The Hugo Awards announced the primary winner of its newly created Greatest Video Sport award, and it’s Hades, the roguelite motion RPG from developer Supergiant Video games. Although the Hugo Awards is a literary awards present devoted to science fiction and fantasy, this 12 months it branched out into the world of video video games and gave Hades one other likelihood to make historical past.
Supergiant inventive director Greg Kasavin reacted to his studio’s sport successful a Hugo Award in a tweet, expressing remorse that he couldn’t be there to simply accept on behalf of the staff, however shared his gratitude at video video games lastly having an area on the storied awards present and thanking it for his studio’s work particularly.
Want I might have attended the #HugoAwards in individual. I wasn’t capable of make an acceptance speech there on behalf of the staff although did have a couple of phrases right here. I am grateful that the awards are recognizing work on this class, a lot much less the work we did! pic.twitter.com/S9bfSp1i8H
— Greg Kasavin (@kasavin) December 19, 2021
Different video games nominated for the historic first prize have been Closing Fantasy 7 Remake, The Final of Us: Half 2, Spiritfarer, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Blaseball, all 2020 video games, because the Hugo Awards seems to be at works from the earlier 12 months.
This 12 months’s Hugo Awards, which occur on the yearly World Science Fiction Conference, characterize an additional branching out for the venerable awards affiliation, which has added classes like Greatest Fanzine, although it’s taking warmth just lately for being sponsored by arms producer Raytheon this 12 months.
Hades, in the meantime, has vacuumed up the awards and accolades since being launched from early entry this 12 months, to not point out the truth that it’s extraordinarily well-liked. And that was earlier than it even arrived on PlayStation or Xbox platforms. It’s wild to consider how the sport might have been completely different if Supergiant went in a distinct route.
Hades is out there now for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, Swap, and PC.
