- Name
- Giant Bomb Game of the Year 2023
- Aliases
- Giant Bomb GOTY 2023,GB GOTY 2023
Giant Bomb Game of the Year 2023
The sixteenth annual Game of the Year awards from Giant Bomb and the first to ever be recorded live in front of an audience.
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Overview
Giant Bomb's Game of the Year Awards celebrates 2023's best and worst in the world of video games.
This year, the final stage of deliberations was held live in front of an audience at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles (Location), California (Location). Tickets went on sale for $30 and originally sold out within a few hours until the event was moved to a larger venue.
Deliberations
- Day One - Podcast / Video
- Day Two - Podcast / Video
- Day Three - Podcast / Video
- Finale - Podcast / Video
- Bonus (Music) - Podcast / Video
The Awards
===Game of the Year===
The Silver Spoon
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| ===Cheesecake Factory's Ben Starr presents Best Debut===
Runners-Up * Turgle (Character)
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| ===Best Running Around===
Runners-Up * Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
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| ===Best 2022 Game We Didn't Talk About===
Runners-Up * Marvel's Midnight Suns
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| ===Best Alan Wake Character===
Runners-Up * The Koskela Twins
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| ===Best Game You Bounced Off Of===
Runners-Up * Dead Island 2 (Game)
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===Best New Hardware===
Runners-Up * Meta Quest 3
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===Best Game Mechanic===
Runners-Up * Ultrahand in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
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| ===Best Pikmin===
Runners-Up * Red
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| ===Bloodborne presents Old Game of the Year===
Runners-Up * Titanfall 2 (Game)
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| ===Psi-Ops presents Best Dude-Chucking===
Runners-Up * Pikmin 4 (Game)
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| ===Best Multiplayer===
Runners-Up * WarioWare: Move It!
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| ===Soulja Boy Award for Games To Play If You Drink And Get Drunk or Smoke And Get High===
Runners-Up * Humanity (Game)
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| ===Most B-Game===
Runners-Up * Exoprimal (Game)
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| ===Peter Molyneux Memorial Award for Most Ideas===
Runners-Up * The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
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===Please Stop===
Runners-Up * Walking Different Speeds Than NPCs
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| ===Most Disappointing===
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===Best Moment===
Runners-Up * Killing a Walking Building in Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
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| ===Best Music===
Runners-Up * Octopath Traveler II (Game)
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Staff Picks
Some staff members changed their rankings after the live show in LA. The lists below indicate their final choices from their personal list articles. Parentheses indicate where a game was ranked at the time of the live show if different.
===Tamoor Hussain===
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Guest Lists
- Abby Russell
- Adam Cole
- Alex Boniello
- Alex Van Aken
- Austin Creed
- Ben Pack
- Ben Starr
- Chris Johnston
- Chris Kohler
- Cristian from Argentina
- Dan Hsu
- Drew Scanlon
- Dylan Bakalar
- Evil Uno
- Excalibur
- Giant Bomb Moderators
- Greg Sewart
- Jason Fanelli
- Jesse Vitelli
- John Ricciardi
- Jordan Middler
- Julie Muncy
- Kenny Omega
- Kevin Zuhn
- Leon Chang
- Mansoor
- Mary Kish
- Meghna Jayanth
- New Game Plus
- Phil Theobald
- Shinobi602
- Steve Kim
- Steve Saylor
- Xalavier Nelson Jr.
Community
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- Alan Wake II (Game)
- Baldur's Gate 3 (Game)
- Chants Of Sennaar (Game)
- Hitman (Game)
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Game)
- Powerslave (Game)
- RoboCop: Rogue City (Game)
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (Game)
- Starfield (Game)
- Street Fighter 6 (Game)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Game)
- Tchia (Game)
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Game)