Game Awards 2022: The Most Anticipated Event In Gaming

Published on 8 December 2022 at 17:00
The Game awards of 2022

The game awards of 2022 is about to air and the anticipation is high. With categories, nominations, and prizes, it's no wonder why everyone wants to know what the hottest event in gaming will be but don't worry we've got you covered. In this article we'll tell you everything you need to know about when and where the game awards are being held and what games could win.

What is the Game Awards and where to watch it?

This year’s show will feature over 25 awards across various categories, as well as special appearances from some of gaming’s biggest stars. The Game Awards will also showcase exclusive world premiere gameplay trailers for some of the most anticipated games of 2023 and beyond. The 2022 Game Awards will be broadcast from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday starting at 4:30 p.m. PT / 7:30 p.m. ET / 12:30 a.m. GMT. It will stream live on every major platform, including: YouTube in 4K,Twitch, Twitter, Facebook Live ,Steam, Oculus Venues, IGN, GameSpot, TikTok Live, Trovo, Instagram Live. And on the XpectoGO channel!

What categories are there?

The Game Awards are an annual awards ceremony that recognize the best video games of the year. The event is produced and hosted by Geoff Keighley, who also serves as its executive producer. It was first held on December 5th, 2014 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. There are several different award categories that are given out each year at The Game Awards. Some of the main award categories include Game of the Year, Best Developer, and Best Studio. There are also a number of different genre-specific award categories, such as Best Action Game and Best Role-Playing Game. A complete list of all the award categories can be found on The Game Awards website.

Who will be nominated for these awards?

The nominations for this year are divided over 31 genres, ranging from best game director to best esports event. The most eagerly awaited prize is undoubtedly game of the year, but outstanding story, art direction, soundtrack and music, character performance, and independent titles will all undoubtedly garner a lot of attention. A list of each game nominated is provided underneath.

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Game of the Year

  • 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)
  • A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)

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

  •  Two Feathers, Metal: Hellsinger
  •  Yasunori Mitsuda, Xenoblade Chronicles 3
  • Olivier Deriviere, A Plague Tale: Requiem
  •  Tsukasa Saitoh, Elden Ring
  •  Bear McCreary, God of War Ragnarök

 Best Audio Design

  •  Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony/SIE)
  •  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
  •  Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
  •  God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)

Best Indie

  • Sifu (Sloclap)
  •  Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
  •  TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)
  • Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster / Devolver Digital)
  •  Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)

 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

  •  Fortnite (Epic Games)
  • Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
  •  Destiny 2 (Bungie)
  •  FINAL FANTASY XIV (Square Enix)
  •  No Man's Sky (Hello Games)

Best Action/Adventure

  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
  • TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)
  • A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
  • God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

Best Role Playing

  • Elden 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 Fighting

  • The King of Fighters XV (SNK/Plaion) 
  • MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)
  •  Sifu (Sloclap)
  • DNF Duel (Arc System Works/EIGHTING/NEOPLE/NEXON)
  •  JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R (CyberConnect 2 Co. Ltd/Bandai Namco)

 

Best Multiplayer

  • Overwatch 2 (Blizzard)
  •  Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
  •  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
  •  MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)
  •  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)

Most Anticipated

  •  Resident Evil 4 (Capcom)
  •  Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
  •  The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
  •  FINAL FANTASY XVI (Square Enix)
  •  Hogwarts Legacy (Avalanche Software/WB Games)

Content Creator of the Year

  •  Nibellion
  •  Nobru
  •  QTCinderella
  •  Karl Jacobs
  •  Ludwig

Best Esports Athlete

  • Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)
  •  Jacob "Yay" Whiteaker (Cloud9, Valorant)
  •  Jeong "Chovy" Ji-hoon  (Gen.G, LOL)
  •  Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok (T1, LOL)
  •  Finn "karrigan" Andersen (FaZe Clan – CS:GO)

Best Esports Coach

  •   Erik "d00mbr0s" Sandgren (FPX, VALORANT)
  •  Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström (FaZe Clan, CS:GO)
  • Andrii "B1ad3" Horodenskyi  (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)
  •  Matheus "bzkA" Tarasconi (LOUD, VALORANT)
  •  Go "Score" Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL)

Best Game Direction

  •  Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
  •  Immortality (Half Mermaid)
  •  Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
  •  God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

Best narrative

  • God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
  •  Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
  •  Immortality (Half Mermaid)
  • A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
  •  Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco

 

Best Performance

  •  Manon Gage, Immortality
  • Ashly Burch, Horizon Forbidden West
  •  Charlotte McBurney, A Plague Tale: Requiem
  •  Christopher Judge, God of War Ragnarök
  •  Sunny Suljic, God of War Ragnarök

Games for Impact

  • A 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)

Best Ongoing Game

  •  FINAL FANTASY XIV (Square Enix)
  •  Fortnite (Epic Games)
  •  Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)
  •  Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
  •  Destiny 2 (Bungie)

Best Mobile

  •  Genshin Impact (HoYovese)
  • MARVEL SNAP (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse)
  •  Tower of Fantasy (Hotta Studio/Perfect World/Level Infinite)
  • Apex Legends Mobile (Lightspeed & Quantum/Respawn/EA)
  •  Diablo Immortal (Blizzard/NetEase)

Best VR/AR

  • BONELAB (Stress Level Zero)
  • Moss: Book II (Polyarc)
  •  Red Matter 2 (Vertical Robot)
  • After the Fall (Vertigo Games)
  •  Among Us VR (Schell Games/InnerSloth)

 Best Action

  • Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
  • Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)
  • Sifu (Sloclap)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)

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

  • Total War: WARHAMMER III (Creative Assembly/Sega)
  • Two Point Campus (Two Point Studios/Sega) 
  • Dune: Spice Wars (Shiro Games/Funcom)
  • Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft) 
  • Victoria 3 (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox Interactive)

Best Sports/Racing

  •  F1 22 (Codemasters/EA Sports)
  •  Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/SIE)
  •  OlliOlli World (Roll 7/Private Division)
  • FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver/Romania/EA Sports)
  •  NBA 2K23 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports

Best Adaptation

  •  The Cuphead Show! (Studio MDHR/King Features Syndicate/Netflix)
  •  Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Sammy Group/Paramount Pictures)
  •  Uncharted (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures)
  •  Arcane: League of Legends (Fortiche/Riot Games/Netflix)
  •  Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Trigger/CD Projekt, Netflix)

Innovation in Accessibility

  •  As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)
  •  Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital)
  •  The Last Of Us Part I (Naughty Dog/SIE)
  •  The Quarry (Supermassive Games/2K)
  •  God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

Best Esports Game

  •  Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
  •  League of Legends (Riot Games)
  •  Rocket League (Psyonix)
  •  VALORANT (Riot Games)
  •  DOTA 2 (Valve)

Best Esports Event

  •  EVO 2022
  •  PGL Major Antwerp 2022
  •  The 2022 Mid-Season Invitational
  •  2022 League of Legends World Championship
  •  VALORANT Champions 2022

 

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