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The Game Awards 2020 live report

Join us from 11.30pm for all the fun and festivities.

It's time once again for video game's answer to The Oscars! Except no-one cares too much about the awards and is mostly here for the reveals. So it's more like a three hour Superbowl Commercial break. ANYWAY, whatever it is it's starting at 11.30pm, and we'll be joining you for all the fun and games.

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Indeed it is.

Martin Robinson

Hello, and how do you do!

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I'm obviously not going to be here the whole next two and a half hours before the show. Just wanted to pop in and say hi.

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Hi!

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You've got plenty of time to gather snacks, get that sofa nice and comfy and prep a pot of coffee.

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Or to put another couple of hours into Cyberpunk, which is what I'm about to do.

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We'll be starting in earnest around when the pre-show starts at 11.30pm. See you all a little later!

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Just need to find a nice holding image for the next two hours....

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There we go.

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Well, hello then.

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Have I missed the pre-show? I mean, it's normally my favourite part and everything, so I'd be gutted if I have.

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Absolutely gutted.

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So, what to expect?

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As our beloved Kami has pointed out, there's already been warnings not to expect too much, from Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg at least.

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That said, the most compelling rumour I've heard for an appearance tonight is the return of a beloved series that's set for Xbox.

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Who knows though? And this late in the day I'm certainly not going to spoil things.

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Oh, one thing that is out there is that we will get the reveal of a new Smash Bros. character tonight - so that's something.

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Will Nintendo have anything else to show? I'm being hyper optimistic, but wouldn't a new look at Breath of the Wild 2 be nice?

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AND WE ARE GO.

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Oh man. I didn't miss the pre-show.

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This is it. This is the pre-show.

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FFS

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Ah, we do get our first award of the night - the best soundtrack going to Final Fantasy 7, and deservedly so.

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And we do also get a premiere.

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Oh how to make sense of it all.

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That big old fashioned I had just before this is beginning to feel like a bad idea.

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I'm confused, basically, during this reel of new games from Devolver.

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Happy to leave my bank details here if you want to throw me a few quid.

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(Also there'll be more on that kind of thing in the first half of next year, I believe!)

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Here's a trailer for the delightful Alba - there'll be a review on Eurogamer tomorrow morning.

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I had an Alba stereo once.

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Proper shit it were.

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They're one of those amazing brands, like Matsui, who do the proper Tandy-level stuff.

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Anyway, Alba!

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Here's another award - best action adventure.

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On another note, I think this is the first time I've mixed whiskey with a live report and it is increasingly feeling like a mistake.

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THE LAST OF US PART 2 WINS!

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See, I told you that whiskey was a mistake.

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Anyway, here's a game I will get right - Sea of Solitude, which is coming in director's cut form to Switch next year.

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I was actually getting worried for a second there.

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Bizarrely, Quantic Dream is publishing this version of Sea of Solitude - it was an EA thing first time around.

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Same here.

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A new game here from Focus Interactive - Shady Part of Me. Oh, and it's out now!

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Three award winners now! Best Family Game first up.

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Don't do this to me.

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Anyway, Animal Crossing is the deserved winner of the family award, while Fall Guys bags the award for Best Community Support. Best Debut Game is up next.

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It is a phenomenal world. I wish I'd been patient enough to wait for the next gen versions next year though!

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An advert break, and a couple of eSports awards.

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Which sounds like a toilet break if I've ever heard one.

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Oh, we're back! That was quick.

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A performance from the Persona 5 Strikers' soundtrack - which should be a nice wake-me-up.

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Into this tbf.

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It's a fookin banger.

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Some absolute shreddage from that lad on a Flying V too - super into this.

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Might have a little bop in my shed.

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Oh, the gameplay of the Nier remake.

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Got absolutely no idea what to expect from this, but let's have a gander.

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It looks a lot more in line with Automata, which is to be expected.

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Kiliko: Nier AuTomato, now there's a game that I wish I loved but find astoundingly dull.

Tried four times now, can never get it to click. Will try again some day!

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And here's the debut of a new band, a Gorillaz-esque thing which seems a bit rote.

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Ah, it's sweet enough.

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esports best talent now. I really might take a toilet break. Sorry.

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League of Legends is the best esport, the best coach was the one from Cheers, the best esports event was the last time I got everyone round for a Mario Kart 8 session in my shed.

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Also I'm best esports host because when you come to play Mario Kart around here there's beer, weed and everything.

