E3 Game Critics Awards names resurrected Resident Evil 2 best of show

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 2, 2018
Updated June 20, 2025
2 min

Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 scored a surprise and took the Best of Show award in the prestigious Game Critics Awards for the best games of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).

It’s a surprise in part because Resident Evil 2 (a remake of the classic 1998 survival horror game) had three nominations from the group of game critics, while Electronic Arts’ Anthem had five nominations and From Software’s/Activision’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice had four nominations.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.