Norco (video game)

Last updated

Norco
Norco Steam artwork.jpg
Developer(s) Geography of Robots
Publisher(s) Raw Fury
Designer(s)
  • Yuts
  • Aaron Gray
Programmer(s)
  • Yuts
  • Aaron Gray
Artist(s)
  • Yuts
  • Jesse Jacobi
Writer(s) Yuts
Composer(s) Gewgawly I
Engine Unity [1]
Platform(s)
Release
  • macOS, Windows
  • March 24, 2022
  • PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Series X/S
  • November 17, 2022
Genre(s) Adventure game
Mode(s) Single-player

Norco is a 2022 point-and-click adventure game developed by Geography of Robots and published by Raw Fury. Set in a dystopian, futuristic version of Norco, Louisiana, it follows Kay, a woman who has returned home after her estranged mother's death. While searching for her missing brother, she becomes entangled in the mystery of her mother's investigations. [2]

Contents

Norco developed out of a multimedia documentary project about the landscape of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, and was eventually expanded into a full game. The game was released for macOS and Windows in May 2022 and for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in November 2022. Norco received positive reviews, with praise directed towards its art, writing and worldbuilding. It was nominated for several awards and won the Long Form Award at A MAZE. / Berlin.

Gameplay and setting

Norco is a point-and-click adventure game played from a first-person perspective. The game alternates between the perspective of Kay, set during the present day, and her mother Catherine, in flashbacks set a few months ago. The player can converse with non-player characters (NPCs), examine and interact with objects in the environment, and add items to their inventory. Kay possesses a mind map, which can be used to revisit connections between characters and provide context about the town. [3] [4] Catherine's mobile phone, which is later obtained by Kay, can be used to record voice memos and call rideshares to travel between different areas in New Orleans. Minigames include turn-based combat and navigating a boat to explore the swamp. [5]

The game is set in an dystopian, futuristic version of Norco, Louisiana, and in other portions of the state around New Orleans. [6] The town and surrounding landscape is dominated by the transnational oil conglomerate Shield, an in-game stand-in for Shell. [7] Shield's activity has caused "pollution, surveillance, and the collapse of neighborhoods", [8] and the town faces serious environmental and societal decline. Writing for New Yorker, Julian Lucas notes, "We are incessantly returned to the poisoning of the land, sky, and waterways—and especially of human lives." [6]

Plot

Kay Madére returns to Norco after five years in the wake of her estranged mother Catherine's death. She reunites with Million, a fugitive android her mother sheltered, and learns that before her death Catherine was investigating something mysterious in Lake Pontchartrain. While looking for her younger brother Blake, who has apparently vanished, private detective Brett LeBlanc tells Kay that Shield seized a box of Catherine's belongings. Infiltrating the local Shield refinery with Million and oil pirate Lucky to retrieve it, they encounter Shield regional CEO Laura Saint Claire, who admits her wavering sanity in pursuit of a "light" Catherine witnessed. Saint Claire allows Kay to take the box, committing suicide shortly after. Kay finds an access card that unlocks a secret office in the family house, which contains Catherine's "versioned" consciousness. Upon seeing this, Million suddenly attacks Kay; she is rescued by LeBlanc, who destroys the android and surmises it was sent to spy on Catherine.

Flashback segments show that after incurring heavy medical debt from cancer treatment, Catherine was contracted by a node of Superduck – a semi-biological "viral network" that evolved from a fork of another versioned consciousness – to retrieve the Stone. The Stone is a luminous floating orb of enigmatic origins and power, which was taken to an abandoned mall by a cult led by Kenner John, whose adherents are called Garretts. Reluctantly, Catherine enlists the help of Pawpaw, a homeless Christian fanatic who believes Catherine's bloodline is descended directly from Jesus Christ, to break into the mall and steal the Stone. Catherine delivers the Stone to Superduck, which eats it and pays her. Meanwhile, Pawpaw decapitates Kenner John and assumes leadership of the Garretts. Catherine's cancer recurs and she dies weeks later.

