Game Industry News: 17 Game of the Year awards

Game Industry News is a website from United States, founded in 1997. It appears in this database with 17 Game of the Year picks across 17 award seasons (2003–2019); its most frequent pick was Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 5 of its 17 picks went to the game that won the season overall; the most recent was The Outer Worlds in 2019.

Game Industry News has run reader-voted Game of the Year awards since the late 1990s; overall winners are confirmed through 2019, while no equivalent 2020 or 2021 overall winner was verified.

What "2003–2019" means.

It is the first and last year this outlet appears in our award data — not necessarily its founding or closing date. An outlet may have existed longer, or simply skipped a year's award.

Every Game of the Year it picked

Year	Game of the Year	Vote type
2019	The Outer Worlds	Readers' choice
2018	Red Dead Redemption 2	Readers' choice
2017	Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands	Readers' choice
2016	Final Fantasy XV	Readers' choice
2015	Fallout 4	Readers' choice
2014	Far Cry 4	Readers' choice
2013	Grand Theft Auto V	Readers' choice
2012	Call of Duty: Black Ops II	Editorial
2011	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	Editorial
2010	Red Dead Redemption	Editorial
2009	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2	Editorial
2008	Fallout 3	Editorial
2007	Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare	Editorial
2006	The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion	Editorial
2005	Myst V: End of Ages	Editorial
2004	Half-Life 2	Editorial
2003	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Bloodmoon	Editorial

References

Primary sources cited while researching this outlet's award history.

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