It’s that time of the year where all of the biggest stars in gaming gather to celebrate this medium we all love, The Inputies™!
Also, we are ending the show! Surprise!
We have done this show for two years. Have done over 100 episodes, and have all learned a lot in the process. It wasn’t always pretty and I, Jurge Cruz, would bet at least 15% of the episodes we somehow figured out to record on a weekly basis, are bad. Still, there were also some guaranteed bangers.
It’s fitting in tradition with this show that I’m writing up this post while I need to go run out and do something else because boy howdy this show sure was an improv comedy at times.
Anyway, thank you to anyone who has listened to this show, bought a shirt, tweeted us something nice, and maybe even came on it. This certainly was a wild learning experience and I’m proud of some of the content we put up on this podcast feed.
Sincerely. Thank you. 🙏
Anyway, the awards!!
The Big Mood Award: This Award highlights the biggest theme through the news this year.
- Game Devs calling out toxic behavior, in indie circles and AAA
- Epic Games Store – Runner Up
- Doing biz with china being a thing we have to reckon with – Winner
- Mixer making moves and making contracts
- Next gen is coming, baby
- The Streaming Future TM
Winners:
- Doing biz with china being a thing we have to reckon with – Winner
- Game devs calling out toxic behavior, in indie circles and AAA – Runner Up
- Epic Games Store – Runner Up
The “Please Stop” Award: Winner of this award was among the most obnoxious pests of the cycle this year. They are doing too much and it’s almost certainly bad.
- Ian Bogost
- Randy Pitchford
- Activision Blizzard
- People being unreasonably upset about Epic Games Store exclusives
Winners:
- People being unreasonably upset about Epic Games Store exclusives – Winner
- Activision Blizzard – Runner Up
- Randy Pitchford – Runner Up
Biggest “L” Award: Winner of this award lost big this year, or at the very least, lost very publicly.
- Bobby Kotick
- BioWare
- Anyone in the ESA database
- Gamestop
- THQ Nordic’s Social Media/Community manager
- Ninja
- Google Stadia
- Phil Harrison
- Donald Trump amiright folks, gottem
- Red Candle Games
- Riot Games
- Women and People of Color in Mordhau
Winners:
- Gamestop – Winner
- Anyone in the ESA Database – Runner Up
- Red Candle Games – Runner Up
Biggest Winner Award: The opposite of taking an L is winning. Recipients here succeeded, whether they thought they would or not.
- Bobby Kotick
- Microsoft
- Tim Schafer and Double Fine
- Jim Ryan
- Respawn
- Ninja
- Riot Games
- Insomniac
- Remedy
Winners:
- Microsoft – Winner
- Tim Schafer and Double Fine – Runner Up
- Jim Ryan – Runner Up
The Closed Video Game Studio / Layoff Memorial Service
- Gameloft UK
- Kindly Beast Studio
- PlayStation EU (layoffs)
- Game Informer (layoffs)
- Defiant Development (Hand of Fate)
- HQ (remember HQ?) (layoffs)
- Amazon Studios (layoffs)
- Starbreeze (layoffs)
- EA (layoffs)
- Discord (layoffs)
- Activision/Blizzard (Layoffs)
The “Excuse Me!?!?!” Award: Winners of this award are the strangest, wildest, most surprising, or most ridiculous story of the year.
- Reggie Retires
- Blizzard and China
- Bungie buys it’s freedom
- Shout out to Mark
- Randy Pitchford’s endless tweets to Andy McNamara of Game Informer “I can’t belive you would fuck me on this”
- Shawn Layden is retired by PlayStation via a Tweet
- No ceremony next gen reveals
- Death Stranding is coming out this year?
- “Surprise mechanics”
Winners:
- Randy Pitchford’s endless tweets to Andy McNamara of Game Informer “I can’t belive you would fuck me on this” – Winner
- Shawn Layden is retired by PlayStation via a Tweet – Runner Up
- Shout out to Mark – Runner Up
Guest of the Year Award: Winner of this award gets a cash prize of $0, but also our love and respect.
Khee Hoon Chan
Blake Hester
Rebekah Valentine – Winner
Belinda Garcia
Biggest Story: The winner of this category is the single biggest news of the year.
- Game Informer layoffs
- ESA leaking private information from media
- Riot settles discrimination lawsuit
- Blitzchung’s “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our age!” and the aftermath of it
- Activison/Bungie Break Up
- Google Stadia is announced with a bang and released with a whimper
- Xbox Series X Reveal
- How BioWare’s Anthem Went Wrong – by Jason Schreier
- The passing of Night in the Woods co-creator Alec Holowka, the lead up and the actual event
- PlayStation, Nintendo, Xbox, And Major Publishers To Require Loot Boxes Disclosures
- PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox sign a letter to maybe not continue a trade war
Winners:
- Blitzchung’s “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our age!” and the aftermath of it – Winner; The Biggest Story of 2019
- Riot settles discrimination lawsuit – Runner Up
- How BioWare’s Anthem Went Wrong – by Jason Schreier – Runner Up
That’s all folks.
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