Love. Revenge. Happiness. Jealousy. Camaraderie. Great stories do more than move the player from A to B. The Best Storytelling award celebrates the games that engage our emotions with deft scripting and technical brilliance.
Developer: Suspicious Developments Inc Publisher: Suspicious Developments
Best Multiplayer Game celebrates the finest competitive and co-op experiences released in the last 12 months. Be they local split-screen, or massively multiplayer online experiences, these are games best-played with friends, enemies - or both.
Developer: Embark Studios Publisher: Embark Studios
Best Visual Design rewards technical brilliance and artistic flair. These are the games that push the limits of console or PC hardware, or that create coherent, immersive, worlds that we never want to leave, which burn bright in the memory long after we've finished playing.
Developer: Slow Bros. Publisher: Slow Bros.
Best Indie Game celebrates independent games from small-to-midsize developers spanning genres including puzzlers, tactical RPGs, adventure games, shooters… as well as those games that defy description. The best indie games unite imagination, style, and innovation with inventive, rewarding controls to reinvigorate your love of gaming.
Developer: Billy Basso Publisher: Bigmode
Best Indie Game - Self Published is a new category for games that have been developed and published by a small team or developer. The award recognises the increasingly broad definition of 'indie' games, with a special focus on teams without the financial or technical support of a larger games publisher; and titles entering markets less well served by traditional publishing.
Developer: Double Dagger Studio Publisher: Double Dagger Studio
Our Studio of the Year award celebrates the development team or studio of any scale that has produced exceptional titles or updates over the last 12 months, setting the bar for technical best-practice, community management and studio culture.
Best Game Expansion recognises a major game update or DLC expansion released in the last 12 months that significantly enhances the existing game experience and deserves adulation in its own right.
Developer: Remedy Entertainment Publisher: Epic Games Publishing
Best Audio Design recognises games with outstanding sound design that elevate the playing experience to leave a lasting impression.
Developer: Ninja Theory Publisher: Xbox Game Studios
Our Best Lead Performer award recognises the talented actors who delivered standout performances in video games over the past 12 months.
Senua, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
Our Best Supporting Performer award recognises the legendary thespians who delivered emphatic supporting roles in video games over the past 12 months.
The Furies, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
PC Game of the Year recognises games that were released exclusively on PC hardware - or that offered significant PC upgrades - and were released in the last 12 months.
Developer: LocalThunk Publisher: Playstack
Console Game of the Year shines a spotlight on the finest PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo titles of the last 12 months, with a special focus on exclusive games from first-party and third-party studios.
Developer: Team Asobi Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
Best Gaming Hardware spans consoles, PC components, accessories, controllers and more, recognising the tech that made class-leading enhancements in the last 12 months or created new ways to play. Which piece of hardware hit that sweet spot of design, functionality and desirability for you?
Our Best Game Trailer award celebrates the impactful, technically excellent or just downright surprising trailers of the past 12 months. In the age of digital showcases, the art of the game trailer is more important than ever, and we wish to cherish it.
Most Wanted Game is one of our most-coveted awards that recognises the game that you're looking forward to playing more than any other in the next 12 months and beyond. This could be a sequel, remake or original title… any game that sets your heart racing in anticipation.
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Developer: id Software Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Hangar 13 Publisher: 2K
Developer: Hello Games Publisher: Hello Games