2023 Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA)

[Music] thank you [Music] good evening and welcome I'm Leslie Sullivan I may not be the CEO of bone smash yet but I'm very honored to be your host tonight for the 23rd annual game developers Choice Awards [Applause] I've got to be honest I'm very nervous to be up here because I have very big shoes to fill the host before me have been Legendary game designers Studio heads actual CEOs you get the picture me

I'm employed in games for the time being uh I'm just up here because I make tick tocks that are critical about the industry hey thank you but the reality is I love games and it turns out I love making them even more even though our industry can be an interesting place to be sometimes yet I'm sure we're all here because you feel the same way I do about this medium and that's what's unique about the choice awards they're chosen by us by Developers I will say it's a good thing I'm not on the jury personally because otherwise vampire survivors would win every award for every category [Applause] best visual art have you seen how many things they fit on one screen best narrative I mean I'm engrossed I'm

invested social impact award sure why not seriously though big congratulations to all the nominees tonight including vampire survivors our first award of the evening is for best audio whether it's the prelude in a Final Fantasy game to remind you of the journey you're about to begin or the distinct Dreadful groan of a zombie in Resident Evil that gets your adrenaline pumping audio and games can be incredibly affecting hopefully you can experience those moments without a 13 year old in your lobby blowing at your headphones with newly invented obscenities here are the nominees for best audio [Music] the nominees for best audio are [Music]

developed by from software Inc published by Bandai Namco entertainment [Music] God of War Ragnarok developed by Santa Monica Studio published by Sony interactive entertainment oh Horizon forbidden rest developed by Gorilla published by Sony interactive entertainment you were part of something bigger once something good metal hellsinger I wish I did developed by The Outsiders the fun calm Studio published by funcom with special thanks to David Goldfarb Sheila Wickstrom aware

of bjorkman nicholasia [Music] stray developed by Blue 12 Studio published by Annapurna Interactive thank you and the winner of the best audio award is God of War Ragnarok [Applause] [Music] foreign thank you so much I'd just like to thank

first and foremost the team uh for just killing it really uh bringing all their passion all their hard work to this it wouldn't be possible we wouldn't be up here today I'd also like to thank SMS uh for their leadership and collaboration on this they're one of the best studios I've ever worked with I'd also like to thank PlayStation and also I'd love to thank my wife Isabella I love you you're amazing and a big thank you to all of our development Partners there's too many to name but we couldn't have done this without you and yep all our friends families and all the fans that play uh you keep us going so thank you [Applause] tens of thousands of games are released every year

and while it's true that probably half of them are those bizarre mobile games you see in ads where you have to mow down 20 000 monsters with a semi truck or pull the right pin to prevent Peter from Family Guy from getting covered in lava for some reason but a lot of new games are original and inventive and fun only a handful of games become greater than the sum of their parts thanks the truly inspirational design here are the nominees for best design [Music] the nominees for best design are [Music] Elden ring developed by from software Inc published by Bandai Namco entertainment [Music] [Music]

developed by second dinner Studios Inc published by Muse neon white developed by Angel Matrix published by Annapurna Interactive stray developed by Blue 12 Studio published by Anna herna Interactive [Music] tunic developed by isometricorp Games published by finji [Music]

thank you and the winner of the best design award is Elden ring [Music] thank you everyone on behalf of the publisher Bandai Namco entertainment America we want to thank all the fans here and unfortunately from software couldn't travel for this particular award show but they've sent a video for you guys so thank you foreign

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[Applause] I see so many insightful posts from thought leaders and think influencers about the next great games industry innovation nfts they're non-fungible folks the metaverse Ready Player one I know I am AI you'll never have to pay an artist again and shareholders love that thankfully the nominees for the

Innovation award actually Advanced the medium in a way that gave players something new and meaningful thank you here are the nominees [Music] nominees for the Innovation award are Elden ring developed by from software Inc published by Bandai Namco entertainment immortality developed and published by half mermaid Productions with special thanks to Sam Barlow Natalie Watson and Connor Carson

light developed by Angel Matrix published by Annapurna Interactive pentament developed by Obsidian Entertainment published by Xbox game studios [Music] thank you straight developed by Blue 12 Studio published by Annapurna Interactive [Music] and the winner of The Innovation award is immortality

