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Here are my The Game Awards 2024 picks

With the precise The Game Awards present now beneath 24 hours away, I believed it could be enjoyable to share what my private picks for all of this yr’s 30 award classes are primarily based on what received nominated and what I’ve gotten round to taking part in and watching. Here’s my record:

• Game of the Year: Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
• Players’ Voice: Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
• Best Game Direction: Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
• Best Narrative: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Best Art Direction: Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
• Best Score and Music: Silent Hill 2
• Best Audio Design: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Best Performance: Melina Juergens as Senua
• Innovation in Accessibility: Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• Games for Impact: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Best Ongoing: Final Fantasy XIV
• Best Community Support: Baldur’s Gate 3
• Best Independent Game: Animal Well
• Best Debut Indie Game: Animal Well
• Best Mobile Game: Balatro
• Best VR/AR: Metro Awakening
• Best Action Game: Helldivers 2
• Best Action/Adventure: Silent Hill 2
• Best RPG: Dragon’s Dogma 2
• Best Fighting: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
• Best Family: Astro Bot
• Best Sim/Strategy: Manor Lords
• Best Sports/Racing: EA Sports FC 24
• Best Multiplayer: Helldivers 2
• Best Adaptation: Fallout
• Most Anticipated Game: Grand Theft Auto 6
• Content Creator of the Year: CaseOh
• Best Esports Game: Counter-Strike 2
• Best Esports Athlete: N/A
• Best Esports Team: N/A

I begrudgingly voted for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree for a lot of of those classes, as whereas I completely love the enlargement and suppose it is largely higher than the nominees it is up in opposition to, I do not suppose DLCs must be included in The Game Awards until they’re in their very own separate class. If it was as much as me, Helldivers 2 can be in (and win) the Game of the Year working, and Players’ Voice would not have three gacha video games nominated (gamers have been inspired to vote for them with guarantees of free forex in these video games by their builders, which is fairly lame). Alas, it’s not as much as me, so right here I sit. Salty.

Still, it is good to see the presentation and performances in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 get the popularity they deserve, and I’m hoping Animal Well wins each indie awards because it’s fairly mind-blowing a solo developer made such a deep and create Metroidvania. Shoutout to Manor Lords in Best Sim/Strategy, too; it is one other wonderful solo-developed undertaking. 

Also, I actually need to set a day or two apart to observe Arcane Season 2. Fallout most likely would not be my choose for Best Adaptation if I’d accomplished so already, primarily based on what I’ve heard. — Brendan Lowry, Gaming Contributor

“Oh boy, @geoffkeighley cooked”

That’s a direct quote from none aside from Windows Central’s very personal govt editor and Xbox aficionado Jez Corden. Jez posted that to X (Twitter) a couple of days in the past, clearly having heard about a few of what’s coming on this yr’s The Game Awards. He went on to say “with out laborious spoilers” that he is anticipating to see spectacular multiplatform bulletins and “different enjoyable stuff,” although believes that Microsoft and Xbox will not have a lot to indicate because it has its personal Developer_Direct presentation coming in Q1 2025. 

Sounds like we’re in for an excellent present this yr. — Brendan Lowry, Gaming Contributor

What to anticipate from The Game Awards 2024

The overwhelming majority of what is being proven at The Game Awards 2024 will stay a thriller till the present itself kicks off, however that does not imply we’re going into it fully blind. In truth, the other is true, as many builders in addition to Geoff Keighley himself have publicly teased a number of of the video games, reveals, trailers, and performances that may seem in the course of the occasion. These embrace the next:

In addition to those, notice that a number of celebrities and builders can be presenting awards all through the night, together with Bethesda’s Todd Howard, actress Isabela Merced from HBO’s The Last of Us Season 2, Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul, prolific recreation voice actor Laura Bailey, Remedy Entertainment’s Sam Lake, and none aside from Hideo Kojima himself.

If we be taught anything concerning the present earlier than it begins, I’ll you should definitely submit about it right here. With that stated, I do not anticipate we’ll, because it’s certain to have loads of surprises that the showrunners do not need to spoil. — Brendan Lowry, Gaming Contributor

Where you may watch The Game Awards 2024

The YouTube stream we embedded above is one method to watch this yr’s The Game Awards present, nevertheless it’s not the one one. The presentation is being broadcast on quite a lot of completely different platforms as soon as it begins on December 12 at 4:30 p.m. PT / 7:30 p.m. ET / 12:30 a.m. GMT, together with the next:

If you find yourself having hassle with the stream on one platform, strive utilizing one of many others as a substitute and hopefully it will work higher for you. — Brendan Lowry, Gaming Contributor

Hello everybody, and welcome to our dwell protection of The Game Awards 2024! The present should still be a day away, however there’s already fairly a couple of issues to speak about forward of its scheduled begin time. There have been a number of teases of what to anticipate from the presentation from The Game Awards and its companions, all of which I’ll be protecting right here shortly.

There’s fairly a little bit of stiff competitors on this yr’s nominations, and there is some noteworthy controversy too; many are annoyed with the inclusion of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree within the working, for instance, as a result of it is finally nonetheless a DLC enlargement even when it is the scale of a standalone recreation. As common, there are additionally a lot of followers who really feel their favourite recreation received snubbed from Game of the Year nominations or different classes (that is me with Helldivers 2, 100%).

Still, I’m hoping that it will be a terrific occasion, even when I nonetheless have a bitter style in my mouth from how The Game Awards 2023 let down builders and viewers alike by being extra about commercials and trailers than truly celebrating that yr’s greatest and brightest titles. Fingers crossed! — Brendan Lowry, Gaming Contributor