New York Game Awards 2025: annunciati i candidati

Il New York Videogame Critics Circle (NYVGCC) ha presentato le nomination per la 14a edizione dei New York Game Awards. Lette da Hannah Telle (doppiatrice di Max da Life is Strange: Double Exposure) e Logan Cunningham (doppiatore di Hades da Hades II), le nomination sono state svelate durante una livestream al Paley Center for Media. L’evento premierà Sam Lake, direttore creativo di Remedy Entertainment, come vincitore del 2025 Andrew Yoon Legend Award.

L’evento si terrà il 21 gennaio.

Ha dichiarato Harold Goldberg, presidente e fondatore del NYVGCC:

“Il 2024 è stato un altro anno eccezionale per i videogiochi e siamo entusiasti di riconoscere questi progetti straordinari in occasione della 14a edizione dei New York Game Awards il 21 gennaio. Il nostro team di giornalisti, stagisti e volontari del NYVGCC non vede l’ora di ospitare e onorare le tante persone di talento che lavorano nell’industria dei videogiochi”.

Questi i nominati nelle 13 categorie:

Big Apple Award for Best Game of the Year

• Balatro 

• Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth 

• Astro Bot 

• UFO 50 

• 1000xResist

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 

• Metaphor: ReFantazio

• EA Sports College Football 25

Off Broadway Award for Best Indie Game

• Tales of Kenzera: ZAU 

• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes 

• Balatro  

• I Am Your Beast 

• UFO 50 

• 1000xResist 

• Thank Goodness You’re Here! 

• Neva 

Herman Melville Award for Best Writing in a Game

• Harold Halibut 

• Metaphor: ReFantazio

• 1000xResist

• Life is Strange: Double Exposure 

• Phoenix Springs

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 

Statue of Liberty Award for Best World

• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree 

• Tales of Kenzera: ZAU

• Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth 

• Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess 

• Astro Bot 

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 

• S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 Heart of Chornobyl

Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music in a Game

• Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess 

• Life is Strange: Double Exposure 

• Astro Bot

• Arco

• Black Myth Wukong

• 1000xResist

Great White Way Award for Best Acting in a Game

• Abubakar Salim as Zao, Zuberi and Griot Echo in Tales of Kenzara: ZAO

• John Eric Bentley as Barret in Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth 

• Hannah Telle as Max Caulfield in Life is Strange: Double Exposure

• Melina Juergens as Senua in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 

• Troy Baker as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

• Humberly González as Kay in Star Wars Outlaws 

Coney Island Dreamland Award for Best AR/VR Game

• Thrasher

• Batman: Arkham Shadow 

• Umurangi Generation VR 

• Skydance’s Behemoth 

• Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire

• Shattered

Central Park Children’s Zoo Award for Best Kids Game

• Astro Bot 

• Super Mario Party Jamboree

• Little Kitty, Big City

• Sonic X Shadow Generations 

• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom 

A-Train Award for Best Mobile Game

• Rabbids: Legends of the Multiverse

• Wuthering Waves

• Zenless Zone Zero

• Ex Astris

• Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket

Freedom Tower Award for Best Remake

• Soul Reaver 1 and 2 Remastered

• Silent Hill 2 

• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door 

• Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth 

• Age of Mythology: Retold 

• Persona 3: Reload 

Chumley’s Speakeasy Award for Best Hidden Gem

• Ultros

• Vampire Therapist

• Mouthwashing

• Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story

• Mars After Midnight

• Starstruck: Hands of Time

NYC GWB Award for Best DLC

• Alan Wake II: Night Springs and The Lake House

• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown – Mask of Darkness

• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

• Remnant 2: The Dark Horizon

• Splatoon 3: Side Order

• Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred

Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism

• Duncan Fyfe

• Alexis Ong

• Grant Stoner

• Mason Andrew Hamberlin

• Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

• Simone De Rochefort & Clayton Ashley

Qui sotto potete vedere la livestream con le nomination per i New York Game Awards 2025.