the Game Awards 2014
{{Short description|Video game award ceremony held in Las Vegas}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox award
| name = The Game Awards 2014
| image = 2014 The Games Award Logo.jpg
| date = {{Start date|2014|12|5}}
| venue = The AXIS, Las Vegas, United States
| country = United States
| host = Geoff Keighley
| most_awards = {{plainlist|
}}
| most_nominations = {{plainlist|
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- Dark Souls II
- Destiny
- Hearthstone
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
- South Park: The Stick of Truth
- (3)
}}
| award1_type = Game of the Year
| award1_winner = Dragon Age: Inquisition
| award2_type = Industry Icon Award
| award2_winner = Ken and Roberta Williams (Sierra Entertainment)
| website = {{URL|https://thegameawards.com/rewind/year-2014|thegameawards.com}}
| viewership = 1.9 million
| main = The Game Awards
| next = 2015
}}
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 (VGX in 2013) that were discontinued after the 2013 show. Dragon Age: Inquisition won the shows's Game of the Year award.
Premieres
This year's ceremony featured premieres{{cite web |last=Hillier |first=Brenna |date=December 1, 2014 |url=https://www.vg247.com/2014/12/01/there-will-be-12-world-premieres-at-the-game-awards-2014/ |title=There will be 12 world premieres at The Game Awards 2014 |publisher=VG247 |accessdate=December 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141203203335/http://www.vg247.com/2014/12/01/there-will-be-12-world-premieres-at-the-game-awards-2014/ |archive-date=December 3, 2014 |url-status=live }} of Nintendo's Super Mario Maker, Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Kojima Productions's Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Visceral Games's Battlefield Hardline, FromSoftware's Bloodborne, Supermassive Games's Until Dawn, Ready at Dawn's The Order: 1886, Crystal Dynamics's Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, CD Projekt's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt; The Odd Gentlemen's King's Quest, Three One Zero's Adrift and Natsume Atari'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.{{cite web | url = http://www.polygon.com/2016/12/6/13858794/the-game-awards-audience-up-65-percent-to-3-8m | title = The Game Awards audience up 65 percent to 3.8M | first = Brian | last = Crecente | date = December 6, 2016 | accessdate = December 13, 2017 | work = Polygon | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161207023435/http://www.polygon.com/2016/12/6/13858794/the-game-awards-audience-up-65-percent-to-3-8m | archive-date = December 7, 2016 | url-status = live }}
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.{{cite web |last=Sarkar |first=Samit |date=November 21, 2014 |url=http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/21/7259309/game-awards-2014-nominees |title=Here are the nominees for The Game Awards 2014 |publisher=Polygon |accessdate=November 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107195502/http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/21/7259309/game-awards-2014-nominees |archive-date=November 7, 2015 |url-status=live }}
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on December 5, 2014. Winners are shown first in bold, and indicated with a double-dagger (‡).{{cite web |last=Sarkar |first=Samit |date=December 5, 2014 |url=http://www.polygon.com/2014/12/5/7343105/the-game-awards-2014-winners |title=Here are the winners of The Game Awards 2014 |publisher=Polygon |accessdate=December 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318021617/http://www.polygon.com/2014/12/5/7343105/the-game-awards-2014-winners |archive-date=March 18, 2016 |url-status=live }}
= Jury-voted awards =
= Fan-voted awards =
| class=wikitable |
| style="background:#eedd82; width:50em;" | Most Anticipated Game
! style="background:#eedd82; width:50%" | Esports Player of the Year |
|---|
valign="top" |
| valign="top" |
|
| style="background:#eedd82; width:50%" | Esports Team of the Year
! style="background:#eedd82;" | Trending Gamer |
| valign="top" |
| valign="top" | |
| style="background:#eedd82; width:50em;" | Best Fan Creation |
| valign="top" |
|
= Honorary awards =
| class=wikitable |
| style="background:#eedd82; width:50em;" | Industry Icon Award |
|---|
| valign="top" | |
Games with multiple nominations and awards
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-1-of-2}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Multiple nominations |
| scope="col" width="55" | Nominations
! scope="col" align="center" | Game |
|---|
| rowspan=6 style-"text-align:center" |3 |
| Dark Souls II |
| Destiny |
| Hearthstone |
| Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor |
| South Park: Stick of Truth |
| rowspan=14 style-"text-align:center" |2 |
| Bayonetta 2 |
| Bravely Default |
| Dragon Age: Inquisition |
| Mario Kart 8 |
| Monument Valley |
| Sunset Overdrive |
| Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS |
| Titanfall |
| Valiant Hearts: The Great War |
| Transistor |
| The Walking Dead: Season 2 |
| The Wolf Among Us |
| Wolfenstein: The New Order |
{{Col-2-of-2}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Multiple awards |
| width="55" | Awards
! align="center" | Game |
|---|
| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" | 2
| Destiny |
| Dragon Age: Inquisition |
| Mario Kart 8 |
| Valiant Hearts: The Great War |
{{Col-end}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://thegameawards.com/rewind/year-2014}}
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{{The Game Awards}}
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Category:2014 awards in the United States