The Game Awards Are Cool, but We Need E3

So, the Recreation Awards introduced their listing of nominees lately. Whereas I’m typically excited for this and Summer time Recreation Fest annually, I can’t assist however really feel prefer it’s attributable to what we misplaced with the tip of E3. 

There are occasions when The Recreation Awards feels hole, much less a celebration of gaming and extra checking a field off. Total, I do consider the gaming {industry} deserves its personal awards ceremony. However ideally, one which evokes the sense of neighborhood that E3 did.

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ARE THE GAME AWARDS FOR US? 

So much was product of Geoff Keighley leaving to start out Summer time Recreation Fest and The Recreation Awards. He had a imaginative and prescient, and he has executed it properly. And he’s not liable for the dying of E3. The Huge 3 all deciding to do their very own digital showcases (and the pandemic) contributed to it as properly.

The issue is, there was nothing like E3. It was the Gamer Tremendous Bowl. Even watching from residence, it was unimaginable. The shows, the protection, seeing individuals work together, all of it was every little thing I believed gaming to be rising up.

So, dropping E3 harm in a variety of methods. As a result of even when it wasn’t what I believed, it at the very least made the trouble to seem that means. The Recreation Awards and Summer time Recreation Fest really feel clear and company. It doesn’t come off like a gathering of avid gamers celebrating the factor they love. 

THERE’S ROOM FOR BOTH

I feel the existence of E3 would improve the status of The Recreation Awards. An industry-wide conference mid-year and an end-of-year awards ceremony is the way in which to go. We had it for a quick second, however solely in direction of the tip of the E3 run when it was mainly on the way in which out.

I do know we seemingly received’t get it again. The Huge 3 are entrenched of their determination to run their particular person digital occasions. And with out them, it’s laborious to get anybody else to purchase into placing it collectively. And each Summer time Recreation Fest and The Recreation Awards have been very profitable. 

I do like each occasions, and I commend Geoff for locating a technique to make all of it occur and current the gaming {industry} within the mild that he has. I simply want we didn’t must lose what E3 represented within the course of. It meant one thing to lots of people.