The Game Awards 2022 nominations are out now. God of War Ragnarök leads the pack with a whopping 10 nominations, including the prestigious Game of the Year trophy. Following in close second is FromSoftware’s souls-like magnum opus, Elden Ring, which is tied with PlayStation’s homegrown RPG Horizon Forbidden West, for seven nods — sharing space with Ragnarök for the aforesaid GOTY award, Best Game Direction, and Best Art Direction categories. The Geoff Keighley-helmed annual show has also introduced an all-new Best Adaptation category, which celebrates video game-inspired projects across all forms of media — movies, TV series, books, and more.108 different games are spread across the list for the 2022 edition of The Game Awards, adding countless new reveals, live musical performances and the on-stage orchestra, and celebrity presenters. The winners will be announced on December 8 (December 9 in India, running from 6am to 9am IST), live from the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles — will be available to stream for free across Youtube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok Live, and for the first time ever, Instagram Live. Fans can cast their votes until December 7, through the official TGA website or the TGA Discord server, via the official Voting Bot.With that, here’s the full list of nominees for The Game Awards 2022:Game of the YearA Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)God of War Ragnarök Review: Fitting End to Kratos and Atreus’ Nordic EraBest Game DirectionElden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)Immortality (Half Mermaid)Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)Best NarrativeA Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)Immortality (Half Mermaid)Best Art DirectionElden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)Scorn (Ebb Software/Kepler Interactive)Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)Best Score and MusicOlivier Deriviere, A Plague Tale: RequiemTsukasa Saitoh, Elden RingBear McCreary, God of War RagnarökTwo Feathers, Metal: HellsingerYasunori Mitsuda, Xenoblade Chronicles 3Best Audio DesignCall of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony/SIE)Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)Best PerformanceAshly Burch, Horizon Forbidden WestCharlotte McBurney, A Plague Tale: RequiemChristopher Judge, God of War RagnarökManon Gage, ImmortalitySunny Suljic, God of War RagnarökGames for ImpactA Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna)As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller)Endling – Extinction is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames)Hindsight (Team Hindsight/Annapurna)I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)As Dusk Falls Review: A Masterwork of Thrilling StorytellingBest Ongoing GameApex Legends (Respawn/EA)Destiny 2 (Bungie)Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)Fortnite (Epic Games)Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)Best IndieCult of the Lamb (Massive Monster/Devolver Digital)Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)Sifu (Sloclap)Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)Tunic (TUNIC Team/Finji)Best Debut IndieNeon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)Norco (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury)Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)Tunic (TUNIC Team/Finji)Vampire Survivors (poncle)Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)Destiny 2 (Bungie)Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)Fortnite (Epic Games)No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)Best MobileApex Legends Mobile (Lightspeed & Quantum/Respawn/EA)Diablo Immortal (Blizzard/NetEase)Genshin Impact (HoYovese)Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse)Tower of Fantasy (Hotta Studio/Perfect World/Level Infinite)Best VR/ARAfter the Fall (Vertigo Games)Among Us VR (Schell Games/InnerSloth)Bonelab (Stress Level Zero)Moss: Book II (Polyarc)Red Matter 2 (Vertical Robot)Best ActionBayonetta 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/AdventureA Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)Tunic (TUNIC Team/Finji)Best Role-PlayingElden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)Live a Live (Square Enix/Nintendo)Pokémon Legends: Arceus (Game Freak/Nintendo/TPCI)Triangle Strategy (Artdink/Square Enix)Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)Best FightingDNF 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)MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)Sifu (Sloclap)Best FamilyKirby and the Forgotten Land (HAL Laboratory / Nintendo)LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Traveller’s Tales/WB Games)Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft)Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope Review: Richer, Bigger, but Also More Ubisoft-yBest Sim/StrategyDune: 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/RacingF1 22 (Codemasters/EA Sports)FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver/Romania/EA Sports)NBA 2K23 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports)Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/SIE)OlliOlli World (Roll 7/Private Division)FIFA 23 Review: Barely Even TryingBest MultiplayerCall of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)Overwatch 2 (Blizzard)Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)Most AnticipatedFinal 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 YearKarl JacobsLudwigNibellionNobruQTCinderellaBest AdaptationArcane: League of Legends (Fortiche/Riot Games/Netflix)Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Trigger/CD Projekt, Netflix)The Cuphead Show! (Studio MDHR/King Features Syndicate/Netflix)Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Sammy Group/Paramount Pictures)Uncharted (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures)Innovation in AccessibilityAs Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)God of War Ragnarök (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 GameCounter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)DOTA 2 (Valve)League of Legends (Riot Games)Rocket League (Psyonix)Valorant (Riot Games)Best Esports AthleteJeong “Chovy” Ji-hoon (Gen.G, LOL)Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok (T1, LOL)Finn “karrigan” Andersen (FaZe Clan – CS:GO)Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker (Cloud9, Valorant)Best Esports TeamDarkZero Esports (Apex Legends)FaZe Clan (CS:GO)Gen.G (League of Legends)LA Thieves (Call of Duty)LOUD (Valorant)Best Esports CoachAndrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi (LOUD, VALORANT)Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren (FPX, VALORANT)Robert “RobbaN” Dahlström (FaZe Clan, CS:GO)Go “Score” Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL)Best Esports EventEVO 20222022 League of Legends World ChampionshipPGL Major Antwerp 2022The 2022 Mid-Season InvitationalValorant Champions 2022Affiliate links may be automatically generated – see our ethics statement for details.
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