With over nine million votes cast by members of the gaming public, From Software's hardcore action RPG sequel was crowned Game of the Year.
Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Watch Dogs maker Ubisoft Montreal was named Studio of the Year, while the Lifetime Achievement was bestowed upon Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima.
Elsewhere, DayZ, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft and Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag each scooped two awards. The open world zombie title was the winner of Best Original Game and Best Indie Game, Blizzard's collectible card game picked up Best Online Game and Best Mobile Game, while Black Flag won Best Visual Design and Best Audio.
Steam won Gaming Platform of the Year, Oculus Rift retained the Innovation of the Year crown, the Most Wanted award was won by The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, while PewDiePie was named Gaming Personality of the Year.
"Following a great event in November of last year, DevGAMM Lisbon is coming back to the beautiful and sunny Cascais region to catch up with old friends, connect with game developers from around the world, hear from seasoned professionals, and have a great time all around." - DevGAMM.
A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
"Nordic Game has revealed the winners of this year’s Nordic Game Awards, which took place on Thursday, May 23, during NG24 Spring and streamed live from Slagthuset in Malmö, Sweden." - Nordic Game.
The Wolf Among Us had the best story as well storytelling.
No offense to The Last Of Us: Left Behind though. :(