Fallout 4 and Uncharted 4 are the big winners of E3 critic awards

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 7, 2015
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Bethesda Softworks came out on top of the prestigious Game Critics Awards for the best games of the recent game industry trade show, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Bethesda’s Fallout 4 won the “best of show” award, and Bethesda tied in the number of awards won with Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, coming in 2016 from Sony. Both games won four awards each.

Here’s the winners below. I participating in the voting with a few dozen other game journalists, and my votes for the finalists are at the bottom. As you can see, major blockbusters are the big winners of the show. That’s no surprise.

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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.