The Game Awards 2018: Official Nominees Announced!

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The Game Awards 2018

 

December is just around the corner. Of course, when December comes we always think about Christmas. But some of the peeps from the video game industry anticipate the upcoming The Game Awards.

Geoff Keighley‘s annual video game award event is now on its fifth year and the nominees for this year’s The Game Awards have been announced. The nominees were dominated by Sony Santa Monica’s God of War and Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2. Both of these AAA titles garnered eight nominations across all gaming categories.

God of War and Red Dead Redemption 2 were nominated for the Game of the Year along with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Celeste, Marvel’s Spider-Man and Monster Hunter: World. Other multi-nominated games are the indie game Celeste, Ubisoft’s Assassins Creed: Odyssey and Fornite with four nominations each. Meanwhile, Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Destiny 2 were garnered with three nominations.

The Game Awards 2018 is coming this December 6 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. You can watch the full show on YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, Mixer, Steam TV, PlayStation 4 and Xbox Live. You can now vote for your favorites here.


Without any further ado, here are the nominees of The Game Awards 2018



GAME OF THE YEAR

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BEST ONGOING GAME

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BEST GAME DIRECTION

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BEST NARRATIVE

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BEST ART DIRECTION

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BEST SCORE/MUSIC

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BEST AUDIO DESIGN

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BEST PERFORMANCE

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  • Bryan Dechart as Connor, Detroit: Become Human
  • Christopher Judge as Kratos, God of War
  • Melissanthi Mahut as Kassandra, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
  • Roger Clark as Arthur Morgan, Red Dead Redemption 2
  • Yuri Lowenthal as Peter Parker, Marvel’s Spider-Man

GAMES FOR IMPACT

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  • 11-11 Memories Retold (Digixart / Aardman Animations / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
  • Florence (Mountains / Annapurna Interactive)
  • Life is Strange 2: Episode 1 (Dontnod Entertainment / Square Enix)
  • The Missing: JJ Macfield and the Island of Memories (White Owls / Arc System Works)

BEST INDEPENDENT GAME

  • Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
  • Dead Cells (Motion Twin)
  • Into the Breach (Subset Games)
  • Return of the Obra Dinn (3909 LLC)
  • The Messenger (Sabotage Studio)

BEST MOBILE

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  • Donut County (Ben Esposito / Annapurna Interactive)
  • Florence (Mountains / Annapurna Interactive)
  • Fortnite (Epic Games)
  • PUBG Mobile (Lightspeed & Quantum / Tencent Games)
  • Reigns: Game of Thrones (Nerial / Developer Digital)

BEST VR/AR GAME

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BEST ACTION GAME

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BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE GAME

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BEST ROLE-PLAYING GAME

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BEST FIGHTING

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BEST FAMILY GAME

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BEST STRATEGY GAME

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BEST SPORTS/RACING

BEST MULTIPLAYER GAME

BEST STUDENT GAME

  • Combat 2018 (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences – Norway)
  • Dash Quasar (UC Santa Cruz)
  • JERA (Digipen Bilbao, Spain)
  • LIFF (ISTART Digital – France)
  • RE: Charge (MIT)

BEST DEBUT INDIE GAME

  • Donut County (Ben Esposito / Annapurna Interactive)
  • Florence (Mountains / Annapurna Interactive)
  • Moss (Polyarc Games)
  • The Messenger (Sabotage Studio)
  • Yoku’s Island Express (Villa Gorilla)

BEST ESPORTS GAME

  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
  • Dota 2
  • Fortnite
  • League of Legends
  • Overwatch

BEST ESPORTS PLAYER

  • Dominique “SonicFox” McLean (Echo Fox)
  • Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi
  • Jian “Uzi” Zi-Hao (Royal Never Give Up)
Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev (Natus Vincere)
  • Sung-hyeon “JJoNak” Bang (New York Excelsior)

BEST ESPORTS TEAM

  • Astralis (CSGO)
  • Cloud9 (LOL)
  • Fnatic (LOL)
  • London Spitfire (Overwatch)
  • OG (Dota 2)

BEST ESPORTS COACH

  • Bok “Reapered” Han-gyu (Cloud9)
  • Cristian “ppasarel” Bănăseanu (OG)
  • Danny “zonic” Sørensen (Astralis)
  • Dylan Falco (Fnatic)
  • Jakob “YamatoCannon” Mebdi (Team Vitality)
  • Janko “YNk” Paunovic (MiBR)

BEST ESPORTS EVENT

  • ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018
  • Evo 2018
  • League of Legends World Championship
  • Overwatch League Grand Finals
  • The International 2018

BEST ESPORTS HOST

  • Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez
  • Alex “Machine” Richardson
  • AndersBlume
Eefje “Sjokz” Depoortere
  • Paul “RedEye” Chaloner

BEST ESPORTS MOMENT

  • C9 Comeback Win In Triple OT vs FAZE (ELEAGUE)
KT vs IG Base Race (LOL Worlds)
G2 Beating RNG (LOL Worlds)
  • OG’s Massive Upset of LGD (DOTA 2 Finals)
  • SonicFox Side Switch Against Go1 in DBZ (EVO)

CONTENT CREATOR OF THE YEAR

  • Dr. Lupo
  • Myth
  • Ninja
  • Pokimane
  • Willyrex

Did your favorites make it? If they did, the voting is now open at The Game Awards official website. Register now and vote for your favorite games/esports player and etc.

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