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The Game Awards 2021 Winners Revealed: It Takes Two Wins Game Of The Year

All the winners.

By Eddie Makuch on December 9, 2021 at 9:08PM PST

The Game Awards took place in Los Angeles tonight. In addition to a ton of announcements, the awards show also included... awards, of course. Below you can find a roundup of all the categories and winners.

It Takes Two was the big winner of the evening, taking home overall Game of the Year, as well as Best Family Game and Best Multiplayer. Deathloop also did well at the show, winning Best Game Direction and Best Art Direction. Microsoft's Forza Horizon 5 also performed well at The Game Awards, winning Best Audio Design, Best Sports/Racing, and best Innovation in Accessibility.

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You can see all the categories below. The winners are printed in bold.

Outside of the awards, there were plenty of big announcements, including Star Wars Eclipse from Quantic Dream, Wonder Woman from Monolith, and Alan Wake 2, just to name a few. For more, check out GameSpot's roundup of all the big news from The Game Awards.

2021 Game Awards Nominees

Winners in bold

Game of the Year

Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)
Metroid Dread (Mercury Steam/Nintendo)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)
Resident Evil Village (Capcom)

Best Game Direction

Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)
Returnal (Housemarque/SIE)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)

Best Ongoing

Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
Call of Duty: Warzone (Infinity Ward/Raven/Activision)
Final Fantasy XIV Online (Square Enix)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
Genshin Impact (MiHoYo)

Best Indie

12 Minutes (Luis Antonio/Annapurna Interactive)
Death’s Door (Acid Nerve/Devolver Digital)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver Digital)
Loop Hero (Four Quarters/Devolver Digital)

Best Debut Indie

Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
Sable (Shedworks/Raw Fury)
The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna)
The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller/Dear Villagers)
Valheim (Iron Gate/Coffee Stain)

Best Narrative

Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)
Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine/SQUARE ENIX)
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal/SQUARE ENIX)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)

Best Art Direction

Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)
The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna)

Best Score and Music

Cyberpunk 2077 (Marcin Przybylowicz, Piotr T. Adamczyk, Composers)
Deathloop (Tom Salta, Composer)
NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 (Keiichi Okabe, Composer)
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Richard Jacques, Composer)
The Artful Escape (Johnny Galvatron & Josh Abrahams, Composers)

Best Audio Design

Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)
Resident Evil Village (Capcom)
Returnal (Housemarque/SIE)

Best Performance

Erika Mori as Alex Chen, Life is Strange: True Colors
Giancarlo Esposito as Anton Castillo, Far Cry 6
Jason E. Kelley as Colt Vahn, Deathloop
Maggie Robertson as Lady Dimitrescu, Resident Evil Village
Ozioma Akagha as Julianna Blake, Deathloop

Games for Impact

Before Your Eyes (GoodbyeWorld Games/Skybound Games)
Boyfriend Dungeon (Kitfox Games)
Chicory (Greg Lobanow, Alexis dean-Jones, Lena Raine, Madeline Berger, A Shell in the Pit/Finji)
Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine/SQUARE ENIX)
No Longer Home (Humble Grove, Hana Lee, Cel Davison, Adrienne Lombardo, Eli Rainsberry/Fellow Traveler)

Best Community Support

Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
Destiny 2 (Bungie)
Final Fantasy XIV Online (Square Enix)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

Best Mobile Game

Fantasian (Mistwalker)
Genshin Impact (MiHoYo)
League of Legends: Wild Rift (Riot Games)
Marvel Future Revolution (Netmarble)
Pokemon Unite (TiMi Studios/The Pokemon Company)

Best VR/AR

Hitman 3 (IO Interactive)
I Expect You To Die 2 (Schell Games)
Lone Echo II (Ready at Dawn/Oculus Studios)
Resident Evil 4 (Armature Studio/Capcom/Oculus Studios)
Sniper Elite VR (Coatsink/Just Add Water/Rebellion Developments)

Best Action

Back 4 Blood (Turtle Rock/WB Games)
Chivalry II (Torn Banner Studios/Tripwire Interactive)
Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)
Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft Toronto/Ubisoft)
Returnal (Housemarque/SIE)

Best Action/Adventure

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal/SQUARE ENIX)
Metroid Dread (Mercury Steam/Nintendo)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine/Xbox Game Studios)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)
Resident Evil Village (Capcom)

Best Role Playing

Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt Red)
Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom)
Scarlet Nexus (Bandai Namco)
Shin Megami Tensei V (Atlus/Sega)
Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco)

Best Fighting

Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles (CyberConnect2/Sega)
Guilty Gear -Strive- (Arc System Works)
Melty Blood: Type Lumina (French-Bread/Delightworks)
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (Ludosity/Fair Play Labs/GameMill)
Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown (Sega)

