Video recreation “Astro Bot” — a family-friendly sci-fi journey — was named 2024’s Game of the Year on the annual awards thought-about the Oscars of the digital leisure business.
The platform recreation that includes the adventures of a small area robotic was additionally awarded “best family game”, “best game direction” and “best action/adventure game” at The Game Awards 2024 in Los Angeles.
It has offered greater than 1.5 million copies in keeping with Sony, which owns the 65-person Japanese studio Team Asobi liable for the mega-hit.
Onstage on the Peacock Theater, Team Asobi’s French chief Nicolas Doucet praised the studio for designing a recreation that “put the user first”.
“It was just about the kids,” he mentioned. “Especially because we had this huge, huge privilege to be potentially the first game to be in the hands of children.”
As video video games have exploded into the mainstream, The Game Awards have emerged because the business’s most prestigious prize for builders.
Last 12 months’s ceremony garnered 118 million world livestreams, in keeping with organisers. By comparability the film business’s 2023 Academy Awards pulled in fewer than 19 million viewers, in keeping with US media.
Medieval fantasy saga “Metaphor: ReFantazio” was one other main winner on Thursday, taking the titles of “best role-playing game” and “best narrative”.
The recreation was additionally produced by a Japanese studio — Atlus — and revealed by gaming large Sega.
Poker recreation “Balatro” received “best mobile game” and “best independent game”.
For their eleventh version, The Game Awards invited celebrities together with actor Harrison Ford and rapper Snoop Dogg, who carried out a tune from his new album “Missionary”.
The ceremony additionally introduced new video games, together with “Intergalactic” by Naughty Dog studio, the builders behind “The Last of Us”.
Hazelight Studios founder Josef Fares — whose earlier title “It Takes Two” received the best award in 2021 and offered greater than 20 million copies — introduced a brand new sci-fi and fantasy recreation “Split Fiction”.
Ceremony host Geoff Keighley additionally acknowledged the “sad reality” of widespread layoffs plaguing the business.
“Over the last three years we’ve lost more than 34,000 jobs,” he mentioned. “This has consequences. You can’t make great games without great people.”
© 2024 AFP