Arcane becomes the first gaming show to win an Emmy
pcgamer.comLeague of Legends spinoff Arcane(opens in new tab) was a commercial hit for Netflix and Riot Games, topping charts worldwide, and has now put the cherry on the cake by becoming the first streaming show and the first based on a videogame to scoop a bunch of Emmys.
The big award was for Outstanding Animated Program, and given out at the Emmys' Creative Arts ceremony, and Arcane won over a shortlist that featured Bob's Burgers, Rick and Morty, The Simpsons and Marvel's What If…?
The show's co-creator Christian Linke picked up the award on behalf of the creative team.
«Thank you for this,» said Linke per Deadline(opens in new tab). «It's a big deal for us as we come from video games. It's been amazing to see the world embrace our characters and our stories so thanks to Netflix who believed in us from the beginning, thanks to Riot Games, who worked on the whole IP… and to all the people that have been with our game and League of Legends for the last 12 years or so who helped make it as big as it is now.»
The Emmy joins three three Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation Emmys, which earlier this year were given to individual episodes ('The Boy Savior', 'Happy Progress Day' and 'When These Walls Come Tumbling Down').
The Arcane account later tweeted out a nice pic of the creatives picking up the gong, and don't they look pleased about it:
Honored doesn’t even begin to describe how we feel about winning the #Emmy for
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