[Music] holy [ __ ] I one I still haven't beaten the final boss of Belden ring but this counts oh my god wow wow we weren't expecting this one so I have nothing in my head um I I just want to say that um uh you know uh oh my God I don't know if I I'm really shocked right now um this is uh this I know every all games are labors of love but we really this was such a meticulously uh designed project and Sam is The Mastermind behind it all and really um every decision was so intentional and so genuine and so authentic and um I just I hope that love came through

and it means the world to have that reflected here um and oh God um yeah I mean I mean working with this team has been an absolute privilege everybody that has touched this project has really been so incredible to work with and I think left a mark on it and we're grateful and blown away and honestly in a little bit of a stay of shock for me personally in addition this is the first game that Nathalie and Connor have developed so [Applause] thank you [Music] the Pioneer award celebrates the individuals who developed a breakthrough technology game concept or design or broke through social barriers at a

crucial juncture in video game history Paving the way for those who followed them this year we celebrate Mabel Addis for her groundbreaking work on the Sumerian game [Applause] it is my pleasure to welcome her grandson Eric Johnson to the stage to talk about her life and work [Music] [Music] everybody it is an incredibly unique and momentous honor for my entire family and I to be here in San Francisco to receive this posthumous award for my grandmother tonight my name is Eric Johnson I am one of Mabel's three grandsons accepting the Pioneer award for her this evening

I first need to thank everyone who played a hand in assisting Us in being here this evening notably your senior event producer for the GDC Sarah zalonis thank you Sarah foreign so growing up in the 70s and 80s I recall my grandmother sometimes saying in my day a woman had only three choices for their career path as they stepped out into the world a nurse a secretary and a teacher Gaga as her three grandsons affectionately called her chose the path of educator in 1933 after graduating from Barnard College in New York City and majoring in ancient history Mabel became an elementary school teacher teaching for over 30 years in three separate school districts and as it was in the summer of 1962 that she took part in a grand experiment this experiment would be in the form of an internship through a collaboration between the board of cooperation Educational Services or BOCES and IBM Mabel was asked by IBM to create an

educational based computer game that would teach the challenging subject of Economics to Upper Elementary age students her creation allowed its players to act as rulers of the Sumerian city of lagash the game would be text-based where prompts from the Mainframe computer had to be printed out on pieces of paper were the students keying in their responses back to the Mainframe via the keyboard monitors were not available at that time so students were introduced to this virtual world courtesy of a slide projector that would display images even playing audio lectures through a cassette recorder upon its completion in 1966 this would become known as the Sumerian game the game would be first introduced to a group of 26 6th graders in the town of Yorktown New York and it is because of her work on this game and I say this with an enormous amount of pride as we move through a woman's History Month that my grandmother Mabel Addis is considered to be the world's first female video game designing

as well thank you as well as the very first video game narrative designer of any gender pioneering several features including narrative elements cut scenes and even content patches that can still be seen in modern titles to this day the Sumerian game is considered to be the prototype for strategy and city building games and has been described as the world's first edutainment game so my grandmother had an insatiable appetite for all things related to history as you can probably imagine ancient history was truly her unrivaled passion my grandmother was also a Storyteller at her very core and the unique opportunity to be asked to tell a story with all the latest and highest technology available to her at that time must have been simply intoxicating for her when I was much younger we would often have Lively discussions about history in the living room over her apartment in my

childhood home in Somers New York and her descriptions of characters and events made by the inflection and tone of her voice matched by her wild-eyed enthusiasm were made so vivid for me as a child that I sometimes had to remind myself that she wasn't actually there in that time and place that she was describing so I'm telling you that when I say this woman lived and breathed history I'm not exaggerating so as I now have the vantage point of looking over the entirety of my grandmother's lifetime I'm able to clearly see the tenants for which he chose to hold the closest to her her family her Luster's teaching career and a special type of intersection where creativity attention to great detail and an unquenchable desire to impart information onto others met up it is in that special place that I believe the Sumerian game was born Mabel would never go on to develop any additional work beyond the making of the Sumerian game she retired from her teaching career in 1976 and devoted the rest of her life to her family her travels and her community service it has been almost 20 years

