The Game Awards 2014

The Game Awards 2014
The Game Awards 2014
Date	December 5, 2014
Venue	The AXIS, Las Vegas, United States
Country	United States
Hosted by	Geoff Keighley
Highlights
Most awards	Destiny; Dragon Age: Inquisition; Mario Kart 8; Valiant Hearts: The Great War; (2);
Most nominations	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare; Dark Souls II; Destiny; Hearthstone; Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor; South Park: The Stick of Truth; (3);
Game of the Year	Dragon Age: Inquisition
Industry Icon Award	Ken and Roberta Williams (Sierra Entertainment)
Website	thegameawards.com
Viewership	1.9 million

The Game Awards 2014 ceremony, which honored the best video games of 2014, took place at The AXIS in Las Vegas on December 5, 2014. The show was produced and hosted by Geoff Keighley. The ceremony was the first for The Game Awards, which replaced the Keighley-hosted Spike Video Game Awards (VGX in 2013) that were discontinued after the 2013 show. Dragon Age: Inquisition won the shows's Game of the Year award.

Premieres

This year's ceremony featured premieres^[1] of Nintendo's Super Mario Maker, Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Kojima Productions's Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Visceral Games's Battlefield Hardline, FromSoftware's Bloodborne, Supermassive Games's Until Dawn, Ready at Dawn's The Order: 1886, Crystal Dynamics's Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, CD Projekt's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt; The Odd Gentlemen's King's Quest, Three One Zero's Adrift and Natsume Atari's Godzilla. There were other premieres including Facepunch Studios's Before, Stoic's The Banner Saga 2, Fullbright's Tacoma, Robotoki's Human Element and Hello Games's No Man's Sky.

The broadcast saw a total viewership of about 1.9 million.^[2]

Winners and nominees

The nominees for The Game Awards 2014 were announced on November 20, 2014. Candidate games must have a release date of November 25, 2014 or earlier in order to be eligible.^[3]

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on December 5, 2014.^[3] Winners are shown first in bold, and indicated with a double-dagger (‡).^[4]

Jury-voted awards

Game of the Year	Developer of the Year
Dragon Age: Inquisition – BioWare‡ Bayonetta 2 – PlatinumGames Dark Souls II – FromSoftware Hearthstone – Blizzard Entertainment Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – Monolith Productions	Nintendo‡ Blizzard Entertainment Monolith Productions Telltale Games Ubisoft Montreal
Best Independent Game	Best Mobile/Handheld Game
Shovel Knight – Yacht Club Games‡ Broken Age Act I – Double Fine Productions Monument Valley – Ustwo Transistor – Supergiant Games The Vanishing of Ethan Carter – The Astronauts	Hearthstone – Blizzard Entertainment‡ Bravely Default – Silicon Studio and Square Enix Monument Valley – Ustwo Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS – Sora Ltd and Bandai Namco Games Threes – Sirvo
Best Narrative	Best Score/Soundtrack
Valiant Hearts: The Great War – Ubisoft Montpellier‡ South Park: The Stick of Truth – Obsidian Entertainment and South Park Digital Studios The Walking Dead: Season Two – Telltale Games The Wolf Among Us – Telltale Games Wolfenstein: The New Order – MachineGames	Destiny – Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O'Donnell and Paul McCartney‡ Alien: Isolation – Byron Bullock, Sam Cooper, Jeff van Dyck, Christian Henson, Joe Henson, Haydn Payne and Alexis Smith Child of Light – Béatrice Martin Sunset Overdrive – Boris Salchow Transistor – Darren Korb
Best Performance	Games for Change
Trey Parker as Various Voices – South Park: The Stick of Truth‡ Adam Harrington as Bigby Wolf – The Wolf Among Us Kevin Spacey as Jonathan Irons – Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Melissa Hutchison as Clementine – The Walking Dead: Season Two Troy Baker as Talion – Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor	Valiant Hearts: The Great War – Ubisoft Montpellier‡ Mountain – David OReilly Never Alone – Upper One Games and E-Line Media The Last of Us: Left Behind – Naughty Dog This War of Mine – 11 bit studios
Best Shooter	Best Action/Adventure
Far Cry 4 – Ubisoft Montreal‡ Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – Sledgehammer Games Destiny – Bungie Titanfall – Respawn Entertainment Wolfenstein: The New Order – MachineGames	Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – Monolith Productions‡ Assassin's Creed Unity – Ubisoft Montreal Alien: Isolation – The Creative Assembly Bayonetta 2 – PlatinumGames Sunset Overdrive – Insomniac Games
Best Role Playing Game	Best Fighting Game
Dragon Age: Inquisition – BioWare‡ Bravely Default – Silicon Studio and Square Enix Dark Souls II – FromSoftware Divinity: Original Sin – Larian Studios South Park: The Stick of Truth – Obsidian Entertainment and South Park Digital Studios	Super Smash Bros. for Wii U – Sora Ltd. and Bandai Namco Games‡ Killer Instinct: Season Two – Double Helix Games, Iron Galaxy Studios, Rare and Microsoft Studios Persona 4 Arena Ultimax – Arc System Works Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS – Sora Ltd. and Bandai Namco Games Ultra Street Fighter IV – Capcom
Best Family Game	Best Sports/Racing Game
Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo EAD‡ Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes – Avalanche Software Fantasia: Music Evolved – Harmonix Skylanders: Trap Team – Toys for Bob and Beenox Tomodachi Life – Nintendo SPD	Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo EAD‡ FIFA 15 – EA Canada Forza Horizon 2 – Playground Games, Sumo Digital and Turn 10 Studios NBA 2K15 – Visual Concepts Trials Fusion – RedLynx, Ubisoft Shanghai and Ubisoft Kiev
Best Online Experience	Best Remaster
Destiny – Bungie‡ Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – Sledgehammer Games, High Moon Studios and Raven Software Dark Souls II – FromSoftware Hearthstone – Blizzard Entertainment Titanfall – Respawn Entertainment	Grand Theft Auto V – by Rockstar North‡ Halo: The Master Chief Collection – by Bungie and 343 Industries; redeveloped by 343 Industries Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire – by Game Freak The Last of Us Remastered – by Naughty Dog Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition – originally developed by Crystal Dynamics; redeveloped by Nixxes Software and United Front Games

