Astro Bot wins The Game Awards 2024 Game of the Year with Nintendo tribute [Video]

3D platformer Astro Bot has won the prestigious Game of the Year award at The Game Awards 2024, but it wasn’t Sony that got thanked in the acceptance speech.

It might be called The Game Awards, but it’s the multitude of new game announcements and trailers that accompany the ceremony which most people are primarily interested in, which this year included everything from The Witcher 4 and an Elden Ring spin-off to the new game from The Last Of Us maker Naughty Dog.

The big exception is the hotly contested Game of the Year award, which is always the last to be handed out and which this year we thought to be a very open field, with no clear favourite.

That began to seem less true as the night went on though, as PlayStation 5 exclusive Astro Bot picked up multiple smaller awards along the way, before finally taking home the Game of the Year trophy as well.

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