Nominees for 2017 Game Awards Revealed

The list of nominees for the 2017 Game Awards has been revealed. This is also the first time that fans can vote on games, before the awards show reveals the winners on December 7th. Check out the full list of nominated games below:

Game of the Year

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corp.)
Persona 5 (Atlus)
Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Game Direction

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (MachineGames/Bethesda)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Capcom)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Narrative

What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow/Annapurna Interactive)
NieR: Automata (Platinum Games/Square Enix)
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory)
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (MachineGames/Bethesda)
Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Art Direction

Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Persona 5 (Atlus)
Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Score/Music

Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
NieR: Automata (Platinum Games/Square Enix)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Persona 5 (Atlus)

Best Audio Design

Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Capcom)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Best Performance

Melina Juergens, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (as Senua)
Laura Bailey, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (as Nadine Ross)
Claudia Black, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (as Chloe Frasier)
Brian Bloom, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (as B.J. Blazkowicz)
Ashley Burch, Horizon Zero Dawn (as Aloy)

Games for Impact

Please Knock on my Door (Levall Games)
Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Deck Nine/Square Enix)
Bury Me, My Love (The Pixel Hunt/Figs, ARTE)
What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow/Annapurna Interactive)
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory)

Best Ongoing Game

Warframe (Digital Extremes)
Rainbow 6: Siege (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
Overwatch (Blizzard)
Grand Theft Auto Online (Rockstar Games)
Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corp.)

Best Mobile Game

Super Mario Run (Nintendo)
Old Man’s Journey (Broken Rules)
Monument Valley 2 (ustwo games)
Hidden Folks (Adriaan de Jongh/Sylvain Tegroeg)
Fire Emblem Heroes (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)

Best Handheld Game

Poochy and Yoshi’s Woolly World (Good-Feel/Nintendo)
Monster Hunter Stories (Marvelous/Nintendo)
Metroid: Samus Returns (MercurySteam/Nintendo)
Ever Oasis (Grezzo/Nintendo)
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)

Best VR/AR Game

Superhot VR (SUPERHOT Team)
Star Trek: Bridge Crew (Red Storm Entertainment/Ubisoft)
Lone Echo/Echo Arena (Ready At Dawn/Oculus Studios)
Farpoint (Impulse Gear/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Capcom)

Best Action Game

Prey (Arkane/Bethesda)
Nioh (Team Ninja/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (MachineGames/Bethesda)

Best Action/Adventure Game

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Assassin’s Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Role Playing Game

South Park: The Fractured But Whole (Ubisoft San Francisco/Ubisoft)
Final Fantasy XV (Square-Enix Business Division 2/Square-Enix)
Divinity: Original Sin 2 (Larian Games)
NieR: Automata (Platinum Games/Square Enix)
Persona 5 (Atlus)

Best Fighting Game

Tekken 7 (Bandai Namco Studios/Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Nidhogg 2 (Messhof Games)
Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite (Capcom)
Injustice 2 (NetherRealm Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Arms (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Best Family Game

Splatoon 2 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Sonic Mania (PagodaWest Games + Headcannon/Sega)
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris + Milan/Ubisoft)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Best Strategy Game

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (Fire Axis Games/2K)
Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games)
Total War: Warhammer II (Creative Assembly/Sega)
Halo Wars 2 (Creative Assembly + 343/Microsoft Studios)
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris + Milan/Ubisoft)

Best Sports/Racing Game

Project Cars 2 (Slightly Mad Studios/Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 (PES Productions/Konami)
NBA 2K18 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports)
GT Sport (Polyphony Digital/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Forza Motorsport 7 (Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Studios)
FIFA 18 (EA Vancouver/EA)

Best Multiplayer

Fortnite (Epic Games)
Call of Duty: World War II (Sledgehammer Games/Activision)
Splatoon 2 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corp.)

Most Anticipated Game

The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Red Dead Redemption II (Rockstar Games)
Monster Hunter World (Capcom)
Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
God of War (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Independent Game

Pyre (Supergiant Games)
Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow/Annapurna Interactive)
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory)

Best Student Game

Meaning (Hariz Yet; DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore)
Level Squared (Kip Brennan, Stephen Scoglio, Dane Perry Svendsen; Swinburne University of Technology)
Impulsion (Hugo Verger, Rémi Bertrand, Maxime Lupinski; IIM – Institut de l’Internet et du Multimédia)
Falling Sky (Jonathan Nielssen, Nikolay Savov, Mohsen Shah; National Film and Television School)
Hollowed (Erin Marek, Jerrick Flores, Charley Choucard; University of Central Florida – Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy)
From Light (Alejandro Grossman, Steven Li, Sherveen Uduwana; University of Southern California)

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