Game of the Year Nominees |
- A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studios / Focus Entertainment)
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco)
- God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive)
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft / Nintendo)
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Best Game Direction |
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco)
- God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Immortality (Half Mermaid)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive)
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Best Narrative |
- A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studios / Focus Entertainment)
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco)
- God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Immortality (Half Mermaid)
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Best Art Direction |
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco)
- God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Scorn (Ebb Software / Kepler Interactive)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive)
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Best Score and Music |
- A Plague Tale: Requiem (Olivier Deriviere)
- Elden Ring (Tsukasa Saitoh)
- God of War Ragnarok (Bear McCreary)
- Metal: Hellsinger (Two Feathers)
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Yasunori Mitsuda)
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Best Audio Design |
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward / Activision Blizzard)
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco)
- God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
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Best Performance |
- Ashley Burch as Aloy in Horizon Forbidden West
- Charlotte McBurney as Amicia in A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Christopher Judge as Kratos in God of War Ragnarok
- Manon Gage as Marcel in Immortality
- Sunny Suljic as Atreus in God of War Ragnarok
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Games for Impact |
- A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive / Annapurna Interactive)
- 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 Interactive)
- I Was A Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games / Finji)
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Best Ongoing |
- Apex Legends (Respawn Entertainment / Electronic Arts)
- Destiny 2 (Bungie)
- Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
- Fortnite (Epic Games)
- Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)
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Best Indie |
- Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster / Devolver Digital)
- Neon White (Angel Matrix /Annapurna Interactive)
- Sifu (Sloclap)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive)
- Tunic (Tunic Team / Finji)
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Best Mobile Game |
- Apex Legends Mobile (Lightspeed & Quantum / Respawn Entertainment / Electronic Arts)
- Diablo Immortal (Activision Blizzard / NetEase Entertainment)
- Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)
- Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios / NuVerse)
- Tower of Fantasy (Hotta Studio / Perfect World / Level Infinite)
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Best Community Support |
- Apex Legends (Respawn Entertainment / Electronic Arts)
- Destiny 2 (Bungie)
- Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
- Fortnite (Epic Games)
- No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
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Innovation in Accessibility |
- As Dusk Falls (Interior Night / Xbox Game Studios)
- God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox / Devolver Digital)
- The Last of Us Part I (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- The Quarry (Supermassive Games / 2K)
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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)
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Best Action Game |
- Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games / Nintendo)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward / Activision)
- Neon White (Angel Matrix / Annapurna Interactive)
- Sifu (Sloclap)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games / DotEmu)
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Best Action / Adventure |
- A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studios / Focus Entertainment)
- God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive)
- Tunic (Tunic Team / Finji)
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Best Role Playing |
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco)
- Live A Live (Square Enix / Nintendo)
- Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Game Freak / Nintendo / The Pokemon Company)
- Triangle Strategy (Artdink / Square Enix)
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft / Nintendo)
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Best Fighting |
- DNF Duel (Arc System Works / Eighting / Neople / Nexon)
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R (Cyberconnect 2 / Bandai Namco)
- The King of Fighters XV (SNK / Plaion)
- MultiVersus (Player First Games / WB Games)
- Sifu (Sloclap)
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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 Entertainment Planning & Development / Nintendo)
- Splatoon 3 (Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development / Nintendo)
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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)
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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 / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- OlliOlli World (Roll 7 / Private Division)
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Best Multiplayer |
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward / Activision Blizzard)
- MultiVersus (Player First Games / WB Games)
- Overwatch 2 (Activision Blizzard)
- Splatoon 3 (Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development / Nintendo)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games / DotEmu)
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Content Creator of the Year |
- Karl Jacobs
- Ludwig
- Nibellion
- Nobru
- QTCinderella
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Best Debut Indie |
- Neon White (Angel Matrix / Annapurna Interactive)
- Norco (Geography of Robots / Raw Fury)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive)
- Tunic (Tunic Team / Finji)
- Vampire Survivors (Poncle)
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Best Adaptation |
- 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)
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Most Anticipated Game |
- 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 Entertainment Planning & Development / Nintendo)
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Best Esports Game |
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
- Dota 2 (Valve)
- League of Legends (Riot Games)
- Rocket League (Psyonix)
- VALORANT (Riot Games)
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Best Esports Athlete |
- Jeong “Chovy” Ji-Hoon (Gen.G, League of Legends)
- Lee “Faker” Sang-Hyeok (T1, League of Legends)
- Finn “Karrigan” Andersen (FaZe Clan, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
- Oleksandr “S1mple” Kostyliev (Natus Vincere, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
- Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker (Cloud9, VALORANT)
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Best Esports Team |
- DarkZero Esports (Apex Legends)
- FaZe Clan (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
- Gen.G (League of Legends)
- LA Thieves (Call of Duty)
- LOUD (VALORANT)
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Best Esports Coach |
- Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi (Natus Vincere, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
- Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi (LOUD, VALORANT)
- Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren (FunPlus Phoenix, VALORANT)
- Robert “RobbaN” Dahlstrom (FaZe Clan, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
- Go “Score” Dong-Bin (Gen.G, League of Legends)
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Best Esports Event |
- EVO 2022
- 2022 League of Legends World Championship
- PGL Major Antwerp 2022
- The 2022 Mid-Season Invitational
- VALORANT Champions 2022
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Players Voice |
- Sonic Frontiers
- Genshin Impact
- Elden Ring
- God of War Ragnarok
- Stray
- Games with Most Wins
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