In the present, Kay learns that the Superduck network has been rapidly decaying since eating the Stone, emitting a distress signal from a node in Lake Pontchartrain. Kay and LeBlanc retrieve the Stone from the node and discover the Garretts have secretly been constructing a spaceship in the bayou. After a hallucinatory, surreal journey through the levels of the spaceship, Kay comes to, finding LeBlanc gravely injured after being attacked by Pawpaw. Pawpaw has installed Blake and Catherine's embalmed corpse in a shrine on the top level, waiting for Kay to arrive in the belief the Stone will guide them to an extraterrestrial Christian civilization. Pawpaw invites Kay to complete the shrine. Kay can choose to accept her fate, dying together with her family as the faulty ship explodes, or she can dive into the lake alone and swim to safety, abandoning Blake. Alternatively, if Kay earlier convinced a Garrett named Bruce controlling the launch to leave the cult and return home, the launch will be delayed, allowing her to escape with Blake and Catherine's corpse.

Development and release

Norco in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, where the game takes place Map of River Parishes.png
Norco in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, where the game takes place

The game's developer goes by a pseudonym, Yuts, derived from a nickname for his grandfather. [9] Yuts spent his childhood and some of his later life in Norco. [6] Growing up, Yuts was "frightened yet transfixed" by the landscape in and around Norco, which has been shaped by the petroleum industry and hosts a major Shell facility which has twice experienced catastrophic explosions. [6]

The game grew out of a multimedia documentary work by Yuts and a friend, started in 2015. [9] The work incorporated writing, interviews, and audio-visual components, focused on the impact of Hurricane Katrina on Louisiana and its landscape. [9] In addition to Yuts, the development team, Geography of Robots, also includes Yuts' sister, [6] Aaron Gray, Jesse Jacobi, and pseudonymous musicians fmAura and Gewgawly I. [9] Part of the multimedia project was a side-scrolling game in which a robot attempts to enter a refinery in Norco; this game became Norco, and the earliest version of the current game was created in 2016. [9] Yuts and Geography of Robots designed the game in the pixel art style. [6] Yuts relied on internet research to teach himself how to create the illustrations he contributed to the game. [6]

Gewgawly I was Yuts' original collaborator. [2] Gewgawly I and fmAura worked to design the game's soundtrack, attempting to "capture the... mood and ambience" of the River Parishes. [2] The game incorporates field recordings by a friend of the development team, Matt Carney, taken around Baton Rouge. [2]

The game was originally titled Norco: Faraway Lights and planned to be the first game in an episodic trilogy, [10] though this was ultimately retooled into the first act of a single standalone game. Raw Fury signed to publish the game in 2020. [9] Geography of Robots announced in September 2022 that the game would become available on consoles on 20 October 2022. [11]

Influences

Direct influences on Norco include the games Déjà Vu and Snatcher . [12] Yuts was also influenced by the fictional city Midgar from the Final Fantasy series. [13] He has said Midgar, a highly stratified city controlled by a power company, gave him a "framework for understanding how both industry and industrial disaster [sic] are distributed across society". [13] Yuts, who previously worked for the city of New Orleans doing GIS work, has cited Mike Davis as an influence. [6] Davis, a Marxist scholar and critical geographer, often wrote about the intersection between environmental and social issues.

Reception

The game received positive reviews from critics. [23] [24] On review aggregator Metacritic, the game has a weighted average score of 89 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [14]

The game's art received praise. [25] Kyle LeClair wrote that the art was "impressive" especially the "variety of detail". [25] Noelle Warner, in an article published by Destructoid , wrote that the game's "visuals [were] often gorgeous" and noted that they could look "ugly and grotesque" in a way that helped convey the game's message. [26] Warner further wrote that the "risks" the game took with its art "worked in its favor". [26]

As with the game's art, critics emphasized the quality of NORCO's writing. [23] [24] Writing for The Gamer, Khee Hoon Chan referred to the writing as "impeccable" and "accentuat[ed]" by sudden turns in the narrative. [23] In a review for Kotaku , John Walker echoed this sentiment, praising the writing as the portion of the game that "shines the brightest...embracing that magical realism theme, often poetic, yet stark and pessimistic". [24]

