Now before we dive into who the winners are, let's look at the surprise announcements and encounters that happened during the show.

First off, there are plenty of new games announced and one of the surprising new game announced with no release dates was Death Stranding 2.

A highly nominated game in 2019 that ended up not wining the GOTY, but received Best Game Direction, Best Performance, Best Score and Music.

With Hideo Kojima gracing the announcement of his next big title that he has been working on since he started his Kojima Studio.

Death Stranding 2 trailer revealed that Fragile will be taking the burden of bringing the baby to safety this time around instead of Sam Bridges. And there are visuals that shows a giant robot that resembled the mecha from Metal Gear Solid "Sahelanthropus".

The second unexpected announcement was Hades II, which will feature a female protagonist whom we believe is the sister of Zagreus?

The 3rd surprising announcement was Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon, which will point to the story of Cereza when she was a little girl and wasn't a Bayonetta yet. With just Bayonetta 3 released last month, it's double joy for the fans as Bayonetta 3 won the Best Action Game and releasing a prequel altogether.

Other game releases and new trailers announced are Diablo IV, Street Fighter 6, Crash Team Rumble, COD MW 2 (Raid mode), Cyberpunk 2077:Phantom Liberty (with Keanu Reeves appearing in game), Party Animals (online multi-player with Gang Beasts mechanics), Relic Hunters, Post Trauma, Nightinggale, Sky Aurora (Free mobile app),  Tekken 8, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Warhammer Space Marines 2, Transformers Reactivate, Wayfinders, Witcher 3 updates, Destiny 2: Lightfall, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, After Us, Immortals of Aevum, Armored Core IV: Fires of Rubicon, Atomic Hearts, Baldur's Gate 3, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, Behemoth, Blue Protocol, Company of Heroes 3, Crime Boss: Rockay City, Dune Awakening, EarthBlade, Genshin Impact (new DLC), Horizon Forbidden West expansion (Burning Shores), Horizon Call of the Mountains(VR game), Ghost Busters VR, Deadcells Castelvania DLC, Hellboy, Judasm Lords of Fallen, Rocket League new season, Remnant 2, Scars Above, Among Us(new mode), Replaced, Meet Your Maker, and last but not least Final Fantasy XVI.

There was also more videos of the upcoming long awaited Super Mario movie snippets, which every Nintendo fans are eager to watch it next year 2023.

Then near the end of the whole show, after the Art Director of Elden Ring finished his speech, a boy who was all the while behind the scene walked to the mic and did a troll about awarding Bill Clinton, however, he was immediately escorted out before he could do more trolling.

He was later arrested and released as he was only 14 years old.

Now let's go on with the prestigious moments.

The winner who took the most awards goes to God of War Ragnarok for:

Best Innovation & Accessibility

Best Action Adventure Game

Best Audio Design

Best Score & Music

Best Narrative

Best Performance Christopher Judge

For Best Action Game this year goes to a Nintendo once again.

With Bayonetta 3 bagging it rightfully with it's fantastic game play action mechanics.

For animation/film category, best adaptation went to Arane League of Legends 

Best Indie Debut & Independent Game went to Stray

Best Strategy Game goes to Mario Rabbids Spark of Hope
Best Family Game was awarded to Kirby Forgotten Land

Best Multi-player limelight was stolen by Splatoon 3!

Best VR was Moss Book II (The former was an award winning game too!)

Best Sports Game went to Gran Turismo 7

Games for Impact was As Dusk Falls (A western version of Visual Novel story-telling)

Most Anticipated Game was Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom

Elden Ring stole the thunder from the whole show with a hatrick!

Winning Best Art & Game Direction and the Game of the Year Award deservingly.

The show ended on a musical performance by the Orchestration team and left everyone tired for the long show but wanting to see more next year.