since my grandmother passed and almost 60 years since the development of the Sumerian game so if A Life Lesson can be gleaned from this posthumous award I believe it is this the most important things in her life the work the creative process it was these things that brought her the greatest satisfaction and the most joy and those had all been fully realized within her lifetime so Mabel's family with us this evening consists of her daughter and my mother Alexandra her great her great grandson Samuel my son her great-granddaughter Skye my daughter her great grandson Lucas Johnson who by the way flew in from Denmark just to be a part of all this and my beautiful wife Christy I know Gaga is in this room right now and she is beeping with pride so thank you thank you from the bottom of all of our hearts for honoring her

with this very special and fitting award she truly was a Pioneer in every sense of the word [Applause] foreign [Music] Leslie Sullivan back to the stage [Music] the most Cutting Edge modern games require the expertise and labor of literally hundreds of creators concept artists modelers environment artists animators vfxrs technical

artists and probably a dozen other job titles I'm forgetting all toiling for years to realize A Creative Vision and awe-inspiring Ray traced gajillion polygon detail and then there's some of the most striking imagery and Games scenes seared into our minds and five developers made it and it can run on a GameCube the best visual art category celebrates boldness and creativity in the art direction of games at both ends of the spectrum here are the nominees for best visual art [Music] ilden ring developed by from software Inc published by Bandai Namco entertainment [Music]

God of War Ragnarok developed by Santa Monica Studio published by Sony interactive entertainment [Music] Horizon forbidden West developed by Gorilla published by Sony interactive entertainment sentiment developed by Obsidian Entertainment published by Xbox game studios [Music] stray developed by Blue 12 Studio published by m Perna Interactive

[Music] [Applause] all right and the winner of the best Visual Art Award is Alden ring [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you very much while from software can be here today there's a few of us from Bandai Namco just here to personally accept everyone's thanks for this award so on behalf of our colleagues of Van dynamical entertainment America our colleagues in Japan at Bandai Namco entertainment and of course the masterminds are from software thank you and I don't just work on the game I'm a huge fan so I want to thank the player and the player community for their support of this game

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[Applause] it takes a lot of guts and a lot of hard work to release any game but releasing your first game is a whole other level the next category is Best debut which is only open the studios who released their first publicly available title this year when you think about it that means you only get one chance to win this award so uh good luck here are the nominees [Music] the nominees for Best debut are [Music] neon white developed by Angel Matrix published by Anna Turner Interactive

thank you Norco developed by geography of robots published by raw Fury with special thanks to geography of robots [Music] stray developed by Blue 12 Studio published by Annapurna Interactive [Music] that tunic developed by isometricorp Games published by finji [Applause] vampire survivors developed and

published by punko [Music] thank you and the winner of the best debut award is stray [Applause] [Music] thank you wow thank you so much it's such an honor it's really it means a lot to us we have a lot of people who think to thank

tonight um starting with Vivian Kula the co-founders of Bluetooth Studio thank you for taking this leap of faith um seven years ago to pursue their dreams uh thank you to all the so talented and passionate members of the team that joined us in this incredible journey um thank you to all the people that supported us we're very lucky there was a lot of them so our friends our families our partners companions obviously our dogs our cats they mean everything tell I love you um thank you to Annapurna interactive you guys are absolutely incredible it's an honor to work with you every day thank you so much for all the help you gave us at every step of the way um thank you um and thank you to the players who enjoyed stray we really made it with all of our hearts and also cat people we know you're behind us so thank you

thank you very much thank you [Music] a category of best technology is an interesting one because of the seemingly invisible work behind it what makes games different as a storytelling vehicle as an experience overall are the systems that make games go as a producer I spend a lot of my time working with engineers and even so I'm still convinced that it's all incantations in witchcraft games are a truly unique Fusion of Art and technology in the nominees for best technology push the envelope for what's possible here are the nominees [Music] the nominees for best technology are

a plague tale Requiem developed by a solo Studio published by Focus entertainment with special thanks to Kevin chateau foreign [Music] Warfare 2 developed by Infinity Ward Raven software vinox Treyarch High Moon Studios Sledgehammer Games Activision Shanghai demonware and Toys for Bob published by Activision Elden ring developed by from software Inc published by Bandai Namco entertainment God of War Ragnarok developed by Santa Monica Studio published by Sony

interactive entertainment [Music] Horizon forbidden West developed by Gorilla published by Sony interactive entertainment [Applause] foreign and the winner of the best technology award is God of War Ragnarok [Music] [Music]

oh first I just want to say um it's an honor just to be considered again alongside so many other games this year it's been quite a year for games um and first I want to thank our amazing Tech art and Engineering teams um [Applause] and I truly could not be more proud of them today and I am truly honored to represent them John my partner in crime uh all the managers and leads um our world-class art design animation production and audio teams that make us look good every day um studio and game leadership um Eric Williams Chad Cox Corey barlog Yumi yang Megan Morgan Junior uh Ken Roy and Yuko

