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The Game Awards: Red Dead Redemption 2 and God of War show power of long development cycles

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Game Awards released its nominations today for the best games of 2018 in advance of its December 6 show. Sony Santa Monica’s God of War and Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 led with eight nominations each.

Both games are nominated for Game of the Year, alongside four other titles: Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey (four nominations), the indie title Celeste (four nominations) from Matt Makes Games, Marvel’s Spider-Man (seven nominations) from Insomniac, and Capcom’s Monster Hunter: World (four 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.