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All The Game Awards 2023 announcements and trailers

We’ve rounded up all The Game Awards 2023 announcements and trailers, including Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Monster Hunter Wilds, and more

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The Game Awards 2023 announcements stretched across nearly every video game genre, from promising indies to hotly anticipated 2024 games and a few big names for 2025, including Monster Hunter. Square Enix debuted another Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth trailer, Atlus showed up with Metaphor ReFantazio, and even Hellblade 2 made an appearance. Briefly. It still doesn’t have a release date either.

Three hours of announcements is a lot for anyone to get through, but we’ve rounded up all The Game Awards 2023 announcements and trailers below, with links to more detailed stories for a few of the biggest reveals.

If you’re wondering who won what, check out our roundup of The Game Awards 2023 winners.

The Game Awards 2023 winners

We’ve rounded up all The Game Awards 2023 winners, including Game of the Year 2023 and more

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The Game Awards 2023 winners are in, and while some of the usual suspects walked away with the accolades we figured they would, there’s a few surprises in the mix as well. The likes of Alan Wake 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3 won big this year, and it looks like everyone is – unsurprisingly – looking forward to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth more than anything else.

We’ve rounded up all The Game Awards 2023 winners below, and if you’re looking for recaps and announcements as well, check out our TGA 2023 roundup for everything you missed.

Fromsoft unveils Armored Core 6 at The Game Awards

Bandai and From released the first Armored Core 6 trailer at The Game Awards, teasing a bit of what to expect from the upcoming action game

Bandai Namco and Elden Ring maker FromSoft unveiled a new Armored Core 6 trailer during The Game Awards 2022, a dramatic piece showcasing some of the massive robots we’ll be piloting and fighting against at some point in 2023 when the mecha action game launches. The Armored Core 6 announcement comes almost 10 years after the previous game released, Armored Core: Verdict Day, which critics met with lukewarm praise, criticizing its adherence to the series’ usual outdated structures for holding it back.

How much Armored Core 6 strays from these established patterns remains to be seen. The trailer shows a world ravaged by fiery destruction with giant robots of various kinds piloted by humans patrolling the streets and fighting each other in spectacular battles. Some use electricity to incapacitate their foes. Others trundle along the streets loaded down with missiles and other projectiles, capable of incinerating any foe.

Armored Core 6 lets you customize and freely control these mechs, using their unique movement abilities to bend the environment – and enemy mechs – to your will. 

Like other FromSoft games, Armored Core 6 centers on deep character progression and putting your skills to the test against massive bosses. We’ll have to wait a bit longer to see some of these fights in action, though. The Game Awards trailer only highlighted some of the mechs themselves.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

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Genshin Impact celebrates The Game Awards 2022 with 800 free Primogems, reveals Yaoyao and Alhaitham

To celebrate winning the Players Voice Awards, HoYoverse is giving out 800 Primogems to Genshin Impact players for free.

The popular action role-playing game Genshin Impact didn’t feature too prominently at The Game Awards 2022, but it did win the Players Voice Award after a fierce battle with Sonic Frontiers and contributed a trailer to the show. This trailer ended up revealing a character that fans of the game have been waiting on for two years: the Dendro character Yaoyao.

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All The Game Awards 2022 winners and nominees

The verdict is in and the trophies are out, as The Game Awards 2022 winners step up and claim their places as the top games of 2022

The Game Awards 2022 winners are in, highlighting the best of the best across the games industry in the past year. These range from the big hitters such as game of the year and best narrative to more specific categories, such as best community support and recognizing games that have a social and emotional impact.

A total of 72 games received nominations this year, and obviously, not every game worthy of recognition managed to make the list. We took pity on some of them in our Alternative Game Awards list, which you can check out at the end of this post.

Without further ado, here’s every winner of The Game Awards 2022.

