Game Awards 2015 nominees revealed

The Game Awards 2015 are scheduled to be held on December 3 but the nominees have already been announced. There are a lot of categories and every major game has been nominated. One might say that it’s designed to appease everyone. Either ways, the nominees are listed below so take a look.

Game of the Year

• Bloodborne
• Fallout 4
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Super Mario Maker
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Developer of the Year

• Bethesda Game Studios
• CD Projekt RED
• FromSoftware
• Kojima Productions
• Nintendo

Best Independent Game

• Axiom Verge
• Her Story
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• Rocket League
• Undertale

Best Mobile or Handheld Game

• Downwell
• Fallout Shelter
• Lara Croft GO
• Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate
• Pac-Man 256

Best Narrative

• Her Story
• Life Is Strange
• Tales from the Borderlands
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Until Dawn

Best Art Direction

• Batman: Arkham Knight
• Bloodborne
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Best Score or Soundtrack

• Fallout 4
• Halo 5: Guardians
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Best Performance

• Ashly Burch as Chloe Price (Life Is Strange)
• Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft (Rise of the Tomb Raider)
• Doug Cockle as Geralt (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)
• Mark Hamill as The Joker (Batman: Arkham Knight)
• Viva Seifert (Her Story)

Games for Change Award

• Cibele
• Her Story
• Life Is Strange
• Sunset
• Undertale

Best Shooter

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
• Destiny: The Taken King
• Halo 5: Guardians
• Splatoon
• Star Wars: Battlefront

Best Action-Adventure Game

• Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
• Batman: Arkham Knight
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• Rise of the Tomb Raider

Best Role-Playing Game

• Bloodborne
• Fallout 4
• Pillars of Eternity
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Undertale

Best Fighting Game

• Guilty Gear Xrd –SIGN–
• Mortal Kombat X
• Rise of Incarnates
• Rising Thunder

Best Family Game

• Disney Infinity 3.0
• Lego Dimensions
• Skylanders: SuperChargers
• Splatoon
• Super Mario Maker

Best Sports or Racing Game

• FIFA 16
• Forza Motorsport 6
• NBA 2K16
• PES 2016
• Rocket League

Best Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
• Destiny: The Taken King
• Halo 5: Guardians
• Rocket League
• Splatoon

Most Anticipated Game

• Horizon Zero Dawn
• No Man’s Sky
• Quantum Break
• The Last Guardian
• Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

eSports Player of the Year

• Kenny Schrub (Counter-Strike Global Offensive / Team EnVyUs)
• Lee Sang-hyeok (League of Legends / SK Telecom T1)
• Olof Kajbjer (Counter-Strike Global Offensive / Fnatic)
• Peter Dager (Dota 2 / Evil Geniuses)
• Syed Sumail Hassan (Dota 2 / Evil Geniuses)

eSports Team of the Year

• Evil Geniuses
• Fnatic
• Optic Gaming
• SK Telecom T1
• Team SoloMid

eSports Game of the Year

• Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Dota 2
• Hearthstone
• League of Legends

Trending Gamer

• Total Biscuit
• Christopher Mykles
• Greg Miller
• Markiplier
• PewDiePie

Best Fan Creation

• GTA V – Targets (Hoodoo Operator)
• Real GTA (Corridor Digital)
• Portal Stories: Mel (Prism Studios)
• Super Mario Maker e-Reader Levels (Baddboy78 / theycallmeshaky)
• Twitch Plays Dark Souls (Twitch Community)

What do you think of this list? Some games deserve to be on the list but some games, like expansions, are quite puzzling. I don’t know who came up with this. Anyway, who should win? Let us know.

Source: IGN