Wandering adventurers from past times and dark fantasy worlds, gods with very bad tempers, hunters from a future not far enough, and even a very curious little cat compete for the honor of starring in the best game of 2022. At this point in the game, and with more than one bombshell to come, we are all more or less clear which one we liked the most. But there can only be one number one. The Game Awards 2022 may not have a consensus, but in the process of finding out, we will enjoy a great video game gala with lots of announcements and surprises. How to miss it?
Every year the Game Awards are lived in a very special way in iGamesNewsbut this is a little more: together with our colleagues from the Spanish press we have put our grain of sand when making the selection. With the cards face up It’s time to choose the best among the best. and there, in that process, you also enter, dear reader. But before we disperse too much, let’s focus and go in parts and put together everything we know about the last great video game ceremony of 2022.
In iGamesNews We have brought together in one place everything that is known and has been announced about the event organized by Geoff Keighley. From the key dates and the format of the event to the true protagonists of the night: the nominated video games. Because this year has been very crazy, things as they are, but it has also given us surprises, pleasant joys and very good moments when playing with friends, with strangers or on our own.
And be careful, from now on we anticipate that in this house we will continue the ceremony and we will talk about the winners and the best surprises as expected of us. Without further ado, below you will find everything you need to know about The Game Awards 2022. Our starting point, of course, the date on which the celebration will take place.
The Game Awards 2022: date, time and formats
the ceremony of The Game Awards will be held just after dawn on December 9broadcasting on official channels from 02:00 a.m. (Spanish time) / 5:00 p.m. Pacific time. Half an hour before, in addition, a previous gala will be offered in which we will see announcements and winners, reserving the most important prizes, including the winner of the best game of 2022, for the final stages of the event.
Between prize and prize, the own Geoff Keighleythe visible face of the event, has promised that we will see more than 50 ads related to video games. We hope to see new and never-before-seen titles, but we also have new content and trailers for the most anticipated video games of 2023 and beyond.
The Game Awards 2022 will be held live at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. There will be live attendees again and invitations are offered by the organization, although it is also possible to attend as a public going to the box office from the beginning of November.
Of course, the claim to attend through the internet or in person are not only the announcements and awards, but the musical performances including a medley by the orchestra of The game Awards in which the themes of the nominees for best game of the year will be heard in the same piece of music.
Regarding the format, the nominees and the winners assume that the organization of The Game Awards It had the collaboration of more than 100 media and individual talents who shared their candidates for each category. For reference, Geoff Keighley does not vote or intervene in the choice of awardees. The final count of the votes for the winners is divided between an own jury (90%) and an open voting system (10%) through the official website y the official Discord server.
the ceremony of The Game Awards It will be broadcast live on Youtube, Twitch, Youtube and practically all the available networks. In addition, not only will the transmission of the gala be allowed, but there an official form to co-stream.
As for the official channels, we are referred to the following addresses.
For our part, since iGamesNews We will offer all the coverage of The Game Awards and we will be very attentive to the confirmations that are given between now and its celebration. What’s more, we will update our text so that you always have all the updated and handy information in one place.
The Game Awards 2022: award categories and list of nominees
The most anticipated categories of The Game Awards from previous years return with a list presided over by the award of best game of the year but in this edition we find novelties, such as the award for the Best Adaptation of a video game.
Logically, it’s time to do numbers Starting from the merits of each game, but in a matter of nominations it is already possible to draw some conclusions about which titles have stood out from the rest of the video games: God of War Ragnarok, Elden Ring y Horizon Forbidden West stand out with a Stray that is on their heels.
And beware, to this must be added the number of nominations accumulated by development studios and distributors, with Sony Interactive, Annapurna and Nintendo leading the count.
From here it is time to share the nominees, starting with the grand prize: the Best Game of the Year 2022.
