Gamers' Choice Awards

Gamers' Choice Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in video games
Sponsored by	CBS
Date	December 9, 2018 (2018-12-09)
Venue	The Fonda Theatre, Hollywood, California [1]
Country	United States
Hosted by	Carrie Keagan and Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham [ citation needed ]
Final award	2018
Highlights
Most awards	Fortnite (5)
Most nominations	God of War (7)
Fan Favorite Game	Fortnite
Website	gamerschoice.tv
Television/radio coverage
Network	CBS

The Gamers' Choice Awards was an award show that honored the video game industry in 2018. It was held on December 3, 2018 and broadcast on December 9, 2018 on CBS. ^[2] It was the first gaming and Esports awards show to be televised on a broadcast network. ^[3]

Event

The idea for the show came from Michael Burg, executive producer for the Teen Choice Awards. ^{[4] [5] [1]} Victor Borachuk along with his company JupiterReturn, left the project prior to the show's airing. ^[1]

The awards were based on fan voting ^[3] and online public voting was held beginning November 17, 2018 to decide the winners. ^{[4] [5]} Two previews shows were held on November 17 and November 18, 2018 and aired on CBS. ^[6] The initial shows were nomination shows prior to the main show on December 9. ^[1]

The award show was held on December 3, 2018 at The Fonda Theatre in Hollywood, California. KISS performed followed by a tribute to Stan Lee. ^[7] The competition featured 150 nominees in 22 categories. ^[1]

The show premiered on CBS on December 9, 2018. ^[8] Winners included Ninja who was awarded Fan Favorite Esports Player of the Year, Fan Favorite Gamer Moment, and the 2018 Super Nova Honor. ^[7] Other winners included TimTheTatman and Pokimane who were named Streamers of the Year. Fortnite led the award shows with five fan favorite awards. ^[7] Additional winners included Terry Crews for Fan Favorite Celebrity Gamer and Snoop Dogg for Fan Favorite Music Artist Gamer.^{[ citation needed ]}

