The complete checklist of nominees for the 2022 Sport Awards is right here and (as you may need predicted) each Elden Ring and God of Warfare Ragnarok scored massive. Different massive nominees included video games like Horizon Forbidden West and Xenoblade Chronicles 3, whereas indie titles struggled to interrupt by means of except for Stray.

Hosted by Geoff Keighley, The Sport Awards is the online game business’s model of the Oscars. This 12 months’s present will happen in-person on the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on December 8. Like earlier years, it’ll dwell broadcast on varied channels like YouTube and Twitch. The present is thought for delivering world premiere reveals for upcoming video games, in addition to giving out a slew of awards in a wide range of classes.

This 12 months’s nominations come as no shock. Elden Ring could possibly be poised to comb, because it picked up seven nominations. It even acquired a number of puzzling nominations in classes like Greatest Narrative. It’ll face a tricky foe in God of Warfare Ragnarok, although, which picked up 10 nominations itself. That quantity is larger largely resulting from its two nominations within the Greatest Efficiency class. The 2 will duke it out in key classes like Greatest Motion/Journey Sport and Sport of the 12 months.

Whereas these two video games lead the nomination subject, they aren’t the one video games that scored massive. The coveted Sport of the 12 months class additionally consists of A Plague Story: Requiem, Horizon Forbidden West, Stray, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3. All 4 of these video games scored nominations in different classes throughout the board as nicely.

There’s little variety on the subject of the remainder of the sector, particularly on the subject of impartial video games. The critically acclaimed Immortality snagged three nominations away from massive funds video games, however impartial titles largely misplaced out to behemoths like Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare II and Gran Turismo 7.

Right here is the complete checklist of nominees for the 2022 Sport Awards.

Sport of the 12 months

• A Plague Story: Requiem
• Elden Ring
• God of Warfare Ragnarök
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Stray
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Greatest Sport Route

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of Warfare Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Video games/SIE)
• Immortality
• Stray

Greatest Narrative

• A Plague Story: Requiem
• Elden Ring
• God of Warfare Ragnarök
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Immortality

Greatest Artwork Route

• Elden Ring 
• God of Warfare Ragnarök 
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Scorn
• Stray 

Greatest Rating and Music

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

Greatest Audio Design

• Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare II
• Elden Ring
• God of Warfare Ragnarök
• Gran Turismo 7
• Horizon Forbidden West

Greatest Efficiency

• Ashly Burch, Horizon Forbidden West
• Charlotte McBurney, A Plague Story: Requiem
• Christopher Decide, God of Warfare Ragnarök
• Manon Gage, Immortality
• Sunny Suljic, God of Warfare Ragnarök

Video games for Affect

• A Memoir Blue
• As Nightfall Falls
• Citizen Sleeper
• Endling: Extinction is Without end
• Hindsight
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

Greatest Ongoing Sport

• Apex Legends
• Future 2
• Remaining Fantasy XIV
• Fortnite
• Genshin Affect

Greatest Indie

• Cult of the Lamb
• Neon White
• Sifu
• Stray
• Tunic

Greatest Debut Indie

• Neon White
• Norco
• Stray
• Tunic
• Vampire Survivors

Greatest Neighborhood Help

• Apex Legends
• Future 2
• Remaining Fantasy XIV
• Fortnite
• No Man’s Sky

Greatest Cell

• Apex Legends Cell
• Diablo Immortal
• Genshin Affect
• Marvel Snap
• Tower of Fantasy

Greatest AR/VR

• After the Fall
• Amongst Us VR
• Bonelab
• Moss: Ebook II
• Purple Matter 2

Greatest Motion

• Bayonetta 3
• Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare II
• Neon White
• Sifu
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Greatest Motion/Journey

• A Plague Story: Requiem
• God of Warfare Ragnarök
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Stray
• Tunic

Greatest Function Taking part in

• Elden Ring
• Stay a Stay
• Pokémon Legends: Arceus
• Triangle Technique
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Greatest Combating

• DNF Duel
• JoJo’s Weird Journey: All Star Battle R
• The King of Fighters XV
• MultiVersus
• Sifu

Greatest Household

• Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
• Nintendo Change Sports activities
• Splatoon 3

Greatest Sim/Technique

• Dune: Spice Wars
• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
• Whole Warfare: WARHAMMER III
• Two Level Campus
• Victoria 3

Greatest Sports activities/Racing

• F1 22
• FIFA 23
• NBA 2K23
• Gran Turismo 7
• OlliOlli World

Greatest Multiplayer

• Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare II
• MultiVersus
• Overwatch 2
• Splatoon 3
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Most Anticipated

• Remaining Fantasy XVI
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Resident Evil 4
• Starfield
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Content material Creator of the 12 months

• Karl Jacobs
• Ludwig
• Nibellion
• Nobru
• QTCinderella

Greatest Adaptation

• Arcane: League of Legends
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• The Cuphead Present!
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Uncharted

Innovation in Accessibility

• As Nightfall Falls
• God of Warfare Ragnarök
• Return to Monkey Island
• The Final Of Us Half I
• The Quarry

Greatest Esports Sport

• Counter-Strike: International Offensive
• DOTA 2
• League of Legends
• Rocket League
• Valorant

Greatest Esports Athlete

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

Greatest Esports Staff

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

Greatest 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 “Rating” Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL)

Greatest Esports Occasion

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

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