Playstation VR 2 has won a gaming award

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Five VR games were nominated for the Best VR Game of the Year at The Game Awards. Scanning the titles, one thing stands out.

The Game Awards will be held on December 7, 2023 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. As always, the ceremony will be broadcast live on YouTube and other platforms.

Awards will be divided into 31 categories. One of them is "Best VR/AR".

Games were nominated by more than a hundred international gaming publications, journalists and influencers. The winner is determined by a mixed vote between the jury (90%) and public vote (10%).

Since new games are announced at The Game Awards every year, it's likely that a VR game or two will be announced as well.

These are the 2023 VR GOTY nominees

This year marks the 10th anniversary of The Game Awards and the eighth time VR games have been recognized in their respective categories.

The following five games were nominated for the Best VR Game of the Year. Click the link to be redirected to our review.

What’s striking about this year’s selection is that almost all of the nominated games are PSVR 2 exclusives. The exception is Humanity, which is available for PC VR headsets in addition to the Playstation VR 2, so in a way, Sony has already won. In previous years, the options were more diverse in terms of platform availability.

One of the biggest VR games of the year is coming

This year's exclusive masterpieces continue on the Quest platform: "Assassin's Creed Nexus VR" will be released on November 16, and "Asgard's Wrath 2" will be released on December 15. PC VR hit of the year Vertigo 2 (coming to Playstation VR 2 later this year) is also missing, as are recently released multi-platform gems The 7th Guest VR and Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice. Hopefully some of these will make it onto next year’s nomination list.

Two of this year's nominees (Gran Turismo 7 and Resident Evil Village VR) are also VR ports, and one might wonder if the medium is being served by nominating and celebrating games that can be played without a VR headset. .

By the way, the VR games that won The Game Awards in previous years are as follows:

• 2022: Moss 2 (multi-platform)
• 2021: Resident Evil 4 (Quest-exclusive)
• 2020: Half-Life: Alyx (Steam-exclusive)
• 2019: "Beat Saber" (multi-platform)
• 2018: Astro Bot (PSVR exclusive)
• 2017: Resident Evil 7 (PSVR exclusive)
• 2016: Rez Infinite (Multi-Platform)

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