The Game Awards 2023 Review

Real Time Strategy

The Game Awards 2023 was jam-packed with trailers (Light No Fire!), surprises (Blade!), and celebrities (Jordan Peele!), but did it give enough time to the awards themselves? Kaitlyn Red Wing, Mel Gazazian, and Sam Mosher review this year’s show, discuss how it can better celebrate developers, and share their favorite announcements.

Timecodes:

00:00:00 – Intro

00:04:57 – The Game Awards 2023 Review

00:17:27 – Awards vs. Announcements Time

00:34:34 – TGA 2023 Winners

00:36:39 – Our Favorite Announcements (Starting with Senua's Saga: Hellblade II)

00:45:24 – Mel’s Highlights (Tales of Kenzera: ZAU, Light No Fire)

00:56:03 – Sam’s Highlights (Jurassic Park: Survival, Blade, SEGA Power Surge)

01:23:58 – Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Edition

01:28:43 – Outro

Stories/media discussed:

Senua's Saga: Hellblade II

Tales of Kenzera: ZAU (Polygon story: Assassin’s Creed Origins actor announces new game at The Game Awards)

Light No Fire (The Verge story: Light No Fire is the next ambitious game from the studio behind No Man’s Sky)

Jurassic Park: Survival

Blade

SEGA Power Surge (Washington Post story: Sega is reviving classic games including ‘Crazy Taxi,’ ‘Jet Set Radio’)

OD: A Hideo Kojima Game

Exodus

Harmonium: The Musical

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage

The Casting of Frank Stone

Loose Leaf: A Tea Witch Simulator

Simpler Times (Engadget story: 'Simpler Times' is the coziest game I've played in a long time)

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