#game awards nominees

[miithevaliant]

Game awards nominees are out and no sign of Octopath 2. Never before have I been so mad at an outcome I saw coming from a mile away

[esportschimpnews]

The Game Awards 2022: See the winning games in all categories

The Game Awards 2022: See the winning games in all categories

Credits: Disclosure / Bandai Namco On the night of last Thursday (8), the Game Awards 2022 announced its winners at an award ceremony held in Los Angeles, United States. In great style, the annual ceremony honored the best video games of 2022. Among the winners of the 31 categories of this year’s edition are Christopher Judge – God of War: Ragnarok in the category Best acting performance🇧🇷…

[maroonmused]

“spider-man 2 was robbed” “the game awards are rigged” and only yuri lowenthal was brave enough to raise the discussion of would peter parker and astarion explore each other’s bodies in their respective action adventure/rpg narratives

[zansblue-mj]

Ooooooh idk, Arcane? Sonic the hedgehog 2 the movie? Really good ones 👌

[itskeisy]

[plethoraworldatlas]

GenCon Crit Awards situation

The Crit Awards are a relatively new Awards ceremony focused on Actual Plays. They recently announced that, supposedly due to safety concerns, they will not be hosting their ceremonies at GenCon 2024. This announcement has been met with numerous tabletop gaming personalities to cancel their appearances and trips to GenCon, as well as many others voicing support for the Crit Awards and condemning GenCon. As well as others doing the opposite.

For more information, the Crit Awards released back in mid June that in addition to banning known racists, Homophobes, misogynists, Transphobes, and the like from being eligible for nominations for their awards, they would ban outspoken zionists as well. The initial statement, admittedly, is a bit vague.

This happened supposedly because the staff found out one of the then proposed nominees either was or was once part of a controversial actual play group that was explicitly zionist; Again, no major details were revealed for privacy, though further statements allude to said controversial actual play group supporting illegal settlements in some way.

Supposedly they communicated with the nominee and came to a peaceful resolution where the nomination was removed; Said nominee has not come forward at this time. The ban announcement happened shortly after.

Since the announcement of the ban, both the Crit Awards and GenCon received numerous threats of violence from numerous sources. After phone calls with GenCon representatives on Jun 24th, the Crit Awards would announce they will not be at GenCon 2024. They released a statement revealing these things, as well as condemning "harassment, violence, and terrorism" as well as stating "we take issue with the pro-imperialist, antisemitic rhetoric that conflates Judaism with zionism" and reaffirming their condemnation for the genocide.

The organization did not call for a boycott, but many individuals have announced they will not attend GenCon in solidarity.

While the Crit Awards haven't said much recently, and their statements claim it was a peaceful agreement with GenCon Staff, many individuals connected with the Crit Awards, Including the Host of the awards ceremony, who are not bound by NDAs, have gone public and stated that GenCon forced the Crit Awards to release their statement and were in fact banned and kicked out by GenCon.

It is important to note that GenCon is held in Indianapolis, Indiana. Indiana, since 2016, has TOUGH Anti-BDS laws. Part of that is banning any and all public or state funding for any group that supports any form of boycotting or BDS, as well as banning all funding from groups that support groups that support BDS.

GenCon is a massive moneymaker for Indy, so much so that the extremely conservative state government has in the past canceled planned restrictions on Abortion rights because GenCon announced it would leave Indiana if they passed said bans. The Indianapolis Convention Center is currently undergoing major renovations to nearly double its floor space and connect to both existing and new hotels, and the area is currently building multiple new hotels and other amenities; While there are many events they are making these expansions for, the fact they announced them immediately after last year's GenCon, which was the largest yet as well as heavily criticized for overcrowding and a poor initial response to it, and they were announced mainly in the context of GenCon shows that these major investments are motivated in no small part by GenCon.

However, after the aforementioned event where GenCon protested the state's government and threatened to leave, GenCon has changed tune over the years, soften criticism despite the government being more overtly anti-choice than before, and most crucially, has signed massive partnership extension deals with Indianapolis and Indiana. These contract mean GenCon is planned to stay in Indiana until 2030; These contracts are often renegotiated often, so there are no plans to leave the state soon.

It has been suggested that GenCon was either pushed to kick out the Crit Awards, or did so preemptively to avoid backlash from the state government, which would definitely include threats to the multi-year multi-million deals with the state. While GenCon is still one of the largest annual moneymaking events in Indianapolis, there are many more events scheduled to take place in the Indy Convention Center as part of a wider plan to expand the number of events in Indy. This includes the 100th anniversary meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as the National Eucharistic Conference, the first in nearly half a century.

The point is, things have clearly changed, and GenCon both is no longer inclined to protest the state government and no longer as large a player despite making more money every year due to the sheer amount of other events, meaning the state government now has more power in the relationship and can threaten GenCon with cutting funding as well as outright expulsion from the state.

The Crit awards initial statements were very vague and were understandably criticized, and their later statements go out for their way to emphasize that they are against antisemitism and antisemitic individuals were already banned under the previous rules, and they stress that they want to avoid conflating Judaism with zionism. The massive amounts of threats sent to both the Crit Awards and GenCon are unacceptable, and some have reported that it was coordinated by various online groups after reports of the Crit Awards updated rules were done by newsites.

GenCon is getting criticized for the situation, the Crit Awards are being criticized as well, people have been realizing that GenCon notably puts up less of a fight with the conservative state government which gets them criticized more, and people are both pulling out and some are even planning on attending with pins that support the Crit Awards (as GenCon can be a big financial investment and some simply can't afford to not go after buying badges and/or booths)

GenCon starts in less than a months time, August 1st through the 4th. The Crit Awards will be held virtually.

[purgetrooperfox]

how many final fantasy remakes could there possibly be. I feel like there's new final fantasy every three months. how is this possible

[vamprisms]

baldurs gate is sweeping lol

[sonknuxadow]

good night to be a guy who doesnt watch the game awards unless sonic is there

[theliterarywolf]

Not TotK being nominated for 'Best Score/Best Music' when the only memorable songs are the one that plays when you first land on the Sky Islands and the Colgera boss theme..!

[bunny-heels]

very happy to see a lot of the feedback for the game awards is genuine criticism on how they can improve on time management, topics they should really discuss, and how to respect devs, and seeing it outweigh the people crying like toddlers because they didnt see a trailer for a game that they had no reason to anticipate a trailer for and seeing games rightfully win awards they deserved

[kitc0nn0r]

🤔 dominic sessa or finn wolfhard?

Hmmmm... Dominic

Send two guys and I’ll tell you which I find more attractive

[girl4music]

About to watch The Game Awards 2023.

There’s a couple of titles I’m hoping makes the nominations because this year has been great for gaming and there’s hard decisions to be made.

Of course I’m hoping ‘Spider-Man 2’ and ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ gets nominated. I know the former will, the latter I’m not so sure about because even though it’s a well known title, it’s made by a relatively unknown production company. But that really shouldn’t matter.

[miss-katsune]

in light of recent unfortunate events

[eruscreaminginthedistance]

I would’ve voted in the game awards but the categories didn’t have Pentiment in them so why even bother

[kenpiercemedia]

Presenting The Game Awards Nominees for 2023

As most of our readers know by now, the PiercingMetal site is always trying to up their content game by adding all sorts of different creative avenues. It’s been heavily entrenched in the Pop Culture scene with all the comics, film, television and toy content and since there are some topical awards shows to feature this post is going to pay some attention to one of them. The Game Awards show…