DLC (releasing December 12th, 2023, mixes GoW combat with elements of the Roguelike Genre)
- BIG WALK (from the makers of Untitled Goose Game)
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
- Kemuri (Project that doesn’t have a publisher yet)
- No Rest for the Wicked (from the creators of Ori)
- Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! Zero
- The Casting of Frank Stone (a single player game made by the team behind Death by Daylight)
- Visions of Mana
- Rise of the Ronin (made by PlayStation Studios’ Team Ninja)
- OD (Hideo Kojima’s new game and collaboration with Jordan Peele)
- OD interview with Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele
- Jurassic Park: Survival
- Rocket Racing (collaboration between Fortnite and Rocket League played inside of Fortnite)
- Black Myth: Wukong
- Suicide Squad
- Warframe: Whispers in the Walls
- Tales of Kenzera: ZAU
- Abubakar Salim Introduces Tales of Kenzera: ZAU (I’m including this one because it was especially heartfelt. He made the game for his dad who recently passed)
- Lost Records: Bloom and Rage
- The First Berserker: Khazan
- Honkai: Star Rail
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Marvel’s Blade (developed by Arcane)
- Marvel’s Blade Interview with Bill Rosemann, Dinga Bakaba
- Last Sentinel
- Last Sentinel Interview with Steve C. Martin
- The First Descendant
- Gtfo: The Final Chapter
- Den of Wolves
- Exoborne Master the Apocalypse
- Asgard’s Wrath 2
- Fallout: Amazon Series
- Light No Fire (from the creators of No Man’s Sky)
- Light No Fire Interview with Sean Murray and Geoff Keighley
- The Finals (SHADOW DROPPED - Available now!)
- Stormgate
- Monster Hunter Wilds
- Monster Hunter Wilds Interview with Ryozo Tsujimoto and Geoff Keighley
3 points
Still working my way through Alan Wake 2, with Baldur gate and so many more in line behind it…my backlog is going to become my deathbed list of regrets.
2 points
The DLC for GoW Ragnarok was a fun surprise.
