Game Awards 2023: Baldur’s Gate 3 wins sport of the 12 months

By Carolina Stanton On Dec 8, 2023

Four men stand on a stage smiling and celebrating. One, dressed in a suit of armour, holds an awards statue - a winged figure with head thrown back as if about to take flight - above his head with one hand. A man to his left in a purple suit smiles and waves, and another immediately behind the armour-wearer has both fingers pointing upwards in celebration. The fourth man, to the right of the shot, looks very pleased but is more restrained.

By Tom Richardson

BBC Newsbeat

Baldur’s Gate 3 has been named Game of the Year on the videogame business’s greatest awards ceremony.

Accepting the award in Los Angeles, developer Larian stated the epic fantasy RPG primarily based on Dungeons and Dragons was a labour of affection.

Wonka actor Timothée Chalamet offered the highest prize to the Belgian studio.

It beat rivals together with Super Mario Wonder, Spider-Man 2, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Alan Wake 2 to the highest prize.

In whole, Baldur’s Gate 3 picked up six awards, together with finest efficiency for actor Neil Newbon, who performed fan favorite Astarion.

Survival horror sport Alan Wake 2 took residence three awards for finest sport path, narrative and artwork path.

A mythical female warrior from Baldur's Gate 3 with green skin and pointy ears. She looks stern, her red eyes focused on something in the distance. We can see her braided hair spilling down her back and the silver shoulder guard of her ornate armour. In the background, a large, black dragon flies into the shot through a thick yellowish-brown cloud.

Other notable wins included The Last of Us TV collection, which gained finest adaptation, Cyberpunk 2077 for finest ongoing sport, and puzzle journey Cocoon within the Best Independent Game class.

Elsewhere, Forza Motorsport picked up the innovation in accessibility award and action-adventure Tchia was named Game for Impact winner.

New reveals

The Game Awards is a mix of awards present and preview occasion, with many followers watching for brand new trailers and bulletins of forthcoming titles.

Fans received a primary take a look at Exodus, a sci-fi RPG from Archetype Entertainment, a studio made up of ex-Bioware builders.

And legendary videogame creator Hideo Kojima unveiled OD, or Overdose, a undertaking he is engaged on with Get Out director Jordan Peele.

A remake of 2013 sport Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons was revealed, alongside new seems at Hellblade 2: Senua’s Saga and Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth.

And Sega introduced it was reviving basic franchises Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio.

A computer-generated image of a forest made up of gnarled trees, shed of their leaves, and bathed in a menacing red light. A translucent image of Alan Wake, a bearded man with chin-length, straggly hair and wearing a grey suit, is imposed over the top. In the lower part of the image a female wearing a blue jacket with FBI written on the back in yellow letters, looks over her shoulder as she cautiously enters the scene

No point out of job cuts

The awards comply with a 12 months that has seen 1000’s of job cuts within the video games business, regardless of an above-average variety of extremely praised titles.

Games firms together with Fortnite maker Epic Games, Assassin’s Creed developer Ubisoft Montreal and Pokemon Go creator Niantic have all introduced cuts.

The awards, organised by gaming journalist Geoff Keighley, is usually criticised for spending extra time on trailers and adverts than handing out prizes in the course of the three-hour present.

And this 12 months there have been complaints that the present sped by a number of awards without delay with out inviting the winners on stage.

Gaming website Kotaku stated: “In a year when developers were laid off nearly every week, it would have been nice… to give all these talented people a moment to shine.”