Game Awards 2022 Nominations Announced: All the Details
The Game Awards 2022 nominees are out now. God of War Ragnarök leads the pack with 10 nominations, including the prestigious Game of the Year trophy. Next is FroomSoftware’s souls-like magnum opus, Elden Ring, combined with the home RPG Horizon Forbidden West for PlayStation, seven heads – sharing space with Ragnarök for the aforementioned GOTY award, Best Game Direction, and Best categories Art Direction. The annual show hosted by Geoff Keighley has also introduced a brand new 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 lineup for the 2022 edition of The Game Awards, adding a host of new shows, live music concerts and stage orchestras, and celebrity presenters. The winners will be announced on December 8 (December 9 in India, from 6am to 9am IST), live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles – they will be available to stream for free on YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok Live, and for the first time, Instagram Live. Fans can vote until December 7, at Official TGA website or the TGA Discord server, via the official Voting Bottle.
With that, here is the complete list of Game Awards 2022 nominees:
Game of the Year
Disease Story: 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: A Fitting End to Kratos and Atreus’ Nordic Era
Best Game Direction
Elden 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 Narrative
Disease Story: 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 Direction
Elden 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 Music
Olivier Deriviere, The Story of Disease: A Requiem
Tsukasa Saitoh Elden Ring
God of War Ragnarök
Two Feathers, Steel: Hellsinger
Yasunori Mitsuda, Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Best sound design
Call 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)
Excellent performance
Ashley Burch
Charlotte McBurney, A Plague Tale: A Requiem
God of War Ragnarök
Manon Gage
God of War Ragnarök
Impact Games
Memoir Blue (The Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna)
As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)
Citizen Sleeper (Skip Over Age/Companion)
Endling – Extinction is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames)
Hindsight (Team Hindsight/Annapurna)
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)
As a review of Dusk Falls: A Masterpiece of Exciting Storytelling
The Best Game Ever
Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
Destiny 2 (Bungie)
Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)
the best indie
Cult of the Lamb (Big Beast/Devolver Digital)
Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)
Sifu (Sloclap)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Tunic (Team TUNIC/Finji)
The first indie debut
Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
Norco (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Tunic (Team TUNIC/Finji)
Vampire Survivors (poncle)
Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
Destiny 2 (Bungie)
Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
No Man’s Heaven (Hello Games)
Download Mobile internet
Apex Legends Mobile (Speed of Light and 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)
The best VR/AR
After the Fall (Vertigo Games)
Among Us VR (Schell Games/InnerSloth)
Bonelab (Stress Level Zero)
Moss: Book II (Polyarc)
Red Matter 2 (Standing Robot)
a very good deed
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/Totem Games)
Best Action/Scenarios
Disease Story: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Tunic (Team TUNIC/Finji)
Best Role Playing
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
Live Live (Square Enix/Nintendo)
Pokémon Legends: Arceus (Game Freak/Nintendo/TPCI)
Triangle Strategy (Artdink/Square Enix)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)
the best battle
DNF Duel (Arc System Active/EIGHT/NEOPLE/NEXON)
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R (CyberConnect 2 Co. Ltd/Bandai Namco)
The King of Fighters XV (SNK/Plaion)
MultiVersus (First Player Games/WB Games)
Sifu (Sloclap)
The Best Family
Kirby and the Forgotten World (HAL Laboratory / Nintendo)
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Walker’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 More Ubisoft-y
Best Sim/Strategy
Mound: Spice Wars (Shiro Games/Funcom)
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft)
Total War: WARHAMMER III (Creative Assembly/Sega)
Two Points Campus (Two Points 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)
OlliOlli World (Roll 7/Private Division)
FIFA 23 Review: Easy and Practical
many leading players
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
MultiVersus (First Player Games/WB Games)
Overwatch 2 (Blizzard)
Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute/Totem Games)
Great Expectations
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 Empire (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Content Creator of the Year
Carl Jacobs
Ludwig
The Nibelion
And bro
QTCinderella
Best Practice
Arcane: 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 Team/High Graphics)
Unbeaten (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures)
Innovation in access
As 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 Sports Game
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
Dota 2 (Valve)
League of Legends (Riot Games)
Rocket League (Psyonix)
Valorant (Riot Games)
The best Esports athletes
Jeong “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” Whitaker (Cloud9, Valorant)
Best Sports Team
DarkZero Esports (Apex Legends)
FaZe Clan (CS:GO)
Gen.G (League of Legends)
Thieves of LA (Call of Duty)
LOUD (Hero)
Best Sports Coach
Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)
Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi (LOUD, VALORANT)
Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren (FPX, VALORANT)
Robert “RobbaN” Dahlström (FaZe Clan, CS:GO)
Go to “Score” Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL)
Great Sports Events
Evo 2022
2022 League of Legends World Championship
PGL Major Antwerp 2022
2022 Mid-Season Invitational
2022 Dedicated Champions
