The Game Awards Night 2017 Recap: Winners and Reveals

The biggest annual awards ceremony for video games is now over. It was a night of spectacle as game companies and gamers took to the stage to receive awards for their game releases and performance this year. More than the excitement of hearing your favorite games and gamers win, the reveal of upcoming games, expansions, and updates are also part of it. Here’s a recap of what happened during The 2017 Game Awards.

Game Award Winners

Game of the Year – Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Best Roleplaying Game – Persona 5
Best Strategy Game – Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Best Action Game – Wolfstein II: The New Colossus
Best Action/Adventure Game – Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Best Family Game – Super Mario Odyssey
Best Chinese Game – jx3 HD
Best Student Game – Level Squared
Most Anticipated Game – The Last of Us 2
Best Art Direction – Cuphead
Best Score/Soundtrack – Nier: Automata
Best Audio Design – Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Games for Impact – Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Best Performance – Meline Juergens (Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice)
Best Debut Indie Game – Cuphead
Best Narrative – What Remains of Edith Finch
Best Ongoing Game – Overwatch
Best Game Studio/Direction – Nintendo
Industry Icon Award – Carol Shaw (First Female Game Developer)
Best E-Sports Team – Cloud9
Best E-Sports Player – Lee sang-hyeok “Faker”
Best E-Sports Game – Overwatch
Trending Gamer Award – Guy Beahm

Game Reveals, Expansions, and Updates

Reveals

Soul Caliber VI
GOTF
Metro Exodus
Bayonneta 3
Fade to Silence
In the Valley of Gods
From Software (Bloodborne and Darksouls Developer) New Game Teaser
Witchfire
WorldWar Z

Expansions and Updates

Legend Of Zelda: Breathe of the Wild The Champions Ballad expansion
Fortnite Battle Royale 50v50 update
PUBG Desert Map update
A Way Out release date and free trial weekend reveal
Death Stranding new trailer
Metro Exodus new trailer
Sea of Thieves release date reveal

You can watch the whole show’s concluded livestream here.

And there you have it for this year’s Game Awards. Did any of your favorite games win? Hit us up in the comments section below. Also, congratulations to all winners! Here’s to hoping that 2018 will be another stellar year for gaming.

Zen Estacio

Zen Estacio is a Multimedia Producer for YugaTech. He is the team's laptop guru and one of their resident gamers. He has a monthly column compiling the latest and greatest the Nintendo Switch has to offer. Aside from that, he regularly writes gaming news, reviews, and impressions. You can hit him up at @papanZEN