Elden Ring beats God of War: Ragnarok for The Game Awards GOTY; Here's every single Game Award announced and their winners

If you’re a gaming fanatic, there is no escaping the anticipation of The Game Awards. The 2022 edition of The Game Awards took place earlier this Friday, celebrating the best in the industry. Along with it were showcased a number of premieres of trailers and gameplays, including the much-awaited announcement of Death Stranding 2. Find out all about every Game Award presented at the show this year, and more, right here.

The Game Awards 2022: Details

Opening Act

As usual, the show kicked off with the Opening Act presented by Sydnee Goodman. She announced a new category introduced this year for Best Adaptation, along with a couple of others. There have been a number of on-screen adaptations of popular games that created ripples amongst fans this past year, with more coming up. It was only natural with the numerous debates doing the rounds, of which one’s the best, that we had a Game Award dedicated exclusively to this, this year. Here’s every Game Award category and winner announced this year at the Opening Act.

AWARD	NOMINEES	WINNER
Best Mobile Game	Apex Legends Mobile, Diablo Immortal, Genshin Impact, Marvel Snap, Tower of Fantasy	Marvel Snap
Best Fighting Game	DNF Duel, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R, The King of Fighter XV, Multiversus, Sifu	Multiversus
Best Esports Game	CS:GO, DOTA 2, League of Legends, Rocket League, Valorant	Valorant
Best Esports Athlete	Chovy, Faker, Karrigan, S1mple, Yay	Yay
Best Esports Team	Darkzero Esports, FaZe Clan, Gen.G, La Thieves, Loud	Loud
Best Esports Coach	B1AD3, BZKA, DOOMBROS, ROBBAN, SCORE	BZKA
Best Esports Event	Ev0 2022, 2022 League of Legends World Championship, PGL Major Antwerp 2022, The 2022 Mid-Season Invitation, Valorant Champions 2022	2022 League of Legends World Championship
Best Family	Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, Nintendo Switch Sports, Splatoon 3	Kirby and the Forgotten Land

Next, the creator of The Game Awards, the iconic Geoff Keighley, took over the stage. He began his act by introducing Al Pacino to the stage, starting the show on a high note. The other high moments of the star-studded celebration that the 2022 edition of The Game Awards was, would be the following appearances. Actors Jessica Hennik and Daniel Craig dropped in to announce the new Hide n Seek mode in Among Us. Apparently, Among Us has also been featured in Craig’s upcoming movie “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”. The cast of The Last of Us comprising Pedro Pascal, and Bella Ramsey, along with Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson also made an appearance. They announced that The Last of Us: Part I is coming to PC on 3rd March 2023. Keegan-Michael Key was there for the promotion of the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie. Key is playing Toad in the movie, which will launch in theatres next year on April 7th. 

There were performances from Hozier and Halsey. Hozier performed “Blood Upon the Snow” from God of War: Ragnarok. Halsey on the other hand performed “Lilith” from the soundtrack of Diablo IV, which is launching next year. Singer Aurora also appeared to announce her collaboration with indie developers Thatgamecompany for Sky: Children of the Light. A virtual concert can be experienced in the game every 4 hours starting December 8 to January 2nd. 

Additionally, Keighley also presented a tribute to the late Kevin Conroy, the iconic voice of Batman that we know from animated shows and the Arkham Trilogy games. Ofcourse it was incomplete without a replay of “I am vengeance”. Keighley also announced that we’ll get to experience one last performance from Conroy in the upcoming game Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. 

As for the Awards, God of War: Ragnarok and Elden Ring seemed to be appearing as a nomination in every other category. The latter however took home the most coveted award of the night- The Game of the Year. On the hand, though the PS Exclusive Horizon Forbidden West received multiple nominations, it didn't win anything. Stray and Final Fantasy XIV emerged as the other heroes of the night. Here’s the complete list of winners of every award announced at The Game Awards 2022. 

