The Game Awards 2026 Nominees to Be Revealed on 17th November

Geoff forgot to announce that today the date for the nominees will be announced. Bad marketing.

Phantom blade zero and crimson desert. Both of these are my picks as they are both incredible games.

We've likely got GTA6 nominated for GotY before GTA6 reviews which is crazy.

MindsEye will win The most sabotaged game of the year award.

Giving every other contender a glimmer of hope, before GTA VI comes along to sweep everything...

I wonder who’s gonna win game of the year,

GTA 6 👀

@Grumblevolcano That is crazy indeed. Will the "jury" (or whoever nominates) will have early access? Or is it just based on expectations? I mean, Barak Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize for just being elected...

@Czar_Khastik You mean, Samson became what it is without sabotage?

RE9 already put their mark down 👀

@Max_the_German Samson lost his strength because someone either cut his hair or budget.

I would like to see ‘Dominos Colors’ or ‘Ufophilia’ win something, maybe they can be nominated.

Neither are quite AAA, but they’re almost as good as ‘MindsEye’ which will no doubt go on to win a lot at the Games Awards.

@Grumblevolcano Crazy is to accept it.

Personally, online and 60-FPS are pre-reqs for me to accept a game as ‘current console’.

30FPS is PS4 era. I’m passing on this fake marketing creating a very real (questionable) hype. I am sure it is a gem, but still under the hood not meeting the bar. When they publish the patch for 60FPS and online will be my preferred time to consider it GOTY material in 2026.

I’m just praying that Zelda doesn’t get nominated. Great remake, but so much of it was based on the 1998 release.

@ShadowRJ Remakes should have their own category imo

@Czar_Khastik you are on fine form this evening sir..take a bow 👍

It'll be the GTA Awards this year, but I am curious to see the nominees for each category.

@Oram77 I don’t mind RE4, Silent Hill 2 or FF7 style remakes getting nominated, because they’re extremely different from the original release. OOT isn’t EXACTLY the same as the original, but you can follow a strategy guide for the N64 version, and complete the vast majority of the game.

And as much as I liked the remake…the owl annoyed me even more this time than before, and even introduced a plot hole this time around.

Anyone else think they'll nominate GTA6 for best family game? I'm not ruling it out.

I'll skip all the award stuff as always. Looking forward to the game trailers though^^

@ShadowRJ I must admit I did think OoT remake was way too safe and adding a jump (while nice) trivialised most of the game.

@Oram77 They could also do with a Best DLC/expansion category.

@Grumblevolcano Yeah that's what I'm saying, it was like when Shadow of the Erdtree got nom'd that one year, great piece of content... but it was still a DLC.

Wild to think that no Sony published game will be nominated for GOTY this year.

@Enuo Nah, Vin Diesel isn't in it as far as I know. If he isn't saying family, no one is.

@Oram77 I didn’t think the jump button trivialised the difficulty. What it did do for me at least was get my muscle memory confused. I lost count of the times I rolled off a ledge and fell down instead of jumping.

gta6 is winning the goty award no suspense in that..

It is funny how we have a review system and metacritic that does all the sums etc, that should be the game of the year.

Of course unless this is voted by the gamers.

@AI-Generation A large proportion of the jury isn’t on Metacritic. Here’s one example. The Hungarian juror don’t use scores. They use “don’t miss” “good” “ok” for their reviews.

The jury is enormous, and I reckon only about a third of them are on Metacritic.

@johnedwin honestly there hasn’t been any suspense for Game Awards GOTY since 2021.

Please stay calm if Mixtape is nominated.

Giving an unlaunched game the Game of the Year award would be like giving US presidents the Nobel Peace Prize, so I guess possible in today's world.

@Stevemalkpus Bruh I completely forgot about Mixtape

@Northern_munkey Thanks mate, I appreciate your kind words! What can I say, Friday news can be inspiring haha

GTA is going to get a GOTY nomination before it releases... And it's going to win GOTY like three weeks after it releases. You are not invited to the clubhouse

We got gta 6 nominated for GOTY before we got gta 6 hahahaha

Gta 6 incoming goty

Grand theft auto 6 for the win.word up son

Im glad gta vi is eligble this year. That way I can skip a full year of gta vi goty conversations...

I expected it to be there as the cutoff was the 20th, but for it to be nominated before any reviews are out.. how is that possible?
Also, for anyone saying nothing else has a chance, remember Rockstar have never won it and Zelda has reviewed incredibly well. Isn't guaranteed

Only would be funny if GTA6 ended up about 89 to 92 on meta after all is said and done.

This game is so hyped if it doesn’t take the 96 off Zelda OOT remake on meta to highest scoring game of the year it will be absolutely hilarious.

Especially as it would have been beaten by a far smaller team and tiny budget in comparison and a remake.

GTA shouldn't even be eligible. What a load of bs.

Phantom Blade and Crimson Desert are by far my top picks.

@AI-Generation You're more concerned on scores mean while GTA6 has more pre-orders than OoT has sold copies, you can also have this W, E-day reviewed way better the Wolverine but again which one sold more, food for thought. At the end of the day the $ is way more important to them then a number on MC.