Dragon Age Inquisition Wins Goty At Sxsw

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