Tencent has been awarded the Gamescom 2024 Sustainability Award. Tencent Americas President Brent Irvin accepted the Playing for the Planet award at Gamescom Opening Night Live. The award recognises organisations that demonstrate public commitments to sustainable values, as well as sharing their approaches to carbon accounting and emissions reduction. The Playing for the Planet judging … Read more
Gamescom has cancelled its Best Nintendo Game award due to a lack of nominees. The Gamescom awards committee confirmed it had received “very few proposals” for the awards category to go ahead this year. This is the first time since the Gamescom awards were split into platform-specific categories in 2011 that there won't be a … Read more
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 … Read more