The Game Awards has considered adding Best Remake and Best Supporting Actor awards
The Game Awards host and producer Geoff Keighley says he’s been considering other awards to add to the show, including Best Remake and Best Supporting Actor.
During a recent Twitch Q&A, Keighley was asked if there were any plans for new award categories at The Game Awards.
Keighley replied that while there are no new categories this year, the idea of adding new categories is regularly discussed.
“Nothing new this year,” he said. “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.
“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 amazing ones this year, obviously Resident Evil 4 is nominated for Game of the Year. Dead Space, a bunch of other good ones that came out this year. And the question also then is would those remakes not be eligible for Game of the Year?
“So yeah, nothing new this year category-wise but it’s definitely something that we talk about every year, and try to evaluate the best way to go about that.”
Later in the stream Keighley was then asked if a Best Supporting Actor category is something that could be added to the show, given the increased number of impressive performances made possble by improving capture technology.
Keighley replied that this was another category that’s been discussed, but that its inclusion would
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