Hugo Award Announce The first winner of its newly established Best Video Game Award, it is Hades, A roguelite action RPG from the developer Supergiant Games. Although the Hugo Award is a literary awards ceremony dedicated to science fiction and fantasy, it has expanded to the field of video games this year, giving Hades another opportunity to make history.
Super creative director Greg Kasavin responded to the news that his studio’s game won the Hugo Award on Twitter. He regretted not being able to represent the team to accept the award, but shared his opinion that video games are finally in The gratitude that has a place in the legendary awards shows and special thanks to the work of his studio.
Hope i can participate #Hugo Award personally. I cannot deliver an acceptance speech there on behalf of the team, although there are indeed a few words here. I am grateful that these awards are recognition of the work in this category, not to mention the work we have done! pic.twitter.com/S9bfSp1i8H
-Greg Casavin (askasavin) December 19, 2021
Other games nominated for historic first prizes are Final Fantasy VII Remake, The Last of Us: Part 2, Spirit Traveler, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Blaseball, all 2020 games , Both are the Hugo Awards’ evaluation of the previous year’s works.
This year’s Hugo Awards, held at the annual World Science Fiction Convention, represents a further expansion of the venerable awards association. It added categories such as Best Fan Magazine, although it was recently awarded this year by the weapon manufacturer Thor The sponsorship of the company is very popular.
At the same time, Hades has received awards and honors since it was released from the Early Access version this year, not to mention the fact that it is very popular. That was before it even reached the PlayStation or Xbox platform. If Supergiant is moving in a different direction, it would be crazy to think about how the game will be different.
Hades is now available for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch and PC.