{"id":58957,"date":"2024-11-24T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-biggest-surprises-from-the-game-awards-nominees-and-more-of-the-weeks-top-takes\/"},"modified":"2024-11-24T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T15:00:00","slug":"the-biggest-surprises-from-the-game-awards-nominees-and-more-of-the-weeks-top-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-biggest-surprises-from-the-game-awards-nominees-and-more-of-the-weeks-top-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Surprises From The Game Awards Nominees And More Of The Week&#8217;s Top Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>This week, perhaps nothing sparked more discussion than the announcement of the 2024 Game Awards nominees. We weighed in ourselves with a breakdown of the seven biggest surprises in what got nominated, and what didn\u2019t. Also this week, both Sony and Microsoft announced new forays into game streaming, and we took a look\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/game-award-nominees-2024-stalker-2-review-1851706233\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; kotaku.com<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, perhaps nothing sparked more discussion than the announcement of the 2024 Game Awards nominees. We weighed in ourselves with a breakdown of the seven biggest surprises in what got nominated, and what didn\u2019t. Also this week, both Sony and Microsoft announced new forays into game streaming, and we took a look\u2026 Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58958,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[686,1961,405],"class_list":["post-58957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pc","category-reviews","tag-nothing","tag-perhaps","tag-week"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Biggest Surprises From The Game Awards Nominees And More Of The Week&#039;s Top Takes | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View The Biggest Surprises From The Game Awards Nominees And More Of The Week&#039;s Top Takes for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. 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