Through the 79th annual Worldcon, aka DisCon III, the winners of the Hugo Awards had been introduced. Hades gained the Finest Video Recreation award, over different nominees Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Baseball, Remaining Fantasy 7 Remake, The Final of Us Half 2, and Spiritfarer. “We hope that the Hugo Awards proceed to acknowledge the superb work being executed on this area,” stated Greg Kasavin of Supergiant Video games in a televised acceptance speech, earlier than thanking the Greek gods “each above and under”.
The Hugo Awards have been recognizing the very best literary works of science fiction and fantasy since 1953, throughout an evolving set of classes—the class for Finest Graphic Story was solely added in 2009. This yr’s Finest Video Recreation class was included as a one-off.
As DisConIII co-chair Colette Fozard explained, “Since early 2020, many people have spent extra time gaming than we ever anticipated. This award will supply followers a chance to rejoice the video games which were significant, joyful, and distinctive over this previous yr.” A everlasting Finest Recreation or Interactive Expertise class is being considered.
Hades has gained loads of different awards since its launch, together with GDC Game of the Year and BAFTAs for Finest Recreation, Creative Achievement, Recreation Design, Narrative, and Performer in a Supporting Position (Logan Cunningham). We declared it 2020’s Best Action Game too.
