Gamescom 2023 Award Nominations Announced, Armored Core 6 Leads With Seven
16 award categories will be decided at the end of the five-day convention.
By Jason Fanelli on
The summer video game convention season rolls on, as Gamescom 2023 is set to kick off in Cologne, Germany this week. Before the doors open on Wednesday--and before the Gamescom Opening Night Live stage show on Tuesday--the event organizers have announced the nominees for this year's version of the annual Gamescom Awards.
This year's batch of nominees was chosen based on votes entered by a jury of international games media members, with 16 different awards scheduled to be handed out. Armored Core VI: Fires Of Rubicon leads all games with seven nominations, while The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom follows with four despite already being available.
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The full list of nominees for the Gamescom 2023 Awards is below:
Other awards with no nominees listed include Best Trailer, which will be decided after Opening Night Live; Best Of Show Floor, which acknowledges the best booth on the floor; and the Heart Of Gaming award, which is a special award that can be awarded to «not only games, add-ons, and technologies, but also people, institutions, companies, concepts, or terms.»
Gamescom begins with Opening Night Live, hosted by Geoff Keighley, which kicks off tomorrow, August 22, at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET. The event will reveal multiple new trailers across its two-hour runtime, with Keighley telling VGC, «This year's ONL is less about announcing brand-new projects, and more about giving fans updates on some of the biggest games due
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