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Fantastic speech from, and award for, Amir Satvat at TGAs, where he speaks about the spat of industry layoffs: Absolutely 180° from Keighley to go from "we'll just focus on the games" last year to this, perhaps succumbing to public pressure a bit, but still, kudos to him for the change in approach nonetheless; if that's what it takes for people like Amir to get a platform and a chance to speak up about what's happening, then so be it.

Definitely slowed down with the big hitters for a little bit, but they seem spread out after that explosive start to the main show Much, much better pacing for the TGAs than we've seen in previous years Unrelated but Kyle Bosman being in a Squid Game bit has caught me off guard

Hahahahahahahaha The Muppets poking fun at Kojima and Keighley is hilarious

Astro Bot is Action/Adventure? Um. What. And don't think I didn't see Outlaws was nominated for that award! The gaming journalism industry is full of frauds. Remember, before last year with BG3, Action/Adventure winner was typically the GOTY winner. So maybe that's something. Then again, Metaphor just won best RPG. Maybe that's in the more running more than I expected...

Hate that I knew it was Turok from the first shot having zero experience with the IP

Unfortunately couldn't take advantage of my closed beta code back in October, but March 27th means it's not too long of a wait until the full game!

Man, had the chance to play the closed beta for Khazan back in October but wasn't very well – March 27th isn't too far away so I won't feel too bad, though!

Dude. What.

Onimusha?! Surely?! WHAAAAAAT

Dude, Localthunk wins Best Debut Indie, doesn't turn up, and pushes for people to check out more indie games What a guy

Balatro surely has to win Best Debut Indie with it being a GOTY nominee EDIT: shocker

Took forever, but someone finally stuck the trailer up on YouTube: Buried by Virtua Fighter on SEGA's other channels with no official trailer up anywhere from them yet. Weird.

Hands-on first look from PC Gamer: Serious respect to them to somehow keeping this under wraps!

Geoff siding with PocketPair and making an enemy out of Game Freak and Nintendo was not on my radar for the night Going to be even more of a surprise now when they announced the DK64 Remake, right @killthenet?

New trailer from TGAs: New Helldivers II DualSense variant announced too:

New RGG IP was not on my bingo card, but I am all about this era and vibe.

As someone who has never played Turok before I'm proud I guessed it from that first shot

Link to VF Direct, which is at 05:00 GMT tomorrow morning (14th Dec):

Yes Doucet for Best Direction! Things are shaping up well for Astro Bot guys...

I have never seen Kojima in such gaudy clothes before lmao

Holy damn. Thought it was Shenmue from the reflex attack in the shadows More at VF Direct later today.

RGG AGAIN?! WHAT?!

RGG VIRTUA FIGHTER! Lol the reflex reaction in the shadows made me think Shenmue, not too far removed from VF I guess!

RGG?!

Remember when Ueda and genDESIGN showed off concept art for the game at the start of 2021? Well, we've got a zoomed out version of that very piece of art now per genDESIGN's Twitter account: Damn.