Here are the nominees for The Game Awards 2018

It’s nearly the end of the year, and you know what that means right, gamers? It’s nearly time for The Game Awards (TGA) — the biggest annual video game award show! TGA executive producer/host Geoff Keighley has recently announced the list of nominees for this year’s The Game Awards.

Watch Keighley’s announcement here:

Have no time to watch the whole vid? Then here are the nominees for TGA’s major awards:

Game of the Year

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey – Ubisoft Quebec/Ubisoft
Celeste – Matt Makes Games
God of War – SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Marvel’s Spider-Man – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Monster Hunter: World – Capcom
Red Dead Redemption 2 – Rockstar Games

Best Game Direction

A Way Out – Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts
Detroit: Become Human – Quantic Dream/Sony Interactive Entertainment
God of War – SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Marvel’s Spider-Man – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Red Dead Redemption 2 – Rockstar Games

Best Ongoing Game

Destiny 2: Forsaken – Bungie/Activision
Fortnite – Epic Games
No Man’s Sky – Hello Games
Overwatch – Blizzard Entertainment
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft

Best Narrative

Detroit: Become Human – Quantic Dream/Sony Interactive Entertainment
God of War – SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Life is Strange 2 – Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix
Marvel’s Spider-Man – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Red Dead Redemption 2 – Rockstar Games

Best Art Direction

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey – Ubisoft Quebec
God of War – SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Red Dead Redemption 2 – Rockstar Games
Return of the Obra Dinn – 3909 LLC
Octopath Traveler – Acquire/Square Enix/Nintendo

Best Score/Music

Celeste – Lena Raine
God of War – Bear McCreary
Marvel’s Spider-Man – John Paesano
Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom – Joe Hisaishi
Octopath Traveler – Yasunori Nishiki
Red Dead Redemption 2 – Woody Jackson

Best Audio Design

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 – Treyarch
Forza Horizon 4 – Playground Games
God of War – SIE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Marvel’s Spider-Man – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Red Dead Redemption 2 – Rockstar Games

Best Performance

Bryan Dechart as Connor – in Detroit: Become Human
Christopher Judge as Kratos – in God of War
Melissanthi Mahut as Kassandra – in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Roger Clark as Arthur Morgan – in Red Dead Redemption 2
Yuri Lowenthal as Spider-Man – in Marvel’s Spider-Man

Best Mobile Game

Donut County – Ben Esposito/Annapurna Interactive
Florence – Mountains
Fortnite – Epic Games
PUBG Mobile – Lightspeed & Quantum/Tencent Games
Reigns: Game of Thrones – Nerial/Devolver Digital

Best VR/AR Game

Astro Bot Rescue Mission – SIE Japan Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Beat Saber – Beat Games
Firewall: Zero Hour – First Contact Entertainment/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Moss – Polyarc Games
Tetris Effect – Resonair/Enhance, Inc.

For the full list of awards and nominees, visit TGA’s official website.

The Game Awards 2018 is happening on December 6, 2018 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.