Best Remake, Best Supporting Actor Were Discussed as New Categories for The Game Awards

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During a recent live Q&A on Twitch, producer and host of The Game Awards revealed quite a few details about this year’s show, including its potential length, as well as the fact that it will have increased security. Keighly also spoke about other things about the show, including the fact that discussions were had about new categories being added to The Game Awards.

When asked if there were plans to add more award categories, Keighly stated that some of the potential ideas for new categories that were discussed include Best DLC and Best Remake or Remaster. However, especially in the case of the latter, Keighly believes that the lack of a steady number of high quality remakes coming out would be a detriment to the category.

“Nothing new this year,” said Keighly, as caught by VGC. “I’ve seen people online saying ‘why don’t you have a Best DLC category’, which is kind of like the Ongoing Game category.”

“Typically that’s been live service games but this year Cyberpunk 2077 is nominated, and when people ask why it’s nominated – well, because they improved the base game in a big way with version 2.0 and Phantom Liberty. So that’s sort of in that category.”

For context, the Best Ongoing Game category has historically been taken up by live-service games like Destiny 2 or The Division, as well as by long-running MMORPGs like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14. This year, however, marks a big difference thanks to the fact that single-player title Cyberpunk 2077 is also one of the nominees in the category.

“The other thing people always ask is why don’t we have a Best Remake or Remaster category. We’ve talked about it. I think the question is, are there five amazing remakes every year?

“Some years there are – there were some