Critics have compared Norco to Disco Elysium , [27] a role-playing video game, and Kentucky Route Zero , a point-and-click adventure game. [26] [28] [29] Chris Tapsell, in a review written for Eurogamer criticized Norco as "overwritten, in places, in the same way Kentucky Route Zero or Disco Elysium could be". [29] Writing for Vice , Cameron Kunzelman praised the game as having also achieved the "great accomplishment" of Kentucky Route Zero and Disco Elysium: their creation of "lived-in worlds where people tried to make do". [30]

Yuts views comparisons to between Norco and Kentucky Route Zero as fair, but has said that he sees Norco "as very different mechanically, thematically". [31] Alexis Ong, writing for PC Gamer , grouped Norco, Kentucky Route Zero, and Night in the Woods in a "small but vital group of hyperlocal narrative-driven point-and-click games" which emphasize economic concerns. [31] Ong faulted critics and players for hastily comparing the games and failing to "[cultivate] better ways to talk about this sub-genre". [31]

Awards

Norco won the inaugural Tribeca Games Award at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. [32] At the A MAZE. Festival 2022, Norco won the Long Form Award. Polygon and The New Yorker included Norco on their lists of the best games of 2022. [33] [34]

Awards and nominations
YearAwardCategoryResultRef.
2022 A Maze Berlin 2022 Long Form AwardWon [35]
Golden Joystick Awards Best StorytellingNominated [36]
The Game Awards 2022 Best Debut Indie GameNominated [37]
2023 New York Game Awards Herman Melville Award for Best Writing in a GameNominated [38]
Chumley's Speakeasy Award for Best Hidden GemNominated
26th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards Adventure Game of the Year Nominated [39]
Outstanding Achievement in Story Nominated
23rd Game Developers Choice Awards Best DebutNominated [40]
Best NarrativeHonorable mention
Social Impact AwardHonorable mention
Independent Games Festival Excellence in NarrativeNominated [41]

Related Research Articles

Norco is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,984 at the 2020 census. The community is home to a major Shell/Valero manufacturing complex. The CDP's name is derived from the New Orleans Refining Company.

Mega Man is a Japanese science fiction video game franchise created by Capcom, starring a character named "Mega Man". The original game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, and spawned a franchise that expanded to over 50 games on multiple systems. As of July 2024, the series has sold 42 million units worldwide. Mega Man has been popular among gamers and has been reimagined and evolved as a video game character for over 30 years.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yahtzee Croshaw</span> British video game journalist and author (born 1983)

Benjamin Richard "Yahtzee" Croshaw is a British journalist, video game critic, author, humourist, video game developer, and audiobook narrator. He is best known for his video game review series Zero Punctuation, which he produced for The Escapist from 2007 to 2023, and its spiritual successor Fully Ramblomatic, which he releases through Second Wind.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rebecca Chambers</span> Resident Evil fictional character

Rebecca Chambers is a character in Resident Evil, a survival horror video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom. She was first introduced as a supporting character in the original Resident Evil (1996) and became a player character of the prequel game Resident Evil Zero (2002). In the first Resident Evil, Rebecca is a young officer with the Raccoon Police Department's Special Tactics And Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.) unit and is trapped in a zombie-infested mansion.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ashly Burch</span> American voice actress and television writer (born 1990)

Ashly Burch is an American Emmy-winning writer, television actress, director, voice actress, and singer. She is known for her roles as Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, Chloe Price in the Life Is Strange series, Ray in Fortnite, Mel in The Last of Us Part II, Miss Pauling in Team Fortress 2, Tiny Tina in the Borderlands series, the web series Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?, Enid from OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, Molly from The Ghost and Molly McGee, Ash Graven from Final Space, Cassie Rose from Minecraft: Story Mode and the Rutile Twins from Steven Universe.

<i>The Stanley Parable</i> 2013 video game

The Stanley Parable is a 2013 story-based video game designed and written by developers Davey Wreden and William Pugh. The game carries themes such as choice in video games, the relationship between a game creator and player, and predestination/fate.

