Phil Spencer joins such luminaries as Hideo Kojima, Tim Schafer, and the Romeros as Andrew Yoon Legend Award winners.
The twelfth annual New York Recreation Awards had been held on Tuesday night. The yearly award present is held by the New York Videogame Critics Circle and honors one of the best video games, actors, esports rivals, and journalists within the gaming subject. Prime honors went to Elden Ring, whereas Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer was honored with the 2023 Andrew Yoon Legend Award.
“I have been working within the gaming business for a very long time and, nicely earlier than that, I used to be a participant and a fan of video games,” Spencer stated in his acceptance speech. “Again in these days, as a child, we might save up each penny from our allowance to purchase a brand new recreation that we in all probability selected based mostly on the image on the entrance of the field. We knew that this was going to be the one recreation we received to play for the subsequent six months, perhaps even a yr. We hoped we picked the proper one, as a result of we had been all about to get to know that recreation extraordinarily nicely. With that one treasured recreation, you had been all invited into a brand new world — a brand new world that was created with groundbreaking engineering work and revolutionary inventive imaginative and prescient from the sport designers and builders behind the cartridge.
“Holding that cartridge for the primary time was a rush of pleasure and anticipation. And enjoying it? Pure and utter pleasure. Not simply because we owned a cool factor, however due to the experiences we might have with that recreation and the neighborhood. We did not simply play with household and pals, we talked about it, obsessed over it, we laughed about it, and generally cried over it, reliving our greatest and worst moments collectively. Gaming was about this very echo impact of pleasure. At present, there are such a lot of video games, greater than ever earlier than, accessible to extra gamers than ever earlier than. But in addition, it could possibly really feel like there’s extra despair on this planet, a gentle stream of unhealthy information. With the continued leapfrogging from disaster to disaster, it feels to me that that pleasure I skilled as a baby has turn out to be far more elusive for us, for all to search out, extra of a responsible pleasure. It appears like right now, in search of pleasure is an act of defiance. But right now, as creators, as leaders, as world-builders, our best duty is to encourage and invite pleasure. Every one of many a whole bunch of titles that gamers have at their fingertips right now and tomorrow is a calling card for pleasure.”
The Andrew Yoon Legend Award was established in 2016, named after the previous Shacknews Editor-In-Chief and founding New York Videogame Critics Circle member, who tragically handed away in 2015. In accepting the award, Spencer additionally honored earlier recipients Hideo Kojima, Jerry Lawson, Brenda & John Romero, and Tim Schafer.
Listed here are the total 2023 New York Recreation Awards Winners:
- Large Apple Award for Greatest Recreation of the Yr
Elden Ring - Off Broadway Award for Greatest Indie Recreation
Vampire Survivors - Herman Melville Award for Greatest Writing in a Recreation
God of Conflict Ragnarök - Statue of Liberty Award for Greatest World
Elden Ring - Tin Pan Alley Award for Greatest Music in a Recreation
Metallic: Hellsinger - Nice White Approach Award for Greatest Appearing in a Recreation
Manon Gage as Marissa Marcel in Immortality - Coney Island Dreamland Award for Greatest AR/VR Recreation
Moss: E-book II - Central Park Kids’s Zoo Award for Greatest Youngsters Recreation
Kirby and the Forgotten Land - A-Practice Award for Greatest Cell Recreation
Marvel Snap - Freedom Tower Award for Greatest Remake
The Stanley Parable: Extremely Deluxe - Joltin’ Joe Award for Greatest Esports Participant of the Yr
Masaya “aMSa” Chikamoto (VGBootCamp/Pink Bull Esports) - Chumley’s Speakeasy Award for Greatest Hidden Gem
SIGNALIS - NYC GWB Award for Greatest DLC
Future 2: The Witch Queen - Knickerbocker Award for Greatest Video games Journalism
Justin Heckert, Self-importance Truthful - Elizabeth Jennings Graham Award for Greatest Educator
Ryan O’Callaghan - Andrew Yoon Legend Award Recipient
Phil Spencer
Award season continues, because the extra year-end honors will proceed to be handed out within the months forward, together with on the upcoming DICE Summit in February. For extra on the New York Recreation Awards, go to the New York Videogame Critics Circle web site.