Winners and nominees

Video games

Titles in bold won in their respective category. ^{[3] [2] [4]}

Fan Favorite Game	Most Anticipated Game	Fan Favorite Action Game
Fortnite — Epic Games God of War — Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Spider-Man — Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Overwatch — Blizzard Entertainment Dragon Ball FighterZ — Arc System Works/Bandai Namco Entertainment/NIS America Celeste — Matt Makes Games League of Legends — Riot Games Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — Treyarch/Activision Assassin's Creed Odyssey — Ubisoft Monster Hunter: World — Capcom	The Last of Us Part II — Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Kingdom Hearts III — Square Enix The Elder Scrolls VI — Bethesda Softworks Death Stranding — Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Cyberpunk 2077 — CD Projekt Red/CD Projekt Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice — FromSoftware/Activision Rage 2 — Avalanche Studios/Bethesda Softworks Days Gone — Bend Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Anthem — Bioware/Electronic Arts Tom Clancy's The Division 2 — Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft	Spider-Man — Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment God of War — Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Assassin's Creed Odyssey — Ubisoft Shadow of the Tomb Raider — Eidos Montréal/Square Enix Far Cry 5 — Ubisoft
Fan Favorite Single Player Gaming Experience	Fan Favorite Multiplayer Game	Fan Favorite Shooter Game
Spider-Man — Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Celeste — Matt Makes Games God of War — Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Assassin's Creed Odyssey — Ubisoft Detroit: Become Human — Quantic Dream/Sony Interactive Entertainment	Fortnite — Epic Games Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — Treyarch/Activision Destiny 2: Forsaken — Bungie/Activision World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth — Blizzard Entertainment Overwatch — Blizzard Entertainment A Way Out — Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds — PUBG Corporation Monster Hunter: World — Capcom	Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — Treyarch/Activision Overwatch — Blizzard Entertainment Destiny 2: Forsaken — Bungie/Activision Quake Champions — id Software/Bethesda Softworks Far Cry 5 — Ubisoft Warframe — Digital Extremes Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege — Ubisoft
Fan Favorite Mobile Game	Fan Favorite Sports/Racing Game	Fan Favorite Family-Friendly Multiplayer Game
Pokémon Go — The Pokémon Company/Niantic PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Mobile — PUBG Corporation/Tencent Games Arena of Valor — Timi Studio Group/Tencent Games Florence — Mountains/Annapurna Interactive Alto's Odyssey — Team Alto/Snowman Vandals — Cosmografik/Novelab/Ex Nihilo/ARTE France	Rocket League — Psyonix FIFA 19 — EA Sports NBA 2K19 — Visual Concepts/2K Sports Forza Horizon 4 — Playground Games/Microsoft Studios NHL 19 — EA Sports WWE 2K19 — Yuke's/Visual Concepts/2K Sports Madden NFL 19 — EA Sports	Super Mario Party — NDcube/Nintendo Mario Tennis Aces — Camelot Software Planning/Nintendo Overcooked 2 — Ghost Town Games/Team17 Starlink: Battle for Atlas — Ubisoft Scribblenauts Showdown — Shiver Entertainment/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Lego The Incredibles — TT Fusion/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Just Dance 2018 — Ubisoft
Fan Favorite Esports Game	Fan Favorite Battle Royale Game	Fan Favorite Fighting Game
Fortnite — Epic Games League of Legends — Riot Games Dota 2 — Valve Overwatch — Blizzard Entertainment Counter-Strike: Global Offensive — Hidden Path Entertainment/Valve Dragon Ball FighterZ — Arc System Works/Bandai Namco Entertainment/NIS America Super Smash Bros. Melee — HAL Laboratory/Nintendo Rocket League — Psyonix PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds — PUBG Corporation	Fortnite — Epic Games PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds — PUBG Corporation Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — Blackout — Treyarch/Activision Realm Royale — Hi-Rez Studios Ring of Elysium — Tencent Games/Garena Darwin Project — Scavengers Studio H1Z1 — Daybreak Game Company	Dragon Ball FighterZ — Arc System Works/Bandai Namco Entertainment/NIS America Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition — Capcom/Dimps Soulcalibur VI — Bandai Namco Entertainment Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection — Digital Eclipse/Capcom BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle — Arc System Works Fighting EX Layer — Arika
Fan Favorite Role-Playing Game	Fan Favorite MMORPG	Fan Favorite VR Game
Monster Hunter: World — Capcom Path of Exile — Grinding Gear Games Dragon Quest XI — Square Enix Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom — Level-5 (company)/Bandai Namco Entertainment Kingdom Come: Deliverance — Warhorse Studios/Deep Silver Octopath Traveler — Square Enix/Acquire/Nintendo Diablo III — Blizzard Entertainment Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire — Obsidian Entertainment/Versus Evil Moonlighter — Digital Sun/11 Bit Studios	World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth — Blizzard Entertainment The Elder Scrolls Online — ZeniMax Online Studios/Bethesda Softworks MapleStory 2 — NSquare/Nexon Lineage 2 Revolution — Netmarble Games Black Desert Online — Pearl Abyss/Kakao Games Eve Online — CCP Games Final Fantasy XIV — Square Enix	Beat Saber — Beat Games Moss — Polyarc Pixel Ripped 1989 — Arvore Immersive Games Brass Tactics — Hidden Path Entertainment Sprint Vector — Survios Creed: Rise to Glory — Survios
Most Desired Franchise Resurrection	Fan Favorite Indie Game	Fan Favorite Fall Release
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic — BioWare/LucasArts Half-Life — Valve F-Zero — Nintendo Banjo Kazooie — Rare Earthbound — HAL Laboratory Chrono Trigger — Square Jet Set Radio — Sega	Subnautica — Unknown Worlds Entertainment Celeste — Matt Makes Games Dead Cells — Motion Twin Into the Breach — Subset Games Iconoclasts — Konjak/Bitfrost Entertainment Donut County — Ben Esposito/Annapurna Interactive Moonlight — MonkeyMaw	Red Dead Redemption 2 — Rockstar Games [4] Fallout 76 — Bethesda Softworks Battlefield V — EA DICE/Electronic Arts Warframe: Fortuna — Digital Extremes
Fan Favorite Character of the Year	Fan Favorite Male Voice Actor	Fan Favorite Female Voice Actor
Peter Parker/Spider-Man — Spider-Man Kratos — God of War Lara Croft — Shadow of the Tomb Raider Leo Caruso — A Way Out Connor — Detroit: Become Human Alexios and Kassandra — Assassin's Creed Odyssey	Christopher Judge as Kratos — God of War Bryan Dechart as Connor — Detroit: Become Human Jesse Williams as Markus — Detroit: Become Human Yuri Lowenthal as Peter Parker/Spider-Man — Spider-Man Jeremy Davies as Baldur — God of War Greg Bryk as Joseph Seed — Far Cry 5 Michael Antonakos as Alexios — Assassin's Creed Odyssey	Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft — Shadow of the Tomb Raider Valorie Curry as Kara — Detroit: Become Human Danielle Bisutti as Freya — God of War Laura Bailey as Mary Jane Watson — Spider-Man Tara Platt as Yuri Watanabe — Spider-Man Melissanthi Mahut as Kassandra — Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Fan Favorite Retro Game	Fan Favorite Retro Character	Fan Favorite Gaming Moment
Super Mario Bros. — Nintendo Pong — Atari, Inc. Space Invaders — Taito/Midway Games The Legend of Zelda — Nintendo Tetris — Alexey Pajitnov	Mario — Mario Link — The Legend of Zelda Donkey Kong — Donkey Kong Pac-Man — Pac-Man Bomberman — Bomberman Bonk — Bonk's Adventure Mega Man — Mega Man Sonic the Hedgehog — Sonic the Hedgehog Samus Aran — Metroid	Ninja plays with Drake The_Happy_Hob beats the Dark Souls trilogy without taking a single hit Red Dead Redemption 2 has the biggest opening weekend of any entertainment property Dr DisRespect hits a $100 headshot tyler1 returns to League of Legends 16 year old Joseph Saelee becomes Tetris World Champion Soviet Womble attempts a tactical strategy