AWARD	NOMINEES	WINNER
Game of the Year	Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)	Elden Ring
Best Game Direction	Immortality (Half Mermaid) Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)	FromSoftware & Bandai Namco for Elden Ring
Best Narrative	God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment) Immortality (Half Mermaid) Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)	God of War Ragnarök
Best Multiplayer	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision) MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games) Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu) Overwatch 2 (Blizzard)	Splatoon 3
Best Sports/Racing	FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver/Romania/EA Sports) NBA 2K23 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports) Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/SIE) OlliOlli World (Roll 7/Private Division) F1 22 (Codemasters/EA Sports)	Gran Turismo 7
Best Role Playing	Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) Live a Live (Square Enix/Nintendo) Pokémon Legends: Arceus (Game Freak/Nintendo/TPCI) Triangle Strategy (Artdink/Square Enix) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)	Elden Ring
Best Action/Adventure	Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji) A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment) God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)	God of War: Ragnarok
Best Sim/Strategy	Total War: Warhammer III (Creative Assembly/Sega) Two Point Campus (Two Point Studios/Sega) Victoria 3 (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox Interactive) Dune: Spice Wars (Shiro Games/Funcom) Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft)	Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
Most Anticipated Game	Final Fantasy XVI (Square Enix) Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda) The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo) Hogwarts Legacy (Avalanche Software/WB Games) Resident Evil 4 (Capcom)	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Best Adaptation	Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Trigger/CD Projekt, Netflix) Arcane: League of Legends (Fortiche/Riot Games/Netflix) The Cuphead Show! (Studio MDHR/King Features Syndicate/Netflix) Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Sammy Group/Paramount Pictures) Uncharted  (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures)	Arcane
Best Debut Indie	Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive) Norco (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji) Vampire Survivors (poncle)	Stray
Best Indie	Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna) Sifu (Sloclap) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster / Devolver Digital) Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji)	Stray
Content Creator of the Year	Karl Jacobs Ludwig Nibellion Nobru QTCinderella	Ludwig
Best Performance	Manon Gage, Immortality Charlotte McBurney, A Plague Tale: Requiem Christopher Judge, God of War Ragnarök Ashly Burch, Horizon Forbidden West Sunny Suljic, God of War Ragnarök	Christopher Judge for God of War: Ragnarok
Best Audio Design	God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony/SIE) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision) Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)	Bear McCreary for God of War Ragnarök
Best VR/AR	Among Us VR (Schell Games/InnerSloth) Bonelab (Stress Level Zero) After the Fall (Vertigo Games) Moss: Book II (Polyarc) Red Matter 2 (Vertical Robot)	Moss: Book II
Best Community Support	Apex Legends (Respawn/EA) No Man’s Sky (Hello Games) Destiny 2 (Bungie) Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix) Fortnite (Epic Games)	Final Fantasy XIV
Best Ongoing	Apex Legends (Respawn/EA) Fortnite (Epic Games) Genshin Impact (HoYoverse) Destiny 2 (Bungie) Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)	Final Fantasy XIV
Games for Impact	A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna) As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios) Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller) Endling - Extinction is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames) Hindsight (Team Hindsight/Annapurna) I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)	As Dusk Falls
Innovation in Accessibility	God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) 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)	God of War Ragnarök

The drama continued even after The Game Awards 2022 drew to an end. During the announcement of The Game of the Year, a teenager who goes by the name of Even appeared on the stage from nowhere, to express his appreciation of the former US President, Bill Clinton. He promptly went up in front of the mic, in the presence of the crew of Elden Ring, including artist Hidetaka Miyazaki, who just received the GOTY award, and said, “I think I want to nominate this award to my reformed orthodox rabbi, Bill Clinton. Thank you, everybody”. Creator of The Game Awards announced shortly afterward that the “individual who interrupted our Game of the Year moment has been arrested”. Regardless, the end was baffling enough to keep the gaming fans going on about it for days to come. 

Moving on, Geoff Keighley has already announced that both The Game Awards and The Summer Games Fest are to return next year. Meanwhile, we have the holiday season next up, to keep us gamers on our toes.