Grammy Nominees For Best Video Game Soundtrack Reveal Another Popularity Vote

The 2025 iteration of the Grammy Awards is fast approaching, and once again, the nominees for ‘Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media’ have been revealed. Put simply, it’s the award that crowns the best soundtrack from a video game that has emerged in recent months, but the line-up is slim and PlayStation has dominated this time around.

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Games Nominated for a Grammy

Ubisoft and PlayStation are dominating the nominee roster this year for the ‘Best Video Game Soundtrack’ category at the Grammy Awards:

• Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
• God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
• Star Wars Outlaws
• Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

Bear McCreary (God of War) is a regular nominee at this point—he’s had his name thrown into the pot during every Grammy Awards ceremony where this category has existed. The category was only opened up in 2023, and previously, it was won by Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla in 2023 and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor in 2024.

Could Ubisoft go for the triple header and win again this time with Star Wars Outlaws or Avatar?

Unfortunately, fans have had issues with this category at the Grammy Awards since it debuted in 2023. Back then, the likes of Call of Duty made it into the running, which rankled with gamers worldwide. It seemed then – and it still seems now – that indie titles with better soundtracks are being snubbed for the big, mainstream names.

It reached a point where one of the voting board members took to social media to explain how things work behind the scenes. He explained that low participation led to few nominations and that the vast majority of the voters on the board were film composers who rarely – if ever – interacted with the video game world.

This year, the only game that isn’t one of the ‘bigger hitters’ is a remake of a game that was released in 1980, which feels almost shoehorned in to hit a diversity requirement.

Do you want to see more diversity in this category at the Grammy Awards? Let us know in the comments.

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