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Being confused about esports is a surefire way to reveal you're about to hit 40.

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Anyway, Showmaker is the best esports athlete.

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Truth.

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Hang on, I took a swig of whiskey and looked up and now there's a new Panzer Dragoon game?

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Well, Century Age of Ashes to be precise. And not actually a Panzer Dragoon game. Looks mint, mind.

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Would play that.

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That was the pre-show. Which can only mean one thing.

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It's Geoff o'clock.

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His lapels have zips on them?

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Am I seeing that right? Lapels with zips?

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I know it's Cyberpunk week and whatnot but wtf.

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I haven't even seen the sneakers yet!

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No, and I'm actually legit looking forward to that.

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Oh hang on here's the Smash reveal.

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Straight in there with it - respect.

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It's....

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GEOFF KEIGHLEY IS THE NEXT SMASH CHARACTER!

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Nah wait it's just Sepiroth.

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Easy mistake to make tbf.

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Well, there we go.

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In other news it's really started to rain here in Lewisham and the sound of it pounding down on my shed is really quite soothing.

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Still waiting to see Geoff's booties.

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Oh wow.

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And here's Brie Larson presenting best performance.

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Laura Bailey wins for her take on Abbey in The Last of Us Part 2.

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Er, this is quite the speech.

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I like the sound of her phone dinging in the background, mind, as she no doubt gets plenty of well-deserved congratulations.

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That said, that speech was a bit.

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A new reveal now.

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It's a new team as well, I believe.

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Ah, it's the new game from The Initiative - which is Microsoft's Santa Monica studio that's got talent from the likes of Crystal Dynamics and Naughty Dog.

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And, yes, I think this one might be of interest.

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So this is what I was alluding to earlier.

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It's Perfect Dark, if you haven't guessed already.

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Yes please thank you very much.

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Just a cinematic and we don't know too much - other than some of the devs behind Tomb Raider and Uncharted are making a Perfect Dark gamer with a hefty slice of MS cash.

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Which is enough to get me excited.

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And as if that wasn't enough, here's a new Turtle Rock - the L4D/Evolve bunch - to keep my ticker going at quite the rate.

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It looks every bit like Left4Dead 3.

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Back4Blood.

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lol

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So it's not Left4Dead, but they're doing everything they can to hold on to that legacy.

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Holding on so tightly it looks a bit awkward to be quite honest.

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Ah well, it'll play great I'm sure.

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Yes, it is Left4Dead. Which is a great game to be fair!

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I'm going with this game's title. I'm quite into those shoes.

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Still can't believe you lot are letting the zips on those lapels slide.

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I just can't even fathom their purpose.

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Unless it's where you keep a cheeky bit of snifter.

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He knows.

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An update on Scavengers! The one Improbable game that might actually not crash and burn?

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There's a PC beta - it's actually a thing! It's looked really promising from all we've seen too, so here's hoping it can live up to its promise.

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Something now from Sumo's Nottingham studio and Focus, which looks like a For Honor esque period-based multiplayer... thing.

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Oh and it's based on Robin Hood, of course. They are based in Nottingham and all.

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Thank you for the correction. And actually I'm about to pour myself another.

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Here's the news that Cyberpunk's Quadra is coming to Forza Horizon 4.

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Award time once more! It's best ongoing game.

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AND THE WINNER IS:

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No Man's Sky - well-deserved again!

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And straight into another world premiere.

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It looks.. expensive?

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And also legitimately terrifying.

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It's a CG trailer, though, so it's hard to understand too much what it is other than sci-fi and pretty.

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The Callisto Protocol, from Striking Distance games, coming in 2022.

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And it's Glen Schofield's new thing - I'm speaking to him tomorrow about this, so if there's anything you'd like to know, let me know!

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Mostly I just want to luxuriate in Glen's presence though - he's an amazing man and also a hell of a cartoonist.

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Sorry, was daydreaming about having a picnic with Glen when they showed off that Warhammer game. Also Ghosts of Tsushima won something. Hades won best action game. There's a VR award. What's going to win? It's Half-Life: Alyx.

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Best racing game now. Wow they care less about these awards than we do the rate they're rattling through them.

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Tony Hawk's is the best sport.

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Elden Ring is the game you're looking forward to most. There's an award for that?

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Here's a new Annapurna joint, anyway, called Open Roads - and holy fuck does it look gorgeous.

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Yes! In the best possible way!

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Let it be noted that I am truly appreciating your live report of Die Another Day throughout all this.

