The GDC Awards 2023 nominations announced and Nintendo is absent

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This year’s GDC is just around the corner as it takes place in March in San Francisco and general pulls in a sizeable audience. The annual Game Developer Choice Awards will take place at the event and this year’s nominees have been announced. There’s plenty of solid titles in the various categories on offer this year as indie game Tunic is up for the prestigious Game of the Year award and the fast and stylish Neon White has been nominated for the Best Debut award and Best Design award. However, Nintendo hasn’t been nominated for any categories this year despite releasing Splatoon 3, Bayonetta 3, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Kirby and the Forgotten Land. The Game Developers Choice Awards 2023 will take place at GDC between 20th March and 24th March. Here’s the nominees:

Best Debut

  • Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
  • NORCO (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
  • TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)
  • Vampire Survivors (poncle)

Best Audio

  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Metal: Hellsinger (The Outsiders/Funcom)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)

Best Design

  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios, Inc./Nuverse)
  • Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
  • TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)

Best Narrative

  • God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)
  • IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow/Half Mermaid)
  • Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
  • Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital)

Best Technology

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward, Raven Software, Beenox, Treyarch, High Moon Studios, Sledgehammer Games, Activision Shanghai, Demonware, Toys for Bob/Activision)
  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Visual Art

  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)

Innovation Award

  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow/Half Mermaid)
  • Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
  • Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)

Social Impact Award

  • As Dusk Falls (INTERIOR/NIGHT/Xbox Game Studios)
  • Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller)
  • Endling – Extinction Is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames)
  • I Was A Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)
  • OlliOlli World (Roll7/Private Division)
  • We Are OFK (Team OFK)

Game of the Year

  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow/Half Mermaid)
  • Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
  • TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)

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