<i>Kentucky Route Zero</i> 2020 adventure video game

Kentucky Route Zero is a point-and-click adventure interactive fiction game developed by Cardboard Computer and published by Annapurna Interactive. The game follows the narrative of a truck driver named Conway and the strange people he meets as he tries to cross the mysterious Route Zero in Kentucky to make a final delivery for the antiques company for which he works. The game received acclaim for its visual art, narrative, characterization, atmosphere, and themes, appearing on several best-of-the-decade lists.

<i>Zero Escape</i> Video game series

Zero Escape, formerly released in Japan as Kyokugen Dasshutsu, is a series of adventure games directed and written by Kotaro Uchikoshi. The first two entries in the series, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (2009) and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward (2012), were developed by Spike Chunsoft, while the third entry, Zero Time Dilemma (2016), was developed by Chime. Zero Escape is published by Spike Chunsoft in Japan, while Aksys Games and Rising Star Games have published the games for North America and Europe respectively.

<i>Cuphead</i> 2017 video game

Cuphead is a 2017 run and gun game developed and published by Studio MDHR. The game follows its titular teacup-headed character and his brother Mugman, as they make a deal with the Devil to pay casino losses by repossessing the souls of runaway debtors. In the game, up to two players control Cuphead and/or Mugman to fight through several levels and boss fights; the game does not have a rigid narrative structure. As the game progresses, the protagonist acquires more power and abilities, eventually facing the Devil himself. Players, however, can only equip a limited number of these abilities at a given time.

<i>Star Fox Zero</i> 2016 video game

Star Fox Zero is a 2016 rail shooter game developed by Nintendo and PlatinumGames for the Wii U. It is the sixth installment in the Star Fox series. Formally announced at E3 2015, the game was released in April 2016 to mixed critical reception, with the most polarizing aspect of the game being its control scheme. A standalone tower defense game, titled Star Fox Guard, was bundled with the game.

<i>Horizon Zero Dawn</i> 2017 video game

Horizon Zero Dawn is a 2017 action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game was released for PlayStation 4 in 2017 and Windows in 2020. As the first game of the Horizon video game series, the game follows Aloy, a young hunter in a world overrun by machines, who sets out to uncover her past. The player uses ranged weapons, a spear, and stealth to combat mechanical creatures and other enemy forces. A skill tree provides the player with new abilities and bonuses. The player can explore the open world to discover locations and take on side quests.

<i>Zero Time Dilemma</i> 2016 visual novel video game

Zero Time Dilemma, also known as Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma, is an adventure video game developed by Chime, and published by Spike Chunsoft and Aksys Games. It is the third entry in the Zero Escape series, following Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (2009) and Virtue's Last Reward (2012). The game was released for Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, and Microsoft Windows in 2016, for PlayStation 4 in 2017, and for Xbox One in 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gamurs</span> Esports media business

The GAMURS Group, simply known as Gamurs, is an esports media and entertainment publisher. Established in 2014, the group operates multiple brands focusing on the esports and entertainment news markets, including the websites: Dot Esports, We Got This Covered,The Mary Sue, Prima Games, and Escapist. GAMURS is based in Sydney, Australia, with an office in Austin, Texas.

<i>Butterfly Soup</i> 2017 video game

Butterfly Soup is a visual novel developed by Brianna Lei and published in September 2017 for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The game has the player follow the perspectives of four LGBT Asian-American girls in Fremont, California, alternating between their first year of high school in 2008 and when they were young children. The coming-of-age story shows them as they join a baseball club and centers on the romance between the main character, Diya, and her friend Min.

<i>Hades</i> (video game) 2020 video game

Hades is a 2020 roguelike action role-playing game developed and published by Supergiant Games. It was released for macOS, Nintendo Switch, and Windows following an early access release in December 2018. It was later released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in August 2021, and was released for iOS in March 2024 through Netflix Games.

<i>Legends of Runeterra</i> Digital collectible card game

Legends of Runeterra is a 2020 digital collectible card game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by the physical collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, the developers sought to create a game within the same genre that significantly lowered the barrier to entry. Since its release in April 2020, the game has been free-to-play, and is monetised through purchasable cosmetics. The game is available for Microsoft Windows and mobile operating systems iOS and Android.

