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3PM PACIFIC ON NEW YEAR'S EVE: TUNE INTO THE 2025 THE PEOPLE'S THE GAME AWARDS

It's that time of year again, folks! Time to look back on a year of games and hash out in a flurry of blog posts and youtube videos about which ones deserved to get their coveted trophies! We here at the Central Gaming Committee are but a humble group of gamers who could not possibly decide something with such gravitas as "Game of the Year" or "Best Game Soundtrack" or "Should Borderlands 4 get nominated for a single category?" (It didn't).

Our awards will be chosen by YOU! Yes, YOU, the girl reading this. Vote now in the above link for your Game of the Year, and be sure to cast a vote in our other categories as well, such as Best Performance and Best Debut Indie Game! Votes in the other categories are not required, but deeply appreciated. These are THE PEOPLE'S The Game Awards after all, and we want as big a sample size possible. Sadly, no games released after November 1st will be eligible for this year's accolades, but if one does catch your eye and you want us to put it up for next year's awards, let us know!

Voting has closed at 3217 responses! See y'all at the ceremony!

Trophy designed by @terrafey. And here are your nominees for Game of the Year!

but then split fiction says, that's still better than anything rader's machine could ever come up with, and the most generic, cliche stories written by human beings are still worth saving from the maw of ai. because--well, they're written by human beings, with bits of those human lives seeping in.

mio's standard-fare cyberpunk future city with ninjas has a bunch of cars and motorbikes in it because her dad was a mechanic. it has beautiful screens and buildings and graffiti and also a game of hopscotch drawn in chalk on the ground because it comes from a childhood growing up in the city. her video-game-ass invade-the-secret-lab-after-everyone-else-gets-blown-up plot comes from her desire (and inability) to save her father.

zoe's extremely conflict-averse stories (one that's almost literally "saving stray cats in the alps") come from her desire to return to her childhood with her sister, to build gentler, happier endings for someone who didn't get one. the shapeshifting comes from a love of animals. the silly farting pigs come from a kid's imagination (and coping mechanism). and i mean, i don't care how cliche you think it is, dragons are just objectively cool always.