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    16. The Game Awards - Megathread

      ~games Text 446 words
      The Game Awards start tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific time (Dec 13, 02:30 UTC). There are a lot of announcements, sales, and events going on associated with it though, so I thought I'd try to collect a...

      The Game Awards start tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific time (Dec 13, 02:30 UTC). There are a lot of announcements, sales, and events going on associated with it though, so I thought I'd try to collect a bunch of it here, and then we can discuss and post the actual winners in here later as well.

      Sales

      Announcements/Releases

      Events

      Edit after the show: Article on CNET that lists all the winners of awards, as well as having embedded copies of most of the trailers/announcements/etc. that were shown

      My original lists (incomplete)

      Winners

      • Best Community Support: Destiny 2
      • Best Score & Music: Death Stranding
      • Best Fighting Game: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
      • Best Narrative: Disco Elysium
      • Best Audio Design: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
      • Best Strategy Game: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
      • Best Art Direction: Control
      • Best Action Game: Devil May Cry 5
      • Games for Impact: Gris
      • Best Family Game: Luigi's Mansion 3
      • Best Sports/Racing Game: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
      • Best Mobile Game: Call of Duty: Mobile
      • Best Multiplayer Game: Apex Legends
      • Best Ongoing Game: Fortnite

      Edit: I'm not going to keep updating the winners, I'm sure there are a ton of lists out there - I'll edit in a link at the end

      • Best Esports Coach: Zonic
      • Best Esports Event: League of Legends World Championship 2019
      • Best Esports Host: Sjokz
      • Best Esports Team: G2 Esports
      • Best Esports Player: Bugha
      • Content Creator of the Year: Shroud

      New trailers/announcements

      Edit: dear god how long is this show? I'll edit in a link to a good summary later, I'm not going to keep watching.

      Italicized links probably need a better source

      16 votes

    33. The 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Olga Tokarczuk, and the 2019 Prize to Peter Handke

      ~arts Text 238 words
      Short link. Probably more to follow. The Swedish Academy handed out two prizes this year, after they were forced to suspend the prize last year amid a metoo scandal which saw most of the Academy’s...

      Short link. Probably more to follow.

      The Swedish Academy handed out two prizes this year, after they were forced to suspend the prize last year amid a metoo scandal which saw most of the Academy’s members either resign voluntarily or be forced to resign. There’s been a lot of speculation about how they were going to restore their reputation this year, and they spent a long portion of the press conference explaining their new process, whereas in past years they haven’t felt compelled to do so.

      It was expected that at least one of the two prizes would go to a woman, with Margaret Atwood being one of the odds favorites (the bookmakers’ picks never win, so I don’t know whether we should put much stock in them, but they do reflect pre-award buzz). I’m not too familiar with either author, but it’s interesting that they chose Peter Handke. He’s one of Europe’s most controversial authors for his decades-long support of Serbia and Slobodan Milosevic’s actions during the Yugoslav Wars. He once compared Serbians to the Jews during WW2, visited Milosevic in prison when he was on trial for war crimes, and spoke at the man’s funeral. He’s also hailed as one of the greatest living German-language authors. It’s like the Academy decided to throw feminists a bone by awarding a woman the prize, but then couldn’t resist jumping headlong into controversy again right away.

      10 votes