<i>Atomic Heart</i> 2023 video game

Atomic Heart is a 2023 first-person shooter game developed by Russian game developer Mundfish and published by VK Play, Focus Entertainment, and 4Divinity. The game is set in an alternate history version of the Soviet Union, during the 1950s. Initially depicted as a retrofuturistic utopia, the game follows the quick collapse of the Soviet Union into a dystopia, after a robot uprising begins.

<i>Horizon Forbidden West</i> 2022 video game

Horizon Forbidden West is a 2022 action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn (2017), the game is set in a post-apocalyptic version of the Western United States, recovering from the aftermath of an extinction event caused by a rogue robot swarm. The player, assuming control of Aloy, must venture into the Forbidden West to find the source of a mysterious plague that kills all it infects. The player can explore the open world and complete quests using ranged and melee weapons against machine creatures and hostile rebels. Forbidden West introduced new gameplay mechanics to the franchise, such as new traversal tools, underwater exploration, and expanded melee combat.

<i>Returnal</i> 2021 video game

Returnal is a 2021 roguelike third-person shooter video game developed by Housemarque and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game was released for the PlayStation 5 on 30 April 2021 and for Windows on 15 February 2023. It follows Selene Vassos, an astronaut who lands on the planet Atropos in search of the mysterious "White Shadow" signal and finds herself trapped in a time loop.

<i>Citizen Sleeper</i> 2022 video game

Citizen Sleeper is a 2022 role-playing video game by Jump Over the Age and published by Fellow Traveller for macOS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on 5 May 2022. It was also released for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on 31 March 2023.

