The Game Awards 2016: Winners and New Contenders

All of the milestones of this year’s event.

The Game Awards is over and we have some results to think about. The best games of 2016 were announced and some new games that might fight for the prizes in the coming years revealed. Let’s wrap up the results of Geoff Keighley‘s show.

GAME OF THE YEAR

It is now official – Overwatch by Blizzard Entertainment is the best game of this year according to The Game Awards 2016. You can love or you can hate it, but its tactical marvelousness won’t disappear anytime soon.

New trailer for The Legend of Zelda:

BEST STUDIO/GAME DIRECTION

Blizzard Entertainment (for Overwatch)

And a let’s play video for a Nintendo’s game:

BEST NARRATIVE

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Rocket League goes to space with its newest arena:

BEST ART DIRECTION

Inside (Playdead)

Bulletstorm gets a remake with a new Full Clip Edition:

BEST MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN

That one is quite right. Mick Gordon is the mastermind behind Doom’s soundtrack.

New Warframe trailer:

BEST PERFORMANCE

The last story of Nathan Drake in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End was amazing and of the reason for its awesomeness was an astonishing performance by Nolan North.

Mads Mikkelsen shines bright in a new teaser trailer of Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding. It looks like we have a new winner: