GTA 6 has won an award in The Game Awards 2026. The Game Awards is the most popular ceremony that celebrates games in the past 12 months. This event also reveals new games, trailers, updates and more.
On Thursday night, The Game Awards held a livestream revealing the winners across more than 30 categories. GTA VI was nominated in one category for the evening: “Most Anticipated Game” and it won. This is the second year in a row Grand Theft Auto VI has been nominated for Most Anticipated Game and won it. The other games nominated were 007: First Light, Wolverine, Resident Evil Requiem and The Witcher IV.
The game also won Most Wanted Game at the Golden Joystick Awards this year and last year. On top of that, it won the the Golden Joystick for Best Game Trailer last month.
The winners of The Game Awards are made up of a fan vote and a jury vote combined. The jury is made up of over a hundred “jury of over 100 leading media and influencer outlets“. These include websites such as Game Informer, IGN, Variety, Wired, Eurogamer and more spanning countries worldwide.
In previous years, GTA Online was nominated for the Player’s Voice award. Plus, GTA V won Game of the Year and Best Soundtrack in 2013 during the previous iteration of The Game Awards.
Rockstar Games’ Involvement In The Game Awards
The Game Awards has an advisory board of various members who “help guide and advance the mission of the game awards”. They are not part of the nomination or voting process however.
Most members of this panel are individual people such as Hideo Kojima (Game Designer) and Phil Spencer (Microsoft Gaming CEO). However, Rockstar Games as an entity are on this advisory board along with Valve, Sony, Epic Games and a number of other companies.
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