Imani uh the Sony atg Sie Tech and tools and Ice who are the unsung heroes of PlayStation Studios Richard Nick Tobias Simon and David and Playstation Studios leadership for their continuing support of our studio uh Scott and Herman and especially our families who supported us in our passion making this game thank you [Applause] [Music] please join me in taking a moment to remember those friends colleagues and co-workers who we lost this year as we reflect on how much they added to our art our industry and our lives

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tonight has a favorite character or moment from a game growing up the award for best narrative celebrates the Excellence of Storytelling in games and the cool thing about storytelling is that anyone can do it in fact every video game executive I've ever interacted with have asked me if I've heard about the hero's journey wow no first I've heard of it here are the nominees for best narrative [Music] the nominee is for best narrative are [Music] God of War Ragnarok if I developed by Santa Monica Studio published by Sony interactive entertainment sorry because it is written

I was a teenage exacolonist developed by Northway Games published by finji with special thanks to Sarah Northway and Lindsay ishihiro [Music] the half mermaid Productions with special thanks to Sam Barlow Emilio gray Alan Scott and Barry Gifford by Obsidian Entertainment published by Xbox game studios [Music] return to Monkey Island developed by terrible Toy Box published by devolver digital with special thanks to Ron

Gilbert and Dave Grossman foreign [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] Sam I swear I didn't plan this I'm sorry I am genuinely shocked to get this uh thank you so much to everyone um friends and family everyone at obsidian

everyone at Xbox for all of this um I'm going to be a little bit of a hater though I do want to say something about GDC um this I've been coming to GDC since it was at San Jose and there are a lot of incredible people that come here and there are a lot of incredible talks that get given and a lot of people will never get to see most of that stuff there's a big accessibility problem with this conference and there's [Applause] this has to do both with compensation and and helping people with travel Arrangements this is an expensive city um and also people getting access to things in the vault um there are a lot of people in this room who work with the advisory Council and I would encourage you to keep pushing to help more people who don't necessarily look like me who have

different experiences to be able to come here and talk and for people around the world who don't have the opportunity to come here um to actually see the wonderful things that people have to communicate about their experiences so um geez I don't know what else to say um thank you I do want to say thank you I'm I'm the narrative lead I'm the director but also kit dollar Hyde and Zoe franznick and Merton radicep thank you so much for helping me with all the writing on this project um wow and of course I I'm a person if you guys want to I'm being horrible about this yeah I'll just hop in for a second it's um just really satisfying to see a game that we knew was uh we were all personally very passionate about and had a lot of shared interested and cared a lot for but to see that resonate with players and with fans and with other developers is just means a lot so thank

you all for your support uh thanks for the support for everyone who facilitated pentiments development along the way and all of our team members they put a lot of heart into the making of this game and I'm extremely proud of how it turned out so thank you I just wanted to thank Josh for having such a Clear Vision for the team to make something this strong and so clear uh can only happen with that kind of like Clarity so I just wanted to thank you for that [Music] games are incredible in that they affect us beyond the experience of well just playing them and having fun they can also touch our lives and our

communities in meaningful ways to get nominated for the social impact award Studios has to do more than just change their Twitter avatars to a pride flag for a month [Applause] these games actually challenge the status quo it made a real impact in the global pursuit of Justice here are the nominees [Music] the nominees for the social impact award are [Music] as dust follows developed by interior night published by Xbox gaming studio family means [Music] citizen sleeper developed by jump over the age published by fellow traveler with special thanks to Gareth Damian Martin

and Amos Roddy [Music] endling Extinction is forever developed by Hero beat studios published by handy games with special thanks to Javier Romeo Pablo Hernandez Daniel Viva and Philip negasbach I was a teenage ex-colonist developed by Northway Games published by finji [Music] only World developed by roll seven published by private division with special thanks to roll seven we are ofk developed by Teddy dies and team ofk published by team ofk with