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Right, no offence to Valorant, but I really am off for a quick toilet break.

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I'm back! What did I miss?

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DISCO ELYSIUM PLEASE COME TO SWITCH TODAY.

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Maybe not just yet - The Final Cut coming next March, with PS4 and PS4 coming alongside the newly extended game.

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Now for our look at the troubled Dragon Age 4 - I think we're getting a look at the new logo?

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And some boots.

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It looks like it's simply called Dragon Age.

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Kiliko: see, I liked Inquisition, but after that and everything that's happened to Bioware since, who even has the energy to be excited about this?

Indeed.

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Kiliko: it's Dragon Age cause the development has been DRAGging ON for an AGE waheyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

*applause*

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Endless Dungeon is a leftfield announcement - set in Amplitude's Endless universe, it's an action-focussed dungeon crawler with an exquisite artstyle. Looks fancy!

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And now here's a look at Crimson Desert - it's from the Black Desert Online peeps, and looks just as impressive in its own way.

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In fact, it looks outrageously impressive.

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I've been playing Cyberpunk 2077 on console like I'm running an E3 demo, slow-panning at everything, to compensate for the performance.

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We're seeing a lot more gameplay this year - some of it quite unpolished gameplay, which I still find infinitely preferable to CG trailers.

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And even in its unfinished state, this looks grand as.

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BTW when I popped back in the house for a slash I bought the whole bottle of bourbon back with me. Apologies, @Folie - the factual errors are about to go off the charts.

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Kiliko: So this is Black Desert Offline?

Haha, basically yes.

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There be Crimson Desert, from Pearl Abyss.

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I'm trying to think of my fave crimson desserts.

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I guess summer pudding counts?

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Denzel Washington's son doesn't want to be doing this.

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Yeah velvet cake is shit though isn't it?

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The Last of Us Part 2 won another award, and there's another Naughty Dog speech going on.

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I actually can't remember the last time I had a velvet cake though, maybe I should give them another shot.

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Oh wait, the Swedish chef is here!

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INSOMANiAC: Christ, we've gone low.

I think we've just gone high.

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Well, I'm certainly contemplating getting high right now.

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Folie: Tesco Finest Red Velvet to accompany an episode of Bake Off is as good as it gets

I'll give it a shot.

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megatronix: I am high

*fistbump*

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Anyway, Swedish Chef is now in Overcooked, I think.

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I've been reading up on these red velvet cakes, and to be quite honest they sound basic as fuck.

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What a bizarre thing The Game Awards is.

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Also how bizarre that I'm totally alright to be up at 1am to watch an ad-reel. Video games are WILD!

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Basically? Nothing new there, though it did give me a little tingle that it's not long until it's out.

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Current mood:

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Still haven't heard a reasonable excuse for those lapel zips.

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But screw it, here's a live Mario soundtrack performance from Abbey Road.

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Bowser's Fury deffo sounds a bit incognito browsing.

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Ah shit, this gets me every time.

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Can't listen to Gusty Garden Galaxy without tearing up a little.

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A new premiere - and it includes a brilliantly-realised Realistic recorder and loads of nice vintage machinery.

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Season!

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This is funny - I was talking to Donlan earlier on about the Boku no Natsuyasumi series (he's reviewing Alba atm, which game me big Boku no Natsuyasumi vibes).

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And Season has those same vibes too. Yes please very much thanks.

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Kiliko: Getting Gal Gadot to present the inclusive/impact award was er, a choice...

*grimace*

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Onwards! And a new game announce too.

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IT'S VIN FUCKING DIESEL MOTHERFUCKERS.

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Brace of him to turn up a year after rocking up on stage high as a kite and announcing the shitfest that was Fast and Furious Crossroads.

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Still love you Vin.

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I'm team Vin all the way.

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Is this Lionhead's BC back from the dead?

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This is amazing - Vin Diesel going toe-to-toe with a T-Rex, because fuck yes.

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I'm guessing this'll be a Tigon joint.

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That being Vin's video game concern.

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It looks like Dad of War meets Horizon Zero Dawn meets what the fuck

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It's Ark.

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Hahahaha.

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Well, there you go - Ark 2.

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This might be the greatest 'but...' yet.

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Oh and there's an animated Ark series coming.

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With Michelle Yeoh, Gerard Butler, David Tennant and oh my god the Ark team made an awful lot of money I hope it hasn't gone to their heads.

