The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Wins Best of Gamescom Award

The extremely positive reception to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild continues. After walking away with top honors at E3 (including winning our own Best of Show award!), Zelda also swept the Gamescom awards, walking away with the Best of Show award (in addition to the best Wii U game award)- that’s another feather in the cap for Nintendo’s upcoming game ahead of its release next year.

Elsewhere, EA and DICE’s Battlefield 1 managed to score well with the best game award by popular choice, as well as the best action game award, while PlayStation VR took home the honors of being the best hardware on display at the show.

All in all, it seems to have been a good show with an impressive display of games- the coming year or so will be really amazing for fans of games all around, no matter their platform of choice, that’s for sure.

You can read the full list of winners below:

A. category group: gamescom global awards

gamescom award for Best Add-on/DLC
• Destiny: Rise of Iron (Activision Blizzard)

gamescom award for Best Preview/Vision
• Horizon – Zero Dawn (Sony)

gamescom award for Best Booth
• Mafia III (2K)

B. category group: Platform

Best Console Game Sony Playstation 4
• For Honor (Ubisoft)

Best Console Game Microsoft Xbox One
• Sea of Thieves (Microsoft)

Best Console Game Nintendo Wii U
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo)

Best PC Game
• For Honor (Ubisoft)

Best Mobile Game
• Mario Party Star Rush (Nintendo)

C. category group: Genre

Best Role Playing Game
• Final Fantasy XV (Square Enix)

Best Racing Game
• Forza Horizon 3 (Microsoft)

Best Action Game
• Battlefield 1 (Electronic Arts)

Best Simulation Game
• NBA 2K17 (2K)

Best Sports Game
• Steep (Ubisoft)

Best Family Game
• Skylanders Imaginators (Activision)

Best Strategy Game
• Sid Meier’s Civilization VI (2K)

Best Puzzle / Skill Game
• Dragon Quest Builders (Square Enix)

Best Social / Online Game
• GWENT: The Witcher Card Game (CD Projekt Red)

Best Casual Game
• Battlezone (Rebellion)

Best Multiplayer Game
• Sea of Thieves (Microsoft)

Best Virtual Reality Game
• Wilson’s Heart (Twisted Pixel)

Best Hardware
• PlayStation VR (Sony)

D. category group: Indie award

gamescom Indie award
• Little Nightmares (Bandai Namco)

E. category group: Consumer award
• Battlefield 1 (Electronic Arts)

F. category group: Best of gamescom
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo)

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