“hey wrap it up.”
Naturally, there are caveats.
I’d expect no more unanimity on the topic of The Game Awards as I would any of those.
“A positive force in the world that can influence billions of people.
We want to sincerely thank you for the trust you extended when nominating us.
Adding to that pain, is the knowledge that our industry is playing a role in this… With the current state of the game industry, silence is a message.
Silence is tacit support.
Silence is dehumanisation of Palestinian lives.”
The result has been nothing short of fury.
If this is going to be our industry’s big award show then we should demand better."
The Last Worker and C-Smash VRS’s outspoken director Jorg Tittel responded: “Fucked up.”
But there’s also, crucially, little reason to believe The Game Awards will change.
opener, and something to do with them being worth more to the economy than film and music combined.
It’s also the same problem that holds some games and, occasionally, developers back themselves.
The mistake, of course, is thinking that those people can ever be won round.
Or that the opinions of those people matter.
On the awards front, I’d wager the alternative must be something entirely constructed by developers.
It wouldn’t be unreasonable to suggest there’ll always be problems with any kind of awards.
Keep doing that, and the rest of the world will start to care on its own.
