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

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

“We have faced so many difficulties while developing this game…so I’m really relieved,” mentioned director Hidetaka Miyazaki. “I haven’t made up my mind to create even more interesting games than this one. As for ‘Elden Ring,’ we still have more things we want to do, so getting this GOTY award really, really encourages us.”

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

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

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

Of course, this yr additionally touted one thing new for the ceremony — its inaugural Best Adaptation class.

Ahead of the present, Keighley informed The Times that 2022 is an optimum time to start out celebrating “authentic” and recent takes on gaming content material.

“[The category] just speaks to how gaming is taking over pop culture,” he mentioned in November through video name. “Part of the mission of our show is to celebrate the power of this medium as the largest, most dominant form of entertainment. So I think this is just another example of it’s continued proliferation.”

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

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

Game of the yr

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) | WINNER
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)

Game course

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

Narrative

• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) | WINNER
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Immortality (Half Mermaid)

Art course

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

Score and music

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

Audio design

• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) | WINNER
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)

Performance

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

Games for affect

• As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios) | WINNER
• A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna)
• Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller)
• Endling: Extinction Is Forever (Herobeat Studios/UsefulGames)
• Hindsight (Team Hindsight/Annapurna)
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)

Ongoing sport

• Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix) | WINNER
• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
• Destiny 2 (Bungie)
• Fortnite (Epic Games)
• Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)

Indie

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

Debut indie

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

Community help, offered by Discord

• Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix) | WINNER
• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
• Destiny 2 (Bungie)
• Fortnite (Epic Games)
• No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

Mobile

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

VR/AR

• Moss: Book II (Polyarc) | WINNER
• After the Fall (Vertigo Games)
• Among Us VR (Schell Games/InnerSloth)
• Bonelab (Stress Level Zero)
• Red Matter 2 (Vertical Robot)

Action

• Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo) | WINNER
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)
• Sifu (Sloclap)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)

Action/journey

• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) | WINNER
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
• Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji)

Roleplaying

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) | WINNER
• Live a Live (Square Enix/Nintendo)
• Pokémon Legends: Arceus (Game Freak/Nintendo/TPCI)
• Triangle Strategy (Artdink/Square Enix)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)

Fighting

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

Family

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

SIM/technique

• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft) | WINNER
• Dune: Spice Wars (Shiro Games/Funcom)
• Total War: Warhammer III (Creative Assembly/Sega)
• Two Point Campus (Two Point Studios/Sega)
• Victoria 3 (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox Interactive)

Sports/racing

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

Multiplayer

• Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo) | WINNER
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)
• Overwatch 2 (Blizzard)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)

Most anticipated

• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo) | WINNER
• Final Fantasy XVI (Square Enix)
• Hogwarts Legacy (Avalanche Software/WB Games)
• Resident Evil 4 (Capcom)
• Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)

Content creator of the yr

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

Adaptation

• Arcane: League of Legends (Fortiche/Riot Games/Netflix) | WINNER
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Trigger/CD Projekt, Netflix)
• The Cuphead Show! (Studio MDHR/King Features Syndicate/Netflix)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Sammy Group/Paramount Pictures)
• Uncharted (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures)

Innovation in accessibility

• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) | WINNER
• As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)
• Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital)
• The Last of Us Part I (Naughty Dog/SIE)
• The Quarry (Supermassive Games/2K)

Esports sport

• Valorant (Riot Games) | WINNER
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
• Dota 2 (Valve)
• League of Legends (Riot 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 crew

• LOUD (Valorant) | WINNER
• DarkishZero Esports (Apex Legends)
• FaZe Clan (CS:GO)
• Gen.G (League of Legends)
• LA Thieves (Call of Duty)

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 “Score” Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL)

Esports Event

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