{"id":12625,"date":"2023-12-13T15:37:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T14:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/13\/pushing-buttons-the-best-trailers-from-the-game-awards-from-blade-to-a-sega-nostalgia-binge\/"},"modified":"2023-12-13T15:37:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T14:37:56","slug":"pushing-buttons-the-best-trailers-from-the-game-awards-from-blade-to-a-sega-nostalgia-binge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/13\/pushing-buttons-the-best-trailers-from-the-game-awards-from-blade-to-a-sega-nostalgia-binge\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: The best trailers from the Game Awards, from Blade to a Sega nostalgia binge"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week’s newsletter: While the \u2018gaming Oscars\u2019 are more like a three-hour long ad show these days, here\u2019s the best of what was announced<\/p>\n

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The gaming year used to follow a predictable rhythm: we\u2019d have a flurry of announcements in the summer, around the gaming trade event E3, then a rush of releases between September and the end of November \u2013 and then absolutely nothing would happen until March at the earliest. But now E3 is gone for good<\/a>, and the Game Awards \u2013 the industry\u2019s most glamorous and also most intensely commercial<\/a> awards show \u2013 takes place in early December, so we suddenly have an eye-watering number of new trailers and debuts right as we\u2019re all preparing to hibernate.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t watch this year\u2019s show live (it started at 12.30am UK time last Saturday morning and was over three hours long) and I\u2019m betting that most of you didn\u2019t watch it either, so here are the headlines: Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 won nearly everything<\/a>; as ever the awards felt like something that had to be squeezed in around<\/em> all the trailers; there was not very much time given to developers<\/a> to speak, which rankled; The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom<\/a> and Spider-Man 2<\/a> were snubbed in several categories (Zelda won best action adventure game, Spider-Man won nothing).<\/p>\n

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\nIn this week’s newsletter: While the \u2018gaming Oscars\u2019 are more like a three-hour long ad show these days, here\u2019s the best of what was announced
\n\u2022 Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here
\nThe gaming year used to follow a predictable rhythm: we\u2019d have a flurry of announcements in the summer, around the gaming trade event E3, then a rush of releases between September and the end of November \u2013 and then absolutely nothing would happen until March at the earliest. But now E3 is gone for good, and the Game Awards \u2013 the industry\u2019s most glamorous and also most intensely commercial awards show \u2013 takes place in early December, so we suddenly have an eye-watering number of new trailers and debuts right as we\u2019re all preparing to hibernate.
\nI didn\u2019t watch this year\u2019s show live (it started at 12.30am UK time last Saturday morning and was over three hours long) and I\u2019m betting that most of you didn\u2019t watch it either, so here are the headlines: Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 won nearly everything; as ever the awards felt like something that had to be squeezed in around all the trailers; there was not very much time given to developers to speak, which rankled; The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Spider-Man 2 were snubbed in several categories (Zelda won best action adventure game, Spider-Man won nothing). Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this week’s newsletter: While the \u2018gaming Oscars\u2019 are more like a three-hour long ad show these days, here\u2019s the best of what was announced \u2022 Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The gaming year used to follow a predictable rhythm: we\u2019d have a flurry of announcements in the summer, …<\/p>\n

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