special thanks to Teddy d 's Kayla Foote Jared hungry Taylor Reynolds and Adriel Wallach thank you and the winner of the social impact award is citizen sleeper Unfortunately they could not be with us this evening but they have submitted a video of their acceptance remarks I'm sorry I can't be there to accept this award a huge honor to receive this award for citizen sleeper to be recognized um in the social impact category because citizen sleeper as a project as a concept has always been a game about what it means to be a person now it's been a game about what it means to be marginalized what it means to experience

precarity and so to be recognized in this category is really meaningful to me I'd like to thank Gian the incredible character designer on the game I'd like to thank Amos Roddy for his music and sound design I'd like to thank a fellow traveler my publisher who've just been incredibly supportive and uh the way they support narrative and experimental game design and it's something I love and I would like to thank my partner and my daughter for their incredible support and love that allows me to make these games thank you so much [Applause] the Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the career and achievements of a developer who has made an indelible impact on the craft of game development and games as a whole tonight we celebrate the incomparable

John Romero [Applause] it is my pleasure to Welcome to the stage Warren Spector to introduce John his life and his work [Music] [Music] there are people in the game development world who have made a difference and then there are people who have made a difference John Romero is one of those all caps types in John's case that's a reflection of his formidable design skills of course but there's so much more to the man than that for one he's one of Gaming's Renaissance people a great designer with a million ideas and the coding and art shops to have made many of them real

and what of those games well there's been a lot of them John started making games as a teenager and has never stopped I'm comfortable saying he's made more games than just about anyone in this room certainly more than anyone else I know but even that isn't enough to capture what makes John special and more than worthy of this long overdue Lifetime Achievement Award you see making a lot of games is great but just look at the games he's made the list is incredible working alone and with some of the most accomplished and acclaimed people in our business he's made games that weren't just wildly commercially successful but games that genuinely changed things Wolfenstein do quake and more in a very real sense John was one of the key people who made gaming what it is today would we have the first person shooter without it how about multiplayer gaming Lan parties and online gaming user

generated content even early versions of Esports and the free to play business model a lot of you are in this room because of John's work a lot of people outside of this room know about you because of John's work games have changed the world and become a cultural force in part because of John's work but there's more reason to honor John tonight everyone knows John's a great developer everyone knows the games he's worked on what's less well known is what he's done for many of us Beyond blazing Trails we're still following today John's contributions outside of development are what make him special to me what many of you may not know is that John has made it possible for many creative people in studios to realize their dreams and succeed at a level they likely wouldn't have been able to achieve without his support I'm one of them at a critical moment in my career John

asked me to join him and made me promises that sounded too good to be true a bigger budget than I'd ever had the biggest marketing spend I'd ever had and with no creative interference whatsoever from anyone he said make the game of your dreams and then supported me in doing just that he lived up to every promise he made John was personally responsible for what I consider to be one of the high points of my career and I'm not alone the rest of you know who you are and even that isn't enough to justify tonight's award John is a guy who has given back not just through his direct contributions to the development Community but by supporting the preservation of our history through his work with a strong Museum of play clearly more important though is his unwavering support of family friends and his Embrace of the latinx and Indigenous

communities of his birth there's more to the story of his history his Heritage and his commitment to both but that's his story to tell and I hope he'll share it someday okay three three more note the worthy things about John before I finish up first there's that hair of course uh this is still black I don't know how that works um second in a career as long as John's he could be forgiven for becoming a bit jaded a bit cynical that hasn't happened John has never lost the sense of wonder that got him started on his journey through the world of games he still has stars in his eyes when he talks about games about the people who inspired him and about how amazing it is to meet Heroes who are everything you hoped they would be finally never death match with the guy you will be fragged

there is one more thing to know about tonight's honoree he's the lucky guy who's married to Brenda Romero an ace designer in her own right and someone who is clearly John's perfect partner so let's give her the last word I don't know anybody who loves games more than you John Romero congratulations on your Lifetime Achievement Award you've devoted your whole life to games since you were 11. I think this is just amazing even though I'm not there I'm there trust me I'm there covergius and a big bulobas from all of us here in Ireland gerv Milam GDC now join me in honoring this year's Lifetime Achievement Award winner John Romero thank you

