Yet another edition of The Game Awards that came with surprising winners and surprising announcements from people and games that you wouldn’t expect to have actually a surprise and firstly, here is the list of the winners by each category.
- Best Mobile - Marvel Snap
- Best Fighting - Multiversus
- Best Esports - Valorant
- Esports Athlete - YAY
- Esport Team - LOUD
- Esport Couch - Bzka
- Best Esport Event - LOL 2022
- Best Family - Kirby and the Forgotten Lands
- Best Performance - GOW Ragnarok
- Best Debut Indie - Stray
- Best Adaptation - Arcane: LOL
- Best Narrative - GOW Ragnarok
- Best Art Direction - Elden Ring
- Best VR/AR - Moss: Book 2
- Best Sim/ Strategy game - Mario+ Rabbids Spark of Hope
- Best Community - FF14
- Games for Impact - Dusk Falls
- Best Sport/ Racing - GT7
- Best Multiplayer - Splatoon 3
- Best Audio Design - GOW Ragnarok
- Content Creator - Ludwig
- Most Anticipated - TLOZ: Tears of the Kingdom
- Best Action Game - Bayonetta 3
- Best Score\ Music - GOW Ragnarok
- Innovation Accessibility - GOW Ragnarok
- Best RPG - Elden Ring
- Players Voice - Genshin Impact
- Best Independent - Stray
- Best Action/Adventure - GOW Ragnarok
- Best Ongoing - FF14
- Best Direction - Elden Ring
- GOTY - Elden Ring
And the following are the announcements that are “World Premiere”;
- Returnal finally confirmed for PC release
- A new original Hellboy game
- Street Fighter 6’s release date has been confirmed for June
- Dead Cells x Castlevania crossover DLC, Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania, is coming early 2023
- Hades 2 announced at The Game Awards
- BioShock creator Ken Levine’s latest game is Judas
- Kevin Conroy will play Batman in Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
- A Bayonetta prequel has been announced
- The Last of Us Part 1 is coming to PC in March
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor gets a March release date and new gameplay trailer
- Death Stranding 2 has been confirmed
- A new Nightingale trailer has shown more of the game in action
- A new Tekken 8 gameplay trailer has been released
- Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores DLC has been announced
- Diablo 4’s release date has officially been confirmed for June
- Crash Team Rumble, a ‘team vs team’ Crash Bandicoot game, has been confirmed
- Company of Heroes 3 is coming to PS5 and Xbox
- FromSoftware officially announces Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon
- Final Fantasy 16’s release date has been confirmed
- Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC will star Idris Elba
- Amazon and Bandai Namco are bringing anime MMORPG Blue Protocol west in 2023
- 505 Games has revealed star-studded co-op FPS Crime Boss: Rockay City
- Transformers: Reactivate is a new co-op action game from Splash Damage
Finally and of course newsworthy also, the awkward Bill Clinton nomination…
