What with all the talk of new games and general love for gaming, it’s sometimes easy to forget that The Game Awards are…well, game awards. Having established itself as the Oscars of gaming, the biggest night of the year had plenty of awards to give out across a wide spectrum of genres, categories and overall polish. This year saw the likes of Death Stranding, Disco Elysium and Fortnite all grabbing headlines and while Godfrey Geoff Keighley’s annual shindig may not be as swanky as the Critical Hits Awards show (Quiet guys, my parents are trying to sleep), it was overall pretty good! Here’s who won big at the 2019 Game Awards.

Last year saw the likes of Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, Far Cry: New Dawn and Mortal Kombat 11. This year? Expect another ten reveals throughout the night when the Game Awards kick off at the ungodliest of hours for anyone who lives on the wrong side of the GMT border.

It’s going to be another tight race to the top as 2019 was another stellar year for new game releases. The 2019 nominees have been announced for the Game Awards, with Death Stranding unsurprisingly grabbing nominations in eight of the categories.

While my approach to playing Super Smash Bros. remains the ever-reliable button mash, the more talented players now have a chance to each other’s characters senseless in Nintendo’s new tournament series for 2019. In a video posted to their website, Nintendo announced that the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate North America Open will commence next month. Qualifier events will take place …

With a journey that took years to design and craft behind him, God of War's art director Raf Grassetti has been focusing on some more cathartic designs lately, as the master artist has begun redesigning the mammoth cast of Nintendo’s brilliant brawler Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

At first glance, Smash Bros Ultimate seems like a simple collection of everything that’s ever been in a Smash Bros game, stuffed into a single package. And that’s exactly what it is. While it doesn’t have every mode, the series has seen, it is home to every single stage and character the party fighting game has ever had. There’s a lot more to it than that though.

The right game at the right time can still do gangbusters in December, once the dust of the October and November Blitzkrieg has settled down. So what’s on the way next month? Explosions, a final chapter of web-slinging action and plenty more.

The video game industry may have plenty of Overwatch tournaments, DOTA championships and at least a half dozen CS: GO events to tune into every year, but there is always will be only one fighting game championship that draws in thumbs and eyeballs from all over the world: EVO. Taking place from the original Sin City once again, the Las Vegas event is gearing up for its biggest year yet as old rivals and new challengers hit the scene.