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All about The Game Awards 2020: date, time, games and nominees

All about The Game Awards 2020: date, time, games and nominees

This December 11 at 01:00 (Spanish peninsular time) we will know the winners of the prizes and more than a dozen announcements.

The Game Awards 2020 is getting closer and closer. The most media awards gala of the year in the video game sector will take place on the night of Thursday to Friday, December 11, specifically from 01:00 AM (Spanish peninsular time), so that we know who the Game of the Year (GOTY) as well as the rest of the winners of a ceremony with more than twenty categories. Let us know all the details regarding its date, time, confirmed game announcements and the complete list of nominees. You can follow it live with FreeGameTips.

The Game Awards 2020: presenters, guests and possible announcements

As in recent editions, well-known faces from the world of video games, sports or the cinematographic arts will be in charge of presenting and distributing each award. We talk about personalities like Gal Gadot, Brie Larson, Christopher Nolan, Lyn Inaizumi, Josef Fares, Nolan North, John David Washington and Reggie Fils-Aime, among many others.

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Gal Gadot and Brie Larson.

All the big companies are involved, and that translates into advertisements, games, surprises. Information, in short, that will encourage us to see the gala beyond the mere delivery of awards.

Works like Dragon Age 4 have new features, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout will present its third season, while Among Us will do the same with its new map. For its part, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will show us the first gameplay of its first season, and others such as It Takes Two, by Josef Fares, will be seen with their first video. In total, we will have “between 12 and 15 premieres.” Will they live up to a year ago? In 2019 Xbox Series X was presented in a surprising way. Names like Elden Ring, from FromSoftware, which we have not known about for a long time now, are loud.

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The six games nominated for GOTY at the Game Awards 2020

The Game Awards 2020: where to watch it, schedule and duration

In addition to the FreeGameTips YouTube channel, where we will broadcast live the awards gala of The Game Awards 2020, from the website you will be able to know all the news of the announcements anticipated by the organization itself in FreeGameTips. The news section will be ready publishing all the news to the minute. TGA’s official Twitch channel is the official method to follow it live (in English), while our YouTube channel will feature a voiceover in Spanish by Salva Fernàndez and Francisco Alberto Serrano.

All about The Game Awards 2020: date, time, games and nominees

These are the exact times when the awards gala will begin in Spain, Latin America and the United States; the duration of the gala is estimated between two and a half hours and three hours.

  • Spain (peninsular time): December 11 at 01:00.
  • United States (Los Angeles): December 10 at 3:00 p.m.
  • United States (New York): December 10 at 6:00 p.m.
  • Mexico (Mexico City): December 10 at 5:00 p.m.
  • Costa Rica: December 10 at 5:00 p.m.
  • El Salvador: December 10 at 5:00 p.m.
  • Honduras: December 10 at 5:00 p.m.
  • Guatemala: December 10 at 5:00 p.m.
  • Nicaragua: December 10 at 5:00 p.m.
  • Chile: December 10 at 8:00 p.m.
  • Argentina: December 10 at 10:00 a.m.
  • Paraguay: December 10 at 8:00 p.m.
  • Uruguay: December 10 at 8:00 p.m.
  • Dominican Republic: December 10 at 10:00 a.m.
  • Venezuela: December 10 at 7:00 p.m.
  • Colombia: December 10 at 6:00 p.m.
  • Ecuador: December 10 at 6:00 p.m.
  • Peru: December 10 at 6:00 p.m.

All The Game Awards 2020 Nominees

Game of the Year

  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)
  • DOOM Eternal (id Software / Bethesda)
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)
  • Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch / SIE)
  • Hades (Supergiant Games)
  • The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / SIE)

Best Direction

  • Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)
  • Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch / SIE)
  • Hades (Supergiant Games)
  • Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
  • The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / SIE)

Best Narrative

  • 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (George Kamitani)
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake (Kazushige Nojima, Motomu Toriyama, Hiroki Iwaki, Sachie Hirano)
  • Ghost of Tsushima (Ian Ryan, Liz Albl, Patrick Downs, Jordan Lemos)
  • Hades (Greg Kasavin)
  • The Last of Us Part II (Neil Druckmann, Halley Gross)

Best Art Direction

  • Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)
  • Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch / SIE)
  • Hades (Supergiant Games)
  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios / Xbox Game Studios)
  • The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / SIE)

Best Soundtrack

  • DOOM Eternal (Mick Gordon)
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake (Nobuo Uematsu, Masahi Hamauzu, Mitsuto Suzuki) Hades (Darren Korb)
  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Gareth Coker)
  • The Last of Us Part II (Gustavo Santaolala, Mac Quale)

