Hello, everyone. You did all the work leading up to this, and now you have decided the winners in the Game of the Year Awards categories for 2016. Here is what you, the N4G community, decided were the best in their category for 2016.
Best New Video Game Character
Trico (The Last Guardian)
Best Single Player Experience
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Best Multiplayer Experience
Battlefield 1
Best Downloadable Content
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine
Best Episodic Content
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episode 1: Ties that Bind - Part 1
Best Handheld/Mobile Game
Pokemon Go
Best Voice Acting
Nolan North (Nathan Drake, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End)
Best Art Direction
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Best Story
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Best Soundtrack
DOOM
Best Innovation
Virtual Reality Hardware
News Story of the Year
Mid-generation console announcements (PS4 Pro/Scorpio)
Most Anticipated Game of 2017
Red Dead Redemption 2
Fail of the Year
No Man's Sky
Indie Game of the Year
INSIDE
Game of the Year
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
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Some random facts about this year's voting:
* Every single nominee in every single category was voted for, no nominee had zero votes.
* More votes were placed for Best Downloadable Content than any other category.
* The top 4 nominees for Best Soundtrack were only 6 votes apart from one another.
* Nolan North had more votes for his voice acting than Uncharted 4 had in any other category.
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That Uncharted 4 love.
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Yaay UC4 :)
Fail of the year is 100% correct.
Surprised Pokemon Go won. So many people here were trashing it but I guess there are a lot of people who don't comment.