Helldivers 2 wins Game of the Year at the 2024 TIGA Awards

Arrowhead Game Studios and Sony's Helldivers 2 was the big winner of the 2024 TIGA Awards, taking home the Best Technical Innovation and Game of the Year prizes last night.

Sony Interactive Entertainment also won awards for Best Use of a License, thanks to Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and Best Narrative in Games for The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered.

Ninja Theory and Microsoft's Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 won two awards, for Best Action & Adventure Game of 2024, and Diversity in Games.

So did Newfangled Games' Paper Trail, for Creativity in Games and Best Casual Game of 2024, and The Chinese Room's Still Wakes the Deep, for Best Audio Design and Heritage in Games.

Over in the business categories, Dlala Studio won Best Small Studio of 2024, Rebellion won Best Large Studio, while nDreams went home with the Best Publisher of the year award.

A couple of individual recognitions were given as well, with Red Kite Games' studio director Simon Iwaniszak winning the Outstanding Leadership Award, and Stainless Games' founder and CEO Patrick Buckland winning Outstanding Individual of the Year.

The awards recognise excellence in the UK games industry, and are organised every year by trade body TIGA.

Here's full list of winners of the 2024 TIGA Awards:

GAMES CATEGORIES

BEST ACTION & ADVENTURE GAME 2024 Ninja Theory, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II

BEST ARCADE GAME 2024 Playtonic Games, Elsie

BEST AUDIO DESIGN 2024 The Chinese Room/Secret Mode, Still Wakes The Deep

BEST USE OF A LICENCE 2024 Sony Interactive Entertainment, Marvel's Spider-Man 2

BEST CASUAL GAME 2024 Newfangled Games, Paper Trail

CREATIVITY IN GAMES 2024 Newfangled Games, Paper Trail

DIVERSITY IN GAMES 2024 Ninja Theory, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II

BEST EDUCATION, SERIOUS OR SIMULATION GAME 2024 Slitherine, Command: Modern Operations

HERITAGE IN GAMES 2024 The Chinese Room/Secret Mode, Still Wakes The Deep

BEST NARRATIVE IN GAMES 2024 Sony Interactive Entertainment, The Last of Us Part II Remastered

BEST PUZZLE GAME 2024 Sad Owl Studios, Viewfinder

BEST SOCIAL GAME 2024 Prideful Sloth, Go-Go Town!

BEST STRATEGY GAME 2024 Brightrock Games, Galacticare

BEST VISUAL DESIGN 2024 Sony Interactive Entertainment, Helldivers 2

BEST VR/AR/XR/MR GAME 2024 Ubisoft Reflections & Ubisoft Leamington, Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR

BUSINESS CATEGORIES

BEST SMALL STUDIO 2024 Dlala Studios

BEST ART, ANIMATION & TRAILER SUPPLIER 2024 Big Farmer

BEST AUDIO SERVICES PROVIDER 2024 SIDE

BEST CO-DEVELOPMENT PARTNER 2024 Flix Interactive

COMMITMENT TO ESG 2024 Room 8 Group

COMMITMENT TO WORKPLACE WELLBEING 2024 Dovetail Games

BEST EDUCATION INITIATIVE 2024 University of the West of England

BEST EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION 2024 Staffordshire University

BEST LARGE STUDIO 2024 Rebellion

OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP AWARD 2024 Simon Iwaniszak, Founder & Studio Director, Red Kite Games

BEST LEGAL SERVICES 2024 Lee & Thompson LLP

BEST PUBLISHER 2024 nDreams

BEST QA/LOCALISATION PROVIDER 2024 PTW

BEST RECRUITMENT AGENCY 2024 Big Planet

BEST SERVICES PROVIDER 2024 PitStop Productions

BEST TALENT DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE 2024 Rocksteady Studios

BEST TAX & ACCOUNTANCY PROVIDER 2024 Johnston Carmichael

BEST TECHNICAL INNOVATION 2024 Sony Interactive Entertainment, Helldivers 2

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL OF THE YEAR 2024 Patrick Buckland, Stainless Games

GAME OF THE YEAR 2024 Sony Interactive Entertainment, Helldivers 2