{"id":112789,"date":"2016-12-02T07:06:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T05:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=112789"},"modified":"2016-12-02T07:07:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T05:07:48","slug":"overwatch-is-the-game-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/112789-overwatch-is-the-game-of-the-year","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch is the Game of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overwatch took home the top prize of &#8220;Game of the Year&#8221; at this year&#8217;s Game Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The multiplayer-shooter faced stiff competition, beating out titles like\u00a0DOOM, Inside, Titanfall 2, and Uncharted 4 to grab first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we\u2019ve been very happy with how the game has been received, we\u2019re also extremely proud that this game and the world that we\u2019re building has a message and it\u2019s a message about heroism,&#8221; said Blizzard&#8217;s Ray Gresko on accepting the award.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a message about diversity. It\u2019s a message about a bright and positive and hopeful future. And these are all things that we really believe everyone needs a little bit of right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other category winners were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Mobile and Handheld Game &#8211; Pokemon GO<\/li>\n<li>Best Family Game &#8211; Pokemon GO<\/li>\n<li>Games For Impact Award &#8211; That Dragon Cancer<\/li>\n<li>Best Independent Game &#8211; Inside<\/li>\n<li>Best Multiplayer Game &#8211; Overwatch<\/li>\n<li>Best Esports Game &#8211; Overwatch<\/li>\n<li>Best Action-Adventure Game &#8211; Dishonored 2<\/li>\n<li>Best Action Game &#8211; DOOM<\/li>\n<li>Best VR Game &#8211; Rez Infinite<\/li>\n<li>Best Fighting Game &#8211; Street Fighter V<\/li>\n<li>Best RPG: The Witcher 3 &#8211; Wild Hunt &#8211; Blood &amp; Wine<\/li>\n<li>Best Strategy Game &#8211; Civilization VI<\/li>\n<li>Best Sports\/Racing Game &#8211; Forza Horizon 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>What was your game of the year? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Awesome tech and gaming deals\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/112613-awesome-tech-and-gaming-deals-4.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome tech and gaming deals<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overwatch took home the top prize of &#8220;Game of the Year&#8221; at this year&#8217;s Game Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":112291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,3,11681,4],"tags":[31,12286,21134,10096,20676],"class_list":["post-112789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-game-awards","tag-goty","tag-overwatch","tag-winners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112793,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112789\/revisions\/112793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}