GDC Awards 2023, annunciate le nomination: Elden Ring e God of War Ragnarok si sfidano per il GOTY

Gli organizzatori della GDC hanno annunciato (via Game Developer) le nomination per l'edizione del 2023 dei Game Developers Choice Awards, con i vincitori che saranno annunciati alla cerimonia che si terrà mercoledì 22 marzo.

L'epico fantasy Elden Ring di FromSoftware e l'avventura distopica Stray di BlueTwelve Studio sono a pari merito con sei candidature ciascuno, seguiti da God of War Ragnarok di Santa Monica Studio (cinque nomination) e Pentiment di Obsidian Entertainment (quattro nomination). Tutti questi giochi sono stati nominati per il prestigioso premio Game of the Year insieme a Immortality di Sam Barlow e Half Mermaid e a Tunic (entrambi nominati agli Indpendent Games Festival Awards di quest'anno).

Ecco la lista completa delle nomination dei GDC Awards 2023.

GDC Awards 2023 - Nomination

Best Debut

• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
• NORCO (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
• TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)
• Vampire Survivors (poncle)

Best Audio

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Metal: Hellsinger (The Outsiders/Funcom)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)

Best Design

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios, Inc./Nuverse)
• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
• TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)

Best Narrative

• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)
• IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow/Half Mermaid)
• Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
• Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital)

Best Technology

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward, Raven Software, Beenox, Treyarch, High Moon Studios, Sledgehammer Games, Activision Shanghai, Demonware, Toys for Bob/Activision)
• Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Visual Art

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)

Innovation Award

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow/Half Mermaid)
• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
• Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)

Social Impact Award

• As Dusk Falls (INTERIOR/NIGHT/Xbox Game Studios)
• Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller)
• Endling - Extinction Is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames)
• I Was A Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)
• OlliOlli World (Roll7/Private Division)
• We Are OFK (Team OFK)

Game of the Year

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow/Half Mermaid)
• Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
• TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)

La GDC tornerà a San Francisco, Stati Uniti, dal 20 al 24 marzo 2023.