It can’t all be good news, folks. When you cover games and anime, you have to be prepared for some… ok, a lot, of crappy choices that industry professionals make. And part of our responsibility as critics is to not shy away from criticizing the system. …Yeah, I know, you weren’t exactly worried that we’d be afraid to say something negative. Still, we do try to keep it to only one category a year, where we talk about patterns of crap behavior, mostly on the part of millionaires and billionaires.
The Nominees Are:
Everybody getting fired
AI art/voices sneaking into video games
Price increases across the board
Gaming events dropping mask reqs
So Many Acquisitions
Embracer Group
Anime production pipeline on fire
Can the games industry name one (1) woman
Live service model cannibalizes franchises
Games Getting (Too) Big (for reasonable SSDs)
Games journalism being gutted
Costume Prices Ballooning
Full-priced games mimicking F2P business models
Triple A Budget Suicide
Here’s our write-up for the winners!
Our intro and outro music for the Gimmick Awards 2023 is Ippai by kamatamago, and our art is a commission from @inkopolis on Twitter.
