The Game Awards 2014


The Game Awards 2014 ceremony, which honored the best video games of 2014, took place at The AXIS in Las Vegas on December 5, 2014. The show was produced and hosted by Geoff Keighley. The ceremony was the first for The Game Awards, which replaced the Keighley-hosted Spike Video Game Awards that were discontinued after the 2013 show. won the shows's Game of the Year award.

Premieres

This year's ceremony featured "world premieres" of Nintendo's Super Mario Maker, ' and ', Kojima Productions's ', Visceral Games's Battlefield Hardline, FromSoftware's Bloodborne, Supermassive Games's Until Dawn, Ready at Dawn's ', Crystal Dynamics's Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, CD Projekt Red's ; The Odd Gentlemen's King's Quest, Three One Zero’s Adrift and Natsume's Godzilla. There were other premieres including Facepunch Studios's Before, Stoic’s The Banner Saga 2, Fullbright's Tacoma, Robotoki’s Human Element and Hello Games's No Man's Sky.
The broadcast saw a total viewership of about 1.9 million.

Winners and nominees

The nominees for The Game Awards 2014 were announced on November 20, 2014. Candidate games must have a release date of November 25, 2014 or earlier in order to be eligible.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on December 5, 2014. Winners are shown first in bold.

Jury-voted awards

Fan-voted awards

Honorary awards

Games with multiple nominations and awards

NominationsGame
3'
3Dark Souls II
3Destiny
3'
3'
3'
2'
2Bayonetta 2
2Bravely Default
2'
2Mario Kart 8
2Monument Valley
2Sunset Overdrive
2Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS
2Titanfall
2'
2Transistor
2'
2The Wolf Among Us
2'

AwardsGame
2Destiny
2'
2Mario Kart 8
2