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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
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.