Gimmick Awards 2024 – Game of the Year PodcastGimmick Awards 2024 – Game of the Year Podcast
Here we are, folks. Game of the Year- the capper to the Gimmick Awards. We’ve said a lot over the course of this month, so no big preamble: I’ll let
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Gimmick Awards 2024 – Best Mechanic PodcastGimmick Awards 2024 – Best Mechanic Podcast
Games. Turns out, you tend to play them. In years past, we have often tried to talk about the elegance of particular systems and mechanics before, but we never had
Gimmick Awards 2024 – Best Moment PodcastGimmick Awards 2024 – Best Moment Podcast
Sometimes, a singular moment shines through and is so bright, you can’t help but take notice. This may be the last year this category takes the form it does, so
Gimmick Awards 2024 – Best Anime/Manga PodcastGimmick Awards 2024 – Best Anime/Manga Podcast
You know, despite our ambitions of being a gaming coverage site, we talk about a lot of anime. Our most frequent and consistent shows are about anime and manga, so
Gimmick Awards 2024 – Best Instrumental Song PodcastGimmick Awards 2024 – Best Instrumental Song Podcast
…And here are the Instrumental songs, which is to say, the ones that aren’t lyrically focused- the human voice is still allowed as an instrument! The Nominees Are:Objection! 2011 (Ace
Gimmick Awards 2024 – Best Vocal Song PodcastGimmick Awards 2024 – Best Vocal Song Podcast
Music is a weird category for us, or rather pair of categories thanks to it being split in twain. We aren’t music crits, and we don’t cover the music industry
Gimmick Awards 2024 – Best Surprise PodcastGimmick Awards 2024 – Best Surprise Podcast
2024 was full of surprises. Not all of them good! 2024 was a rough year, y’all. But sometimes surprises can be wonderful, and in this category we explore the things
Gimmick Awards 2024 – Best Side Character PodcastGimmick Awards 2024 – Best Side Character Podcast
From Best Character, two phantoms were born. The spotlight-haver and the supporting act shouldn’t be fighting with each other. It’s not right. But I’ll let the supporting acts brawl amongst
Gimmick Awards 2024 – Best Major Character PodcastGimmick Awards 2024 – Best Major Character Podcast
This was a category separation we felt very good about when it occurred to us: why are we having leading characters going up against background characters? Why don’t we separate
Gimmick Awards 2024 – Best Action Toolkit PodcastGimmick Awards 2024 – Best Action Toolkit Podcast
“Action Toolkit” is the best phrasing we could come up with, but it’s like… you know when you play a game, and you push buttons, and it feels good? Yeah.