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Battlefield 1, Horizon: Zero Dawn bag multiple E3 game critic nominations

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The battle to win the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is often based on how many awards a game company can receive from the show’s critics. And today, the Game Critics Awards group issued its nominees for the best of show.

Among the big potential winners are Electronic Arts, for Battlefield 1 (nominated for five awards), and Sony, for Horizon: Zero Dawn (nominated for three awards). Dishonored 2 also received four nominations. The final winners in each category will be announced after another round of voting. Overall, EA received 10 nominations. Sony had nine nominations.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.