The Game Awards 2015

The Game Awards 2015
The Game Awards 2015
Sponsored by	go90.com
Date	December 3, 2015
Location	Los Angeles, California
Country	United States
Hosted by	Geoff Keighley
Most awards	Her Story, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Rocket League, Splatoon, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2)
Most nominations	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (6)
Website	thegameawards.com
Television/radio coverage
Network	YouTube; Twitch; Niconico; IGN; Steam
Runtime	2 hours, 5 minutes
Viewership	2.3 million
Produced by	Geoff Keighley

The Game Awards 2015, produced and hosted by Geoff Keighley, honored the best video games of 2015 and took place on December 3, 2015, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California.^[2] Ten world premieres were featured in the show,^[3] including Batman and The Walking Dead: Michonne from Telltale Games, Psychonauts 2 from Double Fine, Rock Band VR for Oculus Rift, as well as new trailers for Far Cry Primal, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Quantum Break, Star Citizen, Rocket League for Xbox One and Shadow Complex remastered for PC.

Jury and advisors

Jury Member	Media	Country
Woodee	Associated Press	United States
Federico Cella	Corriere della Sera	Italy
Victor Lucas	Electric Playground	Canada
Jean-Marc Wallimann	ExtraLife	France
Andy McNamara	Game Informer	United States
Ludwig Kietzmann	GamesRadar	United States
Jeff Gerstmann	Giant Bomb	United States
Tal Blevins	IGN	United States
Clayton Purdom	Kill Screen	United States
Jorge Arellano	LevelUp	Mexico
Nacho Ortiz	MeriStation	Spain
Tyler Wilde	PC Gamer	United States
Christopher Grant	Polygon	United States
Theo Artioli Azevedo	UOL Jogos	Brazil
Brett Molina	USA Today	United States
Chris Kohler	Wired	United States
Stephen Farrelly	AusGamers	Australia
Tony Mott	EDGE	United Kingdom
Darren Franich	Entertainment Weekly	United States
Katsuhiko Hayashi	Famitsu	Japan
Ben Howard	GameSpot	United States
Brandon Jones	GameTrailers	United States
Keith Stuart	The Guardian	United Kingdom
Frédéric Goyon	Jeuxvideo.com	France
Todd Martens	Los Angeles Times	United States
Chelsea Stark	Mashable	United States
Malik Forté	Nerdist Industries	United States
Robert Khoo	Penny Arcade	United States
Joachim Hesse	Spieletipps.de	Germany
Jeremy Parish	US Gamer	United States
Mike Diver	Vice	United Kingdom
Ben Silverman	Yahoo!	United States

ESports Advisory Panel Member	Media	Country
Richard Lewis	Breitbart	United Kingdom
Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner	Gfinity	United Kingdom
Travis Gafford	GameSpot	United States
Rob Simpson	Redbull eSports	United States
Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham	Twitch	United States
Michal Blicharz	ESL	United States
Kevin Knocke	IGN	United States
Radoslav Kolev	GosuGamers	Bulgaria
Kevin Morris	The Daily Dot	United States
Lester Chen	YouTube Gaming	United States

Advisors

Advisory Board Member	Description	Country
Eric Hirshberg	CEO, Activision Publishing	United States
Peter Moore	COO, Electronic Arts	United States
Hideo Kojima	Founder of Kojima Productions	Japan
Phil Spencer	Head of Microsoft's Xbox division	United States
Reggie Fils-Aime	President and COO of Nintendo of America	United States
Shawn Layden	CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment America	United States
David Haddad	President, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment	United States
Yves Guillemot	CEO and co-founder, Ubisoft	France
Rockstar Games	Developer of the Grand Theft Auto series	United States
Valve Corporation	Developer of Dota 2 and the Counter-Strike series	United States

