The Game Awards 2014

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The Game Awards 2014
2014 The Games Award Logo.jpg
DateDecember 5, 2014 (2014-12-05)
Venue The AXIS, Las Vegas, United States
Country United States
Hosted by Geoff Keighley
Highlights
Most awards
Most nominations
Game of the Year Dragon Age: Inquisition
Industry Icon Award Ken and Roberta Williams (Sierra Entertainment)
Website thegameawards.com
Viewership1.9 million
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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 succeeded 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.

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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
Best Independent GameBest Mobile/Handheld Game
Best NarrativeBest Score/Soundtrack
Best PerformanceGames for Change
Best ShooterBest Action/Adventure
Best Role Playing GameBest Fighting Game
Best Family GameBest Sports/Racing Game
Best Online ExperienceBest Remaster

Fan-voted awards

Most Anticipated GameEsports Player of the Year
Esports Team of the YearTrending Gamer
Best Fan Creation

Honorary awards

Industry Icon Award

Games with multiple nominations and awards

References

  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.
  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.
  3. 1 2 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.