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Game Informer: 20 Game of the Year awards

Game Informer is a print magazine from United States, founded in 1991. It appears in this database with 20 Game of the Year picks across 20 award seasons (2004–2025); its most frequent pick was BioShock.

GameStop shuttered Game Informer in 2024, but Gunzilla Games acquired and relaunched it with the returning team in 2025.

Game Informer has run annual game awards since 1992; 2003 explicitly had no official overall GOTY, and Halo 2 was its 2004 GOTY.

What "2004–2025" 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
2025	Clair Obscur: Expedition 33	Editorial
2022	Elden Ring	Editorial
2021	Halo Infinite	Editorial
2020	The Last of Us Part II	Editorial
2019	Control	Editorial
2018	God of War	Editorial
2017	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild	Editorial
2016	Overwatch	Editorial
2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	Editorial
2014	Dragon Age: Inquisition	Editorial
2013	The Last of Us	Editorial
2012	Mass Effect 3	Editorial
2011	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	Editorial
2010	Red Dead Redemption	Editorial
2009	Uncharted 2: Among Thieves	Editorial
2008	Grand Theft Auto IV	Editorial
2007	BioShock	Editorial
2006	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess	Editorial
2005	Resident Evil 4	Editorial
2004	Halo 2	Editorial

References

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

1.https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2017/01/02/looking-back-at-25-years-of-game-informer-s-goty-awards.aspx

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Game Informer: 20 Game of the Year awards

Every Game of the Year it picked

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