Best Family

It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)
Mario Party Superstars (NDcube/Nintendo)
New Pokémon Snap (Bandai Namco/The Pokémon Company/Nintendo)
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo)
WarioWare: Get It Together! (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)

Best Sports/Racing

F1 2021 (Codemasters/EA Sports)
FIFA 22 (EA Vancouver/EA Sports)
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
Hot Wheels Unleashed (Milestone)
Riders Republic (Ubisoft Annecy/Ubisoft)

Best Sim/Strategy

Age of Empires IV (Relic Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
Evil Genius 2: World Domination (Rebellion Developments)
Humankind (Amplitude Studios/Sega)
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver)
Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio/Xbox Game Studios)

Best Multiplayer

Back 4 Blood (Turtle Rock/WB Games)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)
Knockout City (Velan Studios/EA)
Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom)
New World (Amazon Games)
Valheim (Iron Gate Studio/Coffee Stain)

Most Anticipated Game

Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo)
Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)

Innovation in Accessibility, Presented by Chevrolet

Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft Toronto/Ubisoft)
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal/SQUARE ENIX)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/SIE)
The Vale: Shadow of the Crown (Creative Bytes Studios/Falling Squirrel)

Content Creator of the Year

Dream
Fuslie
Gaules
Ibai
TheGrefg

Best Esports Game

Call of Duty (Activision)
CS:GO (Valve)
DOTA2 (Valve)
League of Legends (Riot Games)
Valorant (Riot Games)

Best Esports Athlete

Chris "Simp" Lehr
Heo "ShowMaker" Su
Magomed "Collapse" Khalilov
Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev
Tyson "TenZ" Ngo

Best Esports Team

Atlanta FaZe (COD)
DWG KIA (LOL)
Natus Vincere (CS:GO)
Sentinels (Valorant)
Team Spirit (DOTA2)

Best Esports Coach

Airat “Silent” Gaziev
Andrey "ENGH" Sholokhov
Andrii "B1ad3" Horodenskyi
James "Crowder" Crowder
Kim "kkOma" Jeong-gyun

Best Esports Event

2021 League of Legends World Championship
PGL Major Stockholm 2021
PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2020
The International 2021
Valorant Champions Tour: Stage 2 Masters

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It’s pretty amazing, given that maybe a year and a half ago, if polled, Cyberpunk would probably have been a lock for the predicted game of the year, and it didn’t win in any category. I still haven’t gotten it, myself. I’m waiting for the next Gen patch, and then for the news articles that proclaim Cyberpunk is finally where we hoped it would have been all along.

On the noms and winners, has a sports/racing game ever been nominated or won GotY? I don’t recall ever seeing one which makes no sense to me. Forza Horizon 5, from the games I’ve actually played this year, is easily one of the best of the year for me and I’ve yet to see a review that isn’t glowing, same with past games in the series, but they never seem to win the big one.

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It Takes Two should have NEVER WON G.O.Y. What about Genshin Impact on PS5 and Deathloop on PS5. Completely rigged.

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@snoclaf94: Have you played It Takes Two?

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Annus Horriblis.

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Giving an award for the most anticipated game is just bizarre. No real surprises since this has been one of the weakest years for games in awhile.

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Fifa competing for best sport hahahahaha
WHAT A JOKE! Maybe if they had "best money grab game" or "best fake marketing" they get 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, no contest.

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@inmycontrol: Konami Efootball would win though.

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Second worst Game Awards ever.

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@lilhurk1985187: I agree

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The Doritos Pope Pay For Play Advertising Spectacular?

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@Thanatos2k: Basically.

The GDC is the awards that matter, voted on by game developers.

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@texasgoldrush: Not sure I'd trust game devs either in deciding what was the best game. Because if they knew that, they wouldn't make any bad ones.

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@Thanatos2k: Their GOTY list over the years is solid. Better than TGAs.

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These awards are meaningless trash. But thanks for the trailers, Geoff.

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@lifeisabeach: Yeah, with hints of racism in its Best Performance pick awarding it to a white actress who is in the game only 18 minutes while the rest of the actors were of color, who had larger roles, with Erika Mori basically making her game a success.

The game media has a problem in regards to race, they like to virtue signal about it, but when it comes to show solidary, they never do.

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@texasgoldrush: Sorry, I don't know what you're referring to. I've watched the show last year once and that will be the only time.

I just watch some of the trailers afterwards.

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@lifeisabeach: I am talking about this years Best Performance award pick. While I don't really care about awards mostly, that award proved my point on how much the games media is trash when it actually comes to race and other things they virtue signal about.

