What you need to know
- Nominations for The Game Awards 2024 are now live, with select gaming outlets voting once again on a number of categories in the award show hosted by Geoff Keighley.
- For 2024’s entries, the Xbox first-party group saw a respectable 12 nominations across games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2.
- The team was locked out of the PlayStation-centric Game of the Year category however, with games nominaed for the top award including Team Asobi’s Astro Bot and Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.
The nominations for one of the biggest award shows of the year are in.
The Game Awards 2024 are slated to be held live on Dec. 12, 2024 and will be hosted by the show’s creator Geoff Keighley. For 2024, the Xbox first-party group managed to grab a total of 12 nominations across its different publishing brands, with multiple nominations in particular for Treyarch and Raven Software’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Ninja Theory’s Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2.
Even so, Xbox wasn’t quite at the top, with PlayStation and Square Enix both managing to grab 16 nominations. Both companies were also included in the ultra-discussed Game of the Year category, with Team Asobi’s Astro Bot and Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth getting nominated.
Developing…
Game of the Year
- Astro Bot
- Balatro
- Black Myth: Wukong
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