Esports and celebrities

Fan Favorite Male Gamer/Streamer	Fan Favorite Female Gamer/Streamer	Fan Favorite Esports Player
TimTheTatman Ninja — Tyler Blevins Shroud — Michael Grzesiek Dr DisRespect — Herschel Beahm IV Tyler1 — Tyler Steinkamp summit1g — Jaryd Lazar Lirik — Saqib Zahid Dr Lupo TFUE	Pokimane — Imane Anys AnneMunition Mystik — Kat Gunn itsHafu — Rumay Wang KittyPlays — Kristen Michaela Geguri — Kim Se-Yeon Xmiramira — Amira Juliano — Julia Kiran zAAb — Zainab Turkie	Ninja [note 1]
Favorite Celebrity Gamer (Musician)	Favorite Celebrity Gamer (Athlete)	Favorite Celebrity Gamer (Actor)
Snoop Dogg Marshmello Post Malone Drake Lupe Fiasco Justin Bieber	JuJu Smith-Schuster Xavier Woods Gordon Hayward Kenny Omega Demetrious Johnson Ronda Rousey Jeremy Lin Neymar David Price (baseball)	Terry Crews Vin Diesel Mila Kunis Olivia Munn Zac Efron Henry Cavill
Fan Favorite Esports Team	Fan Favorite Esports Moment	Fan Favorite Esports Host
FaZe Clan Cloud9 Team Liquid Team SoloMid 100 Thieves G2 Esports Fnatic	Cloud9 wins Boston Major Cloud9's League of Legends Worlds Run OG wins The International 2018 Mew2King wins Smash Summit 6 NRG Esports zero-second goal in Rocket League Championship Series Evil Geniuses wins Call of Duty Championship 2018	Alex Mendez Eefje Depoortere Paul Chaloner Alex Richardson Rachel Quirico Jorien van der Heijden Sue Lee Chris Puckett
Fan Favorite Esports Event of the Year	Fan Favorite Esports League Format	Fan Favorite Collegiate Esports Team
Call of Duty World League League of Legends World Championship The International Overwatch League Evolution Championship Series ELEAGUE	Fortnite — Community Skirmishes Dota 2 — Dota Pro Circuit League of Legends — League of Legends Championship Series Overwatch — Overwatch League Street Fighter V — Capcom Pro Tour Counter-Strike: Global Offensive — Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championships	Ohio State University Bellevue University University of Utah Maryville University University of Washington University of California, Irvine Robert Morris University University of California, Berkeley
Fan Favorite Esports Player (League of Legends)	Fan Favorite Esports Player (Dota 2)	Fan Favorite Esports Player (Super Smash Bros Melee)
Faker Doublelift Bjergsen Sneaky Aphromoo Uzi Svenskeren	Miracle Topson Somnus 7ckngMad RAMZES666 No[o]ne ana	Mang0 Leffen Hungrybox Mew2King Armada Plup aMSa
Fan Favorite Esports Player (Dragon Ball FighterZ)	Fan Favorite Esports Player (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)	Fan Favorite Esports Player (Overwatch)
SonicFox Kazunoko NYChrisG Moke HookGangGod Dogura Go1	s1mple RIMZ FalleN NiKo coldzera dev1ce	Profit JJonak Muma SoOn Carpe Eqo
Fan Favorite Esports Player (Rocket League)	Fan Favorite Esports Player (Fortnite)	Fan Favorite Esports Player (PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds)
Squishy Kaydop GarrettG Turbopulsa ViolentPanda Kuxir JSTN	Ninja Tfue Vivid Poach Cloakzy	Fuzzface lionkk Sambty EscA Pr0phie
Fan Favorite Esports Caster	Fan Favorite Esports Caster Duo	Favorite Streaming Service
CouRage [4] Rivington Bruce Bisland III Toby "Tobiwan" Dawson Anders Blume Indiana "Froskurinn" Black Clint "Maven" Evans Mitch "Uber" Leslie Lauren "Pansy" Scott D'Ron "D1" Maingrette Michael "Yipes" Mendoza	Monte and Doa [9] Artosis and Tasteless Scar and Toph Sajam and Tasty Steve James Bardolph and ddk James Chen and Ultra David Achillos and Wolf Brandon Smith and Richard Buckley	Twitch Mixer Facebook Gaming YouTube Gaming

Other

Fan Favorite Gaming Device	Fan Favorite Gaming Convention
Personal computer Xbox One PlayStation 4 Nintendo Switch Mobile phone	TwitchCon BlizzCon E3 SXSW Gaming Awards PAX DreamHack MineCon

Notes

1. In official Gamers' Choice Awards press releases, this award is listed. However, no nominations for this category were published by the Gamers' Choice Awards.

References

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