The Games Awards, now considered the Oscars of video games, have announced the nominees for Game of the Year.
That game prizes, the great American celebration of global video gaming, will take place on December 8th, 2022 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. iGamesNews is again part of the jury that selects the games that compete for an award. The most prestigious is of course the one that awards the video game of the year, the GOTY, acronym for Game Of The Year.
In 2014 it’s the RPG BioWare, Dragon Age: Inquisition, who was the winner. 2015, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Poland by CD PROJEKT RED. 2016, over watch won the Game of the Year award while starring in a video game demo from Nintendo in 2017 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. 2018, the reinvention of a legendary series, God of War. 2019, the celebration of the Japanese studio FromSoftware with Axe: Shadows die twice. 2020 is finally here The Last of Us Part II what was holy, and in 2021 the revelation It takes two
Who will be the Game Awards GOTY 2022?
The game of the year according to The Game Awards can be found in this list:
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)
Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok favoris
We can see that the choice is varied, with games very different from each other. However, it seems obvious that two titles already stand out (and this is the case with the votes from editors like iGamesNews who contribute to the list of these nominees): Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarök. The second has the advantage of being fresh in memory, but the first had eclipsed literally every other video game upon its release and in the weeks that followed…
What do you think of this list of GOTY contenders? Is your favorite game of the year in it? A prediction maybe? Result in a few weeks and it will of course follow on iGamesNews.fr!
