# The Game Awards 2014

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 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.

## 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.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on December 5, 2014. Winners are shown first in bold, and indicated with a double-dagger (‡).

### Jury-voted awards

| Game of the Year | Developer of the Year |
| Dragon Age: Inquisition – BioWare‡ Bayonetta 2 – PlatinumGames Dark Souls II – FromSoftware Hearthstone – Blizzard Entertainment Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – Monolith Productions | Nintendo‡ Blizzard Entertainment Monolith Productions Telltale Games Ubisoft Montreal |
| Best Independent Game | Best Mobile/Handheld Game |
| Shovel Knight – Yacht Club Games‡ Broken Age Act I – Double Fine Productions Monument Valley – Ustwo Transistor – Supergiant Games The Vanishing of Ethan Carter – The Astronauts | Hearthstone – Blizzard Entertainment‡ Bravely Default – Silicon Studio and Square Enix Monument Valley – Ustwo Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS – Sora Ltd and Bandai Namco Games Threes – Sirvo |
| Best Narrative | Best Score/Soundtrack |
| Valiant Hearts: The Great War – Ubisoft Montpellier‡ South Park: The Stick of Truth – Obsidian Entertainment and South Park Digital Studios The Walking Dead: Season Two – Telltale Games The Wolf Among Us – Telltale Games Wolfenstein: The New Order – MachineGames | Destiny – Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O'Donnell and Paul McCartney‡ Alien: Isolation – Byron Bullock, Sam Cooper, Jeff van Dyck, Christian Henson, Joe Henson, Haydn Payne and Alexis Smith Child of Light – Béatrice Martin Sunset Overdrive – Boris Salchow Transistor – Darren Korb |
| Best Performance | Games for Change |
| Trey Parker as Various Voices – South Park: The Stick of Truth‡ Adam Harrington as Bigby Wolf – The Wolf Among Us Kevin Spacey as Jonathan Irons – Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Melissa Hutchison as Clementine – The Walking Dead: Season Two Troy Baker as Talion – Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor | Valiant Hearts: The Great War – Ubisoft Montpellier‡ Mountain – David OReilly Never Alone – Upper One Games and E-Line Media The Last of Us: Left Behind – Naughty Dog This War of Mine – 11 bit studios |
| Best Shooter | Best Action/Adventure |
| Far Cry 4 – Ubisoft Montreal‡ Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – Sledgehammer Games Destiny – Bungie Titanfall – Respawn Entertainment Wolfenstein: The New Order – MachineGames | Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – Monolith Productions‡ Assassin's Creed Unity – Ubisoft Montreal Alien: Isolation – The Creative Assembly Bayonetta 2 – PlatinumGames Sunset Overdrive – Insomniac Games |
| Best Role Playing Game | Best Fighting Game |
| Dragon Age: Inquisition – BioWare‡ Bravely Default – Silicon Studio and Square Enix Dark Souls II – FromSoftware Divinity: Original Sin – Larian Studios South Park: The Stick of Truth – Obsidian Entertainment and South Park Digital Studios | Super Smash Bros. for Wii U – Sora Ltd. and Bandai Namco Games‡ Killer Instinct: Season Two – Double Helix Games, Iron Galaxy Studios, Rare and Microsoft Studios Persona 4 Arena Ultimax – Arc System Works Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS – Sora Ltd. and Bandai Namco Games Ultra Street Fighter IV – Capcom |
| Best Family Game | Best Sports/Racing Game |
| Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo EAD‡ Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes – Avalanche Software Fantasia: Music Evolved – Harmonix Skylanders: Trap Team – Toys for Bob and Beenox Tomodachi Life – Nintendo SPD | Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo EAD‡ FIFA 15 – EA Canada Forza Horizon 2 – Playground Games, Sumo Digital and Turn 10 Studios NBA 2K15 – Visual Concepts Trials Fusion – RedLynx, Ubisoft Shanghai and Ubisoft Kiev |
| Best Online Experience | Best Remaster |
| Destiny – Bungie‡ Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – Sledgehammer Games, High Moon Studios and Raven Software Dark Souls II – FromSoftware Hearthstone – Blizzard Entertainment Titanfall – Respawn Entertainment | Grand Theft Auto V – by Rockstar North‡ Halo: The Master Chief Collection – by Bungie and 343 Industries; redeveloped by 343 Industries Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire – by Game Freak The Last of Us Remastered – by Naughty Dog Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition – originally developed by Crystal Dynamics; redeveloped by Nixxes Software and United Front Games |

### Fan-voted awards

| Most Anticipated Game | Esports Player of the Year |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red Batman: Arkham Knight – Rocksteady Studios Uncharted 4: A Thief's End – Naughty Dog Evolve – Turtle Rock Studios Bloodborne – FromSoftware | Matt "NaDeSHoT" Haag Christopher "GeT RiGhT" Alesund Martin "Rekkles" Larsson James "Firebat" Kostesich Xu "Fy" Linsen |
| Esports Team of the Year | Trending Gamer |
| Ninjas in Pyjamas Evil Geniuses Samsung White Newbee Edward Gaming | TotalBiscuit VanossGaming Jeff Gerstmann PewDiePie StampyLongHead |
| 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 |

### Honorary awards

* Industry Icon Award
* Ken and Roberta Williams (Sierra Entertainment)

## Games with multiple nominations and awards

Multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Game |
| 3 | Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare |
| 3 | Dark Souls II |
| 3 | Destiny |
| 3 | Hearthstone |
| 3 | Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor |
| 3 | South Park: Stick of Truth |
| 2 | Alien: Isolation |
| 2 | Bayonetta 2 |
| 2 | Bravely Default |
| 2 | Dragon Age: Inquisition |
| 2 | Mario Kart 8 |
| 2 | Monument Valley |
| 2 | Sunset Overdrive |
| 2 | Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS |
| 2 | Titanfall |
| 2 | Valiant Hearts: The Great War |
| 2 | Transistor |
| 2 | The Walking Dead: Season 2 |
| 2 | The Wolf Among Us |
| 2 | Wolfenstein: The New Order |
Multiple awards :
| Awards | Game |
| 2 | Destiny |
| 2 | Dragon Age: Inquisition |
| 2 | Mario Kart 8 |
| 2 | Valiant Hearts: The Great War |