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Another new reveal, this time Elite Dangerous Odyssey with a use of Bowie I'm not particularly comfortable with.

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GamesProgrammer: Late to the party any big awards given out yet?

We have found the one person who is here for the awards and not the reveals (hello!)

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JorgeLuisBorges: What did I miss? Other than Martin being pissed...

*hic*

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I guess this is Outriders, which looks like simple good fun but I worry it's being set up as more than that.

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Indeed. Anyway, Fist looks great but somehow had me thinking of 90s shareware side-scrollers like Ninja Rabbits.

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INSOMANiAC: Someone PLEASE tell me when this ends

It never ends.

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Nolan North you're amazing but you're too old to do this distressed denim thing.

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You can afford a nice pair of slacks from Cos or something.

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Oh hang on here's another award. Among Us wins best multiplayer!

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And this is a genuinely beautiful moment as a team who've experienced quite the year gets their moment in the spotlight. Beautiful!

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Here's a new game reveal!

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From Saber Interactive.

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And it's an Evil Dead game?

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Up for that.

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Really, really up for that.

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Bruce Campbell features, obviously.

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And my lord I am so, so up for this.

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Can you get a better b-lister than an Evil Dead game though?

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A remake now, and a Capcom one - ah, it's Ghouls and Goblins, or whatever you call it in your part of the world.

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It still looks absolutely bastard hard for its Switch remake that's coming next February.

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BEST INDEPENDENT GAME AWARD NOW AWARD LOVERS.

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Hades wins.

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Best audio design.

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God it's embarrassing how much the Game Awards hates giving out awards.

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Best RPG is Final Fantasy 7 Remake.

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MS Flight Sim wins best sim and they are rattling through this so quickly.

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Player's Choice is Ghost of Tsushima.

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And we have best fighting game, with Cobra Kai's leads taking us through the winners in a terrible skit.

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Ralph Macchio's house suggests he's doing alright for himself though.

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He was so good in Crossroads.

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I bet he can still shred too.

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Ah, our first look at MS Flighjt Sim running on console!

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Oh man, this game really is something special.

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And I think it could work wonderfully on console too.

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Also I still cry when I hear this song, mostly because of when they used it at the end of the admittedly not very good TV adaptation of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Kami: Think we might get to bed before 4am this year?

Sleep is for the weak.

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Next summer for MS Flight Sim on console. Be excite.

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This, I believe, is Returnal? Housemarque's new thing, which is reason enough to be excited.

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That it's them branching out for something on a grander palette than they've worked with before is very exciting.

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INSOMANiAC: When that screeching Irishman appears I'm off.

Understandable.

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It's really raining quite a lot here in Lewisham right now.

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Well, we're back with The Game Awards.

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No matter what you say about Geoff's shoes, they sure look comfy.

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Ah here's the coke fiend!

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You said it!

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Anyway, here's his new thing which is a thing.

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It looks like it takes Fares' co-op thing into new territory - namely that of two people figuring out the finer points of their long-term relationship.

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And it looks pretty good.

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There you go: It Takes Two. From Geoff's mate Josef.

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Here's Reggie for some meme-based content.

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Ah, and an award for accessibility.

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Reggie still scares me.

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Haha, poor Geoff.

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An admirable award, and the innovation in accessibility award has gone to The Last of Part 2.

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Kami: those blinds get pulled the moment this bit is done...

Haha.

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Again it's amazing to be pulled into an award-winner's house and to hear their phone pinging with congrats messages.

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So wholesome.

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Not quite sure how there can be another hour of this.

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Or indeed if I can stay awake another hour. Maybe time to make the switch to coffee.

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A quick ad for Destiny 2 Beyond Light there.

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I gave the next-gen version a quick blast earlier - it looks splendid as.

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Destiny? Never heard of it.

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Kiliko: Beyond Light released on Game Pass on release day (!) and still no one seems to give a fuck about it. Proper fell flat didn't it?

Timing wasn't great - I think most publications were focussed on next-gen/Cyberpunk.

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Ah, good to know.

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Was about to berate the Game Awards once again for just being an excruciatingly bland reel of ads.

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But hey it's nearly Xmas so what's the point.

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Also I'm the sucker out in my shed live-reporting this nonsense while Geoff is out there with his lapel zips concealing all that upnose so I'm the real loser.

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Mobile gaming section here, which I know you lot love.

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*preach*

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Ah, Among Us wins - another excuse to cut to the adorable devs who are having a hell of a night.