[Music] thank you thank you so much for this amazing award it took a lifetime to get it um I'm deeply honored and humbled to receive this Lifetime Achievement Award it's truly an extraordinary moment for me reflecting on my career in game development I've been fortunate to work with some of the most talented and creative individuals in the industry in particular Tom Hall John Carmack Adrian Carmack and I were at the right place at the right time with the right people and I'm so proud of the collective impact that we had I'm also grateful to my current team on my new shooter Keith Ronan menu Katie it's a big team

Soul stop there You Know Who You Are thank you for continuing the journey with me I'd also like to take a moment to thank my family and friends for their unwavering Support over the years you know some of whom are with me tonight and Mom Dad got me that Apple II and that changed everything my kids and grandkids thank you always for supporting my work and inviting me to play your games too I could not have accomplished all that I have without you Brenda you're the love of my life my partner and everything finally I want to emphasize that this award's not just about me but it's about the broader community of game developers who have dedicated their lives to creating Unforgettable experiences for players around the world we have a unique opportunity to shape the future of interactive entertainment and I believe that we can make a positive impact on the world through our work so thank you again to GDC and thank all

of you for this incredible honor thank you for playing my games [Applause] please welcome your host Leslie Sullivan back to the stage [Music] we've arrived at the audience award be totally honest seeing this as a category tonight made me a little nervous uh until I found out the parameters around this were set you chose from a predetermined list and thank goodness if it had been an open submission situation who knows what would have popped up here have you ever browsed all new releases on Steam anyways let's see what you stickers voted for to win the audience awarded

and the winner of audience award is God of War Ragnarok [Applause] [Music] [Music] wow okay that was unexpected um oh whoa I don't know what to say well I just really want to thank I mean the audience thank you so much for all your support I mean without the fans we wouldn't be here we wouldn't be making these games without all your support so thank you God of War fans and thank you everybody that voted for us I mean this is really amazing um thank you to um all the team at uh Sunny Santa Monica

you're all out here thank you guys thank you and uh we just want to thank um all our families for all their support especially during this tough time of this production time of the that we've been through in the pandemic uh but we got through it and we did it together as a team and uh I just want to thank you know Sony for all their support uh for always being there for us to give us the creative space to make this this kind of game and uh yeah I mean we're really surprised you guys want to add anything to this yeah all right well uh yeah it's a shock so thank you so much and uh let's move around to the next award thank you [Applause] [Music] what makes the game great it seems like a nearly impossible

question to answer because how do you compare the wildly different experiences games offer just look at some of the past winners of game of the year The Sims Shadow of the Colossus The Last of Us inscription these games are so Divergent from what they're like to play to the context of their developed development and yet every year it has a game of the year ultimately we have to judge the year's best games by how they impact us these are the games we couldn't stop playing we couldn't stop thinking about these are the games your game director couldn't stop name dropping in meetings as justification for throwing your roadmap into complete and utter disarray here are the nominees for Game of the Year [Music]

Golden Ring developed by from software Inc published by Bandai Namco entertainment all of us God of War Ragnarok developed by Santa Monica Studio published by Sony interactive entertainment Melody developed and published by half mermaid Productions with special thanks to Sam Barlow Natalie Watson and Connor Carson [Music] intimate developed by Obsidian Entertainment published by Xbox game studios

[Music] stray developed by Blue 12 Studio published by Annapurna Interactive tunic developed by isometricoric Games published by fringy [Applause] and the winner of game of the year is Eldon ring [Music]

all right on behalf of the publisher obviously this has been an amazing journey for us so we'd like to thank first of all our fans the engagement that we've seen for this game worldwide has been pretty unbelievable I've been in the industry for about 25 years never thought that this would happen um in particular all our teams uh band dynamco entertainment worldwide all the marketing teams the social teams the pr teams um digital sales retail sales uh that have done an amazing job we hope to be able to deliver some great content in the future uh and obviously last but not least we'd like to thank from software for delivering such a masterpiece this year and obviously congratulate all the

nominees it was a very difficult category this year game of the year uh so congratulations to everyone thank you remember videos automatic foreign

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[Applause] thank you congratulations to everyone nominees and winners alike I'd like to thank everyone who made the show possible and to all of you for allowing me to be your host tonight it's truly been an honor I love this industry and seeing you all here tonight fills me with hope for the future of games and for the safety and happiness of the people who make them from the bottom of my heart thank you again and have a wonderful evening [Applause] [Music]

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