In trying to come up with the lede for this year's nominations for Best Mobile Game, I looked to the past and what was written in years prior. A lot of great games have been up for this award before, and while the exact set-up for each...

When it came time to start going through the nomination process for the Destructoid Game of the Year awards, I honestly wasn't sure if we were going to have a Best Portable category. Both the 3DS and Vita have had good runs, the latter of t...

At last night's Game Awards, the giant-slaying Monster Hunter: World deservedly earned the Best Role-Playing Game award, which was collected by the producer of the Capcom juggernaut title, Ryozo Tsujimoto.Tsujimoto also took time to make no...

This was supposed to be an awards show, right? Maybe "The Game Awards" is the wrong name for what I just watched. Perhaps "Non-Platform Specific December E3 Keynote-Like Show" would be more apt given that a trailer for a monkey game got mor...

We are right on the cusp of award season as the end of this long, long, long year approaches. Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia are already way ahead of everybody, however, and have dished out their awards for some of the biggest se...

Last week saw the 2018 Golden Joystick awards take place at London's Bloomsbury Big Top, with various industry critics, developers and publishers on hand to see some of the year's best and brightest walk away with the gong in numerous categ...

I doubt anyone is going to complain about the nominee list for The Game Awards' "Game of the Year" category this year. In a year packed with almost non-stop hit games, almost any month could have given us a game worthy of that coveted crown...

We're approaching the end of the year, but gaming news isn't slowing down yet. Nintendo continues to hold regularly scheduled Direct presentations. We just had a particularly eventful BlizzCon showing last week. There's no PlayStation Exper...

Although Sony Interactive Entertainment took the opportunity last week to announce that they would be skipping the PlayStation Experience this year, they have also just announced a date for the annual PlayStation Awards 2018.The event will ...

In February next year, for the very first time, the GLAAD Media Awards will include an award for a video game that features "outstanding LGBTQ-inclusive content".To qualify for nomination, candidates for The Outstanding Video Game Award mus...

Subscription services have been growing in customer reach and quality over the past five years, with the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime bringing great content as well as HBO offering their programming as a standalone service. These shift...

It’s the moment all of Toronto (well, Film Twitter at least) has been waiting for: Toronto International Film Festival has announced its winners. The festival, which ran between 5-15 September, has seen the world premieres of the la...

Annnapurna Interactive revealed last week that their walkabout story Gone Home would be seeing a Nintendo Switch port today. The studio has since put out word that it will now be knocking on The Big N's door in September instead.Gone Home, ...

Fullbright's critically-acclaimed but polarising narrative adventure Gone Home is set to turn heads once again next week, as the indie title arrives on the Nintendo Switch, some five years after its initial release.Launching in 2013 on PC, ...

Another E3 has come and gone, and another E3 has denied us Blasto 2. Get on this, Sony! The Dtoid staff made the decision to award Cyberpunk 2077 its Game of Show Award despite gameplay being shown only to members of the press behind closed...

E3 2018 has been over a week now and that has given us ample time to recuperate, organize our thoughts, and reflect. We saw a lot of great games at the biggest video game convention of the year. We named 10 of those as nominees for Destruct...

After a literal two-month buildup to E3, the Show of Shows is finally in our rearview mirror. Was it good? I'm still not sure. But, if we zoom out a bit to years past, how often is E3 an unquestionable rousing success? Our expectations ofte...

Early this year as game-of-the-year lists were still coming out, CJ spoke about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's potential victory lap come March 2018. The open-world adventure game was showing up all over the place, and it had jus...

The South by Southwest festivals and conferences have been going down this past week, once again in Austin, Texas, which includes this year's SXSW Gaming Awards, co-hosted by IGN's Alanah Pearce and Blizzard’s Richard Campbell. The hi...

The British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) have listed their nominations for their 2018 Video Game Awards. The ceremony will take place in London next month, at an event hosted by comedian and video game fan Dara O'Brien.A lo...

Last week saw The Emotional Games Awards 2018 take place in Laval, France. It was the second year for the ceremony, which exists to "reward and promote games which bring on the most complex emotions in the players".The jury consisted of sev...

Look, I know a lot of big things happened at the Oscars last night, but if you're a big film buff the biggest moment was Roger "I'm never going to win an Oscar" Deakins finally, finally, finally laying his hands on that little golden statue...

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild took home four more awards last night during the 21st annual D.I.C.E. Awards. Nintendo's open-air adventure was the big winner overall, claiming the coveted Game of the Year title along with Outstandi...

In the race for those all important Oscars, the guilds are where avid followers of the awards circuit look to as all-important indicators. The Shape of Water took home the gold in both the Producers Guild and Directors Guild Award...

[Ed. Note: We do awards a bit different at Flixist. Most of our writers do not get early screenings or award screeners of movies, which means it isn't easy to see some of the films that only get limited releases in December for many of us. ...