Game of the Year

Best Game Direction

  • Elden Ring
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Horizon Forbidden West
  • Immortality
  • Stray

Best Narrative

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem
  • Elden Ring
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Horizon Forbidden West
  • Immortality

Best Art Direction

  • Elden Ring
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Horizon Forbidden West
  • Scorn
  • Stray

Best Score and Music

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem
  • Elden Ring
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Metal: Hellsinger
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Best Audio Design

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Elden Ring
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Gran Turismo 7
  • Horizon Forbidden West

Best Performance

  • Ashly Burch – Horizon Forbidden West
  • Charlotte McBurney – A Plague’s Tale: Requiem
  • Christopher Judge – God of War Ragnarök
  • Manon Gage – Immortality
  • Sunny Suljik – God of War Ragnarök

Games for Impact

  • A Memoir Blue
  • As Dusk Falls
  • Citizen Sleeper
  • Endling: Extinction is Forever
  • Hindsight
  • I was a Teenage Exocolonist

Best Ongoing

  • Apex Legends
  • Destiny 2
  • Final Fantasy 14
  • Fortnite
  • Genshin Impact

Best Indie

  • Cult of the Lamb
  • Neon White
  • Sifu
  • Stray
  • Tunic

Best Mobile Game

  • Apex Legends
  • Diablo Immortal
  • Genshin Impact
  • Marvel Snap
  • Tower of Fantasy

Best Community Support

  • Apex Legends
  • Destiny 2
  • Final Fantasy 14
  • Fortnite
  • No Man’s Sky

Innovation in Accessibility

  • As Dusk Falls
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Return to Monkey Island
  • The Last of Us Part 1
  • The Quarry

Best VR

  • After the Fall
  • Among Us VR
  • Bonelab
  • Moss Book 2
  • Red Matter 2

Best Action Game

  • Bayonetta 3
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Neon White
  • Sifu
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Best Action/Adventure

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Horizon Forbidden West
  • Stray
  • Tunic

Best Roleplaying

  • Elden Ring
  • Live A Live
  • Pokémon Legends: Arceus
  • Triangle Strategy
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Best Fighting

  • DNF Duel
  • JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
  • The King of Fighters 15
  • MultiVersus
  • Sifu

Best Family

  • Kirby and the Forgotten Land
  • Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
  • Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
  • Nintendo Switch Sports
  • Splatoon 3

Best Sim/Strategy

  • Dune: Spice Wars
  • Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
  • Total War: Warhammer 3
  • Two Point Campus
  • Victoria 3

Best Sports/Racing

  • F1 22
  • FIFA 23
  • NBA 2K23
  • Gran Turismo 7
  • OlliOlli World

Best Multiplayer

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • MultiVersus
  • Overwatch 2
  • Splatoon 3
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Content Creator of the Year

  • Karl Jacobs
  • Ludwig
  • Nibellion
  • Nobru
  • QTCinderella

Best Debut Indie

  • Neon White
  • Norco
  • Stray
  • Tunic
  • Vampire Survivors

Best Adaptation

  • Arkane: League of Legends
  • Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
  • The Cuphead Show!
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 2
  • Uncharted

Most Anticipated Game

  • Final Fantasy 16
  • Hogwarts Legacy
  • Resident Evil 4
  • Starfield
  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Best Esports Game

  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
  • Dota 2
  • League of Legends
  • Rocket League
  • Valorant

Best Esports Athlete

  • Chovy
  • Faker
  • Karrigan
  • S1mple
  • Yay

Best Esports Team

  • Dark Zero Esports
  • FaZe Clan
  • Gen.G
  • LA Thieves
  • Loud

Best Esports Coach

  • B1ad3
  • BZKA
  • D00mbr0s
  • Robban
  • Score

Best Esports Event

  • Evo 2022
  • 2022 League of Legends Worlds Championship
  • PGL Major Antwerp 2022
  • The 2022 Mid-Season Invitational
  • Valorant Champions 2022

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF.

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The Alternative Game Awards 2022

We’re putting our spin on The Game Awards 2022 with a look at the unsung heroes, biggest surprises, and best hand cranks of the year

The Game Awards show is here again, bringing with it the usual mix of new game announcements and accolades for outstanding achievements in the last year. In all the hubbub and excitement over the year’s biggest, shiniest games, someone inevitably gets left out or overlooked, and that’s where our alternative awards come in. The Alternative Game Awards are sponsored by absolutely no one and carry no official value whatsoever, but someone has to give these unsung heroes the love they need. It may as well be us.

Elden Ring and God of War lead The Game Awards 2022 nominations

Despite launching only this month, God of War Ragnarok leads The Game Awards 2022 with nearly a dozen nominations

The Game Awards 2022 nominations are in, and unsurprisingly, God of War Ragnarok and Elden Ring lead the pack along with Horizon: Forbidden West with the most nominations spread out across nearly every category. God of War Ragnarok has 10 nominations, while Elden Ring and Horizon have seven each. Stray and A Plague Tale: Requiem follow close behind, with six and five, respectively.

