Alan Wake 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 lead Game Awards 2023 nominations
The nominees for the Game Awards 2023 have been revealed, with Alan Wake 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 taking eight nominations each.
Both titles have been nominated for Game of the Year, as well as Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Performance, and Best Score and Music.
Alan Wake 2 also saw nominations in the Best Art Direction, Best Audio Design, and Best Action/Adventure Game categories, while Baldur's Gate 3 was nominated for Best RPG, Best Community Support, and Best Multiplayer.
Insomniac Games' Spider-Man 2 had seven nominations this year, followed by Super Mario Bros Wonder and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, each with six nominations, and Resident Evil 4 with four nominations. All four of these games feature in the Game of the Year category.
Introduced last year, the Best Adaptation category for film and television included HBO's The Last of Us, Illumination's Super Mario Bros Movie, Netflix's Castlevania: Nocturne, and Peacock's Twisted Metal.
In the Best Performance category, nominees featured Ben Starr for Final Fantasy 16, Cameron Monaghan for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Idris Elba for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Melanie Liburd for Alan Wake 2, Neil Newbon for Baldur's Gate 3, and Yuri Lowenthal for Spider-Man 2.
The full list of nominees included 112 games, with Nintendo being the most nominated publisher with 15 nominations, followed by Sony with 13 nominations, followed by Xbox (including Bethesda and Blizzard) with ten nominations, and Epic Games with nine nominations.
The event will be taking place at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 7.
Last year's Game Awards saw God of War Ragnarök win six awards, followed by Elden Ring with four including Game of the
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