Game of the Year

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

• Donkey Kong Bananza

• Hades II

• Hollow Knight: Silksong

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Best Game Direction

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Death Stranding 2: On The Beach

• Ghost of Yōtei

• Hades II

• Split Fiction

Best Adaptation

• A Minecraft Movie

• Devil May Cry

• The Last of Us: Season 2

• Splinter Cell: Deathwatch

• Until Dawn

Best Narrative

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Death Stranding 2: On The Beach

• Ghost of Yōtei

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

• Silent Hill f

Best Art Direction

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Death Stranding 2: On The Beach

• Ghost of Yōtei

• Hades II

• Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Score And Music

• Hollow Knight: Silksong

• Hades II

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Ghost of Yōtei

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Best Audio Design

• Battlefield 6

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

• Ghost of Yōtei

• Silent Hill f

Best Performance

• Ben Starr

• Charlie Cox

• Erika Ishii

• Jennifer English

• Konatsu Kato

• Troy Baker

Innovation In Accessibility

• Assassin’s Creed Shadows

• Atomfall

• Doom: The Dark Ages

• EA Sports FC 26

• South of Midnight

Games for Impact

• Consume Me

• Despelote

• Lost Records: Bloom & Rage

• South of Midnight

• Wanderstop

Best Ongoing Game

• Final Fantasy XIV

• Fortnite

• Helldivers 2

• Marvel Rivals

• No Man's Sky

Best Community Support

• Baldur's Gate 3

• Final Fantasy XIV

• Fortnite

• Helldivers 2

• No Man's Sky

Best Independent Game

• Absolum

• Ball x Pit

• Blue Prince

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Hades II

• Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Debut Indie Game

• Blue Prince

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Despelote

• Dispatch

• Megabonk

Best Mobile Game

• Destiny: Rising

• Persona 5: The Phantom X

• Sonic Rumble

• Umamusume: Pretty Derby

• Wuthering Waves

Best VR/AR Game

• Alien: Rogue Incursion

• Arken Age

• Ghost Town

• Marvel’s Deadpool VR

• The Midnight Walk

Best Action Game

• Battlefield 6

• Doom: The Dark Ages

• Hades II

• Ninja Gaiden 4

• Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

Best Action Adventure Game

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

• Ghost of Yōtei

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

• Hollow Knight: Silksong

• Split Fiction

Best RPG

• Avowed

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

• The Outer Worlds 2

• Monster Hunter Wilds

Best Fighting Game

•2XKO

• Capcom Fighting Collection 2

• Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves

• Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection

• Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage

Best Family Game

• Donkey Kong Bananza

• LEGO Party!

• LEGO Voyagers

• Mario Kart World

• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

• Split Fiction

Best Sim/Strategy Game

• The Alters

• FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles

• Jurassic World Evolution 3

• Sid Meier's Civilization VII

• Tempest Rising

• Two Point Museum

Best Sports/Racing

• EA Sports FC 26

• F1 25

• Mario Kart World

• Rematch

• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

Best Multiplayer

• Arc Raiders

• Battlefield 6

• Elden Ring Nightreign

• Peak

• Split Fiction

Most Anticipated Game

• 007 First Light

• Grand Theft Auto VI

• Marvel's Wolverine

• Resident Evil Requiem

• The Witcher IV

Content Creator of the Year

• Caedrel

• Kai Cenat

• MoistCr1TiKaL

• Sakura Miko

• The Burnt Peanut

Best Esports Game

• Counter-Strike 2

• DOTA 2

• League of Legends

• Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

• Valorant

Best Esports Athlete

• brawk

• Chovy

• f0rsakeN

• Kakeru

• MenaRD

• Zyw0o

Best Esports Team

• Gen.G - League of Legends

• NRG - Valorant

• Team Falcons - DOTA 2

• Team Liquid PH - Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

• Team Vitality - Counter-Strike 2

Players' Voice

• Will be announced later based on voting.

Game Changer

• If this category returns in 2025, it will be revealed during the event on December 11.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bascul.in/post/10597804

The announcement was made via the company's LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/crystal-dynamics_today-weve-made-the-difficult-but-necessary-activity-7394805539140169729-lwXF

If you want to add your info to the survey, you can download a copy in return at the official website: https://reg.gdconf.com/2025-salary-report

Though, 3 interesting points they include on that linked page?

