{"id":63273,"date":"2014-04-10T13:29:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T11:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63273"},"modified":"2014-04-10T13:34:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T11:34:03","slug":"european-game-awards-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/63273-european-game-awards-winners-announced","title":{"rendered":"European Game Awards winners announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Theft Auto 5 was named Best Game at the European Game Awards, which took place in Germany on 9 April 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Rockstar also picked up the awards for\u00a0Best Sound and Best Action Game. The awards do not come as a surprise, considering GTA 5 was the best selling game of 2013 and received high praise from critics.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft was named Best Publisher, while\u00a0Best Studio was awarded to German free-to-play developer Goodgame Studios &#8211; which also picked up awards for mobile game Empire: Four Kingdoms and the browser-based Goodgame Empire.<\/p>\n<p>The EGA&#8217;s winners are chosen by the public, who voted online in 15 categories, and is the largest independent audience award in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the full list of winners.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best European Action Game &#8211; Grand Theft Auto 5<\/li>\n<li>Best Art Direction &#8211; Battlefield 4<\/li>\n<li>Best European Publisher &#8211; Ubisoft<\/li>\n<li>Best European Adventure Game &#8211; Beyond: Two Souls<\/li>\n<li>Best European Sound &#8211; Grand Theft Auto 5<\/li>\n<li>Best European Studio &#8211; Goodgame Studios<\/li>\n<li>Best European Strategy Game &#8211; Total War: Rome 2<\/li>\n<li>Best Game Design &#8211; Crysis 3<\/li>\n<li>Personality Award &#8211; Victor Kislyi (Wargaming)<\/li>\n<li>Best European Mobile Game &#8211; Empire: Four Kingdoms<\/li>\n<li>Best European Console Game &#8211; World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition<\/li>\n<li>Best European Browser Game &#8211; Goodgame Empire<\/li>\n<li>Best European Multiplayer Game &#8211; Battlefield 4<\/li>\n<li>Best European Indie Game &#8211; Reus<\/li>\n<li>Best European Game &#8211; Grand Theft Auto 5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2014-04-10-gta-v-wins-big-at-the-european-game-awards\" target=\"_blank\">GamesIndustry<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63147-shadow-of-mordor-recommended-pc-specs-released.html\">Shadow of Mordor recommended PC specs released<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63179-battlefield-4-gets-updates-and-fixes.html\">Battlefield 4 gets updates and fixes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63164-what-makes-gamers-aggressive.html\">What makes gamers aggressive?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No surprises when it came to this year&#8217;s overall winner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":58518,"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":[2],"tags":[31,12285,12286,3308,193],"class_list":["post-63273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-european-game-awards","tag-game-awards","tag-gta-5","tag-rockstar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63273","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}