As stated on The Game Awards’ official website, the event is an awards show which “recognizes and upholds creative and technical excellence in the global video game industry
Journalist and producer Geoff Keighley founded the event and hosts it every year. Its advisory board includes household gaming industry names such as Hideo Kojima, Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill and Nintendo CEO Doug Bowser. While the advisors help oversee the event, The Game Awards’ results are completely based on gamers’ votes.
Don’t let Astro Bot‘s chibi-style main character and playful atmosphere fool you — this game packs a technical punch, and it took home the 2024 Game Awards’ most prestigious ‘Game of the Year’ award. Astro Bot is developed by Team Asobi and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, and it focuses on a robot’s journey through space. The game is a platformer and is available on PlayStation 5.
Astro Bot had significant success at the 2024 Game Awards, and its second title is ‘Best Game Direction’. The award aims to recognize “outstanding creative vision and innovation in game direction and design.” Nicolas Doucet is the Studio Head and Creative Director of Team Asobi, the game’s development studio.
Metaphor: ReFantazio is a fantasy roleplay game in which a young warrior and his friends go on a quest to break a curse, win the land’s Royal Tournament and restore order after the assassination of a king leaves the region in chaos. The game lives up to its grand premise with the ‘Best Narrative’ award, which the Game Awards delivers to titles with “outstanding storytelling.”
