Hello, everyone. You did all the work leading up to this, and now you have decided the winners in the Game of the Year Awards categories for 2016. Here is what you, the N4G community, decided were the best in their category for 2016.
Best New Video Game Character
Trico (The Last Guardian)
Best Single Player Experience
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Best Multiplayer Experience
Battlefield 1
Best Downloadable Content
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine
Best Episodic Content
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episode 1: Ties that Bind - Part 1
Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Pokemon Go
Best Voice Acting
Nolan North (Nathan Drake, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End)
Best Art Direction
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Best Story
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Best Soundtrack
DOOM
Best Innovation
Virtual Reality Hardware
News Story of the Year
Mid-generation console announcements (PS4 Pro/Scorpio)
Most Anticipated Game of 2017
Red Dead Redemption 2
Fail of the Year
No Man's Sky
Indie Game of the Year
INSIDE
Game of the Year
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
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Some random facts about this year's voting:
* Every single nominee in every single category was voted for, no nominee had zero votes.
* More votes were placed for Best Downloadable Content than any other category.
* The top 4 nominees for Best Soundtrack were only 6 votes apart from one another.
* Nolan North had more votes for his voice acting than Uncharted 4 had in any other category.
Winners of the prediction contest will be contacted via PM soon.
For Southeast Asia, new price changes.
Prices effective starting May 1st, 2026.
Replies(1)Looks like PlayStation took a hit with Marathon and is now quietly adjusting prices worldwide to recover the losses
The price increases are due to the RAM demand associated with AI and the US-Iran war. You can look to any business news website and local news to see that. Heck, even the 2026 Asus Zenbook Duo I've been eyeing has faced delays and has had a price increase of $400; that laptop has two specs. Asus is doing a staggered release with per-orders for the lower spec now and shipping in May and pre-orders for the higher spec that I'm eyeing starting in June. Basically, all computer manufactures are affected. It'll most likely start affecting smart phones too if it hasn't already. I can't remember the last time any major console maker (Nintendo, Sony, Sega, etc) increased the price of their console mid cycle outside of Microsoft just to make more profit.
CGMagazine writes: "And as I said, the actual game of Kiln is so genuinely boring that playing it to unlock the creative tools was such a massive chore that I genuinely started to resent it by the end. Battling is a monotonous button masher. There are only five arenas, and despite being based on different gods from various mythologies, none are particularly memorable in visual style or music. And it’s all just such a homogeneous mess of nothing."
Skewed and Reviewed have posted an interview with Author Mike Diver about his pending book on Aliens video games.
That Uncharted 4 love.
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Yaay UC4 :)
Fail of the year is 100% correct.
Surprised Pokemon Go won. So many people here were trashing it but I guess there are a lot of people who don't comment.