Though theGame Developers Conferencehas been entirely online for the past two years, the show in 2022 will be a live event taking place in San Francisco, CA, from March 21-25. TheGame Developers Choice Awards, or GDCA, are one of the most anticipated moments of the annual conference, recognizing the game developers who led the pack in audio, design, storytelling, innovation, and social impact in the previous year.
Five titles have been nominated for the GDCA Game of the Year award, and three of the nominees will be familiar to those who followed The Game Awards in December 2021.Resident Evil Village,Arkane Studios’ time-hopping first-person shooterDeathloop,andTGA Game of Year winnerIt Takes Twoare all up for the award at GDCA as well. Also on the list areInscryption, a horror-themed deckbuilder published by Devolver Digital, andForza Horizon 5.
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A few of the candidates in the running for this year’s GDCA Game of the Year award have also been nominated in other categories.Deathloopis in the running for six different awards,It Takes Twohas been nominated for five, andForza Horizon 5has kept up the pace with four. Winners in all categories will be announced at the GDCA ceremony on March 23, and the event will be livestreamed on theGDCTwitch channel.
Launched in September 2021 on PC and as atimed console exclusive on PlayStation 5Deathloopsucked players into the story of two rival assassins trapped in a time loop. The FPS, developed by the studio behind theDishonoredseries and 2017’sPrey,immediately stood out for its striking art style and engaging narrative. The game has already won awards from other associations and received predominantly positive reviews from both critics and players.
Hazelight Studios’It Takes Twosnuck onto the scene and quickly grabbed gamers’ attention.It Takes Twocan only be played cooperatively, requiring two people to work together to solve puzzles and unravel the tangled relationship of the game’s characters. While generally classified as an adventure game, Hazelight’s third title offers a skillful mashup of multiple genres, with levels that feature gameplay mechanics from platformers, shooters, racers, and all manner of games. In addition to being awarded the title of Game of the Year at TGA,It Takes Twohas also won and been nominated for a number of categories by other video game award shows.
The full list of Game Developers Choice Awards nominees is below:
Life is Strange: True Colors(Deck Nine / Square Enix)
Boyfriend Dungeon(Kitfox Games)
Chicory: A Colorful Tale(The Chicory: A Colorful Tale Team / Finji)