References

  1. ↑ Saver, Michael (December 27, 2022). "Made with Unity: 2022 in review". Unity Technologies . Retrieved July 31, 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Setyawan, Kezia (April 1, 2022). "Q&A with the creator of NORCO, a transformative point-and-click game exploring the South". WWNO . Retrieved April 25, 2022.
  3. ↑ Price, Emily (May 10, 2022). "Review | 'Norco' is a sci-fi Deep South dystopia about mundane, corporate evils". The Washington Post . ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  4. ↑ Colantonio, Giovanni (April 3, 2022). "Norco explores a loss of humanity in our modern world". Digital Trends. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  5. ↑ Hawes, Heidi (January 10, 2023). "Review - Norco". WayTooManyGames. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Lucas, Julian (January 20, 2022). "Mapping Climate Grief, One Pixel at a Time". The New Yorker . Retrieved April 24, 2022.
  7. ↑ Tapsell, Chris (March 30, 2022). "Norco review - a shifting, mesmerising tale of the future". Eurogamer.net. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  8. ↑ Bi, Yaouchu (December 22, 2022). "NORCO and the Death of Society". Gamers with Glasses. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Carpenter, Nicole (April 8, 2022). "How Norco's creators used sci-fi to paint an honest depiction of Louisiana". Polygon . Retrieved April 25, 2022.
  10. ↑ Ryckman, Weldon. "NORCO: FARAWAY LIGHTS | a Cc interview and gallery with Yutsi". Carboncopy. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  11. ↑ Warner, Noelle (September 15, 2022). "Southern gothic narrative adventure NORCO is coming to consoles". Destructoid . Retrieved October 5, 2022.
  12. ↑ Clogher, Marisa (October 1, 2021). "No Place Like Home". Antigravity Magazine. Retrieved April 25, 2022.
  13. 1 2 Zorba, Philip. "An Interview With Yutsi On 'Geography of Robots'". honeysweat. Archived from the original on December 6, 2022. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
  14. 1 2 "NORCO for PC Reviews". Metacritic . Retrieved November 28, 2022.
  15. ↑ Warner, Noelle (April 1, 2022). "Review: NORCO". Destructoid . Retrieved November 28, 2022.
  16. ↑ Tapsell, Chris (March 30, 2022). "Norco review - a shifting, mesmerising tale of the future". Eurogamer . Retrieved November 28, 2022.
  17. ↑ Guisao, Jason (April 12, 2022). "Norco Review - Soul Food". Game Informer . Archived from the original on April 12, 2022. Retrieved April 25, 2022.
  18. ↑ Wakeling, Richard (April 11, 2022). "Norco Review - Deep South Dystopia". GameSpot . Retrieved November 28, 2022.
  19. ↑ LeClair, Kyle (April 1, 2022). "Review: NORCO - Hardcore Gamer". Hardcore Gamer. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
  20. ↑ Ong, Alexis (March 29, 2022). "Norco review: A landmark moment for point-and-click adventures". PCGamesN . Retrieved April 26, 2022.
  21. ↑ Parkin, Simon (October 8, 2022). "Norco review – dour, compelling Louisiana adventure". The Guardian . Retrieved November 28, 2022.
  22. ↑ Wise, Josh (April 5, 2022). "Norco review". VideoGamer.com. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
  23. 1 2 3 Chan, Khee Hoon (April 5, 2022). "Norco Review - A Narrative Masterpiece". TheGamer. Retrieved April 25, 2022.
  24. 1 2 3 Walker, John (March 30, 2022). "A Stunning Southern Dystopia Is One Of The Best-Written Games Of The Year". Kotaku . Retrieved April 25, 2022.
  25. 1 2 LeClair, Kyle (April 1, 2022). "Review: NORCO". Hardcore Gamer. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  26. 1 2 3 Warner, Noelle (June 22, 2021). "NORCO looks bizarre, but that's its biggest strength". Destructoid . Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  27. ↑ Goehler, Emma (April 25, 2022). "On Bad Endings: Resistance and Meaning-Making in the Apocalypse". Uppercut. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
  28. ↑ Martens, Todd (April 8, 2022). "The video game of 2022 so far: 'Norco,' a masterpiece of interactive storytelling". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved April 25, 2022.
  29. 1 2 Tapsell, Chris (June 18, 2021). "Norco is a tantalising Southern Gothic mystery". Eurogamer . Retrieved April 25, 2022.
  30. ↑ Kunzelman, Cameron (March 31, 2022). "The Greatness of 'Norco' Is Found in the Tenacious Weirdos Who Live There". Vice . Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  31. 1 2 3 Ong, Alexis Ong (March 22, 2022). "This stunning Deep South fable isn't the next Kentucky Route Zero—it's the first Norco". PC Gamer . Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  32. ↑ Beresford, Trilby (June 18, 2021). "Tribeca: 'Norco' Wins First-Ever Games Award at Festival". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved April 24, 2022.
  33. ↑ Mahardy, Mike (March 2, 2022). "The 50 best video games of 2022". Polygon . Retrieved December 19, 2022.
  34. ↑ Parkin, Simon (December 2, 2022). "The Best Video Games of 2022". The New Yorker . Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  35. ↑ "A MAZE. / Berlin 2022 Award Winners". 2022.amaze-berlin.de. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  36. ↑ Jones, Ali (October 20, 2022). "Time is running out to cast your vote in the Golden Joystick Awards 2022". GamesRadar+ . Archived from the original on October 26, 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  37. ↑ Harte, Charles (November 14, 2022). "The Full List of the 2022 Game Awards Nominees". Game Informer . Archived from the original on November 14, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  38. ↑ Bankhurst, Adam (January 18, 2023). "New York Game Awards 2023: Elden Ring Wins Two Awards as Phil Spencer Is Honored". IGN . Archived from the original on January 18, 2023. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  39. ↑ Bankhurst, Adam (February 23, 2023). "DICE Awards 2023 Winners: The Full List". IGN . Archived from the original on February 24, 2023. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  40. ↑ Mejia, Ozzie (January 26, 2023). "Elden Ring & Stray lead Game Developers Choice Awards 2023 nominees". Shacknews . Archived from the original on January 27, 2023. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  41. ↑ Mejia, Ozzie (January 24, 2023). "Independent Games Festival Awards 2023 finalists revealed". Shacknews . Archived from the original on January 28, 2023. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.