PUBG scoops Game of the Year at the 2018 Steam Awards

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has topped Valve's 2018 Steam Awards as its overall Game of the Year.

Launched alongside Steam's 12th Annual Winter Sale in early December, players were invited to select their favourites across eight categories, including game of the year, best developer, and 'better with friends'. All participants were rewarded with a set of digital trading cards as a thank you for voting.

"Best Developer proved to be a highly-contested category with a lot of close calls among the top nominees," Valve explained at the time, expanding on why there were so many shortlisted for this particular category. "As a result, we expanded the set of nominees to ten. In addition, we've excluded Valve (ourselves) from this category."

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