The Game Awards 2019 took place last night, it's the fifth annual awards ceremony of its kind hosted by Geoff Keighley and traditionally there have been many Nintendo related announcements at these shows in addition to a lot of other exclusive 'world premiere's' encompassing most of the games industry in general.

Many staff and forum members stayed up to watch the show live and for better or worse there were some good Nintendo annoucements and moments which made it worth sticking it out through all of the general games media/corporate promotion items plus what seemed to be either the reveal of the next Xbox console or two GameCube consoles stacked on top of one another, sprayed black with a disc slot placed at the bottom of the unit; we're not sure which it is yet but it was certainly a reveal it would seem.

In all seriousness, there were a couple of great moments as Doug Bowser the current President of Nintendo of America accepted the award for best fighting games which of course went to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate because why wouldn't it? And later on in the show, former presdient of Nintendo of America, the Fils-A-Mech... (nope that's not right) Reggie Fils-Aime presented the award for best Indie game which went to Disco Elysium but not before he gave a nice speech reflecting on his time in the games industry and mentioning how Shigeru Miyamoto along with the sorely missed Satoru Iwata both started from humble beginnings as well; lest we forget that all great ideas for games must all start from somewhere.

Check below for a handy list of ALL the nominees and winners nicely typed up by our very own Dennis Tummers in addition to some Nintendo related trailers...

The Game Awards 2019 winners and nominees

Game of the Year
Control
Death Stranding
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Resident Evil 2
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice – WINNER
The Outer Worlds

Best Game Direction
Control
Death Stranding – WINNER
Resident Evil 2
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Outer Wilds

Best Narrative
A Plague Tale: Innocence
Control
Death Stranding
Disco Elysium – WINNER
The Outer Worlds

Best Art Direction
Control – WINNER
Death Stranding
Gris
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
The Legend Of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

Best Score/Music
Cadence Of Hyrule
Death Stranding – WINNER
Devil May Cry 5
Kingdom Hearts 3
Sayonara Wild Hearts

Best Audio Design
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare – WINNER
Control
Death Stranding
Gears 5
Resident Evil 2
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Best Performance
Ashly Burch as Parvati Holcomb (The Outer Worlds)
Courtney Hope as Jesse Faden (Control)
Laura Bailey as Kait Diaz (Gears 5)
Mads Mikkelsen as Cliff (Death Stranding) – WINNER
Matthew Porretta as Dr Casper Darling (Control)
Norman Reedus as Sam Porter Bridges (Death Stranding)

Games for Impact
Concrete Genie
Gris – WINNER
Kind Words
Life Is Strange 2
Sea Of Solitude

Best Ongoing Game
Apex Legends
Destiny 2
Final Fantasy 14
Fortnite – WINNER
Rainbow Six Siege

Best Independent Game
Baba Is You
Disco Elysium – WINNER
Katana Zero
Outer Wilds
Untitled Goose Game

Best Mobile Game
Call Of Duty: Mobile – WINNER
Grindstone
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Sky: Children Of Light
What The Golf?

Best Community Support
Apex Legends
Destiny 2 – WINNER
Final Fantasy 14
Fortnite
Rainbow Six Siege

Best VR/AR Game
Asgard’s Wrath
Blood & Truth
Beat Saber – WINNER
No Man’s Sky
Trover Saves The Universe

Best Action Game
Apex Legends
Astral Chain
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare
Devil May Cry 5 – WINNER
Gears 5
Metro Exodus

Best Action/Adventure Game
Borderlands 3
Control
Death Stranding
Resident Evil 2
The Legend Of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice – WINNER

Best RPG
Disco Elysium – WINNER
Final Fantasy 14
Kingdom Hearts 3
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
The Outer Worlds

Best Fighting Game
Dead Or Alive 6
Jump Force
Mortal Kombat 11
Samurai Shodown
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – WINNER

Best Family Game
Luigi’s Mansion 3 – WINNER
Ring Fit Adventure
Super Mario Maker 2
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Yoshi’s Crafted World

Best Strategy Game
Age Of Wonders: Planetfall
Anno 1800
Fire Emblem: Three Houses – WINNER
Total War: Three Kingdoms
Tropico 6
Wargroove

Best Sports/Racing Game
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled – WINNER
DiRT Rally 2.0
eFootball Pro Evolution Soccer 2020
F1 2019
FIFA 20

Best Multiplayer Game
Apex Legends – WINNER
Borderlands 3
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare
Tetris 99
The Division 2

Fresh Indie Game presented by Subway
ZA/UM for Disco Elysium – WINNER
Nomada Studio for Gris
DeadToast Entertainment for My Friend Pedro
Mobius Digital for Outer Wilds
Mega Crit for Slay The Spire
House House for Untitled Goose Game

Content Creator of the Year
Courage – Jack Dunlop
Dr. Lupo – Benjamin Lupo
Ewok – Soleil Wheeler
Grefg – David Martínez
Shroud – Michael Grzesiek – WINNER

Best Esports Game
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Dota 2
Fortnite
League Of Legends – WINNER
Overwatch

Best Esports Player
Kyle ‘Bugha’ Giersdorf – WINNER
Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-hyeok
Luka ‘Perkz’ Perkovic
Oleksandr ‘S1mple’ Kostyliev
Jay ‘Sinatraa’ Won

Best Esports Team
Astralis
G2 Esports – WINNER
OG
San Francisco Shock
Team Liquid

Best Esports Event
2019 Overwatch League Grand Finals
EVO 2019
Fortnite World Cup
IEM Katowice 2019
League Of Legends World Championship 2019 – WINNER
The International 2019

Best Esports Coach
Eric ‘adreN’ Hoag (Team Liquid)
Nu-ri ‘Cain’ Jang (Team Liquid)
Fabian ‘GrabbZ’ Lohmann (G2 Esports)
Kim ‘Kkoma’ Jeong-gyun (SK Telecom T1)
Titouan ‘Sockshka’ Merloz (OG)
Danny ‘Zonic’ Sørensen (Astralis) – WINNER

Best Esports Host
Eefje ‘Sjokz’ Depoortere – WINNER
Alex ‘Machine’ Richardson
Paul ‘Redeye’ Chaloner
Alex ‘Goldenboy’ Mendez
Duan ‘Candice’ Yu-Shuang

Player’s Voice Award
Fire Emblem: Three Houses – WINNER

And here are the trailers for all of the Nintendo related titles which were unveiled...

Also, in case you hadn't watched The Game Awards 2019 yet or if you just wanted to catch a few moments for yourself, you can catch up with it in the video below...

Not a bad showing for Nintendo overall then, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate definitely deserving of its award, it's nice to have a brand new title announced for the Switch in Bravely Default II plus it was good to see so many people in the industry being recognised, so congratulations from all of us here at N-Europe to all of the winners.

Did you watch any of The Game Awards? Were there any moments which you enjoyed? Or was there just too much padding and advertisements for it to be worth watching?

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