The Game Awards 2020 will feature a host of DC and Marvel alumni and, of course, Geoff Keighley.
The Game Awards
The Game Awards are happening right now. Yes, Gaming’s grandest stage of all, the Super Bowl of video game awards shows, the showcase of the digital immortals — whatever you want to call it — is live on YouTube. There won’t be any attendees this year, with the 30 Angels handed out online across a three-hour event broadcasting from Los Angeles, London and Tokyo. Now, awards are great! But we know the real reason to tune in is for all the “World Premieres,” showcasing new video games and future releases for the first time.
If you want to find out when and how to watch, plus who’s already been announced as hosts and what you can expect this year, check out our handy guide. If you’re already across it, then this is the page for you and it’s time to game on, gamers.
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The Game Awards are generally more The Game Adverts with an award show mixed in, but we had a great time last year bringing you all the winners, some of the losers, reactions online, surprises and every single trailer that dropped during the show… so we’re doing it again. Last year, the Xbox Series X was unveiled with an eye-watering look at the next Hellblade game. In the year since, there’s been a pandemic and the next generation of consoles have made their way into players’ hands. No doubt we’ll get a look at what’s in store for those consoles in 2021.
You’ll find the list of winners down below, which we’ll update throughout the night (or morning, depending on where you are in the world). We also have a running play-by-play just below, trailers from the night much further down. Grab a Monster* or a coffee and let’s go.
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The Game Awards play-by-play and reactions
Today is very busy if you are at all interested in content. There’s a big Disney Investor Day stream happening right now, where the monolithic Mouse is revealing a ton of new TV series and movies. Worth checking out if you’re interested in content, which… you surely are!
Alright. Here we go.
The Game Awards 2020!
If you want to find out what happened in the pre-show… just scroll a little further down.
LET’S KICK THIS THING INTO HIGH GEAR.
First up, it’s a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC character reveal. A short cinematic reveals the new character to be Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII. I did not expect that. Twitch chat is going silly. We thought Mario was dead… but he is okay. Phew.
Brie Larson is here to present the first award. It’s for the Best Performance and it goes to Laura Bailey for her performance as Abby in The Last of Us Part 2. It also appears her phone is dinging, which is a nice little touch and a reminder everyone’s doing this thing from home this year.
Not to mess with Geoff but I feel like this suit is a little bland. Carn, big G.
HERE’S ANOTHER WORLD PREMIERE. This one is coming from The Initiative, one of the studios under Xbox Game Studios. The trailer starts with a beautifully-rendered Earth and space station. We’re flying through a futuristic world and then… out of nowhere we hear the name Agent Dark. This is a trailer for Perfect Dark. WOW.
ANOTHER WORLD PREMIERE. This one is all zombies… and it seems like we might be getting a new Left 4 Dead… it’s actually Back 4 Blood. “We wanted to do more and bigger,” says Chris Ashton from Turtle Rock. He throws straight into gameplay for Back 4 Blood… note: Pre-Alpha. We’ll post it down the bottom of the page when it’s ready. It’s coming in June 2021.
So, uh, anyone know when we might get another award? Ha! Just kidding, awards, aschmords. Give me the hype trailers.
Hood Outlaws & Legends gets a trailer, then Nintendo drops an Indies showcase which …look. I can’t keep up with that guys. I am only human. I am but one man. At this point, I am more RSI than man. My wrist is bouncing all over the place. I need carrot cake.
AWARD TIME. We’re back with some real awards and there’s a great little moment with Sean Murray, head on No Man’s Sky. It’s absolutely stunning how far that game has come. There was such an uproar at its release and now look at it, winning a Game Award for Best Ongoing Game beating the likes of Fortnite … Cool.
ANOTHER WORLD PREMIERE. I am just copy-pasting world premiere now. I will dream of world premieres when I sleep tonight. But here we go with The Callisto Protocol? It seems like a sci-fi title and also maybe a horror title? There’s a two-mouthed monster. It has one mouth and then another mouth below. How would you kiss it? The top mouth first? Lots of questions here. Kind of got Dead Space vibes from it… We deserve a new Dead Space.
Wait. Striking Distance studios CEO Glen Schofield is a survival horror set on Jupiter’s moon Callisto. YES. Give it to me. Callisto is one of Jupiter’s forgotten moons. We always hear about bloody Io, Europa and Ganymede. Get out.
QUICKFIRE AWARDS TIME. Here we go with four awards. Best VR/AR, Best Sports/Racing, Best Action, Best Art Direction.
Elden Ring grabs… not really an award but the Most Anticipated Game. That’s the George R. R. Martian game, from the creators of Dark Souls. Should be goooooood.
WORLD PREMIERE, AGAIN. This one looks delightful. It’s called Open Roads. Check the trailer because my hands are sore but this is from the Gone Home team. Will be legit.
