‘Elden Ring’ wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2022

The Recreation Awards returned to Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater Thursday evening for its first in-person occasion for the reason that COVID pandemic. Basking within the cheers of the gaming neighborhood was FromSoftware’s “Elden Ring,” which received the highest Recreation of the Yr prize.

“We’ve confronted so many difficulties whereas creating this sport…so I’m actually relieved,” stated director Hidetaka Miyazaki. “I haven’t made up my thoughts to create much more attention-grabbing video games than this one. As for ‘Elden Ring,’ we nonetheless have extra issues we wish to do, so getting this GOTY award actually, actually encourages us.”

Heading into the ceremony, “Elden Ring” acquired seven nominations. “Elden Ring” additionally received prizes for artwork route, roleplaying and route.

FromSoftware final received Recreation of the Yr in 2019 for “Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.”

For The Recreation Awards creator and host Geoff Keighley, Thursday’s present was a welcome return to ceremony’s ordinary kind, with notable gaming figures — Xbox’s Phil Spencer and former Recreation Awards honorees Hideo Kojima, and Josef Fares — in attendance.

In fact, this 12 months additionally touted one thing new for the ceremony — its inaugural Greatest Adaptation class.

Forward of the present, Keighley instructed The Occasions that 2022 is an optimum time to start out celebrating “genuine” and contemporary takes on gaming content material.

“[The category] simply speaks to how gaming is taking on popular culture,” he stated in November through video name. “A part of the mission of our present is to have a good time the facility of this medium as the biggest, most dominant type of leisure. So I believe that is simply one other instance of it’s continued proliferation.”

Netflix’s “Arcane,” an animated tackle the world of Riot’s “League of Legends,” took house the primary Greatest Adaptation award.

The Recreation Awards’ in-person comeback additionally noticed prizes for “Stray,” “Bayonetta 3” and “God of Struggle Ragnarök,” which received six classes. See the complete checklist of the 2022 Recreation Awards winners under:

Recreation of the 12 months

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) | WINNER
• A Plague Story: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Leisure)
• God of Struggle Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Video games/SIE)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Gentle/Nintendo)

Recreation route

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)| WINNER
• God of Struggle Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Video games/SIE)
• Immortality (Half Mermaid)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

Narrative

• God of Struggle Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) | WINNER
• A Plague Story: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Leisure)
• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Video games/SIE)
• Immortality (Half Mermaid)

Artwork route

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) | WINNER
• God of Struggle Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Video games/SIE)
• Scorn (Ebb Software program/Kepler Interactive)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

Rating and music

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

Audio design

• God of Struggle Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) | WINNER
• Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Video games/SIE)

Efficiency

• Christopher Choose, God of Struggle Ragnarök | WINNER
• Ashly Burch, Horizon Forbidden West
• Charlotte McBurney, A Plague Story: Requiem
• Manon Gage, Immortality
• Sunny Suljic, God of Struggle Ragnarök

Video games for influence

• As Nightfall Falls (Inside Evening/Xbox Recreation Studios) | WINNER
• A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna)
• Citizen Sleeper (Bounce Over The Age/Fellow Traveller)
• Endling: Extinction Is Ceaselessly (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames)
• Hindsight (Group Hindsight/Annapurna)
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Video games/Finji)

Ongoing sport

• Remaining Fantasy XIV (Sq. Enix) | WINNER
• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
• Future 2 (Bungie)
• Fortnite (Epic Video games)
• Genshin Affect (HoYoverse)

Indie

• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) | WINNER
• Cult of the Lamb (Huge Monster / Devolver Digital)
• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)
• Sifu (Sloclap)
• Tunic (Tunic Group/Finji)

Debut indie

• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) | WINNER
• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
• Norco (Geography of Robots/Uncooked Fury)
• Tunic (Tunic Group/Finji)
• Vampire Survivors (poncle)

Neighborhood assist, introduced by Discord

• Remaining Fantasy XIV (Sq. Enix) | WINNER
• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
• Future 2 (Bungie)
• Fortnite (Epic Video games)
• No Man’s Sky (Hey Video games)

