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Let’s Hear It for the Geeks: Video Game Awards Season

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I probably should be keeping up on this better, but then I don’t really care about awards when it comes to games. Sure, they may be a good indicator as to whether that game will be at least kinda fun/pretty/interesting to play, but they are hardly the only way to judge games.

That said, video game award season is coming to a close (or should be), and I thought I’d share some recent results and thoughts on that.

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The Game Developer Choice Awards decided to give the “game of the year” to Fallout 3. Just throw it on the pile of all the other game of the year awards bestowed in the post-apocalyptic RPG. As far as awards/recognitions go for this last year’s crop of games, if Fallout 3 didn’t straight up take home the overall game of the year title, it surely grabbed the best RPG game of the year. Fallout 3 also got the best writing award at the GDCA.

LittleBigPlanet took home four awards (Best Debut, Technology, and Game Design, also one for Innovation). I wonder what the award ceremony is like. I imagine it’s set up like the Golden Globes, in a hotel banquet room with round tables and a bunch of socially inept virgins asking the server for virgin pina coladas. Ouch. I am so mean. I am kidding, of course. If it were not for those geeks, I wouldn’t have all the lovely games I play way too much rather than getting exercise in the real world or enriching my life in any meaningful and productive way.

chuck_e_bandMeanwhile, the Game Audio Network Guild, or GANG…seriously, it’s like everyone is making up groups just to give out awards. Anyhoo, the GANG held its award ceremony at a Chuck-E-Cheese in San Francisco last week. Parents were notified when the award show ran past everyone’s 9pm bedtime.

I really cannot stop myself…

[Deep breath] The GANG awards are a bit more aurally-focused, giving out recognition for sound design, editing, you know the kind of awards that the Oscars save for a separate function so as to not bore the big stars with all kinds of technical mumbo-jumbo.

Dead Space won both the Audio Design of the Year and the Sound Design of the Year awards. Side note: Dead Space also won the best sound design award from the aforementioned Choice Awards. Wataru Hokoyama, the composer behind Afrika (upcoming National Geographic: Africa) received the awards for Music of the Year and Rookie of the Year. You can click here to read the full awards list, if you really care.

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Posted in Editorial, General on March 31st, 2009

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