Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 News

The nominees for Game of the Year have been revealed, and they're not exactly what I expected. Clair Obscur Expedition 33 was always a shoe-in, given how widely praised Sandfall's debut RPG has been by both media and players alike-it's already on our list of the best RPGs, which is just as prestigious as The Game Awards. But alongside it, there's a surprising inclusion and some conspicuous absences.

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Знаменитый американский композитор Остин Уинтори, известный по созданию музыки к десяткам фильмов и игр, поддержал разработчиков Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, которые остались без номинации на "Грэмми" 2026 года в категории "Лучший саундтрек для видеоигры". Ситуация вызвала большое разочарование в игровом сообществе.

С 2023 года игровые композиторы могут претендовать на престижную музыкальную премию "Грэмми", но номинанты и критерии отбора кандидатов вызывают у игровой общественности много вопросов.

Predicting Clair Obscur Expedition 33 to win Game of the Year at The Game Awards next month is one of the surest bets you can make. A bad word was barely uttered about it by the critics, but it's also shifted millions of copies to become beloved by gamers everywhere. However, for one of the biggest livestreamers on the planet, former Counter-Strike pro Michael 'Shroud' Grzesiek, Arc Raiders should scoop the award. In fact, he's so impassioned by this belief (and addicted to Embark Studios' new extraction shooter) he has called on fans of multiplayer games everywhere to "band together" when The Game Awards public voting commences, so that Arc Raiders beats Expedition 33 to the top prize of the year.

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