Cell

• Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse) | WINNER
• Apex Legends Cell (Lightspeed & Quantum/Respawn/EA)
• Diablo Immortal (Blizzard/NetEase)
• Genshin Affect (HoYovese)
• Tower of Fantasy (Hotta Studio/Good World/Stage Infinite)

VR/AR

• Moss: Ebook II (Polyarc) | WINNER
• After the Fall (Vertigo Video games)
• Amongst Us VR (Schell Video games/InnerSloth)
• Bonelab (Stress Stage Zero)
• Purple Matter 2 (Vertical Robotic)

Motion

• Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Video games/Nintendo) | WINNER
• Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)
• Sifu (Sloclap)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Video games/Dotemu)

Motion/journey

• God of Struggle Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) | WINNER
• A Plague Story: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Leisure)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Video games/SIE)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
• Tunic (Tunic Group/Finji)

Roleplaying

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) | WINNER
• Reside a Reside (Sq. Enix/Nintendo)
• Pokémon Legends: Arceus (Recreation Freak/Nintendo/TPCI)
• Triangle Technique (Artdink/Sq. Enix)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Gentle/Nintendo)

Combating

• MultiVersus (Participant First Video games/WB Video games) | WINNER
• DNF Duel (Arc System Works/Eighting/Neople/Nexon)
• JoJo’s Weird Journey: All Star Battle R (CyberConnect 2 Co. Ltd/Bandai Namco)
• The King of Fighters XV (SNK/Plaion)
• Sifu (Sloclap)

Household

• Kirby and the Forgotten Land (HAL Laboratory / Nintendo) | WINNER
• Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Traveller’s Tales/WB Video games)
• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft)
• Nintendo Change Sports activities (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

SIM/technique

• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft) | WINNER
• Dune: Spice Wars (Shiro Video games/Funcom)
• Whole Struggle: Warhammer III (Inventive Meeting/Sega)
• Two Level Campus (Two Level Studios/Sega)
• Victoria 3 (Paradox Improvement Studio/Paradox Interactive)

Sports activities/racing

• Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/SIE) | WINNER
• F1 22 (Codemasters/EA Sports activities)
• FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver/Romania/EA Sports activities)
• NBA 2K23 (Visible Ideas/2K Sports activities)
• OlliOlli World (Roll 7/Personal Division)

Multiplayer

• Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo) | WINNER
• Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• MultiVersus (Participant First Video games/WB Video games)
• Overwatch 2 (Blizzard)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Video games/Dotemu)

Most anticipated

• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo) | WINNER
• Remaining Fantasy XVI (Sq. Enix)
• Hogwarts Legacy (Avalanche Software program/WB Video games)
• Resident Evil 4 (Capcom)
• Starfield (Bethesda Recreation Studios/Bethesda)

Content material creator of the 12 months

• Ludwig | WINNER
• Karl Jacobs
• Nibellion
• Nobru
• QTCinderella

Adaptation

• Arcane: League of Legends (Fortiche/Riot Video games/Netflix) | WINNER
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Set off/CD Projekt, Netflix)
• The Cuphead Present! (Studio MDHR/King Options Syndicate/Netflix)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Sammy Group/Paramount Photos)
• Uncharted (PlayStation Productions/Sony Photos)

Innovation in accessibility

• God of Struggle Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) | WINNER
• As Nightfall Falls (Inside Evening/Xbox Recreation Studios)
• Return to Monkey Island (Horrible Toybox/Devolver Digital)
• The Final of Us Half I (Naughty Canine/SIE)
• The Quarry (Supermassive Video games/2K)

Esports sport

• Valorant (Riot Video games) | WINNER
• Counter-Strike: World Offensive (Valve)
• Dota 2 (Valve)
• League of Legends (Riot Video games)
• Rocket League (Psyonix)

Esports athlete

• Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker (Cloud9, Valorant) | WINNER
• 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)

Esports staff

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

Esports coach

• Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi (Loud, Valorant) | WINNER
• Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)
• Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren (FPX, Valorant)
• Robert “RobbaN” Dahlström (FaZe Clan, CS:GO)
• Go “Rating” Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL)

Esports Occasion

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