>Game of The Year
Recognizing a game that delivers the absolute best experience across all creative and technical fields.

-The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
-Super Mario Odyssey
-PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (oh im raffin')
-Persona 5
-Horizon Zero Dawn

>Best Game Direction
Awarded to a game studio for outstanding creative vision and innovation in game direction and design.

-Wolfenstein II (what innovation)
-Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (what innovation)
-The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (what innovation)
-Super Mario Odyssey (what innovation)
-Horizon Zero Dawn (what innovation)

>Best Narrative
For outstanding storytelling and narrative development in a game.

-What Remains of Edith Finch
-NieR: Automata
-Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
-Wolfenstein II (what whitey, you dont think poop jokes are funny?)
-Horizon Zero Dawn

>Best Art Direction
For outstanding creative and/or technical achievement in artistic design and animation.

-Destiny 2
-Cuphead
-The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
-Persona 5
-Horizon Zero Dawn

>Best Score/Music
For outstanding music, inclusive of score, original song and/or licensed soundtrack

-Destiny 2
-Cuphead
-NieR: Automata
-The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
-Super Mario Odyssey
-Persona 5

>Best Audio Design
Recognizing the best in-game audio and sound design.

-Destiny 2
-Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
-Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
-The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
-Super Mario Odyssey

>Best Performance
Awarded to an individual for voice-over acting, motion and/or performance capture.

-Melina Juergens, Hellblade
-Laura Bailey, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (TheRockEyeroll.gif)
-Claudia Black, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
-Brian Bloom, Wolfenstein II
-Ashly Burch, Horizon: Zero Dawn

>Games for Impact
For a thought provoking game with a profound pro-social meaning or message

-Please Knock on My Door
-Night in the Woods
-Life is Strange: Before the Storm
-Bury Me, My Love
-What Remains of Edith Finch
-Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

>Best Ongoing Game
Awarded to a game for outstanding development of ongoing content that evolves the player experience over time

-Warframe
-Rainbow Six: Siege
-Overwatch
-Grand Theft Auto Online
-Destiny 2 (it JUST released???)
-PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

>Best Mobile Game
For the best game playable on a dedicated mobile device.

-Fire Emblem Heroes
-Super Mario Run
-Old Man’s Journey
-Monument Valley 2
-Hidden Folks

>Best Handheld Game
For the best game playable on a dedicated portable gaming system.

-Poochy and Yoshi’s Woolly World-
-Monster Hunter Stories
-Metroid: Samus Returns
-Ever Oasis
-Fire Emblem Heroes: Shadows of Valentia

>Best VR/AR Game
For the best game experience playable in virtual or augmented reality, irrespective of platform

-Superhot VR
-Star Trek: Bridge Crew
-Lone Echo / Echo Arena
-Farpoint
-Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

>Best Action Game
For the best game in the action genre focused on combat

-Prey
-Nioh
-Destiny 2
-Cuphead
-Wolfenstein II

>Best Action/Adventure Game
For the best action/adventure game, combining combat with traversal and puzzle solving

-Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
-Assassin’s Creed: Origins
-The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
-Super Mario Odyssey
-Horizon Zero Dawn
(Wouldnt Automata fit here?)

>Best Role Playing Game
For the best game designed with rich player character customization and progression, including massively multiplayer experiences.

-South Park: The Fractured But Whole
-Final Fantasy XV
-Divinity: Original Sin 2
-NieR: Automata
-Persona 5

>Best Fighting Game
For the best game designed primarily around head-to-head combat.

-Tekken 7
-Nidhogg 2
-Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
-Injustice 2
-ARMS

>Best Family Game
For the best game appropriate for family play, irrespective of genre or platform. (The nintendo category apparently)

-Splatoon 2
-Sonic Mania
-Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
-Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
-Super Mario Odyssey

>Best Strategy Game
Best game focused on real time or turn-based strategy gameplay, irrespective of platform.

-XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
-Tooth and Tail
-Total War: Warhammer II
-Halo Wars 2
-Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
(Divinity: Original Sin 2???)


>Best Sports/Racing Game
For the best traditional and non-traditional sports and racing game.

-Project Cars 2
-Pro Evolution Soccer 2018
-NBA 2K18
-GT Sport
-Forza Motorsport 7
-FIFA 18

>For outstanding online multiplayer gameplay and design, including co-op and massively multiplayer experiences, irrespective of game genre.

-Fortnite
-Call of Duty: World War II
-Splatoon 2
-Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
-Destiny 2
-PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
(Warframe???)

>Most Anticipated Game
Awarded to an upcoming game that has shown significant ambition and promise. Title must be announced and scheduled for release after December 7, 2017.

-The Last of Us Part II
-Red Dead Redemption II
-Monster Hunter: World
-Marvel’s Spider-Man
-God of War

>Best Independent Game
For outstanding creative and technical achievement in a game made outside the traditional publisher system.

-Pyre
-Night in the Woods
-Cuphead
-What Remains of Edith Finch
-Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

>Best Student Game
Awarded the best student project created at the high school or college level.

-Meaning
-Level Squared
-Impulsion
-Falling Sky
-Hollowed
-From Light

>Trending Gamer
For a streamer, influencer or media member who has made an important impact on the industry this calendar year.

-Steven Spohn
AbleGamers
-Mike Grzesiek
Shroud
-Guy Beahm
Dr. Disrepect
-Clint Lexa
“Halfcoordinated”
-Andrea Rene
What’s Good Games

>Best Esports Game
For the game that has delivered the best overall eSports experience to players (inclusive of tournaments, community support and content updates), irrespective of genre or platform.

-Rocket League (what eSports scene)
-League of Legends
-DOTA2
-Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
-Overwatch (not even a proper spectator yet)

>Best Debut Indie Game
Recognizing a new independent studio that released its first game in 2017. Winner selected by fan voting.

-Slime Rancher
-Mr. Shifty
-Hollow Knight
-Golf Story
-Cuphead

Game of The Year: Super Mario Odyssey (Only one of these games I've played is fucking PUBG and there is no way that game should be anywhere near this award. SMO seems to be universally acclaimed with both critics and fans so I'm defaulting to that)
Best Game Direction: Dunno
Best Narrative: Dunno, Wolfenstein II is just a rehash of the first as far as narrative goes
Best Art Direction: Destiny 2 (One of the few things Bungie has been getting right since the franchise started)
Best Score/Music: Destiny 2
Best Audio Design: Destiny 2
Best Performance: Brian Bloom (Dunno about the others but Laura Bailey is Laura Bailey, good enough to not be shit but nothing outstanding)
Games for Impact: Don't care
Best Ongoing Game: Only two of these games came out this year and one of them is an early access game while the other hasn't been out long enough to make a good judgement.
Best Mobile Game: Don't care
Best Handheld Game: Don't care
Best VR/AR Game: Don't care
Best Action Game: Destiny 2
Best Action/Adventure Game: Dunno
Best Role Playing Game: South Park (only one I've played and it's great)
Best Fighting Game: Don't care
Best Family Game: Haven't played any
Best Strategy Game XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (Technically not a game, but has enough content to be and is absolutely brilliant)
Best Sports/Racing Game: Don't care
Best Multiplayer: Destiny 2
Most Anticipated Game: Red Dead Redemption II
Best Independent Game: Cuphead
Best Student Game: Dunno
Trending Gamer: Flee
Best Esports Game: Don't care
Best Debut Indie Game: Cuphead