24% of professionals have been laid off in the past two years

53% feel undercompensated for their work

What's driving the push toward unionization (64% support it)

Written by Henrique L. Alves

This week we have Godot new UI theme for 4.6, retrogaming from USENET era to Master System, making a Voxel engine in a weekend, and much more!

Can children possibly develop games ?? I mean not the computer wizkid, but the average kid who's fond of playing games on computer ???

TIGA (the Europe based The Independent Game Developers' Association,) held their awards last night! Here's a list of the winners as copied from their website:

BEST ACTION & ADVENTURE GAME 2025

Atomfall -Rebellion

BEST AUDIO DESIGN 2025

Forza Horizon 5 - Playground Games

BEST ARCADE GAME 2025

Astro Bot -Sony Interactive Entertainment

BEST USE OF A LICENCE 2025

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 - Saber Interactive

BEST CASUAL GAME 2025

Monument Valley 3 - ustwo games

CREATIVITY IN GAMES 2025

Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest - Secret Mode

DIVERSITY IN GAMES 2025

Trash Goblin - Spilt Milk Studios

BEST EDUCATIONAL, SERIOUS OR SIMULATION GAME 2025

Guardians: Defenders of Mathematica - BBC with Playerthree

HERITAGE IN GAMES 2025

Maid of Sker - Wales Interactive

BEST NARRATIVE IN GAMES 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Sandfall Interactive

BEST PUZZLE GAME 2025

Ghost Town - Fireproof Games

BEST SOCIAL GAME 2025

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach - Sony Interactive Entertainment

BEST STRATEGY GAME 2025

Grit and Valor – 1949 - Megabit Publishing

BEST VISUAL DESIGN 2025

Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest - Secret Mode

BEST VR/AR/XR/MR GAME 2025

HITMAN World of Assassination - IO Interactive

BEST SMALL STUDIO 2025

Dlala Studios

ART/ANIMATION/TRAILER SUPPLIER 2025

Liquid Crimson

AUDIO SERVICES SUPPLIER 2025

PitStop Productions

BEST SERVICES PROVIDER 2025

Flix Interactive

COMMITMENT TO ESG 2025

PlanetPlay

BEST CO-DEVELOPMENT PARTNER 2025

Side

BEST TECHNICAL INNOVATION 2025

Code Wizards

TAX & ACCOUNTANCY FIRM 2025

Plus Accounting

BEST IN-HOUSE RECRUITMENT & TALENT DEVELOPMENT 2025

Rocket Science Group

BEST RECRUITMENT AGENCY 2025

Amiqus

QA/LOCALISATION SUPPLIER 2025

Quantic Lab

BEST PUBLISHER 2025

Dovetail Games

LEGAL SERVICES SUPPLIER 2025

Wiggin

BEST LARGE STUDIO 2025

Steel City Interactive

BEST EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION 2025

University of Staffordshire

BEST EDUCATION INITIATIVE 2025

Norwich University of the Arts

COMMITMENT TO WORKPLACE WELLBEING 2025

Playground Games

OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP 2025

Deborah Kirkham, CEO, Side

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL OF THE YEAR 2025

Iain McNeil, CEO, Slitherine Software

GAME OF THE YEAR 2025

Ghost Town - Fireproof Games

Written by Henrique L. Alves

This week we have a major Flax engine update, a Ghost of Yotei tech "deep" dive, a CS:GO and CS2 network protocol tech DEEP dive (on Reddit of all places), and much more!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38220389

Free Windows 10 support ended for most people this past month, and the trend line of Linux usage has been quite clear leading up to this, as people prepared for the inevitable. An increase in Linux usage is also correlated to a drop in Chinese players, which did happen this month a little bit, but Linux usage is also trending up when filtering for English only. It's worth noting that for all the official support Macs ever saw in gaming, they never represented anything better than about 5% of the market.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/33839329

Written by Henrique L. Alves

This week we have the full release of a Rust Game Engine (not Bevy!), an Open-Source alternative to Mixamo, how to Text Adventure, and much more!

I'm two weeks late! Sorry about that. Life got in the way and I missed the timing of the last newsletter, so this one is a digest of the last two weeks.