On November 19, the annual TGA Game of the Year Award announced the 2024 nomination list today. The domestic 3A masterpiece "Black Myth: Wukong" was nominated for the 2024 Game of the Year and received a total of 4 nominations.

The full list of nominees is as follows:

Best Operational Game:
Destiny 2

Diablo 4

Final Fantasy 14

Fortnite

Bad Diver 2

Best Art Direction:
Astrobot

Black Myth: Wukong

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Golden Tree

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Neva

Best Mobile Game:
Lilith: AFK Journey

Joker

Curo: Naruto

MiHoYo: Zero Zone

Pokémon TCGP

Best Performance:
Briana White

Hannah Telle

Humberly Gonzalez

Luke Roberts

Melina Juergens

Best Score & Music:
Astrobot

Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Silent Hill 2》

Swordstar

Best Adaptation:

League of Legends: Two Cities

Fallout

Knuckles

Yakuza

Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft

Best Multiplayer Game:

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Bad Boys 2

Warhammer 40K: Starfighter 2

Super Mario Party: All-Time Extravaganza

Tekken 8

Best Indie Game:

Animal Well

Joker

Lorelei and Laser Eyes

Neva

UFO 50

Most Anticipated Game:

Death Stranding 2

Ghost of Yotei (sequel to Ghost of Tsushima)

GTA 6

Metro 4: Beyond

Monster Hunter: Wildlands

Best Role-Playing Game:

Dragon's Dogma 2》

Elden Ring: Shadows of the Golden Tree

Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth

Yakuza 8

ReFantazio

Content Creator:
CaseOh

Illojuan

Techno Gamers

TypicalGamer

Usada Pekora

Best Action/Adventure Game:
Astrobot

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

Silent Hill 2

Star Wars: Outlaws

The Legend of Zelda: Rise of Wisdom

Best Action Game:
Black Myth: Wukong

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Bad Diver 2

Warhammer 40K: Starfighter II

Swordstar

Best Game Direction:
Astrobot

Joker

Black Myth: Wukong

Elden Ring: Shadows of the Golden Tree

Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth

Refantazio

Game of the Year:
Astro Robot

Joker

Black Myth: Wukong

Elden Ring: Shadows of the Golden Tree

Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth

Refantazio

Most nominated game publishers:
PlayStation: 16 nominations

SE: 12 nominations

Xbox: 12 nominations

Most nominated games:
Astro Robot: 7 nominations

Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth: 7 nominations

Refantazio: 6 nominations

As previously reported, TGA recently revised its rules, announcing that DLC, expansion packs, remakes and remasters are also eligible for the Game of the Year Award (GOTY).

TGA has officially announced that this year's awards ceremony will be held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on December 12 (IT Home Note: 8:30 am on December 13, Beijing time), and the entire process will be live-streamed.

TGA official website is now open for online voting, and everyone can choose the best game of 2024 in your mind. Bilibili has also opened the relevant official voting:

TGA official website voting: https://www.thegameawards.com/nominees

Bilibili voting: https://www.bilibili.com/blackboard/era/TGA2024.html

Gezixuan reported on November 9 that game media IGN released a blog post yesterday (November 8), reporting that in the second quarter of Sony's 2024 fiscal year (IT Home Note: corresponding to the third quarter of July to September this year), the revenue of the game and network services (G&NS) division, including PlayStation, was 1,071.5 billion yen (IT Home Note: currently about 50.448 billion yuan), a year-on-year increase of 12%.

Sony's game and network services division profit increased to 138.8 billion yen (currently about 6.535 billion yuan), a year-on-year increase of 184%, and these outstanding results led Sony to raise the fiscal year forecast for the game business.

Sony said the division's growth was largely due to third-party game sales, with explicit references to "new sports-themed games" (presumably EA Sports FC 25) and "action RPGs from China" (presumably Black Myth: Wukong).

Black Myth: Wukong is an action role-playing game (ARPG) set in Chinese mythology, developed by Hangzhou Youke Interactive Technology Co., Ltd. and released on August 20, 2024.

The game's storyline is based on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, in which players take on the role of a "Destiny Man" and embark on a journey to explore the legends of the past, facing various dangers and challenges.

The game sold a staggering 18 million copies on PC and PS5 in just two weeks after launch, reporting more than $700 million in revenue in the process.

October 31 that the "Navigator's Journey" 2024 High-quality Overseas Forum for Chinese Enterprises was held at Zhongguancun International Innovation Center on October 30. Wu Dan, CEO of Hero Games, the first investor and co-producer of "Black Myth: Wukong", was interviewed.

When asked how long it took to make the decision to invest in "Black Myth: Wukong", Wu Dan said: "At that time, the team talked with us about making "Black Myth: Wukong", maybe only two or three minutes of chatting, and they had already decided to give you another 100 million to do this, and the rest of the time was talking about how to do it, which was a quick decision. ”
Wu Dan also revealed that he met this team as early as 2018, and first invested in the company (Game Science), and Game Science made 2 unsuccessful products in a row (IT House Note: "Hundred Generals" and "Art of War: Red Tide"), and then the money burned out, so he invested again.
Wu Dan said: "Because I was also in the VC industry, many people in China are impatient to invest and look at the current ROI. But to make game investment, it needs to spiral, it needs to iterate, and often a lot of things can be found in failure. ”

When asked how he would choose if "Black Myth: Wukong" and a certain game in the West were linked, Wu Dan responded that "I won't choose anything". He added, "Journey to the West is all-encompassing, but it is Chinese culture, and it is difficult to compare with anything else in the world."
According to a previous report by IT House, the Xbox version of "Black Myth: Wukong" has successfully passed the Xbox Series S|Grading review for the X platform, and at the same time, the physical version of PS5 is also ready. With sales of more than 20 million copies in its first month, it is a veritable world-class bestseller.