Baldur’s Gate 3 wins Hugo Award

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Baldur's Gate 3 has won Best Game or Interactive Work at the Hugo Awards.

It is only the second video game in history to achieve this feat, the first being Hades when the award was introduced in 2021 as a temporary category.

The World Science Fiction Convention, which presents the awards, voted last year to make it permanent, PC Gamer reported.

Baldur's Gate 3 competed against other nominees including Alan Wake 2, Dredge, Chants of Sennaar, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

The winners were announced at Worldcon on Sunday (11 August), held in Glasgow.

“I'm so grateful to have created this award and this category,” Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke said during his acceptance speech. “Video game writing is often underrated. It's very, very, very hard work.”

“For Baldur's Gate 3, we had to create over 174 hours of cinematics just to be able to represent the players' choices and ensure that each and every player had an emotional story that reflected their choices and their agency.”

Vicke continued: “It takes a lot of time, it takes a very big team (…) It takes a lot of perseverance and a lot of talent. So I'm very happy for all of them and for the whole team at home for being able to achieve this, and very grateful to the fans.”

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