Video game award ceremony held in Las Vegas
- 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)
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Game of the Year | Dragon Age: Inquisition |
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Industry Icon Award | Ken and Roberta Williams (Sierra Entertainment) |
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Website | thegameawards.com |
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Viewership | 1.9 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 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 |
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Best Independent Game | Best Mobile/Handheld Game |
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Best Narrative | Best Score/Soundtrack |
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Best Performance | Games for Change |
- Trey Parker as Various Voices – South Park: The Stick of Truth‡
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Best Shooter | Best Action/Adventure |
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Best Role Playing Game | Best Fighting Game |
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Best Family Game | Best Sports/Racing Game |
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Best Online Experience | Best Remaster |
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Fan-voted awards
Most Anticipated Game | Esports Player of the Year |
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Esports Team of the Year | Trending Gamer |
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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
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Honorary awards
Games with multiple nominations and awards
| 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.
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