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Ars Technica: 15 Game of the Year awards

Ars Technica is a website from United States, founded in 1998. It appears in this database with 15 Game of the Year picks across 15 award seasons (2005–2023); its most frequent pick was Baldur's Gate 3.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 4 of its 15 picks went to the game that won the season overall; the most recent was Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023.

Its pick furthest from the consensus was Papers, Please in 2013, which finished No. 9 that season with 5 awards in total. Its earliest pick on record is Shadow of the Colossus, for 2005.

What "2005–2023" 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

Updated 13 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.