Gamescom Awards 2024: Monster Hunter Wilds Dominates with Four Wins

The 2024 Gamescom Awards saw Capcom's Monster Hunter Wilds emerge as a major winner, claiming four prestigious awards during the ceremony held last Friday. The game, slated for release in 2025, secured the awards for Best Sony PlayStation Game and Best Announcement, in addition to winning in the Most Epic and Most Entertaining categories. Other notable winners include Supermassive Games' Little Nightmares 3, which won Best Microsoft Xbox Game, Best Visuals, and Best Audio, and Warhorse Studios' Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, which was named Best PC Game. HoYoverse's Genshin Impact also received recognition as the Best Mobile Game. Notably, the Best Nintendo Game Award was not presented this year due to a lack of submissions, marking the first time since the introduction of platform-specific categories in 2011 that the Switch was not included. Inverge Studios' Creatures of Ava received the Games for Impact award, while Gentle Troll Entertainment's Tavern Talk was honored as the Most Wholesome game. The complete list of winners includes: - Best Microsoft Xbox Game: Little Nightmares 3 by Supermassive Games - Best PC Game: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 by Warhorse Studios - Best Sony PlayStation Game: Monster Hunter Wilds by Capcom - Best Mobile Game: Genshin Impact by HoYoverse - Best Visuals: Little Nightmares 3 by Supermassive Games - Best Audio: Little Nightmares 3 by Supermassive Games - Best Gameplay: Frostpunk 2 by 11 Bit Studios - Most Entertaining: Monster Hunter Wilds by Capcom - Most Epic: Monster Hunter Wilds by Capcom - Most Wholesome: Tavern Talk by Gentle Troll Entertainment - Games for Impact: Creatures of Ava by Inverge Studios/11 Bit Studios - Best Announcement: Monster Hunter Wilds by Capcom - Best of Show Floor: Microsoft Xbox/Bethesda/Blizzard - Heart of Gaming Award: Games Protect Democracy - Gamescom Sustainability Award: Tencent Games