But yeah, the show was absolute garbage. It needs to die like the SPIKE awards, its predecessor.

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@texasgoldrush: Yeah, games media is horrible nowadays. I don't even need a new scandal to come to that conclusion lol

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to me the whole thing was trash not really a lot of good games and the few i voted for did not win hopefully next year will be better and who has the money for the new systems lol

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@gamergirl2013: Well, the whole thing is trash. You have some good trailers afterwards, but that's it.

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There were some categories that were announced in the show with no time allowance for giving out the corresponding awards to their recipients and permitting winners to give speeches; there were also categories that were announced in passing by off-stage announcer (the lady's voice) when winners were walking up to the stage. Be sure that this list includes those "passively-awarded categories," too (I guess I'd also call them "offhand mentions").

Every year, I have problems with TGA's format, and the above is one of them. The remarks for "passive category" awards are in the same vein as when the announcers list trivia & helpful informationfor winners at other award shows, like the Oscars. For example, "Meryl Streep has also been nominated for best actress a million times last year, some other year and so forth and won X/Y times" (lol), or "this movie is also nominated this year for Best Picture and so forth." They might even do the awards that don't make the cut for the actual award show, but, again, ones like Oscars may have separate un-televised shows for such awards -- the Scientific & Technical Awards for instance.

Well, I guess part of my problem is less what was being mention in-passing, but rather if those things were actually part of the above list of main categories. You see, it looks like the genre-specific categories -- and indeed the overall categories perhaps -- are dwindling as the years go by. I understand that there's limited time, but don't skimp on the red meat of the award show. It's borderline insulting to the nominees let alone the winners. (He was already warned about this from fandoms about ten years ago).

And therein lies the true problem for this show since it's original inception as the Spike VGA's: the trailers take up too much time.

Look, suffice to say that media commentators like IGN & Twitch streamers are reviewing trailers now on/off the show -- yes, ON THE SHOW, meaning Keighley the Self-Important continuously laces us with colourful commentary before AND after a trailer premieres.

And the fact that Keighley refers to all the trailers as premieres is ridiculous. The trailers are not premieres or rather events unto themselves -- it's the "content" of the trailer that's important, which is the vertical slicing of a GAME (and gameplay trailers and demos are better slices of games).

Furthermore, a new trailer doesn't even premiere (using the word as a verb here) the game it's for, if those games have already been announced (Suicide Squad for example).

It was already bad enough that some categories are just quickly mentioned by the show's hosts, especially Keighley, and then brushed aside, but then they also do the things that I'm fussing over! Or am I confused with the whole passively-announced award winners? If so, confusion would also be very bad aftertaste for presentation!

And disable the goddamned live chat on Youtube, Keighley. I know he grew up in Toronto and embraces internationality, but he's permitting a little too much leeway with viewers who are clearly foreign span bots as well as toxic local North Americans (who put so much stock in leaks that they're disappointed no matter what trailers turn up at TGA). Christ.

Edit: I wrote "content" bc the trailers - like video games - are media, or media productions, or just productions, or just works. Games are also products. Please use words other than "content" for trailers & games, literally. The content would be the "subject matter" or ingredients of a thing; what is being conveyed through the medium.

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@Jarrkha: The point of the show is the trailers. It's advertising. The awards are just there to trick people into watching the advertising.

....You didn't figure that out?

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@Thanatos2k: Haven't you learned by now that I figure a thing out along time ago but don't agree and only speak up after my annoyance builds up to a dam-breaking point?

It is NOT the sole point of the show for us, but would be the point for Keighley... and yet I can't figure how he ever first lined up ad-based sponsorship to pay for his ego project (tbh, he would've had to grease some serious wheels to get them to agree to broadcast "exclusive" 'premieres' on this show).

Already mentioned before that the trailers themselves aren't the thing we're extolling or yearning for: it's the potential content teased therein (the WIP games), but today's streamers & commentators are viewing them as productions unto themselves (people like Stella from IGN or literally any mid-tier Twitcher doing live reactions). That's why you might've found it funny when Keighley kept calling most of those trailers as "premieres," especially for games already announced. I certainly did.

I cared more about the semantics of the whole thing and the strangeness of this new generation STILL not seeing through the fluff. If there's any confusion as to what I mean, this'll clear it up: the trailers are tools, the means, and not the ends. Don't parade tools on a red carpet.

I apologize for the snark; I've been dealing with stupid closet-prejudiced reactionaries and closeted majority-ethnic supremacists in my own home turf all day.

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I’m thrilled to see Forza Horizon 5 get a number of awards. I feel Halo Infinite being a no show anyplace in the nomination category was a sin. Happy to see It Takes Two win some well deserved Awards,never played it but looks like a lot of fun.

