Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection Deserves To Be Honoured At The Game Awards

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The Game Awards are around the corner, and you know what that means: spending roughly eight minutes giving out awards and three hours showing off trailers for games that won’t come out for at least two years. If there’s one thing I love seeing while honoring the greats in this industry, it’s a trailer for a mobile spin-off of another mobile game whose entire inspiration is Game of Thrones.

That said, The Game Awards does dedicate a sliver of time to honoring creators in the gaming industry. And the categories make sense. Game of the Year? Obviously. Best Narrative? You got it. Best esports team? Let’s give it to the one with the fewest players to use a racial slur in a match.

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All normal categories. But there is one that I wish they’d add: Best Remaster or Remake. And the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Cowabunga Collection deserves to win it. As well as Game of the Year. As well as Best Esports team. As far as I can tell, zero racial slurs in the collection.

Let me back up. The Tonys have two awards for Best Revival. One for musicals, one for plays that are supposed to be good for you but just turn out to be about rich people’s trauma. In theatre, this makes sense. Plays of both the musical and homework variety are usually meant to be produced more than once. Those who excel in these revivals should be rewarded, whether because they brought back an old, lost energy, or found a new, annoying one.

Game companies that do the same should also be rewarded. And those that don’t must be punished. Not really. But it’d be fun.

I know, I know, video game remakes and remasters are often unpopular. They changed the texture on a building in The Last of Us and now you