God of War Ragnarök leads The Game Awards 2022 nominations

The Game Awards released their list of nominees for this year’s show, with God of War Ragnarök earning the most nominations with 10. Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West also appear in many categories with seven nominations each.

The event will take place on December 8. People will tune in to see who will win the prizes and watch the new game reveal the show is famous.

As for the disapprovals of this year’s list of nominees, I see a few. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker had a great soundtrack, but Endwalker came out in December last year. While it still qualifies for this year’s awards as a result, those December games often seem to elude voters (which includes GamesBeat, by the way).

I would also have liked to see more nominations for Live A Live, but at least Xenoblade Chronicles 3 got a Game of the Year nomination. That’s a win for all the great Switch RPGs we’ve seen this year.

You can view the full list of nominations below:

GAME OF THE YEAR

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• Elden Ring (from Software/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 (from Software/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Immortality (half mermaid)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

BEST STORY

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• Elden Ring (from Software/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Immortality (half mermaid)

BEST ART DIRECTION

• Elden Ring (from Software/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Contempt (Ebb Software/Kepler Interactive)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

BEST SCORE AND MUSIC

• Olivier Deriviere, A Plague Story: Requiem
• Tsukasa Saitoh, Elden Ring
• Bear McCreary, god of war Ragnarök
• Two springs, metal: Hellsinger
• Yasunori Mitsuda, Xenoblade Chronicles 3

BEST AUDIO DESIGN

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

BEST PERFORMANCE

• Ashly Burch, Horizon Forbidden West
• Charlotte McBurney, A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Christopher Judge, god of war Ragnarök
• Manon Gage, Immortality
• 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 age/fellow traveller)
• Endling – Extinction Is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames)
• Hindsight (Team Hindsight/Annapurna)
• I was a teenage exo-settler (Northway Games/Finji)

BEST RUNNING GAME

• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
• Lot 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 (sloop)
• 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 (TunicTeam/Finji)
• Vampire Survivors (Poncle)

BEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT PRESENTED BY DISCORD

• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
• Lot 2 (Bungie)
• Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
• Fortnite (Epic Games)
• No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

BEST MOBILE

• Apex Legends Mobile (Lightspeed & Quantum/Respawn/EA)
• Diablo Immortal (Blizzard/NetEase)
• Genshin impact (HoYovese)
• Marvel Snap (Second Diner Studios/Nuverse)
• Fantasy Tower (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 (sloop)
• 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 (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
• Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji)

BEST ROLE PLAY

• Elden Ring (from Software/Bandai Namco)
• Live a Life (Square Enix/Nintendo)
• Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Game Freak/Nintendo/TPCI)
• Triangle Strategy (Artdink/Square Enix)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)

BEST FIGHT

• 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 (sloop)

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/Ubisoft)
• Total War: Warhammer III (Creative Assembly/Sega)
• Two Point Campus (Two Point Studios/Sega)
• Victoria 3 (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox Interactive)

BEST SPORT/RACING

• F1 22 (Codemasters/EA Sports)
• FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver/Romania/EA Sports)
• NBA 2K23 (Visual Drafts/2K Sports)
• Gran Turismo 7 (polyphony digital/SIE)
• OlliOlli World (Reel 7/Private Division)

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 Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)

MOST EXPECTED

• 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

• Charles Jacobs
• Louis
• Nibellion
• Nobru
• QTCinderella

BEST ADJUSTMENT

• Arcane: League of Legends (Fortiche/Riot Games/Netflix)
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Trigger/CD Project, 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)

BEST ESPORTS GAME

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

BEST ESPORTS ATHLETE

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

BEST ESPORTS TEAM

• DarkZero Esports (Apex Legends)
• FaZe Clan (CS:GO)
• Gen.G (League of Legends)
• LA Thieves (Call of Duty)
• LOUD (Valorant)

BEST ESPORTS 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 “Score” Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL)

BEST ESPORTS EVENT

• Evo 2022
• 2022 League of Legends World Championship
• PGL Major Antwerp 2022
• The invitation to the mid-season of 2022
• 2022 VALORANT champions