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Monster Hunter Rise on Switch - probably the game I'm looking forward to most in 2021 - gets a new trailer.

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It's the RE Engine's debut on Switch (and the series' debut in RE Engine).

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It might, in its own way, be more important to the future of the series as MH World. I can't wait!

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Content creator of the year is coming up soon! Is it me? Did you all nominate me?

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Didn't think so, you jerks.

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Speaking of jerks! Here's Troy Baker.

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He truly is in love with the smell of the gas that he emits from his arsehole.

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Here's Eddie Vedder tho, which is a nice move in the right direction.

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The guitar is near and Eddie is very far away.

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Kiliko: hope Eddie decides to liven this up a little bit and just explosively belt out Even Flow during this very Sincere™ moment

I'd be so up for that.

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Anyway, that was a heartfelt rendition. Also apologies to Troy Baker for being a bit mean there.

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A new premiere!

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Focus, again - they're having quite the showcase tonight.

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It's from Shadow Warriors devs Flying Wild Hog, and it looks suitably over-the-top.

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Evil West there for you - coming in 2021.

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50 minutes more of this.

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Soz.

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Are you on the herbal or have you gone hardcore and caffeinated?

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A pretty good one at that.

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I do find it hard to take Facebook seriously as an agent for encouraging better mental health though.

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An absolutely appalling HP Omen ad too which alludes to... No, best I don't type it out.

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Anyway, that's me never touching an HP device again. Good work!

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An Among Us map reveal now. Being old I haven't played Among Us that much, sorry.

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Oh Geoff is in Among Us now too.

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A bit of column a, a bit of column b?

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Adobe's Content Creator of the Year is Valkyrae.

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A Fortnite reveal now, courtesy of the Mustard.

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As expected - it's Master Chief who's coming to Fortnite.

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Some Red vs. Blue shenanigans to accompany the news .

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But yes this is appalling.

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I've always been old. It's great.

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Kiliko: drink every time he says awesome

I'm already so drunk tho...

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Blood Gulch in Fortnite is pretty awesome, mind.

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35 minutes left. Can I get through all this.

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A man called Cascade who is speaking in the oddest cadence suggests I cannot.

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What is he doing with his hands. Why is he pointing so much.

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I apologise, it's Kaskade.

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This has been a particularly weak show - understandable, given the conditions it was produced under.

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Doesn't make it any easier to power through the nonsense at 2.30am though.

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Hold on, here's Just Cause for mobile to perk things up.

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You do begin to question your life choices though when it's half two in the morning and you're doing live updates of a three-hour long ad.

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Would anyone object if I just did a bit of heroin and went to go and sit quietly in the corner?

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Just a taste.

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Ruined King, one of Riot's new wave of games, gets an outing.

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Keanu Reeves is here to present best game direction.

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His animation routines look a bit broken.

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Keep expecting him to be caught in a t-pose.

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The Last of Us Part 2 wins the best direction award, and Neil Druckmann is here to take the honours.

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Here's an advert for GTA Online.

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This is all of us right now.

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I think I say the same every year. And yet here we are again.

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Another quick ad for the Medal of Honor VR game.

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INSOMANiAC: There's me, Martin and Kami here. Every single year. Every single live presentation shit. We have nothing else in life. We plan our lives around these events.

I do it all for the two of you, you beautiful people.

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Do you think Geoff has done double knots on those shoes?

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Oh wait here's another premiere.

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I still don't know how you graciously tie a pair of shoes tho- you can have a pair of the best brogues in the world, but it's all for naught if you do some kind of clown bow on them when tying them up.

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Hold on, we're getting a Mass Effect Trailer.

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And it is simply Mass Effect.

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Hmm - like Dragon Age before it, it's hard to get too excited given the state of BioWare at the moment.

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Given how far out that game is, and how little we know about Dragon Age, I'm not sure how smart it was to show it.

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Ah well.

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Game of the year now, presented by Christopher Nolan.

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Despite my cattiness, I do think it's been a wonderful year for video games - and they've been there for us when we really needed them.

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The Last of Us Part 2 wins.

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Well, that was that - a low-key show this year, understandably so.

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I still hate myself for being up this late for a three-hour long advert though.

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Congrats to all the winners - they're all well-deserved in what's been a trying year.

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And also this.

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Thanks for joining us. And thanks Kami and INSOMANiAC, you utter loons. Same time again next year, yeah?

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The truth. And also there's your quote!

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And with that good night and god bless.

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