GTA 6 has been nominated for an award in The Game Awards 2026. The Game Awards is the most popular ceremony that celebrates games in the past 12 months. This event also reveals new games, trailers, updates and more.
On Monday, The Game Awards held a livestream revealing the nominees across more than 30 categories. GTA VI was nominated in one category: “Most Anticipated Game”. This is the second year in a row Grand Theft Auto VI has been nominated for Most Anticipated Game. The other games nominated are 007: First Light, Wolverine, Resident Evil Requiem and The Witcher IV.
It won it last year as you’d expect so it could go back to back. After all, based on numbers, it is the most anticipated game of all time. The game also won Most Anticipated Game at the Golden Joystick Awards last year.
Over thirty categories are part of this year’s awards show which takes place on December 11th. Fans have until December 10th to vote which can be done here. Both the fan vote and a jury vote are combined to find the winner.
The jury is made up of over a hundred ” jury of over 100 leading media and influencer outlets“. These include websites such as Game Informer, IGN, Variety, Wired, Eurogamer and more spanning countries worldwide.
In previous years, GTA Online was nominated for the Player’s Voice award. Plus, GTA V won Game of the Year and Best Soundtrack in 2013 during the previous iteration of The Game Awards.
The Game Awards will be live on the official YouTube and Twitch channels from 4:30pm PT, 7:30pm ET, and Dec 11th 12:30am GMT.
Rockstar Games’ Involvement In The Game Awards
The Game Awards has an advisory board of various members who “help guide and advance the mission of the game awards”. They are not part of the nomination or voting process however.
Most members of this panel are individual people such as Hideo Kojima (Game Designer) and Phil Spencer (Microsoft Gaming CEO). However, Rockstar Games as an entity are on this advisory board along with Valve, Sony, and Epic Games.
Some people have used this as fuel for their pure speculation in the past for GTA 6’s trailer being revealed on The Game Awards live stream. Rockstar Games have been on the advisory board and its webpage for several years now. It has nothing to do with GTA 6.
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