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is coming in March 2021, a free upgrade for all players. Can I call this a World Premiere? I guess so. It’s a WORLD PREMIERE. Can’t wait to count up these World Premieres later and absolutely flip out. This is all going so fast. It’s insanity.
The full Voice acting for Disco Elysium is a big move because that game is like reading a long existential novel with dad jokes #TheGameAwards
— mac kahey (@MacDoesIt) December 11, 2020
WORLD PREMIERE TIME. A big one. It’s for Dragon Age. I can’t even tell you what any of this means because I don’t play every single game on the planet and Dragon Age has never been a big one for me.
WORLD PREMIERE TIME. I have not caught up. I am so far behind. I don’t even know where to look. I am sorry. Go on with out me. Tell my parents I loved them. This one is called Endless Dungeon.
WORLD PREMIERE TIME. It’s Crimson Desert — Geoff tells everyone it features actual gameplay footage and it’s beautiful. It’s an MMO with a strong single player and we’ve known about it for a while but here comes some big gameplay. It looks absolutely immaculate. Geoff was not lying. The MOUNTAINS. I want to run along them and dip my face in the cold streams and bring the water to my face. It looks… real? SNOW. Let me lay in it. DUST. Ew. Bad.
WE ARE BACK TO AWARDS HERE PEOPLE. John David Washington, who plays a character called Narrative in the film Tenet, is giving out the award for Best Narrative. We are through the looking glass here, people. This is VIDEO GAMES. Alright, he announces the winner as The Last of Us Part 2. This is the third? award… for TLOU2? I think so.
MUPPETS TIME. We are now in the Muppets part of the show, which has become a standard part of the Game Awards, following the success of Beaker and Goose last year. He’s here for a WORLD PREMIERE. It is… Overcooked is adding the Swedish Chef. Okay, yes, that passes as a World Premiere I guess!
The pre-show!
WOW. Straight into it. The first award goes to Final Fantasy VII Remake — for Best Score and Music. It’s that easy. Only 29 to go!
The pre-show had a huge Zoom wall where there were many cameras switched off. Here we go.
Devolver Digital announces Loop Hero in the typical Loop Hero type way for the first World Premiere. Then we are into a second World Premiere with Tchia, by Kowloon Nights and awaceb. It’s like Breath of the Wild crossed with Moana? And you can invade the bodies of things like birds and… coconuts? You can be a coconut. That’s great. I love coconut.
The Best Action/Adventure game in the last three years has won the overall Game of the Year — will it happen again? That award goes to The Last of Us Part 2. There’s a real chance that gets GOTY, too, of course.
TRAILER TIME. Connie, the CEO of Jo-Mei, from Beautiful Berlin is here to announce Sea of Solitude will be coming to Nintendo Switch in Winter. It’s a Director’s Cut because its a “version that truly represents what I wanted to convey about the topics that are especially important in today’s difficult times.”
TRAILER TIME. Shady Part of Me gets a little cute, trailer. I kind of missed it because I was getting a coffee. But apparently, it’s out right now! Which is excellent. You can get it on PC, Switch, PS4 and Xbox One. The trailer is at the bottom of the page.
QUICK-FIRE AWARDS TIME! We are doing three in a row here. Let’s bang them out:
Best Family Game goes to Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Best Community Support goes to Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout.
Best Debut Game goes to Phasmophobia.
Animal Crossing saved humanity’s sanity in March of this year and winning the award is DESERVED #TheGameAwards
— RTGame Daniel (@RTGameCrowd) December 10, 2020
Cool. We’re now five awards down, so this thing should be finished in the next hour, right? No?
Oh sick, we’re going to Tokyo for Last Surprise ~Scramble~ by Lyn feat. the Persona Music Band. I could do a full hour of Persona 5 music, if we had to. Just list the winners and let Lyn kill it for an hour.
ANOTHER WORLD PREMIERE. This one from Square Enix. Fast-paced action, big swords, running, bullet hell, white hair… it has to be Nier. It is Nier Replicant.
ANOTHER WORLD PREMIERE. Please slow down. Can I have break? Are any of my editors reading this? Please help. Now there’s a digital band singing some autotune song about following and unfollowing people and cancelling people. Apparently, it’s uh.. ofk?
We’re just under three minutes until the real show kicks off… but first there’s five Esports awards going down. The winners are all listed at the end of the Winners section but it was topped by a cameo from Stephen A. Smith… he’s clearly havin’ a time.
One last trailer for the REAL thing… It’s a game called Century: Age of Ashes where you ride dragons and dogfight and spit fire and all that. Coming from Playwing in February 2021.
Alright… let’s go.
The Game Awards 2020 Winners
Category winners are in bold. The Esports categories and content awards are toward the bottom. The video game awards will be listed in the order they’re handed out.
