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Dragon Age: Inquisition Wins GOTY at SXSW

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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor also won the most awards of the show, taking home three of the 21 honors.

Last week, gamers were a little bit puzzled by Destiny winning the BAFTA GOTY award, but now, at the SXSW awards in Austin, Texas, we’ve got a GOTY winner that makes a little more sense. While Bioware’s Dragon Age: Inquisition has taken away the top prize, Monolith’s Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor also performed extremely well, taking home three of the 21 awards.

For what it’s worth, Destiny did actually still win an award at SXSW – the “Excellence in Technical Achievement” award.

The complete list of categories and their winners are as follows:

  • Game of the Year: Dragon Age: Inquisition – Electronic Arts/BioWare
  • Mobile Game of the Year: Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft – Blizzard Entertainment
  • Table Top Game of the Year: Star Realms – White Wizard Games
  • Excellence in Gameplay: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – Warner Bros. Interactive/Monolith Productions
  • Excellence in Art: Child of Light – Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montreal
  • Excellence in Animation: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – Warner Bros. Interactive/Monolith Productions
  • Excellence in Technical Achievement: Destiny – Activision/Bungie
  • Excellence in Visual Achievement: Far Cry 4 – Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montreal
  • Excellence in Narrative The Wolf Among Us – Telltale Games
  • Excellence in Design and Direction: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – Warner Bros. Interactive/Monolith Productions
  • Excellence in SFX: Alien: Isolation – SEGA/The Creative Assembly
  • Excellence in Musical Score: Transistor – Supergiant Games
  • Excellence in Multiplayer: Super Smash Bros. Wii U – Nintendo
  • Excellence in Convergence: South Park: The Stick of Truth – Ubisoft/Obsidian Entertainment
  • Most Valuable Character: Ellie, The Last of Us: Left Behind – Sony Computer Entertainment/Naughty Dog
  • Most Valuable Esports Team: Cloud9
  • Most Valuable Online Channel: Rooster Teeth
  • Most Valuable Add-On Content: The Last of Us: Left Behind – Sony Computer Entertainment/Naughty Dog
  • Most Anticipated Crowdfunded Game: Star Citizen – Cloud Imperium Games
  • Matthew Crump Cultural Innovation Award: This War of Mine – 11 Bit Studios
  • Gamer’s Voice Award: Speedrunners – tinyBuild

Source: GameSpot

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