Overwatch Takes Home GOTY At The Game Awards

Overwatch won top honors at this year’s The Game Awards.

This year’s The Game Awards had some really cool stuff, like a live action performance of the Doom soundtrack and some exclusive new gameplay footage, but it is, of course, an awards show, and every awards show has a winner. This year, Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch took top honors, beating out Doom, Inside, Titanfall 2, and Uncharted 4.

Here’s the full list of winners:

• Best Mobile and Handheld Game: Pokemon GO
• Best Family Game: Pokemon GO
• Games For Impact Award: That Dragon Cancer
• Best Independent Game: Inside
• Best Multiplayer Game: Overwatch
• Best Esports Game: Overwatch
• Best Action-Adventure Game: Dishonored 2
• Best Action Game: Doom
• Best VR Game: Rez Infinite
• Best Fighting Game: Street Fighter V
• Best RPG: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood & Wine
• Best Strategy Game: Civilization VI
• Best Sports/Racing Game: Forza Horizon 3
• Best Game Direction: Overwatch
• Best Art Direction: Inside
• Best Narrative: Uncharted 4
• Best Esports Team: Cloud9
• Best Esports player: Marcelo “Coldzera” David (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
• Best Performance: Nolan North, Uncharted 4
• Best Music/Sound Design: Doom
• Trending Gamer: Boogie2988
• Most Anticipated Game: The Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

“While we’ve been very happy with how the game has been received, we’re also extremely proud that this game and the world that we’re building has a message and it’s a message about heroism. It’s a message about diversity. It’s a message about a bright and positive and hopeful future. And these are all things that we really believe everyone needs a little bit of right now,” said Blizzard’s Ray Gresko.