{"id":6289,"date":"2024-12-13T11:18:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T11:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.newat9.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/the-2024-game-awards-recap-all-winners-and-most-surprising-reveals\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T11:18:40","slug":"the-2024-game-awards-recap-all-winners-and-most-surprising-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.newat9.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/the-2024-game-awards-recap-all-winners-and-most-surprising-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2024 Game Awards recap: All winners and most surprising reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Astro Bot claimed four wins, including Game of the Year, at the 2024 Game Awards.\n<\/p>\n

The PlayStation 5 exclusive<\/a> has players run, hover-jump, and rocket-blast to collect stranded robots across a cartoony galaxy. While the game celebrates three decades of Sony’s console history, Studio Director Nicolas Doucet credited Nintendo in a misty-eyed acceptance speech (though he avoided mentioning the competitor by name):\n<\/p>\n

“I was a kid in 1989, I got a gray box and there was a game packed in \u2014 it was called Super Mario Brothers and it was really, really great,” said Doucet. “I want to pay tribute to the company who really showed us innovation and quality consistently, and inspired us to make the game that we made.”\n<\/p>\n

Nintendo, meanwhile, went home empty-handed after a night defined by sweeps, surprise reveals, fourth-wall breaks and celebrity appearances from the likes of Harrison Ford and Snoop Dogg.\n<\/p>\n

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Just a sampling of the many Jokers of Balatro, winner of three prizes at The Game Awards.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Balatro, a poker-style game from solo-developer LocalThunk<\/u><\/a>, won “Best Debut Indie,” “Best Independent Game” and “Best Mobile Game.” Despite this dominance, the representative who accepted awards on LocalThunk’s behalf tried to shout out the indie scene more broadly, calling out pixel western Arco<\/u><\/a> by name.\n<\/p>\n

Big-budget games otherwise stole the spotlight. The ceremony began with a surprise announcement trailer for Elden Ring: Nightreign<\/u><\/a>, a co-op spinoff<\/u><\/a> to the 2022 hit<\/u><\/a>. The studio head behind 2021 Game of the Year winner It Takes Two<\/u><\/a> also revealed the two-player adventure Split Fiction<\/u><\/a>, out next March. Breaking Bad<\/i>‘s Aaron Paul and renowned voice actor Laura Bailey showed off the next game they performed in: a tongue-in-cheek superhero story named Dispatch<\/u><\/a>. And just when the show seemed fresh out of revelations, The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog dropped a cinematic trailer for an entirely new franchise, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet<\/u><\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Host Geoff Keighley also acknowledged mass layoffs<\/u><\/a> in the industry \u2014 something critics lambasted him<\/u><\/a> for ignoring in 2023’s ceremony. He even announced a new “Gamechanger Award,” which went to Amir Satvat<\/u><\/a>, an employee of gaming tycoon Tencent who also runs a pro-bono support site for developers looking for work.\n<\/p>\n

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Muppet critics Statler and Waldorf mock the proceedings at The Game Awards.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

But it wouldn’t be The Game Awards without the Muppets<\/u><\/a>. Garrulous grumps Statler and Waldorf co-opted frequent criticisms of the awards in a series of running gags. After one rapid-fire battery of announcements, they jabbed that “it was like the game commercials with award interruptions!”. But as the broadcast stretched toward its fourth hour, they also expressed the exhaustion many in the audience seemed to be feeling, “my Final Fantasy is for this show to be over.”\n<\/p>\n

Most decorated games<\/h3>\n

Astro Bot<\/b> \u2014 4 wins (including Game of the Year), 7 nominations\n<\/p>\n

Metaphor: ReFantazio<\/b> \u2014 3 wins, 6 nominations\n<\/p>\n

Balatro<\/b> \u2014 3 wins, 5 nominations\n<\/p>\n

Black Myth: Wukong<\/b> \u2014 2 wins, 5 nominations\n<\/p>\n

Helldivers 2<\/b> \u2014 2 wins, 4 nominations\n<\/p>\n

Senua’s Sage: Hellblade 2<\/b> \u2014 2 wins (including lead actor Melina Juergens win for Best Performance), 4 nominations\n<\/p>\n

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A screenshot from Elden Ring: Nightreign \u2014 surprise announced at The Game Awards.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

A quick note before listing the full winners: NPR is one of the more than <\/i>130 outlets<\/i><\/a> that contributed ballots to The Game Awards, which picked winners based on those tallies and an open online voting system.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

Full Winners<\/h3>\n

Game of the Year<\/b>\n<\/p>\n