The 2022 Game Awards nominees include 108 games, 31 categories

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The nominees for this year’s Game Awards were revealed by showrunner Geoff Keighley on Monday with God of War Ragnarok leading 2022’s nominees. Ragnarok seized 10 nominations in a list that includes 108 games, individuals, teams, and events spread across 31 categories.

This year’s Game of the Year nominees are: A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment), Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco), God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE), Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE), Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive) and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo).

Sony Interactive Entertainment is the most nominated publisher with 20 nominations across its combined portfolio of games, followed by Annapurna Interactive and Nintendo with 11. 

The nominees are selected by a jury of more than 100 media outlets from around the world. Specialized juries also convene for other categories including esports, accessibility and best adaptation. The winners are determined by a blended vote between the voting jury (90%) and public fan voting (10%). 

In 2021, The Game Awards delivered a record-setting 85 million livestreams. The Game Awards 2022, the 9th annual global celebration of the video game industry, will livestream for free across more than 40 different digital video platforms including YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Steam, Facebook, TikTok Live, and for the first time ever, Instagram Live. 

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