Elden Ring won the top prize at The Game Awards 2022, where it scooped several awards including the coveted Game of the Year.
FromSoftware‘s RPG epic fought off competition fromGod of WarRagnarok, which also had a successful night winning several awards.
Elden RingandGod of War Ragnarökwere the biggest winners at the show,sharing 10 of the 32 available prizes at Thursday’s show
Elden Ring directorHidetaka Miyazaki‘s Game of the Year acceptance speech was followed by a bizarre moment when a member of the audience appeared to join the FromSoftware team on stage, before grabbing the mic and shouting out “his orthodox Rabbi Bill Clinton.”
According to hostGeoff Keighley, the individual has now been arrested.
TheBandai NamcoRPG, which has soldover 17 million copiesand isthe highest-rated new game of the year, also received a pair ofPlayStation Partner Awardslast week, including the Grand Award (for the best-selling game developed in Asia) and the Users’ Choice award.
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Elden Ring’s latest update rolled out earlier this week. The expansion takes place in the several Colosseums that have been dotted around the Elden Ring map sincethe game was released.
FromSoftware had a busy night, withArmored Core VI: Fires of Rubiconalso being revealed duringThe Game Awards, with a trailer announcing that the game will release onPS5,XboxSeries, andPC.
Published by Bandai Namco, the sixth installment marks the first new Armored Core game in more than a decade, the last being Armored Core V back in 2012.
