By Staff Reporter (media@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Nov 14, 2015 06:18 AM EST

It's time again to award the best in the gaming industry.

"The Game Awards 2015" has announced its full list of nominees that will compete for the silverware on categories that include Game of the Year, Developer of the Year, Best Independent Game, Best Mobile/Handheld Game, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score/Soundtrack and Best Performance

Also included in the list of awards are Games for Change, Best Shooter, Best Action/Adventure Game, Best Role-Playing Game, Best fighting Game, Best Family Game, Best Sports/Racing Game, Best Multiplayer and Most Anticipated Game.

Moreover, in recognition of the rise of eSports and its contribution to the industry, "The Game Awards 2015" will also reward the eSports Player of the Year, eSports Team of the Year and eSports Game of the Year.

The gaming awarding body will also honor the best Trending Gamer and best Fan Creation.

The list of nominees for the highly anticipated and most sought after Game of the Year award are pretty stacked up especially with the high grossing and highly praised games in the lineup. Among the games vying for the award are "Bloodborne," the recently released "Fallout 4," "Metal Gear Solid V," "Super Mario Maker," and "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt."

Meanwhile, battling it out as Developer of the Year are Bethesda Game Studios, CD Projekt Red, From Software, Kojima Productions, and Nintendo.

Games such as "Downwell," "Fallout Shelter," "Lara Croft Go," Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate," and "Pac-Man 256" are also nominated for the Best Mobile/Handheld game- a niche that has seen an increasing popularity over the past years.

Not to be left behind, the eSport community had also a share in this year's "The Game Awards" with games such as "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare," "Counter-Strike" Global Offensive," "Dota 2," Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft," and "League of legends" contending for eSports Game of the Year.

According to the report by Game Rant, "The Game Awards" was scheduled to take off on December 3, 2015 and will be shown via livestream on Twitch, YouTube, Steam, the PlayStation Network, Wii U, Xbox Live and Go90.

The nominees were selected by a panel of judges that came from 32 publications from all over the world. However, in order to be deemed eligible, games and titles should be commercially released on or before November 24, 2015.

"The Game Awards 2015" will roll on December 3, 2015 at Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles, California.

The complete lists of nominees for each award are shown below:

GAME OF THE YEAR

Bloodborne (From Software/Sony Computer Entertainment)

Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks)

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions/Konami)

Super Mario Maker (Nintendo EAD Group No. 4/Nintendo)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR

Bethesda Game Studios

CD Projekt Red

From Software

Kojima Productions

Nintendo

BEST INDEPENDENT GAME

Axiom Verge (Tom Happ)

Her Story (Sam Barlow)

Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios)

Rocket League (Psyonix)

Undertale (tobyfox)

BEST MOBILE/HANDHELD GAME

Downwell (Moppin/Devolver Digital)

Fallout Shelter (Bethesda Game Studios|Behaviour Interactive/Bethesda Softworks)

Lara Croft Go (Square Enix Montreal/Square Enix)

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom)

Pac-Man 256 (Hipster Whale/Bandai Namco Entertainment)

BEST NARRATIVE

Her Story (Sam Barlow)

Life is Strange (Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix)

Tales From the Borderlands (Telltale Games)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

Until Dawn (Supermassive Games/Sony Computer Entertainment)

BEST ART DIRECTION

Batman: Arkham Knight (Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

Bloodborne (From Software/Sony Computer Entertainment)

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions/Konami)

Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

BEST SCORE/SOUNDTRACK

Fallout 4 (Inon Zur/Bethesda Game Studios)

Halo 5: Guardians (Kazuma Jinnouchi/343 Industries)

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Ludvig Forssell, Justin Burnett, Daniel James/Kojima Productions)

Ori and the Blind Forest (Gareth Coker/Moon Studios)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Marcin Przybyłowicz, Mikolai Stroinski, Percival/CD Projekt Red)

BEST PERFORMANCE

Ashly Burch as Chloe Price (Life is Strange)

Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft (Rise of the Tomb Raider)

Doug Cockle as Geralt (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)

Mark Hamill as The Joker (Batman: Arkham Knight)

Viva Seifert (Her Story)

GAMES FOR CHANGE

Cibele (Nina Freeman)

Her Story (Sam Barlow)

Life is Strange (Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix)

Sunset (Tale of Tales)

Undertale (tobyfox)

BEST SHOOTER

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (Treyarch/Activision)

Destiny: The Taken King (Bungie/Activision)

Halo 5: Guardians (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios)

Splatoon (Nintendo EAD Group No. 2/Nintendo)

Star Wars Battlefront (EA DICE/Electronic Arts)

BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE GAME

Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Ubisoft Quebec/Ubisoft)

Batman: Arkham Knight (Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions/Konami)

Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios)

Rise of the Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics/Microsoft Studios)

BEST ROLE-PLAYING GAME

Bloodborne (From Software/Sony Computer Entertainment)

Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks)

Pillars of Eternity (Obsidian Entertainment/Paradox Interactive)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

Undertale (tobyfox)

BEST FIGHTING GAME

Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- (Arc System Works/Aksys Games)

Mortal Kombat X (NetherRealm Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

Rise of Incarnates (Bandai Namco Entertainment)

Rising Thunder (Radiant Entertainment)

BEST FAMILY GAME

Disney Infinity 3.0 (Avalanche Software/Disney Interactive)

Lego Dimensions (TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)

Skylanders SuperChargers (Vicarious Visions|Beenox/Activision)

Splatoon (Nintendo EAD Group No. 2/Nintendo)

Super Mario Maker (Nintendo EAD Group No. 4/Nintendo)

BEST SPORTS/RACING GAME

FIFA 16 (EA Canada/Electronic Arts)

Forza Motorsport 6 (Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Studios)

NBA 2K16 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports)

Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 (PES Productions/Konami)

Rocket League (Psyonix)

BEST MULTIPLAYER

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (Treyarch/Activision)

Destiny: The Taken King (Bungie/Activision)

Halo 5: Guardians (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios)

Rocket League (Psyonix)

Splatoon (Nintendo EAD Group No. 2/Nintendo)

MOST ANTICIPATED GAME

Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony Computer Entertaiment)

No Man's Sky (Hello Games)

Quantum Break (Remedy Entertainment/Microsoft Studios)

The Last Guardian (GenDesign/Sony Computer Entertainment)

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment)

ESPORTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Kenny "KennyS" Schrub (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive/Team EnVyUs)

Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok (League of Legends/SK Telecom T1)

Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive/Fnatic)

Peter "ppd" Dager (Dota 2/Evil Geniuses)

Syed Sumail "Suma1L" Hassan (Dota 2/Evil Geniuses)

ESPORTS TEAM OF THE YEAR

Evil Geniuses

Fnatic

Optic Gaming

SK Telecom T1

Team SoloMid

ESPORTS GAME OF THE YEAR

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Sledgehammer Games/Activision)

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)

Dota 2 (Valve)

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)

League of Legends (Riot Games)

TRENDING GAMER

Total Biscuit

Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles

Greg Miller

Markiplier

PewDiePie

BEST FAN CREATION

GTA 5 - Targets (Hoodoo Operator)

Real GTA (Corridor Digital)

Portal Stories: Mel (Prism Studios)

Super Mario Maker e-Reader Levels (Baddboy78 / theycallmeshaky)

Twitch Plays Dark Souls (Twitch Community)

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