{"id":118632,"date":"2020-09-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/animal_crossing_new_horizons_wins_big_at_the_japan_game_awards_2020"},"modified":"2020-09-28T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T10:00:00","slug":"animal-crossing-new-horizons-wins-big-at-the-japan-game-awards-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/28\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-wins-big-at-the-japan-game-awards-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Crossing: New Horizons Wins Big At The Japan Game Awards 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The results of this year’s Japan Game Awards have now been revealed, with Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/strong><\/a> standing out as the star of the show.<\/p>\n

The ceremony \u2013 which celebrates Japan’s biggest and best games as well as a few international hits, too \u2013 saw Nintendo’s life sim take home a total of three awards, including the prestigious Grand Award. It was a very decent outing for Nintendo all around, with a number of its titles receiving the Award for Excellence.<\/p>\n

Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/strong><\/a> also received three awards, as you can see in the full list of winners below.<\/p>\n

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Grand Award<\/strong>
– Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/p>\n

Award for Excellence<\/strong>
– 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
– Animal Crossing: New Horizons
– DEATH STRANDING
– Fire Emblem: Three Houses<\/strong><\/a>
– Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
– Nioh 2
– PERSONA5 THE ROYAL
– Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Pok\u00e9mon Shield
– Ring Fit Adventure<\/strong><\/a>
– Yakuza: Like a Dragon<\/p>\n

Special Award<\/strong>
– DRAGON QUEST WALK<\/p>\n

Best Sales Award<\/strong>
– Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Pok\u00e9mon Shield<\/p>\n

Global Award Japanese Product<\/strong>
– Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Pok\u00e9mon Shield<\/p>\n

Global Award Foreign Product<\/strong>
– Call of Duty: Modern Warfare<\/p>\n

The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award<\/strong>
– Animal Crossing: New Horizons Development Team<\/p>\n

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In last year’s event<\/a>, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate walked home with no less than five awards in total, also including the Grand Award.<\/p>\n

A worthy line-up of winners? Have you played many of the titles listed above? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The results of this year’s Japan Game Awards have now been revealed, with Animal Crossing: New Horizons standing out as the star of the show. The ceremony \u2013 which celebrates Japan’s biggest and best games as well as a few international hits, too \u2013 saw Nintendo’s life sim take home a total of three awards, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}