Best Score and Music
- Doom Eternal
- Final Fantasy VII Remake
- Hades
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- The Last of Us Part 2
Best Action/Adventure
- The Last of Us Part 2
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Best Family
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time
- Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
- Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit
- Minecraft Dungeons
- Paper Mario: The Origami King
Best Debut Game
- Carrion
- Mortal Shell
- Raji: An Ancient epic
- Roki
- Phasmophobia
Best Performance
- Ashely Johnson as Ellie, The Last of Us Part 2
- Laura Bailey as Abby, The Last of Us Part 2
- Daisuke Tsuji as Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
- Logan Cunningham as Hades, Hades
- Nadji Jeter as Miles Morales, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Best Ongoing
- Apex Legends
- Destiny 2
- Call of Duty: Warzone
- Fortnite
- No Man’s Sky
Best Sports/Racing
- DIRT 5
- F1 2020
- FIFA 21
- NBA 2K21
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2
Best VR/AR
- Dreams
- Half-Life: Alyx
- Marvel’s Iron Man VR
- Star Wars: Squadrons
- The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
Best Action
- Doom Eternal
- Hades
- Half-Life: Alyx
- Nioh 2
- Streets of Rage 4
Best Art Direction
- Final Fantasy VII Remake
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Hades
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- The Last of Us Part 2
Best Narrative
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
- Final Fantasy VII Remake
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Hades
- The Last of Us Part 2
Games for Impact
- If found…
- Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition
- Spiritfarer
- Tell Me Why
- Through The Darkest of Times
Game of the Year
Best Sim/Strategy
- Crusader Kings III
- Desperados III
- Gears Tactics
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- XCOM: Chimera Squad
Best Community Support
- Apex Legends
- Destiny 2
- Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
- Fortnite
- No Man’s Sky
- Valorant
Innovation in Accessibility
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
- Grounded
- Hyperdot
- The Last of Us Part 2
- Watch Dogs Legion
Best Audio Design
- Doom Eternal
- Half-Life: Alyx
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Resident Evil 3
- The Last of Us Part 2
Best Game Direction
- Final Fantasy VII Remake
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Hades
- Half Life: Alyx
- The Last of Us Part 2
Best Role Playing Game
- Final Fantasy VII Remake
- Genshin Impact
- Persona 5 Royal
- Wasteland 3
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Best Fighting
- Granblue Fantasy: Versus
- Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate
- Street Fighter V: Champion Edition
- One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows
- Under Night In-Birth EXE: Late[CL-R]
Best Indie Game
- Carrion
- Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
- Hades
- Spelunky 2
- Spiritfarer
Best Mobile Game
- Among Us
- Call of Duty Mobile
- Genshin Impact
- Legends of Runeterra
- Pokemon Cafe Mix
Best Multiplayer
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Among Us
- Call of Duty: Warzone
- Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
- Valorant
Best Esports Host
- Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez
- Alex “Machine” Richardson
- Eefje “Sjokz” Depoortere
- James “Dash” Patterson
- Jorien “Sheever” van der Heijden
Best Esports Team
- Damwon Gaming (LOL)
- Dallas Empire (COD)
- G2 Esports (LOL)
- San Francisco Shock (OWL)
- Team Secret (Dota2)
Best Esports Game
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Fortnite
- League of Legends
- Valorant
Best Esports Event
- Blast Premier: Spring 2020 European Finals (CS:GO)
- Call of Duty League Championship 2020
- IEM Katowice 2020 (CS:GO)
- League of Legends World Championship 2020
- Overwatch League Grand Finals 2020
Best Esports Coach
- Danny “Zonic” Sorensen (CS:GO)
- Dae-Hee “Crusty” Park (OWL)
- Fabian “Grabbz” Lohmann (LOL)
- Lee “Zefa” Jae-min (LOL)
- Raymond “Rambo” Lussier (COD)
Best Esports Athlete
- Ian “Crimsix” Porter (COD)
- Heo “Showmaker” Su (LOL)
- Kim “Canyon” Geon-Bu (LOL)
- Anthony “Shotzzy” Cuevas-Castro (COD)
- Matthieu “Zywoo” Herbaut (CS:GO)
Content Creator of the Year
- Alanah Pearce
- Jay Ann Lopez
- Nickmercs
- Timthetatman
- Valkyrae
The Game Awards trailers and premieres
As we find the trailers on YouTube, we will update down here!
Loop Hero
Sea of Solitude: Director’s Cut
Shady Part of Me
Nier Replicant
Century: Age of Ashes
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – Sephiroth Announcement
Perfect Dark
Back 4 Blood
The Callisto Protocol
Open Roads
Dragon Age
Endless Dungeon
Crimson Desert
This page is constantly updating.
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