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@brimmul777: Halo came out past the cut off date so it will be eligible next year for awards.

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@drod0756: Thanks for the heads up, I just figured it was from January to December game releases. Good to know.

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Reading the comments, it seems a lot of people take these awards as gospel. You really shouldn't.

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meh... let's just say... controversial choices. Good to see returnal win best action though.

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It's stupid: they combine strategy/sim which are different categories, yet for $$$ have esports game, esports player, esports team, esports coach, esports event, esports logo, esports jersey...

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Mine and my sons GOTY is It takes two. Amazing

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Lol, yeah It Takes Two clearly game of the year.

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Im glad Genshin impact won! yess!! free primogems! LOL.. it's freemogems!!!

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@karolski: I had hoped they'd win Best Score and Music because dude, the music is breathtaking. I cna't really wrap my head around the fact that Nier won. I mean it's nice music but it feels so much more generic than that of many of the other contestants. To each their own, I guess.

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@dracuella: Uh, none of the Nier soundtracks are generic. I don't even remember Genshin Impact's music from the 10-20 hours I devoted to that slightly overhyped game.

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@Jarrkha: meh.. to each his. i played and finished Nier and can't remember the soundtrack either.

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@karolski: That definitely sounds like a you "problem."

By the very nature of the half non-melodic instrumental scoring & the chaotic language they use (the literal name for that fake anguage IIRC), the rarely-used *Ghost In The Shell* style of vocal choruses in some pieces, the alternation of main singers and the style of the song (though not necessarily the mood they hope to convey; most game soundtracks differ their songs for different moods), it already defies most conventions in gaming soundtracks. Logically speaking, it thus cannot be generic.

If you didn't like a thing, then that's definitely your prerogative, but nobody else would care about that and wouldn't thus take it into consideration when discussing the nature or essence of a thing's quality. But whether something is *generic* or someone likes it or not - or SHOULD - are two separate considerations.

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Democracy just doesn’t work.

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@mattock1987: A Democracy is a system of government. How does that possibly apply here?

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@thecupidstunts: In this case, we viewers and patrons ("fans" I guess, the favourite word used by today's article writers) voted for the winners from the pre-selected nominees.

There are several problems with this, but I think the crux of it all is that industry and fandoms at large did not vet Geoff Keighley's system when he first set up the nominations committees/boards in 2014 (he's probably tweaked them since then, tbf), and for a while at least, he held the power of the people which was not willingly attributed to him.

The difference between this and the Oscars, for example, is two-fold:

(1) The Oscars' nomination process is rigorously through the Academy, which comprises thousands of individuals working in that standardized industry, and whom recognize the Academy as the body in the industry. Most of these people were not hand-picked by association but earned their way in as professionals. The processes of selecting nominees and winners is also at least somewhat publicly known to us. Keighley has kept his process in the dark, and is the arbitrator (or at least was) of who sits on the nominations' committees.

(2) The Oscars started 80 or so years ago. In that time, all of the original people who started the awards, and their successors, have died. In the generations hence, that show became entrenched and pushed out whatever was competing with it before and stifled whatever came after. People today watch it out of habit, as if it is an institution or hallmark of cultural identity. TGA, and gaming in general, is far too young a phenomenon to be entrenched like that, so it still warrants a TON of public scrutiny and format-tweaking, and one guy holding the reins makes that all amplified.

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@Jarrkha: What does that have to do with a Democracy?

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@thecupidstunts: Any result/system requiring/allowing for, popular / populist voting & acclamation, is intrinsically democratic. Democratic by design, even. That's the key consideration in this discussion, and not whether a show's pre-broadcast / pre-production structure could be stretched to analogically fit the literal definitions of "Democracy." Implicitly understood, that, shouldn't have had to elucidate.

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Damn my game Psychonauts 2 came out empty. I thought for sure that game would wakaway with at least one.

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@doomsdayhell01: Its 99% Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam, the highest of the year.

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@doomsdayhell01: same. I'm disappointed. People need to play that gem. I hope more people do regardless of awards.

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Complete surprise.

I don't think anyone would have really thought It takes 2 would nab the top spot but here we are.

I'm glad for the team but if I'm being honest I can't help but feel there are some shannanigans afoot with that call. We all know Geoff has a close relationship with the developer of the game.

BTW, I love his energy and enthusiasm on stage. He has kind of become a re-occuring theme for the VGAs.

-CONSPIRACY THEORY/TIN FOIL HAT NINJA APPROVED-

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@videogameninja: I would be very surprised, if this guy doesn't have a powder habit.

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@videogameninja: Uh yeah, people thought that it could win.

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These awards are trash.

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