(Image: The Game Awards 2022)
The Game Awards is an awards ceremony held annually and is the most prestigious awards show for the video game industry. Each year, developers, publishers, streamers, esports players/coaches, and high profile gaming individuals come together to celebrate the best of gaming. The Game Awards 2022, held at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, announced several game titles coming in 2023 with a bunch of awards given for their outstanding achievement and impact for gamers around the world.
Here are the winners for The Game Awards 2022!
- Game of the Year
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Elden Ring – WINNER
- God of War Ragnarok
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Stray
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Best Game Direction
- Elden Ring – WINNER
- God of War Ragnarok
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Immortality
- Stray
- Best Narrative
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Elden Ring
- God of War Ragnarok – WINNER
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Immortality
- Best Art Direction
- Elden Ring – WINNER
- God of War Ragnarok
- Horizon: Forbidden West
- Scorn
- Stray
- Best Score/Music
- Olivier Deriviere – A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Tsukasa Saitoh – Elden Ring
- Bear McCreary – God of War Ragnarok – WINNER
- Two Feathers – Metal Hellsinger
- Yasunori Mitsuda
- Best Audio Design
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Elden Ring
- God of War Ragnarok – WINNER
- Gran Turismo 7
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Best Performance
- Ashly Birch – Horizon: Forbidden West
- Charlotte McBurney – A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Christopher Judge – God of War Ragnarok – WINNER
- Manon Gage – Immortality
- Sunny Suljic – God of War Ragnarok
- Players Voice
- Sonic Frontiers
- Genshin Impact – WINNER
- Elden Ring
- God of War Ragnarok
- Stray
- Games for Impact
- A Memoir Blue
- As Dusk Falls – WINNER
- Citizen Sleeper
- Endling – Extinction is Forever
- Hindsight
- I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
- Best Ongoing Game
- Apex Legends
- Destiny 2
- Final Fantasy 14 Online – WINNER
- Fortnite
- Genshin Impact
- Best Indie Game
- Cult of the Lamb
- Neon White
- Sifu
- Stray – WINNER
- TUNIC
- Best Debut Indie Game
- Neon White
- NORCO
- Stray – WINNER
- TUNIC
- Vampire Survivors
- Best Mobile Game
- Apex Legends Mobile
- Diablo Immortal
- Genshin Impact
- Marvel Snap – WINNER
- Tower of Fantasy
- Best Community Support
- Apex Legends
- Destiny 2
- Final Fantasy 14 Online – WINNER
- Fortnite
- No Man’s Sky
- Best VR/AR Game
- After the Fall
- Among Us VR
- BONELAB
- Moss: Book II – WINNER
- Red Matter 2
- Innovation in Accessibility
- As Dusk Falls
- God of War Ragnarok – WINNER
- Returnal
- Return to Monkey Island
- The Last of Us Part 1
- The Quarry
- Best Action Game
- Bayonetta 3 – WINNER
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
- Neon White
- Sifu
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
- Best Action/Adventure Game
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- God of War Ragnarok – WINNER
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Stray
- TUNIC
- Best RPG
- Elden Ring – WINNER
- Live a Live
- Pokémon Legends: Arceus
- Triangle Strategy
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Best Fighting Game
- DNF Duel
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R
- The King of Fighters 15
- MultiVersus – WINNER
- Sifu
- Best Family Game
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land – WINNER
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
- Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
- Nintendo Switch Sports
- Splatoon 3
- Best Sports/Racing Game
- F1 22
- FIFA 23
- NBA 2K23
- Gran Turismo 7 – WINNER
- OlliOlli World
- Best SIM/Strategy Game
- Dune: Spice Wars
- Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope – WINNER
- Total War: WARHAMMER 3
- Two Point Campus
- Victoria 3
- Best Multiplayer Game
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Multiversus
- Overwatch 2
- Splatoon 3 – WINNER
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
- Content Creator of the Year
- Karl Jacobs
- Ludwig – WINNER
- Nibellion
- Nobru
- QTCinderella
- Best 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) – WINNER
- Best Esports Coach
- Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)
- Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi (LOUD, VALORANT) – WINNER
- Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren (FPX, VALORANT)
- Robert “RobbaN” Dahlström (FaZe Clan, CS:GO)
- Go “Score” Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL)
- Best Esports Event
- EVO 2022
- 2022 League of Legends World Championship – WINNER
- PGL Major Antwerp 2022
- The 2022 Mid-Season Invitational
- VALORANT Champions 2022
- Best Esports Game
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- DOTA 2
- League of Legends
- Rocket League
- VALORANT – WINNER
- Best Esports Team
- DarkZero Esports (Apex Legends)
- FaZe Clan (CS:GO)
- Gen.G (League of Legends)
- LA Thieves (Call of Duty)
- LOUD (Valorant) – WINNER
- Most Anticipated Game
- Final Fantasy 16
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Resident Evil 4
- Starfield
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – WINNER
- Best Adaptation
- Arcane: League of Legends – WINNER
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
- The Cuphead Show!
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Uncharted
