Japan Game Awards are organized by Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA) every year to give multiple awards to the computer entertainment software developers. Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA) organized the Japan Game Awards 2022 to award the best developers in different categories.
The winners of Japan Game Awards were declared in the event of Tokyo Game Show. Let’s have a look at the categories before we get to the list of Japan Game Awards 2022 winners
Categories of Japan Game Awards 2022
Here are the categories under which the awards were given:
- Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award
- Grand Award
- Game Designers Award
- Game Designers Award honorable mentions
- Award for Excellence
- Global Award Japanese Product
- Global Award Foreign Product
- Best Sales Award
List of Japan Game Awards 2022 Winners
Here’s the list of Japan Game Awards 2022 Winners:
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Hidetaka Miyazaki was awarded with Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award. He was chosen for the prize because the Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry Award is awarded to people who have helped the computer game industry thrive.
The “Demon’s Souls” and “Dark Souls” series, as well as more recently “SEKIRO: SHADOWS DIE TWICE,” were all released by Hidetaka Miyazaki, who also created some of the most distinctive dark fantasy landscapes that we have ever seen.
His most recent video game, “ELDEN RING,” a compendium of his work, displays outstanding originality with overwhelming volume and quality and draws followers not just in Japan but all over the world. He invented an original genre as the entertainment from Japan.
Grand Award
ELDEN RING
Developer: FromSoftware, Inc.
Elden Ring game developed by FromSoftware Inc. received the Grand Award in Japan Game Awards 2022. The dark fantasy world of the Elden Ring video game is presented in overwhelming quantity and quality, and it enjoys a great deal of user support. “There is no doubt that this game is a masterpiece,” exuberant players write in the general polls. Everything in this game is fantastic.
Game Designers Award
Inscryption
Developer: Daniel Mullins Games
In contrast to the majority of other video games, Inscryption. I dread describing its features. Although this video game is categorized as a card game, the backdrop, tone, and expert meta fiction produce surprising outcomes.
There is no question that this is the only video game ever made, and it is rather captivating.
This game received the prize after garnering praise from several judges.
Global Award Japanese Product and Best Sales Award
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl were awarded with Global Award Japanese Product and Best Sales Award. Both of these games were developed by The Pokemon Company.
Global Award Foreign Product
Call of Duty: Vanguard was awarded with Global Award Foreign Product.
The most recent series of the wildly popular “Call of Duty” video game franchise. Air fights over the Pacific, flying low over France, a sniper mission over Stalingrad, and breaking through advancing German forces in North Africa are just a few examples of aerial combat.
In numerous battlefields during World War II, fierce battles were fought on a never-before-seen scale.
Battles in both the multiplayer game mode, where players may compete against others worldwide, and the quite realistic single-player campaign mode
In the game’s new zombies mode, players can team up with friends to battle a horde of the zombies. The game earned the award as a result of the worldwide support of fervent players.
Award for Excellence
“Award for Excellence” was given to the following games:
- Resident Evil Village
- Sky: Children of the Light
- Tales of Arise
- Lost Judgment
- Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker
- Pokemon Legends: Arceus
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Elden Ring
- Ghostwire: Tokyo
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Note: All the info provided here is taken from the official website of Japan Game Awards.