Fan-voted awards

Most Anticipated Game	Esports Player of the Year
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red Batman: Arkham Knight – Rocksteady Studios Uncharted 4: A Thief's End – Naughty Dog Evolve – Turtle Rock Studios Bloodborne – FromSoftware	Matt "NaDeSHoT" Haag Christopher "GeT RiGhT" Alesund Martin "Rekkles" Larsson James "Firebat" Kostesich Xu "Fy" Linsen
Esports Team of the Year	Trending Gamer
Ninjas in Pyjamas Evil Geniuses Samsung White Newbee Edward Gaming	TotalBiscuit VanossGaming Jeff Gerstmann PewDiePie StampyLongHead
Best Fan Creation
Twitch Plays Pokémon Luigi Death Stare – by CZBwoi and Rizupicorr "It's Dangerous to Go Alone" – by Starbomb Minecraft - Titan City – by Colonial Puppet "Mine the Diamond (Minecraft Song)" – by Tobuscus

Honorary awards

Industry Icon Award
Ken and Roberta Williams (Sierra Entertainment)

Games with multiple nominations and awards

Multiple nominations
Nominations	Game
3	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
	Dark Souls II
	Destiny
	Hearthstone
	Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
	South Park: Stick of Truth
2	Alien: Isolation
	Bayonetta 2
	Bravely Default
	Dragon Age: Inquisition
	Mario Kart 8
	Monument Valley
	Sunset Overdrive
	Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS
	Titanfall
	Valiant Hearts: The Great War
	Transistor
	The Walking Dead: Season 2
	The Wolf Among Us
	Wolfenstein: The New Order

Multiple awards
Awards	Game
2	Destiny
	Dragon Age: Inquisition
	Mario Kart 8
	Valiant Hearts: The Great War

References

^ Hillier, Brenna (December 1, 2014). "There will be 12 world premieres at The Game Awards 2014". VG247. Archived from the original on December 3, 2014. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
^ Crecente, Brian (December 6, 2016). "The Game Awards audience up 65 percent to 3.8M". Polygon. Archived from the original on December 7, 2016. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Sarkar, Samit (November 21, 2014). "Here are the nominees for The Game Awards 2014". Polygon. Archived from the original on November 7, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
^ Sarkar, Samit (December 5, 2014). "Here are the winners of The Game Awards 2014". Polygon. Archived from the original on March 18, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2014.

External links

Official website

[1] Hillier, Brenna (December 1, 2014). "There will be 12 world premieres at The Game Awards 2014". VG247. Archived from the original on December 3, 2014. Retrieved December 1, 2014.

[TGA-2] Crecente, Brian (December 6, 2016). "The Game Awards audience up 65 percent to 3.8M". Polygon. Archived from the original on December 7, 2016. Retrieved December 13, 2017.

[nominees-3] Sarkar, Samit (November 21, 2014). "Here are the nominees for The Game Awards 2014". Polygon. Archived from the original on November 7, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2014.

[4] Sarkar, Samit (December 5, 2014). "Here are the winners of The Game Awards 2014". Polygon. Archived from the original on March 18, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2014.

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v t e The Game Awards
Years	2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Game of the Year	Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015) Overwatch (2016) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) God of War (2018) Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (2019) The Last of Us Part II (2020) It Takes Two (2021) Elden Ring (2022) Baldur's Gate 3 (2023)
Related	Geoff Keighley Spike Video Game Awards Summer Game Fest
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