Geoff Keighley is doing this again. I guess it's internet only now and not on Spike anymore?

Seems like a decent list. Nominees are:

GAME OF THE YEAR
Bloodborne (From Software/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions/Konami)
Super Mario Maker (Nintendo EAD Group No. 4/Nintendo)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR
Bethesda Game Studios
CD Projekt Red
From Software
Kojima Productions
Nintendo

BEST INDEPENDENT GAME
Axiom Verge (Tom Happ)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios)
Rocket League (Psyonix)
Undertale (tobyfox)

BEST MOBILE/HANDHELD GAME
Downwell (Moppin/Devolver Digital)
Fallout Shelter (Bethesda Game Studios|Behaviour Interactive/Bethesda Softworks)
Lara Croft Go (Square Enix Montreal/Square Enix)
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom)
Pac-Man 256 (Hipster Whale/Bandai Namco Entertainment)

BEST NARRATIVE
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Life is Strange (Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix)
Tales From the Borderlands (Telltale Games)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Until Dawn (Supermassive Games/Sony Computer Entertainment)

BEST ART DIRECTION
Batman: Arkham Knight (Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Bloodborne (From Software/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions/Konami)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

BEST SCORE/SOUNDTRACK
Fallout 4 (Inon Zur/Bethesda Game Studios)
Halo 5: Guardians (Kazuma Jinnouchi/343 Industries)
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Ludvig Forssell, Justin Burnett, Daniel James/Kojima Productions)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Gareth Coker/Moon Studios)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Marcin Przybyłowicz, Mikolai Stroinski, Percival/CD Projekt Red)

BEST PERFORMANCE
Ashly Burch as Chloe Price (Life is Strange)
Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft (Rise of the Tomb Raider)
Doug Cockle as Geralt (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)
Mark Hamill as The Joker (Batman: Arkham Knight)
Viva Seifert (Her Story)

GAMES FOR CHANGE
Cibele (Nina Freeman)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Life is Strange (Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix)
Sunset (Tale of Tales)
Undertale (tobyfox)

BEST SHOOTER
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (Treyarch/Activision)
Destiny: The Taken King (Bungie/Activision)
Halo 5: Guardians (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios)
Splatoon (Nintendo EAD Group No. 2/Nintendo)
Star Wars Battlefront (EA DICE/Electronic Arts)

BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE GAME
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Ubisoft Quebec/Ubisoft)
Batman: Arkham Knight (Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions/Konami)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics/Microsoft Studios)

BEST ROLE-PLAYING GAME
Bloodborne (From Software/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
Pillars of Eternity (Obsidian Entertainment/Paradox Interactive)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Undertale (tobyfox)

BEST FIGHTING GAME
Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- (Arc System Works/Aksys Games)
Mortal Kombat X (NetherRealm Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Rise of Incarnates (Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Rising Thunder (Radiant Entertainment)

BEST FAMILY GAME
Disney Infinity 3.0 (Avalanche Software/Disney Interactive)
Lego Dimensions (TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Skylanders SuperChargers (Vicarious Visions|Beenox/Activision)
Splatoon (Nintendo EAD Group No. 2/Nintendo)
Super Mario Maker (Nintendo EAD Group No. 4/Nintendo)

BEST SPORTS/RACING GAME
FIFA 16 (EA Canada/Electronic Arts)
Forza Motorsport 6 (Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Studios)
NBA 2K16 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 (PES Productions/Konami)
Rocket League (Psyonix)

BEST MULTIPLAYER
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (Treyarch/Activision)
Destiny: The Taken King (Bungie/Activision)
Halo 5: Guardians (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios)
Rocket League (Psyonix)
Splatoon (Nintendo EAD Group No. 2/Nintendo)

MOST ANTICIPATED GAME
Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony Computer Entertaiment)
No Man's Sky (Hello Games)
Quantum Break (Remedy Entertainment/Microsoft Studios)
The Last Guardian (GenDesign/Sony Computer Entertainment)
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment)

ESPORTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Kenny "KennyS" Schrub (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive/Team EnVyUs)
Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok (League of Legends/SK Telecom T1)
Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive/Fnatic)
Peter "ppd" Dager (Dota 2/Evil Geniuses)
Syed Sumail "Suma1L" Hassan (Dota 2/Evil Geniuses)

ESPORTS TEAM OF THE YEAR
Evil Geniuses
Fnatic
Optic Gaming
SK Telecom T1
Team SoloMid

ESPORTS GAME OF THE YEAR
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Sledgehammer Games/Activision)
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
Dota 2 (Valve)
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
League of Legends (Riot Games)

TRENDING GAMER
Total Biscuit
Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles
Greg Miller
Markiplier
PewDiePie

BEST FAN CREATION
GTA 5 - Targets (Hoodoo Operator)
Real GTA (Corridor Digital)
Portal Stories: Mel (Prism Studios)
Super Mario Maker e-Reader Levels (Baddboy78 / theycallmeshaky)
Twitch Plays Dark Souls (Twitch Community)

It's been internet only for a couple years now, hasn't it?

I've seen a lot asking...just how the heck is a game not yet released on the list of Best Shooter...that would be SW: Battlefront.

I am glad to see Bloodborne in three categories and rooting for Mark Hamill and his Joker for Best Performance

30 hours into fallout 4 and Bloodborne is still my choice for game of the year...


But my guess is Fallout 4 will win because it is that rare popular game that also is loved by most. It is a safe bet to pick, unlike a game like Call of Duty that has as much hate as it does love. When you look at the fact that Bloodborne has been played by 2-3 million people, and Fallout 4 will easily be over 20 million, it is easy to see the choice has been made even before the vote is in...

I might be wrong though...

But at the same time, Fallout 4 doesn't differentiate itself enough from prior titles imho, and is actually a step backwards with the dialog system (albeit nicely voiced). But yeah, Bloodborne is still my pick as well, after playing a good bit of Rise of the Tomb Raider and Fallout 4, neither is nearly as much straight out fun as Bloodborne was to me.

Kinda weird to have a game awards come out when games are still coming out. I thought most award shows like the oscars wait till the next year to give awards for the full year?

I believe this is only the 2nd year of this particular awards show.

Well reviewers should already have it, and EA Access members have already been able to play it.

As for me, other then an hour of Fallout 4 I haven't played any of the other GOTY nominees. Nor am I actually that interested in any of them either; alas.

Glad to see Life is Strange and Ori and the Blind Forest get some love; those are probably my two favorite games this year.

Any awards given before Just Cause 3 is released are bogus.

Bump. Starts in about 25 mins.

Another Telltale game. Batman!

Batman sounds good to me, I haven't really been in to the other recent properties Telltale has made games on.

Holy shit, Psychonauts 2!

Shadow Complex Remastered. I never played the original, so I'll probably check that out.

How the fuck can Konami tell Kojima not to attend the Game Awards?!?
http://kotaku.com/geoff-keighley-kon...ium=Socialflow

A no compete clause of work prohibits someone from working for the competition. How is Kojima violating that clause by showing up to an Awards show? So, can Konami ban Kojima from attending anything then?

By the way, I want Konami to simply go bankrupt and have to sell their assets for cents on the dollar. Those assholes don't deserve any property they own

GOTY goes to Witcher 3

Seems like a fair choice. I wasn't a huge fan, but it's certainly better than Fallout 4, MGS V and Super Mario Maker.

Sounds like he's still technically a Konami employee through the year, so I can see how they could prevent him from appearing since he'd be "representing" the company in some form. Not that it changes how shitty the whole thing is.

Also, Shadow Complex Remastered! Free on PC now through the year too.

http://www.polygon.com/2015/12/3/984...ox-one-windows

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And more Quantum Break

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It's nice that Shadow Complex Remastered (my all-time favorite XBLA game, BTW) is free for PC, but I hope they'll do some sort of 360 > XO upgrade like The Behemoth did with Castle Crashers (my second-favorite XBLA game coincidentally).

undertale win anything? my kids love watching that game on youtube, lol.

As it fucking should!

(and yes, I played all 5 games)