Fallout: New Vegas: 4 Game of the Year awards

No: Fallout: New Vegas collected 4 Game of the Year awards in 2010 and finished No. 9; the season went to Red Dead Redemption with 112. Spike Video Game Awards named Red Dead Redemption its Game of the Year.

Fallout: New Vegas is a 2010 action role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game, which was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, is set in the Mojave Desert 204 years after a devastating nuclear war.

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Fallout: New Vegas finished #9 in the 2010 race, with 4 GOTY awards from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

4Total awards
4Media outlets
0Readers' choice
3Countries

Also in the 2010 season: Red Dead Redemption (112), Mass Effect 2 (104), Super Mario Galaxy 2 (22), StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (7), Call of Duty: Black Ops (6), Bayonetta (5), Halo:Reach (4), Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (3) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Fallout: New Vegas win?

Fallout: New Vegas won 4 Game of the Year awards in the 2010 season — 1.3% of every award tracked that season. 4 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 3 countries.

Did Fallout: New Vegas win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 9 in 2010, behind Red Dead Redemption, which collected 112 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerNo
Online multiplayerNo
Released19 October 2010
DeveloperObsidian Entertainment
PublisherBethesda Softworks

action role-playing game
role-playing video game
video game with LGBT character
post-apocalyptic video game
Microsoft Windows
PlayStation 3
X-BOX 360

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United Kingdom	2
United States	1
Romania	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Beefjack	United States	2010
GameBosh	United Kingdom	2010
Mirror	United Kingdom	2010
Softpedia	Romania	2010

← Full 2010 results

Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.