Super Mario Odyssey looks amazing.
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Nintendo and Super Mario Odyssey sweep the E3 Game Critic Awards

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo walked away with a lot of the awards for the best games of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game industry show in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago.

Nintendo’s Super Mario Odyssey won all three of its nominations for the prestigious Game Critics Awards, including best game of the show, best console game, and best action-adventure. Ubisoft’s Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, which co-stars Nintendo characters with Ubisoft’s Rabbids, also won two awards. And Nintendo’s Metroid: Samus Returns also won for best handheld game.

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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.