The nominees for the 2018 Game Awards have been announced, and to no one’s surprise, Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 leads the pack in nominations, followed closely by God of War.
Voting is currently open at the official site, though the heavy traffic at the moment makes it difficult to actually get in. The Game of the Year category has a few heavyweights in it, with God of War and Red Dead Redemption 2 (which have eight nominations each) joined by Insomniac’s Marvel’s Spider-Man (seven nominations), Capcom’s Monster Hunter: World (which is also up for Best RPG), and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.
Aside from GoW, genre fans have a real clear-cut horror game for this year (though you know that Resident Evil 2 will be in there in 2019). Still, Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 with its Zombies Mode is nominated for Best Audio Design and Best Action Game.
The awards are only one part of the event, though. There’s a big expectation that Hideo Kojima will finally give us something more for Death Stranding than what we’ve gotten so far. And then of course there are the reveals. Will we get confirmation of Bloodborne 2? Mortal Kombat XI? Hell, how about a new game based on A Nightmare on Elm Street?
The 2018 Game Awards takes place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on December 6, 2018.
