BOOYAAAAA!

The real problem I see about Dark Souls 3, if it was indeed playable, is that the jury had a very limited time to play the games (one if the main criticisms made by the newspaper's article about it, and a complain of the jury). So, if they play something like 15 minutes to DS3, die 5-10 times and can't move forward more than 50m, they can't really enjoy the game (DS3 is targeted to a specific audience after all...). XCX looks better and is surely more enjoyable, at least by more people and in a more limited test time. Nothing surprising here, and like I said, not a lot to interpre, the PGW Awards are kind of worthless because of the reasons I already mentioned (even if I'm french, the national newspaper I'm talking about kinda have the same conclusion). 

EDIT : Come on, the best PGW fighting/action game is Anarcute, an RTS game...  Of course, not related at all to the 100% french students development team... They even created a "Best PGW manga game" award for Shiness, another french indie. The criticism about these awards and their "political correctness" are fully deserved. 

Dark souls is just as much RPG as xenoblade is RPG, xenoblade is more JRPG but dark souls feels more westernised. Doesnt matter its still an RPG. Theres no definite version what an RPG should be like, should it be like final fantasy? or maybe Pokemon? It has many different forms and Xenoblade itself isnt that traditional final fantasy RPG either. So your reasoning doesnt really work here, also i couldnt really understand what you meant with your last sentence

Apparently Mario & Luigi Paper Jam was there too

@Faelco : Sur quel journal/magazine as-tu trouvé les infos ?

Expected. Its the best RPG in 2015

Le Monde, dans leur rubrique Pixels, qui a fait un assez bon suivi de la PGW. L'article est "les césars des jeux vidéos, un grand bazar" (version mobile :  http://mobile.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2015/10/31/les-cesars-du-jeu-video-un-grand-bazar_4800835_4408996.html ). Ils ne donnent pas tout le palmarès par contre, il faut le chercher sur Google ou des sites plus classiques ;) 

EDIT : Excuse my french! :D

"Although the full lineup of nominees is unknown"

to me this translates to the ONLY rpg there lol

How do you know that?

YAYYYYYYY!!!!! Still not entirely sold on the game but hopefully it will sell good.

It was playable on the showfloor, so it was a "nominee" (being playable was the only condition to get an award).