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The Game Awards has put up a list of nominees for 2022, with games such as Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Stray. In fact, both games appear in multiple sections across the nominee list. Former Twitter commentator Nibellion is also a nominee. The Game Awards will take place on December 8, 2022 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The full list of nominees for the 2022 Game Awards is as follows:
Game of the Year
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment) Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/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 (Guerilla Games/SIE) Immortality (Half Mermaid) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Best Narrative
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment) Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games/SIE) Immortality(Half Mermaid)
Best Art Direction
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games/SIE) Scorn (Ebb Software/Kepler Interactive) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Best Score and Music
Olivier Deriviere (A Plague Tale: Requiem) Tsukasa Saitoh (Elden Ring) Bear McCreary (God of War Ragnarok) Two Feathers (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 (Guerilla Games/SIE)
Best Performance
Ashly 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)
Games for Impact
A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna) As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studio) 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)
Best Ongoing 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 (Massive Monster/Devolver Digital) Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna) Sifu (Sloclap) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)
Best Debut Indie
Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive) NORCO (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji) Vampire Survivors (poncle)
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 (Lightspeed & Quantum/Respawn/EA) Diablo Immortal (Blizzard/NetEase) Genshin Impact (HoYoVerse) Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse) Tower of Fantasy (Hotta Studio/Perfect World/Level Infinite)
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 (Vertical Robot)
Best Action
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 Studio/Focus Entertainment) God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games/SIE) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)
Best Roleplaying
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) Live a Live (Square Enix/Nintendo) Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Game Freak/Nintendo/TPCI) Triangle Strategy (Artdink/Square Enix) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)
Best Fighting
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) MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games) Sifu (Sloclap)
Best Family
Kirby 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)
Best Sim/Strategy
Dune: Spice Wars (Shiro Games/Funcom) Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft0 Total War: WARHAMMER III (Creative Assembly/Sega) Two Point Campus (Two Point Studios/Sega) Victoria 3 (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox Interactive)
Best Multiplayer
Call 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 Revenger (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
Karl Jacobs Ludwig Nibellion Nobru QTCinderella
Best Adaption
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 Group/Paramount Pictures) Uncharted (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures)
Innovation in Accessibility
As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/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)
Which games will win which category will be announced during the Game Awards show, which will be on December 8, 2022. Here is a list of last year’s nominees.
