GDC may have been pushed out of sight, but the 2020 Independent Games Festival awards still took place last night as originally scheduled, albeit without a physical stage and audience. Instead, the IGF winners were publicly revealed in a pr...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has presented its full list of nominees for the 2020 BAFTA Games Awards, which will take place in London in April.In a huge list of categories - which includes gongs for Narrative, Ani...

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences puts on its annual D.I.C.E. Awards show every year as part of the summit it hosts in Las Vegas. The show has recognized some of the very best games of all time, with past winners including ...

What a year 2019 was! It's been a while since I've seen so many diverse entries come up as real contenders for game of the year. From an Estonian police RPG, to a game about a mischievous goose, if you couldn't find something to love in 201...

Just like The Game Awards a month ago, Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding will have the most chances to stack precious cargo on its back at the GDC Awards in March. At The Game Awards, it took home three of the nine awards it was nominated...

The next time you're looking to branch out beyond your typical week-to-week video game backlog, consider poring over the finalists for the 2020 Independent Games Festival. The list is brimming with wonderful indie games – some you'll ...

And that's a wrap for the Steam Awards 2019. Over the past month, Steam users have nominated their favorite games of 2019 across eight different categories, from the classic Game of the Year award to more (potentially) surprising awards mea...

All heaven, no hell. That's one vague way to describe Devil May Cry 5. There are so many more possible descriptions, each one ratcheting up the peculiarity and ridiculousness in step with the level of detail given. But pulling all the way b...

A new campaign, backed by some of the biggest publishers in the industry, is encouraging UK video game fans to get out to the polls this week for the General Election, and is offering prizes for some lucky voters who do so.The "Gamechangers...

Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia held its annual PlayStation Awards ceremony, celebrating the highest-selling titles of the year, (regardless of their year of release), across the Japanese and Asian markets.As per usual, Platinum a...

What's the best video game of 2019 that you suck at? I bet you have an answer ready to go. That's one of the questions at the center of the Steam Awards, an annual community-centric ceremony meant to highlight the best and brightest PC game...

Shigeru Miyamoto, renown for his tireless work on many iconic Nintendo franchises, has been chosen for Japan's Order of Culture, which is awarded every November to a selection of individuals recognised for their contributions to art, litera...

Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia has announced the date for its annual PlayStation Awards, which are set to take place on December 3 in New Takanawa, Tokyo.The PlayStation Awards offer gongs to titles specifically based on sales to...

The Writers Guild of America has been handing out awards to video games at its annual awards show since 2008, but starting with the 2020 ceremony, that category will be no more. Speaking to Gamasutra, the WGA said: "[the awards will] be rei...

During an award ceremony at the Tokyo Game Show yesterday, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai remembered departed friend and co-worker Satoru Iwata. During the same speech, the Smash Bros. producer also reaffirmed that fan...

[We're declaring a winner tomorrow, so if you want to write in Just Dance 2020, now's your chance!] Games journalists think they know everything. What do they know of the plight of the working-class gamer? Nothing, I say! They don't know wh...

Now that E3 2019 is fully in the rear-view mirror and we've had time to rest up and reflect on what we saw at the show, it's come to this: naming a winner. Destructoid's E3 crew settled on a list of a dozen very different video games. Some ...

Friends, I return from the City of Angels with good news: There are some ballin' fucking video games on the horizon. Thank you for your continued support of this superb critical analysis. This generation of consoles is nearly ready to ride...

In news that isn't particularly surprising, Sony's God of War has joined the list of PS4 exclusive mega-sellers, having just passed the 10 million sales milestone. This puts the fantasy adventure up there with previous big-hitters The Last ...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced that they will present developer Epic Games with a BAFTA Special Award at this year's E3 conference, which takes place in Los Angeles next month. The BAFTA will be accepted by Ep...

GLAAD, one of the most prominent organizations for LGBTQ persons in the world, has hosted its annual GLAAD Media Awards since 1990. It was started to recognize the efforts made by LGBTQ people in various forms of media, including film, tele...

Rieko Kodama is widely considered as the first lady of RPGs. Having worked with Sega for nearly 40 years now, Kodama has helped bring to life such series as Phantasy Star, Alex Kidd, and Skies of Arcadia. To say her work is classic is under...

The Bowsette phenomenon kicked off less than half a year ago, but it feels like it's always been with us. It all started when one cartoonist postured what would happen if Bowser donned New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe' Super Crown item. One s...

If you thought we were done awarding games that came out in 2018, you've got another thing coming as the Game Developers Choice Awards nominees were announced today. Similar to the Oscars and various guild award ceremonies in the movie indu...

In a few days, the hellish anal fissure that is 2018 will be over and the almost guaranteed shit-stained nightmare that is 2019 will begin. For gaming, 2019 is exploding right out of the gate as some of the most anticipated games of this ge...