alt Hacker NewsI'm not trying to defend "The Indie Game Awards", which I also have never heard of, but The Game Awards are universally acknowledged to be a joke, and always have been. By runtime, it's 80% soulless, samey trailers for AAA games, 10% Imagine Dragons, 5% rooting for that coked-up clarinet player on the edge of the orchestra, and 5% Jeff Keighley rapid-firing off the winners of made-up award categories in under five seconds each.
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iowemoretohim • yesterday at 6:26 PM
The Game Awards 2025 had more viewers than the Superbowl with a total of 171 million global livestreams vs The Indie Game Awards (7.1k Youtube views and 433 Twitch views).
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Hikikomori • yesterday at 5:53 PM
This years was pretty good on trailer side, barely anything from AAA studios like Activision, ea, etc. They're not winning any awards either.
There was no judgement in his comment.
He just pointed out (correctly) that the game awards that were being spoken of everywhere for the last few weeks were not the one related to this article.
I on the other hand will add a judgement to this discussion: if you consider the game awards a joke, which is the by far most watched event in gaming, eclipsing (by viewer count) other entertainment events in sports such as the NBA finals... You've certainly got "interesting" opinions.