Every year, Germany’s Digital Gaming Culture Foundation (Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur) supervises the Gamescom Committee, a small group of journalists who choose the best games that were present at the Gamescom expo. The Gamescom expo is held in the Summer, and serves as the European equivalent to the Los Angeles-based E3 Expo.
While most of these titles are still in development, you should keep them in mind when you add games to your collection this Fall and into 2016.
Star Wars: Battlefront was named “Best of Gamescom,” and the full list of winners and nominees can be found below.
Best of Gamescom
- WINNER: Star Wars: Battlefront
Best Console Game – PlayStation 4
- Final Fantasy XV
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- WINNER: Star Wars: Battlefront
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
- Unravel
Best Console Game – Xbox One
- Final Fantasy XV
- Halo 5: Guardians
- WINNER: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2
- Tom Clancy’s The Division
Best Console Game – Wii U
- Lego Avengers
- Skylanders SuperChargers
- WINNER: Super Mario Maker
- Xenoblade Chronicles X
Best PC Game
- Anno 2205
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III
- Dark Souls III
- Mad Max
- WINNER: Star Wars: Battlefront
Best Mobile Game
- The Airbender
- WINNER: The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes
- Torchlight Mobile
Best Role Playing Game
- WINNER: Dark Souls III
- Dragon Quest Heroes
- Final Fantasy XV
- Tom Clancy’s The Division
- Xenoblade Chronicles X
Best Racing Game
- WINNER: Forza Motorsport 6
- Need For Speed
- Skylanders SuperChargers
Best Action Game
- Mad Max
- WINNER: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Star Wars: Battlefront
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
- Until Dawn
Best Simulation Game
- Anno 2205
- WINNER: Forza Motorsport 6
- Grand Ages: Medieval
Best Sports Game
- FIFA 16
- Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash
- WINNER: Pro Evolution Soccer 2016
Best Family Game
- Guitar Hero Live
- WINNER: Lego Dimensions
- Dragon Quest Heroes
- Skylanders SuperChargers
- Super Mario Maker
Best Strategy Game
- Anno 2205
- Crookz: The Big Heist
- WINNER: Unravel
Best Social / Casual / Online Game
- Guitar Hero Live
- Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2
- WINNER: Super Mario Maker
Best Online Multiplayer Game
- Battleborn
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III
- Halo 5: Guardians
- WINNER: Star Wars: Battlefront
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege
Best Hardware / Peripheral
- Guitar Hero Live
- WINNER: HTC Vive
- Xbox Elite Wireless Controller
Most Wanted Consumer Award (Audience Voted)
- WINNER: Star Wars: Battlefront