The nominations for The Game Awards 2022, which celebrate the year’s most cutting-edge voices in gaming, have been announced.
“God of War Ragnarok” leads the pack with ten nominations, including Game of the Year and Best Game Direction. Diversity The highly anticipated game was praised by a recent review, calling it a “10 out of 10, checking every box with a combination of pulse-pounding action, humor and character development that will stick with players long after completing the campaign.”
“Ragnarok” is followed by “Elden Ring” and “Horizon Forbidden West,” which each garnered seven nods, including Game of the Year. Sony Interactive Entertainment is the most nominated publisher for its games with 20 nominations, followed by Annapurna Interactive and Nintendo with 11 nominations each.
Fans can submit their votes through official online voting on The Game Awards website using the official TGA voting bot and on the official Discord server for The Game Awards until December 7th.
The Game Awards will stream free on December 8 on over 40 digital video networks including Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram Live and TikTok Live.
Check out the full list of nominees below:
game of the year
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studios/Focus Entertainment)
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Awara (Blue Twelve Studios / Annapurna)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)
best game direction
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Immortality (Half Mermaid)
Awara (Blue Twelve Studios / Annapurna)
best story
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studios/Focus Entertainment)
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Immortality (Half Mermaid)
best art direction
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Disgust (EBB Software/Kepler Interactive)
Awara (Blue Twelve Studios / Annapurna)
Best Score and Music
Olivier Deriviere, A Plague Tale: Requiem
Tsukasa Saitoh, Alden Ring
Bear McCurry, God of War Ragnarok
Two Wings, Metal: Hellsinger
Yasunori Mitsuda, Xenoblade Chronicles 3
best audio design
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward / Activision)
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
best performance
Ashley Burch, Horizon Forbidden West
Charlotte McBurney, A Plague Tale: Requiem
Christopher Judge, God of War Ragnarok
Manon Gage, Immortality
Sunny Suljic, God of War Ragnarok
play for effect
A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna)
As Dusk Falls (Interior Knight/Xbox Game Studios)
Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over the Edge/Fellow Traveller)
Andling – Extinction is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames)
Hindsight (Team Hindsight/Annapurna)
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Fingee)
best running game
Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
Destiny 2 (Bungie)
Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
fortnite (epic games)
Genshin Impact (Hoyoverse)
best indie
Cult of the Lamb (Giant Monsters / Devolver Digital)
Neon White (Angel Matrix / Annapurna)
Sifu (Sloclap)
Awara (Blue Twelve Studios / Annapurna)
Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji)
Best Debut Indie
Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
NORCO (Geography of Robots / Raw Fury)
Awara (Blue Twelve Studios / Annapurna)
Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji)
Vampire Survivors (Ponkal)
Best Community Support, presented by Discord
Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
Destiny 2 (Bungie)
Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
fortnite (epic games)
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
best mobile
Apex Legends Mobile (Lightspeed & Quantum/Respawn/EA)
Diablo Immortal (Blizzard/NetEase)
Genshin Impact (Hoyovesi)
Marvel Snap (2nd Dinner Studio/News)
Tower of Fantasy (Hotta Studio/Perfect World/Level Infinite)
Best VR/AR
After the Fall (Dizzy Games)
Among Us VR (Schell Games/InnerSloth)
Bonelab (Stress Level Zero)
Moss: Book II (Polyarch)
Red Matter 2 (Vertical Robot)
best work
Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward / Activision)
Neon White (Angel Matrix / Annapurna)
Sifu (Sloclap)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games / DotEmu)
Best Action/Adventure
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studios/Focus Entertainment)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Awara (Blue Twelve Studios / Annapurna)
Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji)
playing the best role
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
Live a Live (Square Enix / Nintendo)
Pokémon Legends: Arceus (Game Freak/Nintendo/TPCI)
Triangle Tactics (Artdink/Square Enix)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)
best fight
DNF Duel (Arc System Works/Eighting/NEOPLE/NEXON)
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R (Cyberconnect 2 Co. Ltd./Bandai Namco)
The King of Fighters XV (SNK/Plaion)
Multiverse (Player First Games/WB Games)
Sifu (Sloclap)
the best family
Kirby and the Forgotten Lands (HAL Laboratory / Nintendo)
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Traveler’s Tales / WB Games)
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft)
Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Best Sim/Strategy
Dune: Spice Wars (Shiro Games/Funcom)
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft)
Total War: Warhammer III (Creative Assembly/Sega)
Two Point Campus (Two Point Studios/Sega)
Victoria 3 (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox Interactive)
Best Sports/Racing
F1 22 (Codemasters/EA Sports)
FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver/Romania/EA Sports)
NBA 2K23 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports)
Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/SIE)
OliOli World (Roll 7/Private Division)
best multiplayer
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward / Activision)
Multiverse (Player First Games/WB Games)
Overwatch 2 (Blizzard)
Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games / DotEmu)
most anticipated
Final Fantasy XVI (Square Enix)
Hogwarts Legacy (Avalanche Software/WB Games)
Resident Evil 4 (Capcom)
Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
content creator of the year
Carl Jacobs
ludwig
nibelian
nobru
qt cinderella
best optimization
Mystery: League of Legends (Fourtich/Riot Games/Netflix)
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Trigger / CD Projekt, Netflix)
Cuphead Show! (Studio MDHR/King Features Syndicate/Netflix)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Sammy Group/Paramount Pictures)
Uncharted (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures)
Innovation in Access
As Dusk Falls (Interior Knight/Xbox Game Studios)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital)
The Last of Us Part I (Naughty Dog/SIE)
The Quarry (Supermassive Games/2K)
best esports game
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
Dota 2 (Valve)
League of Legends (Riot Games)
Rocket League (Psionics)
Valorant (Riot Games)
best esports athlete
Jeong “Chowi” Ji-hoon (Jen.G, LoL)
Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok (T1, LOL)
Finn “Carrigan” Anderson ((FaZe Clan – CS:GO)
Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostylev (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)
Jacob “yay” Whitaker (Cloud9, Valorant)
best esports team
DarkZero Esports (Apex Legends)
FaZe Clan (CS:GO)
Gen.G (League of Legends)
L.A. Thief (Call of Duty)
Loudly
best esports coach
Andrey “B1ad3” Horodensky (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)
Mathias “bzkA” Tarasconi (Loud, Valorant)
Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren (FPX, Valorant)
Robert “Robban” Dahlstrom (FaZe Clan, CS:GO)
Go “Score” Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL)
best esports event
Evo 2022
2022 League of Legends World Championship
PGL Major Antwerp 2022
2022 Mid-Season Invitational
valorant champions 2022
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