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Star Wars: Battlefront, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Fallout 4 lead Game Critics Awards nominations

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Game publishers covet any nods they can get from the prestigious Game Critics Awards for the best games of the Electronic Entertainment Expo industry tradeshow. I participated again this year and voted for my favorites at the show.

This year, the big winners included Electronic Arts’ Star Wars: Battlefront, with five nominations. That was followed by four nominations each for Guerrilla Games’ Horizon: Zero Dawn and Bethesda Softworks’ Fallout 4.

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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.