{"id":84163,"date":"2015-12-04T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=84163"},"modified":"2015-12-04T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:33:36","slug":"the-best-games-of-2015-according-to-the-game-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/84163-the-best-games-of-2015-according-to-the-game-awards","title":{"rendered":"The best games of 2015, according to The Game Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having excited us with new titles and world premieres, <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/84129-the-game-awards-2015-promises-to-surprise-westwood-studios-far-cry-primal-and-oculus-rift.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Game Awards 2015<\/a> has demonstrated some exciting stuff for 2016.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, however, it was an award show.<\/p>\n<p>And while we don\u2019t always agree with their ultimate winners, there\u2019s no doubting that each game was a worthy contender.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, if anything, the winners are certainly worth mentioning, even if only for curiosity\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the best games of 2015, according to The Game Awards 2015:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game of the Year \u2013\u00a0<strong>The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Developer of the Year \u2013\u00a0<strong>CD Projekt Red<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Shooter \u2013\u00a0<strong>Splatoon<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Action-Adventure \u2013\u00a0<strong>Metal Gear Sold V: The Phantom Pain<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best RPG \u2013\u00a0<strong>The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Sports\/Racing Game \u2013\u00a0<strong>Rocket League<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Art Direction \u2013\u00a0<strong>Ori and the Blind Forest<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Score or Soundtrack \u2013\u00a0<strong>Metal Gear Sold V: The Phantom Pain<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt<\/em> and CD Projekt RED got the largest portion of glory, and rightly so.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any winners you particularly agree or disagree with?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re really quite happy that a few indie games were allowed to shine \u2013 too often they\u2019re completely ignored.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>If you liked that then these will be right up your alley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/84073-best-action-game-sequences.html\">Best action game sequences<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/83565-top-5-remastered-hd-collections.html\">Top 5 remastered HD collections<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/83411-the-games-of-2015-according-to-the-reviews.html\">The games of 2015 according to the reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we don\u2019t always agree with their ultimate winners, there\u2019s no doubting that each game was a worthy contender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":84167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2122,16585,14080,8657],"class_list":["post-84163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-cd-projekt-red","tag-metal-gear-sold-v-the-phantom-pain","tag-splatoon","tag-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84163","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}