The Game Awards 2015

The Game Awards 2015 was an award show that honored the best video games of 2015. It was produced and hosted by Geoff Keighley at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on December 3, 2015. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt won the show's Game of the Year award.

The Game Awards 2015
Date	December 3, 2015 (2015-12-03)
Venue	Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles, United States
Country	United States
Hosted by	Geoff Keighley
Highlights
Most awards	Her Story Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Rocket League Splatoon The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2 awards each)
Most nominations	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (6)
Game of the Year	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Industry Icon Award	Brett Sperry and Louis Castle (Westwood Studios)
Viewership	2.3 million

Premieres

The ceremony featured 10 game premieres,[1] including Telltale Games's Batman: The Telltale Series and The Walking Dead: Michonne, Double Fine Productions's Psychonauts 2 and Harmonix's Rock Band VR. There were also new trailers for upcoming games as well including Ubisoft's Far Cry Primal, Naughty Dog's Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Remedy Entertainment's Quantum Break and Cloud Imperium Games's Star Citizen. Ports and remasters were also announced including an Xbox One port for Psyonix's Rocket League and a remastered version of Chair Entertainment's Shadow Complex.

The broadcast saw a total viewership of about 2.3 million.[2]

Winners and nominees

The nominees for The Game Awards 2015 were announced on November 13, 2015. Candidate games must have a commercial release date on or before November 24, 2015, in order to be eligible.[3]

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on December 3, 2015.[3] Winners are shown first in bold.[4]

Jury-voted awards

Game of the Year	Developer of the Year
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red Bloodborne – FromSoftware Fallout 4 – Bethesda Game Studios Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions Super Mario Maker – Nintendo	CD Projekt Red Bethesda Game Studios FromSoftware Kojima Productions Nintendo
Best Independent Game	Best Mobile/Handheld Game
Rocket League – Psyonix Axiom Verge – Tom Happ Her Story – Sam Barlow Ori and the Blind Forest – Moon Studios Undertale – Toby Fox	Lara Croft Go – Square Enix Montréal Downwell – Moppin Fallout Shelter – Bethesda Game Studios and Behaviour Interactive Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate – Capcom Pac-Man 256 – Hipster Whale
Best Narrative	Best Art Direction
Her Story – written by Sam Barlow Life Is Strange – written by Christian Divine and Jean-Luc Cano Tales from the Borderlands – written by Pierre Shorette, Adam Hines, Jeremy Breslau, Chuck Jordan, Eric Stirpe, Anthony Burch, and Zack Keller The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – written by Marcin Blacha and Borys Pugacz-Muraszkiewicz Until Dawn – written by Graham Reznick and Larry Fessenden	Ori and the Blind Forest – Moon Studios Batman: Arkham Knight – Rocksteady Studios Bloodborne – FromSoftware Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red
Best Score/Soundtrack	Best Performance
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – composed by Ludvig Forssell, Justin Burnett, and Daniel James Fallout 4 – composed by Inon Zur Halo 5: Guardians – composed by Kazuma Jinnouchi Ori and the Blind Forest – composed by Gareth Coker The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – composed by Marcin Przybyłowicz, Mikolai Stroinski, and Percival	Viva Seifert as Hannah Smith – Her Story Ashly Burch as Chloe Price – Life Is Strange Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft – Rise of the Tomb Raider Doug Cockle as Geralt of Rivia – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Mark Hamill as the Joker – Batman: Arkham Knight
Games for Impact	Best Shooter
Life Is Strange – Dontnod Entertainment Cibele – Star Maid Games Her Story – Sam Barlow Sunset – Tale of Tales Undertale – by Toby Fox	Splatoon – Nintendo Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Treyarch Destiny: The Taken King – Bungie Halo 5: Guardians – 343 Industries Star Wars Battlefront – EA Digital Illusions CE
Best Action/Adventure	Best Role Playing Game
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions Assassin's Creed Syndicate – Ubisoft Quebec Batman: Arkham Knight – Rocksteady Studios Ori and the Blind Forest – Moon Studios Rise of the Tomb Raider – Crystal Dynamics	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red Bloodborne – FromSoftware Fallout 4 – Bethesda Game Studios Pillars of Eternity – Obsidian Entertainment Undertale – Toby Fox
Best Fighting Game	Best Family Game
Mortal Kombat X – NetherRealm Studios Guilty Gear Xrd –SIGN– – Arc System Works Team Red Rise of Incarnates – Bandai Namco Entertainment Rising Thunder – Radiant Entertainment	Super Mario Maker – Nintendo Disney Infinity 3.0 – Avalanche Software with additional work by Ninja Theory, Studio Gobo, Sumo Digital and United Front Games Lego Dimensions – Traveller's Tales Skylanders: SuperChargers – Vicarious Visions and Beenox Splatoon – Nintendo
Best Sports/Racing Game	Best Multiplayer
Rocket League – Psyonix FIFA 16 – EA Canada Forza Motorsport 6 – Turn 10 Studios NBA 2K16 – Visual Concepts Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 – PES Productions	Splatoon – Nintendo Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Treyarch Destiny: The Taken King – Bungie Halo 5: Guardians – 343 Industries Rocket League – Psyonix

Fan's choice awards

Most Anticipated Game	ESports Player of the Year
No Man's Sky – in development by Hello Games Horizon Zero Dawn – in development by Guerrilla Games Quantum Break – in development by Remedy Entertainment The Last Guardian – in development by genDESIGN and SCE Japan Studio Uncharted 4: A Thief's End – in development by Naughty Dog	Kenny "KennyS" Schrub (Team EnVyUs – Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok (SK Telecom T1 – League of Legends) Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer (Fnatic – Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) Peter "ppd" Dager (Evil Geniuses – Dota 2) Syed Sumail "Suma1L" Hassan (Evil Geniuses – Dota 2)
ESports Team of the Year	ESports Game of the Year
OpTic Gaming Evil Geniuses Fnatic SK Telecom T1 Team SoloMid	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – developed by Valve Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – developed by Sledgehammer Games Dota 2 – developed by Valve Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft – developed by Blizzard Entertainment League of Legends – developed by Riot Games
Trending Gamer	Best Fan Creation
Greg Miller TotalBiscuit Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles Markiplier PewDiePie	Portal Stories: Mel – by Prism Studios GTA V – Targets – by Hoodoo Operator Real GTA – by Corridor Digital Twitch Plays Dark Souls – by Twitch Community

Honorary awards

Industry Icon Award
Brett Sperry and Louis Castle (Westwood Studios)

Games with multiple nominations and awards

Games that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Game
6	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
4	Her Story
	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
	Ori and the Blind Forest
3	Batman: Arkham Knight
	Bloodborne
	Fallout 4
	Halo 5: Guardians
	Life Is Strange
	Rocket League
	Splatoon
	Undertale
2	Call of Duty: Black Ops III
	Destiny: The Taken King
	Rise of the Tomb Raider
	Super Mario Maker

Games that received multiple awards

Awards	Game
2	Her Story
	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
	Rocket League
	Splatoon
	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

References

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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. Sarkar, Samit (November 13, 2015). "Here are the nominees for The Game Awards 2015". Polygon. Archived from the original on January 11, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
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