Sacred Symbols+, Episode 425 | Subverting (and Replacing?) The Game Awards (Patreon)

The same day this podcast publishes, Geoff Keighley will hold his annual Game Awards show in LA, and naturally, we'll all tune in to see who wins (or -- much more importantly -- what's announced). But the reality is this: The Game Awards as it's currently constructed is an ad-bloated mess that focuses less on what's great than on what's next. And its results are entirely dictated by an insular group of rapidly waning media-types that don't seem to even like the industry, nor people who play games, period. Should something be done about it? One person thinks so. His name is "Stuttering" Craig Skistimas, industry entrepreneur, founder of pioneering media brand Screw Attack, and the host of the popular Side Scrollers YouTube channel. I (Colin) invited him onto Sacred+ to discuss his notion of a Game Awards replacement he's aptly named The Real Game Awards. Now, to be clear, he and I don't quite agree on his approach -- I think it's best to decentralize the industry and therefore delegitimize its power structures, while he thinks they should be taken on directly -- but this is why I wanted to facilitate this conversation to begin with. It's cool when people try new things, and maybe we can better understand each other's positions by merely chatting for a bit. Please enjoy.