Best Audio Design

  • DOOM Eternal (id Software / Bethesda)
  • Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
  • Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch / SIE)
  • Resident Evil 3 (Capcom)
  • The Last of Us Part 2 (Naughty Dog / SIE)

Best performance

  • Ashley Johnson as Ellie, The Last of Us Part II
  • Laura Bailey as Abby, The Last of Us Part II
  • Daisuke Tsuji as Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
  • Logan Cunningham as Hades, Hades
  • Nadji Jeter as Miles Morales, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Impact Games

  • If Found… (DREAMFELL / Annapurna)
  • Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition (Cardboad Computer / Annapurna)
  • Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus Games)
  • Tel Me Why (Dontnod Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios)
  • Through the Darkest of Times (Paintbucket Games)

Best persistent game

  • Apex Legends (Respawn / EA)
  • Destiny 2 (Bungie)
  • Call of Duty Warzone (Infinity Ward / Activision)
  • Fortnite (Epic Games)
  • No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

Best Indie

  • Carrion (Phobia Game Studio)
  • Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Mediatonic / Devolver)
  • Hades (Supergiant Games)
  • Spelunky 2 (Mossmouth)
  • Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus Games)

Best Mobile Game

  • Among Us (InnerSloth)
  • Call of Duty Mobile (TiMi Studios / Activision)
  • Genshin Impact (miHoYo)
  • Legends of Runeterra (Riot Games)
  • Pokémon Café Mix (Genius Sonority)

Best Action Game

  • DOOM Eternal (id Software / Bethesda)
  • Hades (Supergiant Games)
  • Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
  • Nioh 2 (Team Ninja)
  • Streets of Rage 4 (DotEmu)

Best Action / Adventure Game

  • Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
  • Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch / SIE)
  • MARVEL’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games / SIE)
  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios / Xbox Game Studios)
  • Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Respawn / EA)
  • The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / SIE)

Best Role Playing Game

  • Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)
  • Genshin Impact (miHoYo)
  • Persona 5 Royal (Atlus, P Studios)
  • Wasteland 3 (inXile Entertainment / Koch)
  • Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio / Sega)

Best Fighting Game

  • Granblue Fantasy: Versus (Arc System Works / Cygames)
  • Mortal Kombat 11 / Ultimate (NetherRealm Studios / WB Games)
  • Street Fighter V: Champion Edition (Dimps / Capcom)
  • One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows (Spike Chunsoft / Bandai-Namco)
  • UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe: Late[cl-r] (French Bread / Arc System Works)

Best Family Game

  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)
  • Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time (Toys for Bob / Activision)
  • Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Mediatonic / Devolver)
  • Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (Velan Studios / Nintendo)
  • Minecraft Dungeons (Mojang / Double Eleven / Xbox Game Studios)
  • Paper Mario: The Origami King (Intelligent Systems / Nintendo)

Best Strategy / Simulation Game

  • Crusader Kings III (Paradox Development Studio / Paradox)
  • Desperados III (Mimimi Games / THQN)
  • Gears Tactics (Splash Damage / The Coalition / Xbox Game Studios)
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo / Xbox Game Studios)
  • XCOM: Chimera Squad (Firaxis / 2K)

Best Sports Game / Driving

  • Dirt 5 (Codemasters Cheshire / Codemasters)
  • F1 2020 (Codemasters Birmingham / Codemasters)
  • FIFA 21 (EA Vancouver / EA Sports)
  • NBA 2K21 (Visual Concepts / 2K)
  • Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 (Vicarious Visions / Activision)

Best Multiplayer

  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)
  • Among Us (InnerSloth)
  • Call of Duty: Warzone (Infinity Ward / Raven / Activision)
  • Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Mediatonic / Devolver)
  • Valorant (Riot Games)

Best Debut Game

  • Carrion (Phobia Game Studio / Devolver)
  • Mortal Shell (Cold Symmetry / Playstack)
  • Raji: An Ancient Epic (Nodding Heads Games)
  • Röki (Polygon Treehouse / CI Games)
  • Phasmophobia (Kinetic Games)
About author

Chris Watson is a gaming expert and writer. He has loved video games since childhood and has been writing about them for over 15 years. Chris has worked for major gaming magazines where he reviewed new games and wrote strategy guides. He started his own gaming website to share insider tips and in-depth commentary about his favorite games. When he's not gaming or writing, Chris enjoys travel and hiking. His passion is helping other gamers master new games.

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