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold

Game of the Year	Developer of the Year
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – developed by CD Projekt RED Bloodborne – developed by FromSoftware Fallout 4 – developed by Bethesda Game Studios Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – developed by Kojima Productions Super Mario Maker – developed by Nintendo	CD Projekt RED Bethesda Game Studios FromSoftware Kojima Productions Nintendo
Best Independent Game	Best Mobile/Handheld Game
Rocket League – developed by Psyonix Axiom Verge – created by Tom Happ Her Story – created by Sam Barlow Ori and the Blind Forest – developed by Moon Studios Undertale – developed by tobyfox	Lara Croft Go – developed by Square Enix Montréal Downwell – developed by Moppin Fallout Shelter – developed by Bethesda Game Studios and Behaviour Interactive Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate – developed by Capcom Pac-Man 256 – developed by Hipster Whale
Best Narrative	Best Score/Soundtrack
Her Story – written by Sam Barlow Life Is Strange – written by Christian Divine and Jean-Luc Cano Tales from the Borderlands – written by Pierre Shorette, Adam Hines, Jeremy Breslau, Chuck Jordan, Eric Stirpe, Anthony Burch, and Zack Keller The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – written by Marcin Blacha and Borys Pugacz-Muraszkiewicz Until Dawn – written by Graham Reznick and Larry Fessenden	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – composed by Ludvig Forssell, Justin Burnett, and Daniel James Fallout 4 – composed by Inon Zur Halo 5: Guardians – composed by Kazuma Jinnouchi Ori and the Blind Forest – composed by Gareth Coker The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – composed by Marcin Przybyłowicz, Mikolai Stroinski, and Percival
Best Performance	Games for Impact
Viva Seifert – in Her Story Ashly Burch as Chloe Price – in Life Is Strange Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft – in Rise of the Tomb Raider Doug Cockle as Geralt of Rivia – in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Mark Hamill as the Joker – in Batman: Arkham Knight	Life Is Strange – developed by Dontnod Entertainment Cibele – developed by Star Maid Games Her Story – created by Sam Barlow Sunset – developed by Tale of Tales Undertale – developed by tobyfox
Best Shooter	Best Action/Adventure
Splatoon – developed by Nintendo Call of Duty: Black Ops III – developed by Treyarch Destiny: The Taken King – developed by Bungie Halo 5: Guardians – developed by 343 Industries Star Wars Battlefront – developed by EA Digital Illusions CE	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – developed by Kojima Productions Assassin's Creed Syndicate – developed by Ubisoft Quebec Batman: Arkham Knight – developed by Rocksteady Studios Ori and the Blind Forest – developed by Moon Studios Rise of the Tomb Raider – developed by Crystal Dynamics
Best Role Playing Game	Best Fighting Game
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – developed by CD Projekt RED Bloodborne – developed by FromSoftware Fallout 4 – developed by Bethesda Game Studios Pillars of Eternity – developed by Obsidian Entertainment Undertale – developed by tobyfox	Mortal Kombat X – developed by NetherRealm Studios Guilty Gear Xrd –SIGN– – developed by Arc System Works Team Red Rise of Incarnates – developed by Bandai Namco Entertainment Rising Thunder – developed by Radiant Entertainment
Best Family Game	Best Sports/Racing Game
Super Mario Maker – developed by Nintendo Disney Infinity 3.0 – developed by Avalanche Software with additional work by Ninja Theory, Studio Gobo, Sumo Digital and United Front Games Lego Dimensions – developed by Traveller's Tales Skylanders: SuperChargers – developed by Vicarious Visions and Beenox Splatoon – developed by Nintendo	Rocket League – developed by Psyonix FIFA 16 – developed by EA Canada Forza Motorsport 6 – developed by Turn 10 Studios NBA 2K16 – developed by Visual Concepts Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 – developed by PES Productions
Best Multiplayer	Best Art Direction
Splatoon – developed by Nintendo Call of Duty: Black Ops III – developed by Treyarch Destiny: The Taken King – developed by Bungie Halo 5: Guardians – developed by 343 Industries Rocket League – developed by Psyonix	Ori and the Blind Forest – developed by Moon Studios Batman: Arkham Knight – developed by Rocksteady Studios Bloodborne – developed by FromSoftware Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – developed by Kojima Productions The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – developed by CD Projekt RED

Fan's choice awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold

ESports Game of the Year	Best Fan Creation
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and Valve Corporation Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – developed by Sledgehammer Games Dota 2 – developed by Valve Corporation Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft – developed by Blizzard Entertainment League of Legends – developed by Riot Games	Portal Stories: Mel – by Prism Studios GTA V – Targets – by Hoodoo Operator Real GTA – by Corridor Digital Twitch Plays Dark Souls – by Twitch Community
Trending Gamer	ESports Team of the Year
Greg Miller TotalBiscuit Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles Markiplier PewDiePie	OpTic Gaming Evil Geniuses Fnatic SK Telecom T1 Team SoloMid
ESports Player of the Year	Most Anticipated Game
*Kenny "KennyS" Schrub (Team EnVyUs - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)* Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok (SK Telecom T1 - League of Legends) Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer (Fnatic - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) Peter "ppd" Dager (Evil Geniuses - Dota 2) Syed Sumail "Suma1L" Hassan (Evil Geniuses - Dota 2)	No Man's Sky – developed by Hello Games Horizon Zero Dawn – developed by Guerrilla Games Quantum Break – developed by Remedy Entertainment The Last Guardian – developed by genDESIGN and SCE Japan Studio Uncharted 4: A Thief's End – developed by Naughty Dog

Honorary awards

Industry Icon Award
Brett Sperry and Louis Castle (Westwood Studios)

Games with multiple nominations and awards

Games that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Game
6	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
4	Her Story
	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
	Ori and the Blind Forest
3	Batman: Arkham Knight
	Bloodborne
	Fallout 4
	Halo 5: Guardians
	Life Is Strange
	Rocket League
	Splatoon
	Undertale
2	Call of Duty: Black Ops III
	Destiny: The Taken King
	Rise of the Tomb Raider
	Super Mario Maker

Games that received multiple awards
Awards	Game
2	Her Story
	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
	Rocket League
	Splatoon
	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Most Major Nominations By Publisher

8 – Microsoft Studios
7 – CD Projekt
6 – Konami
6 – Nintendo
6 – Square Enix
5 – Activision
5 – Bethesda Softworks
5 – Sony Computer Entertainment
5 – Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
4 – Sam Barlow

References

^ "Game Awards 2015 pulls in 2.3M people, more than 1B Twitter impressions". Polygon.com. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
^ Nakamura, Darren (November 13, 2015). "Nominees announced for The Game Awards 2015". Destructoid. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
^ Riaz, Adnan (November 24, 2015). "Geoff Keighley Confirms 'Ten World Premieres' for The Game Awards 2015". Hardcore Gamer. Retrieved November 25, 2015.

External links

Official site

[1] "Game Awards 2015 pulls in 2.3M people, more than 1B Twitter impressions". Polygon.com. Retrieved December 10, 2015.

[2] Nakamura, Darren (November 13, 2015). "Nominees announced for The Game Awards 2015". Destructoid. Retrieved November 25, 2015.

[3] Riaz, Adnan (November 24, 2015). "Geoff Keighley Confirms 'Ten World Premieres' for The Game Awards 2015". Hardcore Gamer. Retrieved November 25, 2015.

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