2022’s Game of the Year nominees are:

  • Elden Ring
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3
  • God of War Ragnarok
  • Horizon Forbidden West
  • A Plague Tale: Requiem
  • Stray

Elden Ring and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 are also competing for best score and best RPG. Meanwhile, Elden Ring faces off against God of War and Horizon in the game direction category.

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Ashly Burch (Aloy, Horizon Forbidden West), Christopher Judge (Kratos, God of War: Ragnarok), and Manon Gage (Immortality) lead the nominees for best vocal performance.

Meanwhile, the games for impact category includes I Was a Teenage Exocolonist and As Dusk Falls headline the Games for Impact category, with Tunic, Stray, and Cult of the Lamb among the nominations for best indie game.

Genshin Impact and Final Fantasy XIV are among the nominees for best ongoing game as usual, while The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Starfield, and Resident Evil 4 remake round out the most anticipated game of 2023 category.

The full list of categories and nominees is over at The Game Awards’ official site.

The Game Awards 2023 will air live on Dec. 8, 2022, at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

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Geoff Keighley says more ‘big’ video game acquisitions are on the way

Money talks.

This year has already seen several massive video game industry acquisitions, and Geoff Keighley claims more are on the way.

The Game Awards  host knows video games better than most, and some little birdies apparently told him that several more huge buyouts will happen in 2022.

“Have heard from multiple people: As you might suspect, there are a few other big video game deals in final stages of negotiations,” Keighley said  on Twitter. “It’s going to be an interesting year!”

Of course, Keighley could be embellishing. After all, he told us there would be “four or five” Elden Ring-level reveals  at the 2021 Game Awards when there arguably wasn’t even one.

In early January, Grand Theft Auto publisher  Take-Two bought Zynga  for $12.7 billion, which was the biggest video game acquisition at the time. Then, barely a week later, Microsoft shattered that record with its $68.8 billion  purchase of Activision Blizzard. Sony then (inadvertently) clapped back with its  $3.6 billion snap up of Bungie. Finally, The New York Times purchased Wordle  for an undisclosed figure, Rounding things out.

So yeah, the loose consolidation of the video game industry seems to be playing out right in front of us. Please, somebody, buy the rights to Aliens vs. Predator 2  and put it on a modern storefront before I wither into dust.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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Here are all The Game Awards winners for 2021

30 awards, one night.

Well, the Game Awards have come and gone once again. Yes, world premieres from Elden Ring, Star Trek: Resurgence, Nightingale, and Horizon Forbidden West were ridiculously exciting, but this is still, well, an award show! 

30 of them were given out, in fact. From celebrating the best and brightest in esports to the overall game of the year, practically every era of the video game industry had its moment to shine. Geoff Keighley  told us it would be a big show, though nobody could’ve predicted what was to come. The  Final Fantasy XIV  fanboy in me came away more than a little satisfied. 

If you happened to miss The 2021 Game Awards, below is a complete list of the winners. It’s easy to be cynical about how overflowing this show can be at times, but there’s no denying that the team behind them truly loves and cares about video games.

Dying Light 2 Stay Human gets intense cinematic trailer at The Game Awards 2021

Techland’s open world zombie action RPG is ready to cook up some scares.

Techland’s upcoming zombie action RPG Dying Light 2 Stay Human — was just given a new trailer at The Game Awards 2021.

The sequel to 2015’s Dying Light, this game is set 20 years after the original with new protagonist Aiden Caldwell alongside a sprawling open world in a massive, overgrown city. Parkour plays a major role in the game’s traversal, as players will be jumping over obstacles, scaling massive structures, and moving about the upper levels of the city all throughout the game.

Another key part of Dying Light 2 Stay Human is the various factions and settlements within the game, as player choice will shape how the world sees protagonist Caldwell and even block off or content depending on how you choose.

Despite being a few months away from launch, Dying Light 2 Stay Human has already gone gold, meaning fans won’t have to wait much longer to get their hands on this game. Dying Light 2 Stay Human will launch on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch and PC on February 4, 2022.

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