{"id":5353,"date":"2022-04-13T10:38:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T08:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/13\/pushing-buttons-how-indie-games-stole-the-limelight-at-uk-gamings-biggest-awards\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T10:38:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T08:38:17","slug":"pushing-buttons-how-indie-games-stole-the-limelight-at-uk-gamings-biggest-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/13\/pushing-buttons-how-indie-games-stole-the-limelight-at-uk-gamings-biggest-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: How indie games stole the limelight at UK gaming\u2019s biggest awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: why a weird year for games saw big wins for games like Unpacking and The Artful Escape at the Bafta Video Game Awards<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I spent the latter half of last week in London for the Bafta Games Awards \u2013 a ceremony whose existence still seems to surprise people, despite the fact that they\u2019ve been running in some form for 18 years. I suppose it doesn\u2019t help that the institution is literally called the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, but video games are a big deal at the UK\u2019s prestigious arts organisation, more so now than ever. (Full disclosure: I\u2019ve been involved on and off with the video game Baftas for years, as a juror or an adviser. It\u2019s never been a paid thing, though I have eaten a shameful number of cocktail sausages during jury deliberations.)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/apr\/12\/pushing-buttons-bafta-video-game-awards\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f4f3814a58fcfd261f756ee0abc4b6af651eb979\/0_117_5597_3360\/master\/5597.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=33e7739fb31577d31f9caa51631997da\" title=\"Pushing Buttons: How indie games stole the limelight at UK gaming\u2019s biggest awards\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: why a weird year for games saw big wins for games like Unpacking and The Artful Escape at the Bafta Video Game Awards<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nWelcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<br \/>\nI spent the latter half of last week in London for the Bafta Games Awards \u2013 a ceremony whose existence still seems to surprise people, despite the fact that they\u2019ve been running in some form for 18 years. I suppose it doesn\u2019t help that the institution is literally called the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, but video games are a big deal at the UK\u2019s prestigious arts organisation, more so now than ever. (Full disclosure: I\u2019ve been involved on and off with the video game Baftas for years, as a juror or an adviser. It\u2019s never been a paid thing, though I have eaten a shameful number of cocktail sausages during jury deliberations.) Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: why a weird year for games saw big wins for games like Unpacking and The Artful Escape at the Bafta Video Game Awards Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/13\/pushing-buttons-how-indie-games-stole-the-limelight-at-uk-gamings-biggest-awards\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Buttons: How indie games stole the limelight at UK gaming\u2019s biggest awards<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}