WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Headline of release should read: Cuphead Leads NAVGTR Awards for Best Video Games of Decade (instead of #Decade Winners 2010-2019).
The updated release reads:
CUPHEAD LEADS NAVGTR AWARDS FOR BEST VIDEO GAMES OF DECADE
NAVGTR CORP. – The National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers, a 501(c)(3) non-profit media organization of 978 media voters and 11,700 subscribers, has announced the winner results in all 60 categories for its second Games of the Decade (2010-2019) program honoring video game art, design, sound, and engineering.
The winner of Game of the Decade is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The game beat fellow nominees God of War, Minecraft, Red Dead Redemption, and The Last of Us.
New intellectual properties accounted for the majority (53.3%, or 32 of 60) of all winners, up 6.8 points from 46.5% in the previous decade. Newer games dominated the winners as well, as only a quarter of the wins (25%, or 15 of 60) went to older games from the first half of the decade.
The games with the most wins for best of the decade in their respective categories are:
06 Cuphead
05 The Last of Us
04 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
03 Super Mario Odyssey
03 Death Stranding
03 Alien: Isolation
02 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
02 Persona 5
02 Marvel’s Spider-Man
02 Borderlands 2
The complete story is available at https://navgtr.org/games-of-the-decade-2010-2019-winners/
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Certificates, trophies, and the complete list of winners are available from the academy website.
About NAVGTR CORP.
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The general voting body of trade reviewers, journalists, analysts, YouTubers, Twitch streamers, content creators, and writers includes current and former contributors for Bitmob, CBS Interactive, Destructoid, EGM Now, Game Informer, Game Trailers, GamesIndustry.biz, Gamespot, Gamezone, IGN, Kotaku, Machinima, Mashable, Massively, MSNBC, Polygon, Retroware, The Koalition, Ten Ton Hammer, and Venture Beat.
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The academy website is navgtr.org