. This year marks the introduction of a new Best Adaptation category for movies and TV shows based on video games, with the likes of Arcane and Sonic The Hedgehog 2 up for the award. Public voting is open now too, and you can find a full list of the categories and their respective nominees below. GAME OF THE YEAR A 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) 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 A 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 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, A Plague Tale: Requiem Tsukasa Saitoh, Elden Ring Bear McCreary, God of War Ragnarök Two Feathers, Metal: Hellsinger Yasunori Mitsuda, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 BEST AUDIO DESIGN Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (In){kind=link}
The internet’s about to be aflame with heated debate, as the nominees for this year’s Game Awards have been announced.
The Game Awards 2022 are less than a month away and discussions about which games are worthy of taking home an award is about to hit fever pitch.
This is because the nominees for each of the categories has been unveiled, something we, and a number of other outlets from around the world, had a hand in deciding (and yet Bayonetta 3 was still sadly snubbed for Game of the Year).
This year marks the introduction of a new Best Adaptation category for movies and TV shows based on video games, with the likes of Arcane and Sonic The Hedgehog 2 up for the award.
Public voting is open now too, and you can find a full list of the categories and their respective nominees below.