best game of the year
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Elder Ring
- God of War Ragnarök
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Stray
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
best direction
- Elder Ring
- God of War Ragnarök
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Immortality
- Stray
best narrative
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Elder Ring
- God of War Ragnarök
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Immortality
Best Art Direction
- Elder Ring
- God of War Ragnarök
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Scorn
- Stray
best soundtrack
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Elder Ring
- God of War Ragnarök
- Metal: Hellsinger
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
better sound
best performance
- Ashly Burch (Aloy en Horizon Forbidden West)
- Charlotte McBurney (Friendship in A Plague Tale: Requiem)
- Christopher Judge (Kratos and God of War Ragnarök)
- Manon Gage (Marissa Marcel en Immortality)
- Sunny Suljic (Atreus en God of War Ragnarök)
Game with greater impact
Best active game
best indie game
best mobile game
Best Community Supported Game
- Apex Legends
- Destiny 2
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Fortnite
- No Man’s Sky
Best Accessibility Innovation
Best virtual reality or augmented reality game
best action game
best action adventure game
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- God of War Ragnarök
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Stray
- Tunic
Best RPG
best fighting game
best family game
best strategy game
Best Sports/Driving Game
best multiplayer game
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
- Multiversus
- Overwatch 2
- Splatoon 3
- TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge
Best Content Creator of the Year
- Karl Jacobs
- Ludwig
- Nibellion
- Count up
- Qtcinderella
Best Indie Release
- Neon White
- Norco
- Stray
- Tunic
- Vampire Survivors
best adaptation
most anticipated game
Best eSports game
best eSports player
- Jeong “Chovy” Ji-Hoon
- Lee “Faker” Sang-Hyeok
- Find “Karrigan” Andersen
- Oleksandr “S1mple” Kostyliev
- Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker
Best eSports Team
- Darkzero eSports
- Faze Clan
- Gen.G
- LA Thieves
- Loud
Best eSports Coach
- Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi
- Matheus “Bzka” Tarasconi”
- Erik “D00mbr0s” Sandgren
- Robert “Robban” Dahlström
- GO “Score” Dong-Bin
Best eSports event
- EVO 2022
- League of Legends Worlds 22
- PGL Major Antwerp 2022
- The 2022 Mid-Season Invitational
- Evaluating Champions 2022
¿Absences? Of course there are. And we must also bear in mind that there are still great games to come out of here until The Game Awards are held, such as Marvel’s Midnight Suns or The Callisto Protocol. However, it is worth remembering that the period to be selected among the finalists was set as the limit to be released before November 18, 2022. A date on which, logically, it is still early to talk about Pokémon Scarlet and Purple .
Extra Ball: The nine games we want to see at The Game Awards
Announcements and surprises are an essential part of the awards ceremony of The Game Awards. We may have exhausted our share of luck with the announcement and release of Return to Monkey Island, but dreaming is free. What’s more, if we can choose to see seven game announcements that will come out in 2023 or surprises, we are very clear about what they are.
Any of the new Hideo Kojima games
Hideo Kojima is not lost or absent in any gala organized by Geoff Keighley, and we know that you have many projects on your hands. One of them is for Microsoft and also that he is up to something with Elle Fanning. In addition, that there is a sequel to Death Stranding is not ruled out. Rather the complete opposite.
Hogwarts Legacy
Many of us were counting on hiding behind the Christmas holidays to give ourselves the most ambitious game based on the world of Harry Potter ever made, and we will have to wait a little longer to throw in the gauntlet. It’s not much to order an appetizer, is it?
Forza Motorsport
If there is a driving game capable of generating the same noise among fans of motorsports, video games and Game Pass users, that is Forza Motorsport. Will he be able to beat Forza Horizon 5? With a new look we would have it clearer.
Un remake / remaster de Bloodborne
Enough of dizzying the partridge! PlayStation Studios has rescued and breathed new life into tons of must-have games on PS5 and PC, but there’s one very specific game that just screams for it: an updated, 60fps (minimum) version of Bloodborne. With Elder Ring Served, it’s time to see what’s new from FromSoftware.
Metroid Prime 4
Believe it or not, Metroid Prime 4 was announced just a few months after the launch of the Nintendo Switch. The console is facing half its life cycle and we have only seen a logo. If only we had a new edition of the trilogy to make the wait more enjoyable.
Beyond Good and Evil 2
Beyond Good & Evil 2 has been in development for so many years that it has even achieved a historical record. It turned out that Skull and Bones found its way after years of silence, so we haven’t given up hope. All in all, its Ubisoft plans to show something we promise to play it surprised.
Starfield
The first mega-bomb from Bethesda for the new stage of Xbox Game Studios. Starfield wants to compete with the best installments of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout betting the maximum for the role and science fiction. It will be interesting to find out how far their ambition has taken them.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
We will not say names, but there are those who refer to the most anticipated games of 2023 as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and a few more. In any case, all of us who hallucinate with Breath of the Wild rub our hands with returning to the Hyrule that we fell in love with.
Grand Theft Auto 6
One of the most notorious anecdotes of all of 2022 was the leak of GTA 6. Long. We don’t know if we will see another one, but the hare has jumped before the count and Rockstar is interested in making the formal presentations. If it does not arrive in 2023, nothing happens, but we want the successor to GTA V to excite us. Next year it will be 10 years since Michael, Franklin and Trevor got together!
Table of Contents
