The Game Awards announced its list of 2022 nominees
Companies already use The Game Awards to pitch related movies and shows, but now the event will officially recognize those productions. Organizers have revealed that the 2022 Game Awards will take place on December 8th with a new Best Adaptation category. Companies will receive statuettes for any project that translates games to “popular media,” including movies, TV series, podcasts and books.
The event will not only retain an in-person component but extend that to theaters. The Game Awards will offer a live “IMAX Experience” in cities worldwide. While more details are due in the months ahead, it’s safe to presume you’ll get a richer audiovisual presentation as you watch ceremonies and game trailers.
The Game Awards announced its list of 2022 nominees on Monday. The nominees for Game of the Year include FromSoftware and Bandai Namco‘s Elden Ring and Monolith Soft and Nintendo‘s Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Other nominees include A Plague Tale: Requiem, God of War Ragnarök, Horizon Forbidden West, and Stray.
Elden Ring has also been nominated for Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score and Music, Best Audio Design, and Best Role Playing. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 also received nominations for Best Score and Music and Best Role Playing.
Other nominees from Japanese game franchises, or developed or published by Japanese companies or their overseas subsidiaries, include:
- Best Ongoing Game: Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
- Best Community Support: Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
- Best Action: Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
- Best Role Playing: Live a Live (Square Enix/Nintendo)
- Best Role Playing: Pokémon Legends: Arceus (Nintendo/The Pokémon Company)
- Best Role Playing: Triangle Strategy (Square Enix)
- Best Fighting: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R (Bandai Namco)
- Best Fighting: The King of Fighters XV (SNK)
- Best Family: Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Nintendo)
- Best Family: Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (/Ubisoft)
- Best Family: Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo)
- Best Family: Splatoon 3 (Nintendo)
- Best Sim/Strategy: Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft)
- Best Multiplayer: Splatoon 3 (Nintendo)
- Most Anticipated: Final Fantasy XVI (Square Enix)
- Most Anticipated: Resident Evil 4 (CAPCOM)
- Most Anticipated: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo)
- Best Adaptation: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Trigger/CD Projekt, Netflix)
- Best Adaptation: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 film (Sega/Paramount Pictures)
