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Shadow of War, Mario + Rabbids, and Wolfenstein II lead Game Critics Awards nominees

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Three big games tied for the lead in total nominations for the prestigious Game Critics Awards based on games shown at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game industry show in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago.

The top nominees, with four nominations each, were Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s Middle-earth: Shadow of War; Ubisoft’s Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle; and Bethesda’s Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Origins and Nintendo’s Super Mario Odyssey were close contenders with three nominations each.

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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.